Experimental casting and distribution highlight this production. Cast auditioned by submitting videos to YouTube. Very high production values from what I’ve seen so far, seems promising.
Category: Internet
A function on the site, Internet Archive, lets you go back in time and look at what sites looked like in years past. They have 85 billion web pages archived from 1996.
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Ascii Art
Here’s a site of some of that old ascii art. Pictures of celebrities created entirely from ascii characters. I remember in typing class in high school using old fashion typewriters to create ‘type art’ but not quite on the scale as these.
Update: link appears to have died, see an archived page here.
A site make long unmanagable urls into one liners. Very handy, thanks John Stossel. I noticed he was using them in an online article.
A great resource of free services on the web. Free tutorials, free file transfers, free conference calls, free voicemail/faxes, ect. Mainly aimed at print designers, but most are beneficial to everyone.
http://www.creativepro.com/story/feature/25369.html?cprose=8-15
Don’t ask me how I run across these things, but I was entertained by this guy’s video. It’s about Canadian government politics but an interesting presentation.
Now this is a financial report I could watch!
He reminds me of Rick Moranis, come to think of it he’s from Canada too.
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3D space built from travel photos
Interesting project at Microsoft to “explore photo collections in 3D.” Program can scan personal photos or even photos shared on the web to build a navigable 3D space. One of the coolest things I’ve seen in a while!
http://research.microsoft.com/IVM/PhotoTours/
Make sure you watch the video demo!
http://research.microsoft.com/IVM/PhotoTours/PhotoTourismFull.wmv
Here’s a site that will take your 30 second video and turn it into a flip book!
Here’s a really interesting online game. I guess he couldn’t call it “Spiderman,” but that’s what it really reminds me of.
Larry Page and Sergey Brin’s first incarnation of the search engine Google was called BackRub, “named for its unique ability to analyze the “back links” pointing to a given website.” Would the brand be as popular with that name?
