I affected an air of what I hoped would be perceived the other divers as seasoning before I jumped in with the iDive 300.
“Seems like a pain in the ass to me,” I groused. “Just one more thing to break.” The other divers on deck responded in kind, mostly preoccupied with their own pre-flight checklists. “Don’t know why you’d want to even listen to music, really,” I said to their backs.
And I was right—it was a huge pain in the ass. At least at first, with the headphone cords whipping around my head very much like kelp; the case itself trying to spring to the surface, twisting the screen of my iPhone upside down; the music at once blaring and then fading to muddled distortion as my middle ear pressure equalized. (Truth be told, I could never quite figure out why the volume would vary so much, as it would often fluctuate even while I remained at a consistent depth. There’s something about the way the speakers make pressure and sound that I don’t quite understand.)
Jefferson Robbins has produced an excellent short video showing the parallels between Mad Men‘s retro visual styles and some of its great influences—specifically A. Hitchcock. Viva la dolly! [via Jason Kottke]
Uncorrected, fresh from the Canon HF20 oven. There will be lots of pretty stuff to come post-edit, but I wanted to get this shot up as soon as I could. It was a lucky bit of peripheral vision that found this octopus out in the open.
The lesson from this video is that in our modern inter-age a man dressed a teen anime girl while playing the bass no longer gives one pause—it’s the chugging of five glasses of milk that disturbs.
The iPhone remains one of my favorite cameras to use. “QuadCamera” by Takayuki Fukatsu combines the high saturation and low resolution of cheap plastic cameras with the fast snaps of a modern camera. For portraits it is a special treat, capturing up to eight frames over a variable time period; waving around the iPhone in [...]
Marketing continues to get ever more strange. An email I just received in what appears to be an email blast from a public relations company: from Emily Held to Tim Munroe date Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 11:22 AM mailed-by pancomm.com Hey Tim- Heads up, your office is smelling like fish…I had to shut your [...]
From Spiegel, a newspaper, and its interview with Wired editor-in-chief and author of the new book Free* Chris Anderson, in which he talks some crazy: Anderson: Sorry, I don’t use the word media. I don’t use the word news. I don’t think that those words mean anything anymore. They defined publishing in the 20th century. [...]
When, besides the shower, was he ever naked? The wind was what made it a thing, and the sun, curling under to dry between his legs. He felt awkward there, exposed, his thighs open to let the wind move around but not so much that his legs would touch much of the silver roof underneath [...]
Printing doesn’t just use paper—it also uses ink. So Dutch design house SPRANQ have created a new font, “SPRANQ Eco Sans Regular”, that peppers its arms and ascenders with holes to use less ink when printed. Thus, its common name: “ecofont”.
Jul 25, 2009 | Categories: Art and Design | Comments Off
David Simon’s on a tear again about the news. Newspapers, specifically—he wants the Times and the Post to put up a pay wall. It might be a good idea. I mean, I doubt it, but even though I’m counting my pennies these days I would probably throw five bucks into the pot to pay for [...]
