More color charts!

Pantone to hex! Whee!

The Chronic (what) cles of Narnia

SNL video.

Colorblender

I know I keep posting color pickers, but something about this one seems particularly nice.

Online games

A list of online games.

Motorola ad

Fun animated ad for Motorola, though I can't quite place all the movies referenced, namely the food on the table reference.

I will knot!

I've never been that great at tying different knots (or even really knowing what the different knots are). Maybe this site will turn that around.

The Bubble Project

Who puts those bubbles on ads in the subway and elsewhere? Well, one of them is Ji-Lee, who writes, well, you can read the manifesto yourself on his site.

More color

Here's yet another online color picker. I need all the help I can get.

Color matching

If you're like me and not so great with colors, this might help.

Sit and spin

Rotate a piece of string. Or something like it.

The man who invented album covers?

Alex Steinweiss.

The solar system on your screen

1 pixel = ~1,000 km.

In the field with Teru Kuwayama

Beautiful photos from Teru. This time on a trek through the Wakhan Corridor in Afghanistan.

The last word

Is "conquistador." At least according to wordcount, a site which "presents the 86,800 most frequently used English words, ranked in order of commonness."

Football dribble

It's not what you might think if you're coming from America, and it might have made the rounds, but it's still a pretty cool video of a man, a ball, and skillz.

Guide to NYC subway art

At first I thought this was going to explain who tagged what train, but then I realized it wasn't the 80's anymore. Instead it's a handy guide to the sanctioned art in the subways.

Cartoons for your ipod

What to do with that video ipod? How about subscribing to this video podcast of cartoons?

Apple II music video

The things you can still do with an Apple II.

Hasted Hunt

The Hasted Hunt gallery of photography opens today with an exhibt of photographs by the photographers of VII.

The best paper airplane in the world?

I haven't tested it myself yet, but I will soon. Here's the instructions.

Wojiuxihuan

O.K. The repeated rap Chinese version of the "wo jiu xi huan" song is a little annoying, but I'm lovin' the games. The DJ game is like Dance Dance Revolution, and then there's a skateboard game reminiscent of California Games. I'm Lovin' IT

Test your break IQ

What record provided that break? Test your knowledge here.

Discover Opera

The Metropolitan has a nifty little timeline with audio samples from which to learn about the history of opera.

Glassbreaks

Philip Glass and hip hop? Awwww yeah!

Chaos Theory

Fun (for a little while) chain reaction game. My high score is 110.

Puzzle Bobble

Now you can play anytime with this online flash version.

Airtrek travel planner

Planning a round-the-world trip with multiple stopovers? Try airtrek's flash planner.

Color lovers

Trying to find the perfect color but can't? How about letting other people direct you?

Finger boarding

I wish I could do tricks like these.

Screen clean

Lap lap lap

Straight Outta Compton

So angry and yet so pretty.

78s as mp3's

No nickel required!

Poom

The bouncing game.

Processing photography

Photographer Clayton James Cubitt and processing professional Tom Carden have teamed up to create some beautiful beautiful work. Read a little more about what went on here.

Proust's Madeleine

Looking for the recipe? Slate attempts to break it down.

Penguin remixed

Penguin's sponsoring a competition for people to remix bits of their audio books. You can listen in here.

110 reasons to eat more chinese food

You can't win if you don't play!

Bryant Park Summer Film Festival

The schedule for this summer has been announced.

Timeline

A new way to watch time go by.

The history of sampling

A neat little java app covering the above.

Frusion Breakfast Brawl

Get ready to experience the most amazing breakfast-related boxing game mankind has every seen! Ready? FIGHT!

Throw paper

Sophia pointed me to this game, which I've found oddly addictive. I think it's the sound effects. My high score so far is just 12.

50 Pounds Assorted Hand Tools and Hardware - NTS

Have you ever had your nail clippers confiscated at the gate before boarding an airplane? Now you can bid on them on ebay.

World Press Photos at UN

Yesteerday, the World Press Photo Awards exhibition opened at the UN. You can read the press release here.

Graphical representation of Google News

A cool new way to scan the headlines. Or, in the words of the about section: "Newsmap is an application that visually reflects the constantly changing landscape of the Google News news aggregator."

Post Secret

I can't believe I haven't linked to this yet. Share your secrets on postcards.

What is a craving?

A craving is a consuming desire; a yearning, an urgent need . . .

Lunch at noon

There once was a time when a Monday lunch was Sunday's leftovers. No longer! Lunch at noon.

DJ Format

More DJ Format videos. This one isn't quite as fun as the one for "We Don't Know," but it's fun in its own way. Three feet deep.

622 Music Videos

Not all the links work, but still a pretty impressive collection.

Airline Bag Lounge

This lounge has bags from around the world and through the ages. I wish they'd bring some of them back. Or I wouldn't be surprised to find updated versions at Flight 001.

Stamps book

Michael Hernandez de Luna and Michael Thompson have collected a number of their stamps into a new book. The site describes them as "two Chicago artists who have taken on the International Postal Authorities and really scored a bulls-eyes!  Their unique and often hilarious home-made stamps have been sent from virtually every country in the world and arrived to tell the tale. "

Buzztracker

From the site: "Buzztracker is software that visualizes frequencies and relationships between locations in the Google world news directory. Buzztracker tries to show you how interconnected the world is: big events in one area ripple to other areas across the globe. Connections between cities thousands of miles apart become apparent at a glance."

Swisssh

Crazy video of trick shots.

David Byrne Radio

David Byrne has launched an internet radio station. Listen to it here.

Straight 8

One super 8mm cartridge. No editing. See the results.

Eros

Speaking of Eros, here's the Japanese Trailer.

Aircon -1

Here's a slideshow of images from Huschang Pourian photographs of Tokyo airconditioners. More information at underbelly.

Eros

Jonesing for more Wong Kar Wai? Check out the site for the new film Eros, also featuring the work of Michelangelo Antonionini and Steven Soderberg.

The Gilman Paper Company collection of photos

The Metropolitan Museum announced that it has acquired the Gilman Paper Company Collection of photographs. You can read about it in the Times. I hope they put on an exhibition sometime in the near future.

Change purses

Last weekend Mimi bought me this great change purse from designer Yukiko Sato. It rocks and I luff it!

Tea

It's been a while since I've checked in with Orsinal, but I noticed a new game up there. tea. Cute mice and jazzy music. Who could ask for anything more?

How much is that picture worth?

Since I seem to be on a roll about photography at the moment, I thought I'd link to this NYTimes article about the business of photography in the art world. Unfortunately, I don't think any of my snapshots are going to be worth $1.3 million anytime soon. And would htat I could have afforded to buy Gursky's Prada II, 1997 back in the day. It would have been a steal!

Diane Arbus at the Met

Speaking of photographers having shows in museums in New York City, the Met is hosting Diane Arbus's Revelations. "This retrospective exhibition, the first in more than 30 years, presents the artist's signature images—such as Child with a toy hand grenade in Central Park, N.Y.C., 1962 and A Jewish giant at home with his parents in the Bronx, N.Y., 1970—as well as previously unpublished photographs and writings drawn from the artist's archive" I saw this show at LACMA. Definitely workth checking out.

Larry Clark at ICP

Larry Clark has a show going on at ICP at the moment. And I was just flipping through a copy of Tulsa the other day. You can read more about the exhibition here, though I really wish people would stop setting knock out type on dark backgrounds when there's so much text. It makes my head swim. Here's a link to a NYTimes article about the show.

Toronto subway buttons

Spacing has created a series of buttons for every stop on the Toronto subway line incorporating the tile work of each station. Here's the complete set organized by line. I remember liking the typography used in the metro when I was there, as evidenced by these photos: 1 2.

Sheep dash

Test your reflexes here.

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Remember the Infocom text adventure game? The BBC has ported it to flash and added pretty pictures. Crazy. Maybe I'll finish it now.

Super Mario mural from post-its

In all its 8 bit post-it glory.

Bug me not

Tired of having to subscribe to all those sites? Well, bug me not!

Flowers flowers

The Macy's flower show opens on Sunday. And the Orchid Show continues at the New York Botanic Gardens.

Waiting for the sirens' call

There's a new New Order album coming out. Peep the video here. It kinda makes me dizzy.

Type Navigator

Looking for the perfect font? Try Type Navigator

Nananca Crash!

Here's another fun game! Nananca Crash!. My high score is 3219.65. If you keep clicking the girl teleports back for an extra bash. But I'm not sure how to control that.

Wallace and Gromit coming to the big screen

Here's a little film on the new Wallace and Gromit film.

Desktop manager

For a long time I've wanted multiple desktops on my mac. With desktop manager, now I can. I don't know how I've missed this for so long!

Desktop manager

For a long time I've wanted multiple desktops on my mac. With desktop manager, now I can. I don't know how I've missed this for so long!

New Nickels

Listening to NPR, I heard that there are even more new coins coming out. The nickel is going through a series of redesigns as well. Apparently the mint makes over $600 million in profit on selling money. Oddly, I actually found an original buffalo nickel the other day.

Thomas Demand

Thomas Demand opens at the MoMA today. "Born in 1964, Demand began as a sculptor and took up photography to record his ephemeral paper constructions. In 1993 he turned the tables, henceforth making constructions for the sole purpose of photographing them."

Miao Tien

I just found out that Miao Tien, the actor who plays the father figure in Tsai Ming-Liang's films has died. Here's an article in the Taipei Times. It's time to rent Goodbye Dragon Inn.

Imitation the sincerest form of flattery?

Here's an interesting twist. I noticed that I've been getting a lot of hits from Hungary as of late on Carte Blanche Pedicure, my photoblog. Imagine my surprise when I checked out the referring site and found this.

Singin' in the Rain

I've never seen Gene Kelly do things like he does in this ad. I wonder if it's by the same people behind the Superbowl ad (the techniques of which first surfaced in a Futureshock video. I'm not sure what I think about using Gene Kelly to sell VW's after his death, but I guess that's another issue entirely . . .

NYPL Digital Gallery

The New York Public Libary launched their digital gallery today. The NYPL Digital Gallery provides access to over 275,000 images digitized from primary sources and printed rarities in the collections of The New York Public Library, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints and photographs, illustrated books, printed ephemera, and more. But note that current very high demands are causing some delays in serving image derivatives. We are working to boost performance on the image server. Please be patient, your pictures are there

The things we do for love

This is a little extreme. One of the Oscar nominated short films from this past year, 7.35 in the Morning.

Sexual high and dry

Radiohead meets Marvin Gaye.

Ring my cell

S/FJ breaks down the history of the cell phone ring tone. Sounds like even mom's are hip to the groove, "A kid I met on the subway told me that his mother doesn’t like his new 50 Cent ringtone, “Candy Shop,” not because it features explicitly sexual rhymes but because it’s not as cool as “In Da Club,” a previous 50 Cent ringtone, which received Billboard’s first Ringtone of the Year award, in 2004." Personally, my phone doesn't go off often enough to justify spending tons of money on ring tones. Right now it mimics an old rotary phone ring.

Hong Kong Art Walk

For those in Hong Kong, tomorrow is the fifth annual ArtWalk, a charity event benefiting the HIV Education Centre at St John’s Cathedral, the Society of Community Organization (SoCO) and the Society for the Promotion of Hospice Care. The entry ticket allows the bearer to partake of the wine served by each of the 40 participating galleries and 'finger food' provided by our sponsoring restaurants. If I were there I'd be going! Note that tickets last year sold out.

Identity works!

Ever wonder how to set the logo for the Home Office? Well wonder no more!

Art of the Japanese Postcard

I've missed this exhibit at Boston's MFA, unfortunately, but I bought the book. It's the Art of the Japanese Postcard. The show looked great. There's a wide assortment of cards on view on the site. And the book was one of the NYTimes notable art books from last year. Unfortunately it'll take 1-2 months for me to see my copy arrive from Amazon. :-( Happy New Year everyone! Incidentally, here's what the NYTimes had to say about the book: "Keats said that reading Chapman's translation of Homer felt like watching an unknown planet float into view. You might have a similar reaction to Art of the Japanese Postcard: The Leonard A. Lauder Collection at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA Publications, paper, $29.95). Beginning in 1900, with the lifting of the government monopoly on the printing of postcards, many of Japan's leading artists tried their hand at designing in this exotic new medium borrowed from the West. It took a while for Japanese woodblock prints to be appreciated for the masterpieces they are, and the same could be said -- in fact, is said, by Anne Nishimura Morse and other sharp-eyed scholars writing in this exhibition catalog -- about the neglected genre of the postcard. In this spell-inducing volume, you'll find the encounter of East and West given a fresh treatment. A Japanese woman swings a tennis racket against a backdrop of blue morning glories. Some of the most arresting cards are aerial views: colorful parasols amid the shadows of their owners; Art Nouveau swimmers grasping a lifesaver; and three cavalrymen riding into battle in the Russo-Japanese War, exactly 100 years ago."