Flash Animation: Animation vs Animator

Really fun flash animations!
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/316541

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/368557

http://www.gladdening.com/FlashFun/desktop.html

Artist: Chad Mount

I found this guy on FlavorPill

www.chadmount.com

Maker Faire 2007

Jaime Zollars Really wonderful illustrator. I purchased the silkscreen featured in this post. She introduced me to a place where I could get good prints (postcards, etc) done. Her postcards were pretty cool. The place is Overnightprints.com.

The Paper Source - A guy managing the Papersource in San Francisco taught people the art of Goco Printing. He even demonstrated how one could use Brownie Camera flash bulbs to create a print.

Craftgym Here's a great place if you don't want to invest to heavily in crafting supplies, or crafting space in your own home. For a fee, you can print on their Gocco printer, user their paper marbleing vats, etc. There's also a ton of classes that look like alot of fun!


Metallurge Casting - This gal made some pretty rad dinnerware.

Lulu.com - Looking to make your own books, cds, dvds? Lulu will do this with their really great selection of binding types and high quality printing.

The Neverwas Haul made an appearance. Inspired by the sci fi of jules Verne, the Neverwas Haul is a self-propelled 3 story victorian house on wheels. The haus is home to The Travelling Acadamy of UnNatural Science. A collaborative group of artists and adventurers.

Pod Pod Post Gallery/Store of Mail Art.

Craft Mafia - resource / coop for crafters

The Stereo Club of California Has a bunch of info on their site related to 3d imaging.

Mrs Grossmans is a sticker making company located here in the bay area. They even give tours.

Martin Hsu - Awesome Illustrator / Artist

This artist captured humans in bottles

The Skank Sack

This sack is designed with the active Skank in mind.


http://www.devilducky.com/media/61980/

David Blaine Mock - u -mentary

David Blaine Mock - u -mentary

http://sjl.funnyordie.com/v1/view_video.php?viewkey=c3f7e2336b27310f0b9e

New Taekwondo Gym in Martinez

Our pal Jordan has *just* opened his new Taekwondo gym.
http://www.bay-ata.com/instructors.php

1848: When America Came of Age - from Time Magazine

I love the way in which you can backtrack through time and find remarkable parallels in the way people thought about themselves. Kurt Anderson recently wrote about the parallels between the year 1848 and the present in the 3.18.07 issue of Time Magazine.

A snippet: "Miraculous new communications technologies have suddenly appeared, transforming everyday life. Everything is moving discombobulatingly fast. Globalization accelerates. Wall Street booms. Outside San Francisco, astounding fortunes are made overnight, out of nothing, by plucky nobodies. The new media are scurrilous and partisan. Marketing spin and advertising extend their influence as never before. A fresh urban-youth subculture has emerged, rude and vibrant, entertainment-fixated and violence-glorifying. Christian conservatives are furiously battling cultural decadence, and one popular sect insists that the end days are nigh. Ferocious anti-immigration sentiment is on the rise. Both major American political parties seem pathetically unable to deal with the looming, urgent issue of the day. Insurgents practicing asymmetrical warfare have, practically overnight, threatened to bring down the political order of Western civilization. And the President has tapped into patriotic rage to invade a poor desert country, having dubiously claimed that the enemy nation represents a clear and present military danger to America."

To read more of this article:
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1597503,00.html

3d commercial - I'd love to play this game!

http://seewhatyoumean.3ds.com/

Swarm of Starlings

You need to play through about a minute to get to the meat of this, but this is more like a swarm of birds rather than a flock of them!

Awesome Artist - Chris Haughton

Chris Haughton is a London-based illustrator and animator. After studying design in Ireland for four years, he travelled throughout China, India and Southeast Asia. His wanderlust brought him to Hong Kong where he worked on freelance design and illustration projects for a year before moving to London. Haughton illustrates for Time, The Guardian, The Independent and The South China Morning Post. His colourful illustrations and designs can be seen on his site :
http://www.vegetablefriedrice.com/

Found on FlavorPill

A Cappella group sings Dr Dre

DeCadence (an A Cappella group at UC Berkeley) sings Ben Folds version of Dr Dre's, Bitches Ain't Shit.

With New Technology Comes a Help Desk

Every good company needs a 'help desk' for those times when new technology is introduced.

Organic Metalwork Sculptures

Beautiful organic shapped kinetic metal sculptures.

See great sculptures!

Learn to dance with Napoleon Dynamite

Napoleon Dynamite takes us through some impressive dance moves.

http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/napoleon

Spiders on Drugs

Who knew spiders reacted so poorly to drugs.

The Female Brain by Louann Brizendine

Lounn Brizendine is a Neuro-Psychiatrist and founder of the Womens Brain Center at UCSF based in San Francisco. She's spent the past 20 years researching the differences between the male and female brain. This book collates the research done between her and her collegues into an extremely readable, fascinating and entertaining book.

This book doesn't go deeply into the science, but rather summerizes what is happening in a female brain at various points throughout her life, from inutero to menopause. As it turns out it's structures and neurochemicals are ever changing "like the weather"(unlike the male brain, which remains somewhat unchanged except in 2 key moments in their life).

Some fun did you know's I got from this book:

• During pregnancy, you will loose 8% of your brain mass while your brain restructures itself. The mass will return 6 months post pregnancy, but your brain will be far more adept at mapping and locating things than it was prior to pregnancy.


• A female's brain is uniquely structured to read minute changes in people faces and appearance
  

http://louannbrizendine.com/

Listen to an interview with Louann Brizendine on KQED's Forum

Buy the book on Amazon

John appears in a Samsung commercial

John appears in a Samsung commercial which features a laptop that is small enough for a St.Bernard to wear it around his neck on an airplane.

Go to view videos and click on "Economy Class".

http://samcanhelp.samsungusa.com/samcanhelp/index.jsp

17 Pairs of Contradictory Proverbs

1. Look before you leap
He who hesitates is lost

2. If at first you don't succeed, try, try again
Don't beat your head against a brick wall

3. Absence makes the heart grow fonder
Out of sight, out of mind

4. Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today
Don't cross the bridge until you come to it

5. Two heads are better than one
Paddle your own canoe

6. More haste less speed
Time waits for no man

7. You're never too old to learn
You can't teach an old dog new tricks

8. A word to the wise is sufficient
Talk is cheap

9. It's better to be safe than sorry
Nothing ventured, nothing gained

10. Don't look a gift horse in the mouth
Beware of Greeks bearing gifts

11. Do unto others as you would have others do unto you
Nice guys finish last

12. Hitch your wagon to a star
Don't bite off more than you can chew

13. Many hands make light work
Too many cooks spoil the broth

14. Don't judge a book by its cover
Clothes make the man

15. The squeaking wheel gets the grease
Silence is golden

16. Birds of a feather flock together
Opposites attract

17. The pen is mightier than the sword
Actions speak louder than words

Will Wright on the Colbert Report

Minilogue/hitchikiers choice - Stop motion animating sketchbook

There seem to be alot of innovative homemade stop motion videos out there! This one is a music video that uses a sketchbook to create frames for the movie. I like the addition of the hand drawing the pictures.