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Monster Truck Rally + Tilt Shift Video = Awesome Flea Circus of Humanity & Destruction

December 3, 2008

Turn up your speakers for this one!
Metal Heart from Keith Loutit on Vimeo.
In case you are wondering, Tilt Shift (”miniature faking” to be precise) is a technique for creating the illusion of a tiny world by photographing big things and fuzzing parts out to look like macro photography … as if a shallow depth of [...]

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Coolest Web Interface I’ve Seen In A Loooooong Time

December 3, 2008

Architects & designers are notorious for creating worlds that would, in theory, be pretty cool to live in but in reality are total pains in the ass. The website for Diller Scofidio + Renfro is no such thing; this is the coolest Web interface I’ve seen in a long time. By being new, it is [...]

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50 Things You Didn’t Know About Barack Obama

November 10, 2008

Barack Obama factoids from The Telegraph:
• He uses an Apple Mac laptop

• His favourite fictional television programmes are Mash and The Wire

• He has read every Harry Potter book

• He won a Grammy in 2006 for the audio version of his memoir, Dreams From My Father

• He can speak Spanish

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