January 2011
12 posts
Electricpig: Apple Icon Secrets →
Maxistentialism: "Cookies," by Douglas Adams →
This actually did happen to a real person, and the real person was me. I had gone to catch a train. This was April 1976, in Cambridge, U.K. I was a bit early for the train. I’d gotten the time of the train wrong.
I went to get myself a newspaper to do the crossword, and a cup of coffee and a…
“Writing is the art of structuring the existential world, of trying to slow it...”
– Christopher Lynsey, in Why Writers Are Miserable, And Often Cowardly.
You Should Date An Illiterate Girl →
“…because a girl who reads possesses a vocabulary that can describe that amorphous discontent as a life unfulfilled—a vocabulary that parses the innate beauty of the world and makes it an accessible necessity instead of an alien wonder. A girl who reads lays claim to a vocabulary that distinguishes between the specious and soulless rhetoric of someone who cannot love her, and the...
Will Justin Bieber ever hit puberty.
1) Go to Google Translate 2) Type “Will Justin Bieber ever hit puberty” 3) Translate English to Viet 4) Copy paste the Viet words 5) Translate Viet to English
20 Untranslatable Words from Around the World →
1. Toska
Russian – Vladmir Nabokov describes it best: “No single word in English renders all the shades of toska. At its deepest and most painful, it is a sensation of great spiritual anguish, often without any specific cause. At less morbid levels it is a dull ache of the soul, a longing with nothing to long for, a sick pining, a vague restlessness, mental throes, yearning. In particular...
Illustration Tutorials →
On drawing humans, birds, cats and miscellaneous (colors, patterns).
WatchDelicious plasticine-like style and retro colors+fonts+music = winner.
benjaminf:
YUMYUM / MTV: “How to prank” (by KAMP - Music & Sound Design)
Animation: yumyumlondon.com Sound Design: archive.davidkamp.de
