Super inspirant. Virginia Gardiner a créé une toilette en caca (oui oui, le matériel de la toilette est du caca modifié) qui transforme les excréments en énergie. Si cette superbe vidéo (bien montée et les images sont belles) ne vous inspire pas, alors vous prenez trop pour acquis le privilège d’oublier chacune de vos dompes en moins de 2 secondes.
via: Inhabitat
You guys don’t really need me to talk about Michael Jackson’s death, because you already have a gazillion better sources for that. BUT! you should take time to look at these related stories Let’s call this the Michael Jackson’s Off-Funeral!
picture by David Malkoff
As you may already know, since yesterday people have been gathering around Michael Jackson’s star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. The problem is that the MJ’s star was blocked by a movie premiere, so people actually gathered around the wront MJ star, Michael Jackson’s, a radio commentator. On his blog, he says:
I am willingly loan it to him and, if it would bring him back, he can have it. He was a real star. Sinatra, Presley, The Beatles and Michael Jackson
Today, we also have a good excuse to watch that excellent indian Thriller video again.
I’m currently watching Season 2 of Six Feet Under, which lets me think about how I’d like some details to be at my funeral (Yep, I like thinking about that kind of stuff).
I think I found my coffin this week. It’s actually a shelf system that can be converted to a modest coffin once you don’t need the shelves anymore because you are dead. Great idea!
source: Inhabitat » COFFIN SHELVES: Furniture for Life (and Death).
If you are like me, you have a little system to keep pictures and wallpapers synced with your iPod/iPhone.
In iPhoto, I kept an album of all my iPhone wallpapers that I synced through iTunes. That worked great for a year, but since last week I’m trying out Aperture and I came across a small problem with my wallpapers where their resolution is awful once synced to the iPhone.
When syncing from an Aperture Library you actually only sync the previews of you pictures. By default, Aperture creates previews at 1/2 the resolution of the original files for saving space and processing time. This is usefull for hi-res pictures, but bad for the iPhone Wallpapers because they are at the exact resolution of the iPhone screen. The quick and easy solution is to:
1. change the preferences of Aperture’s Limit preview size to Don’t Limit.
2. regenerate the previews by selecting all pictures in the album, right-click and Update Previews
3. Re-sync the album to the iPhone through iTunes.
I suggest you set your Aperture’s preferences back to the original settings if you want Aperture to create small previews that are actually useful for hi-res pictures. If you keep the Don’t limit option, your library will likely double its size over time (originals + full-res previews)
And again, you can find the best iPhone wallpapers at Poolga.com.
The Beatles Rockband cinematic intro is AWESOME. You HAVE to see it. Now I have to buy the game because the animation alone is worth 70$.
(you have to watch it on the original website to get the HD quality)
Need a reason to celebrate ? Computers can easily do date calculations for us, how come we don’t party when we reach important days milestones in our lifes ?
This must change.
Visit Wolfram|Alpha, enter your birthdate and it will tell you the number of days since your were born (9442 days in my case). Figure out the closest milestone (mine is 10,000 days) and add it to your birthdate like so:
Add an event in your calendar. For diner that day, make sure you open that good old bottle of wine. I hope I’ll see you at my 10,000th Day Party on December 14th, 2010.
When my friend Maxyme showed my this video clip of Welcome to Heartbreak by Kanye West, I was amazed by how they generated and controlled the video compression artifacts. Original. I loved it.
Today I saw Chairlift’s Evident Utensil videoclip, which uses the same technique. I think this one is even better.
From the Wikipedia entry on compression artifacts:
The use of compression artifacts as a visual style, sometimes known as datamoshing, is produced by exploiting the way different video codecs process motion and color information. The technique was pioneered by artists Sven König, Takeshi Murata and Paul B Davis in collaboration with Paperrad, and more recently used by David OReilly and within music videos for Chairlift and Kanye West.
David OReilly really nails it. Check out is Compression Reel.
Il y a deux ans je traversais le Canada à vélo avec mon ami Olivier. Nous avions entretenu un blog durant presque tout le périple (nous avons été lâches sur les updates durant le Québec et l’Atlantique)
Je viens de faire ressusciter le blog ici et de le bonifier de photos. Je crois qu’il peut encore être une bonne lecture, surtout pour quelqu’un qui tente un voyage de la sorte.
http://www.francoiscote.net/Olivier-et-Francois-Canada-2007/
Aujourd’hui chez Provokat, nous sommes allé voir un spectacle avant d’aller diner. Il s’agit de la choréographie Transports Exceptionnels de la Compagnie Beau Geste présenté dans le cadre du Festival Transamérique.
Une des plus belle chose que j’ai vue cette année. La choréographie est déchirante et touchante. Par moment, on pense que la machine pourrait écraser l’homme et l’instant d’après on la sent plus fragile que lui. Tout simplement génial.
Bravo au danseur et à l’opérateur/artiste de l’engin.
À voir ce week-end, le 23 et 24 mai à 15h dans le Vieux-Port. Durée: 20 minutes.