blog archive for November, 2007

flying

This is as close to actual superhuman flying as I think humans can get. Amazing beyond words. Also stupid, reckless, and retarded.

I definitely do not want to try this, but goddamit that looks intense.
[via clusterflock.]


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It’s alive

I have been here in Dubai now for about 20 months. I arrived on March 7, 2006. For that whole time I have been helping to manage the redesign and redevelopment of Emirates Airline’s website. Monster of a project really. Every line of code is new. Nearly every image is new. Vendors from all over […]


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MIA

Things have been absolutely insane for a few weeks so I haven’t been blogging properly. Sorry about that. I know I am losing most of my readers to this, but sometimes there is nothing I can do. If it helps at all, I do think about writing all the time, I just don’t do it.
Anyway, […]


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the forbidden kingdom

I have always been a sucker for a good kung-fu movie. But one with Jackie Chan AND Jet Li with Yuen Wo Ping as the fight choreographer is almost too much to wait for. A low rez trailer for The Forbidden Kingdom has been posted since the 101-day shoot in China has now been completed.

I […]


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another amazing human beatbox

Whoa, another amazing human beatbox (see previous), and another amazing video from one of these reality talent show things - this time from France. You have GOT to watch this.

I am still and forever partial to Kenny Muhammad, especially this semi-famous performance at Columbia University.

Mad skillz yo.
[from derek.]


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shadow puppets

Back in April of 2005 I started actively looking for an animation I saw in college called Shadow Puppets. You can read about that experience in this old blog post. Long story short, after much digital detective-ry, I found the animator, Chuck Gamble, who personally delivered a VHS copy of the animation to me, […]


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liftoff

Oops. These guys tried to make a flying car using helium balloons. The results are unexpected.

[via gizmodo.]


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