Here is a another good reason to listen to some Radiohead today.
If you alternate songs from OK Computer (1997) and In Rainbows(2007), it is said that you get a great listening experience, as if the two albums were meant for each others, maybe on purpose. They say it would be called 01 and 10, but I prefer OK Rainbows. I even made myself an ugly album cover.
I’m currently listening to this invented “combo” album, and after five tracks I can say it’s honestly pleasant.
(via kottke)
Interesting list of the 10 most powerful tweets of 2010 by Twitter.
I like the simplicity of the design. How refreshing to just read a page as if it was a magazine, no sidebar, no “Subscribe to our newsletter/rss/whatever-bullshit”.
Content. That’s all.
I love iTunes’ Genius Playlists when it comes to find song that fit together for a certain mood.
But lately I’ve been wanting to rediscover old songs and hitting the random button doesn’t quite do it for me. I get tired after a couple of songs. Luckily, I just came upon a great guide on how to create a “radio station” playlist by Phil Nelson. It was fun to setup and I can’t wait to try it out.
Also, I just bought a pair of Audioengine 2 speakers which I love. I think these are the best stereo speakers you can get for a desktop computer if you dislike listening music on the common “cheap tweeters + subwoofer” combo that most people buy. Because of these, I rediscover some old music that I didn’t know was fun to listen to.
That’s something I couldn’t do.
Update: Video has been removed by TheOnlineEngineer.org. They wrote a post explaining why here.
Don’t we love it when pixels come to life?
Guys from Dentsu London experimented with a super-clever technique of light-painting with the iPad. Watch the video for clear explanation of how they were able to “extrude” the objects into real-life.
(from Fubiz)
Seline HD looks like a fun app to make music with the iPad. Trekky-looking interface and colors, but it seems well done.
This is the kind of art that I like. Meaningfull, simple basic idea and well executed. This is called FLAMMA (A Basic Need), by Helmut Smits.
If you want to quickly add a lightbox functionnality to view your images in WordPress, I suggest you try WP-prettyPhoto by friend Pier-Luc. This plugin wraps the excellent prettyPhoto lightbox clone by other friend Stéphane Caron into a WordPress plugin with options and easy installation.
I recommend it because it took me about two minutes to setup here to my liking and because the styling is clean and the transitions are fast. Very neat. See examples below, two picture from my childhood in the 80′s.
Here is a small interface change from iTunes 10 that greatly improves the usage I make of it.
No more empty album artwork in the left column for Unknown Albums. This is a huge space saver. Before, each line was taking as much space as an complete album just to show an empty cover.
It’s 2010 now. This is the time when great bands like Arcade Fire make videoclips with HTML5 and Google Maps.
I loved it, my version was taking place in the industrial district of the suburb were I grew up, not far from my first job as a teen. The finale of the clip took all the meaning it could for me.
Awesome.
Update: This website made me think about the stupid HTML5 vs Flash war. This is exactly the kind of website Flash was built for and I think there is a lot of reasons why this website should have been done in Flash.
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