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I want to go to there: The Harbin Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival, a photo story from one of my favorite blogs, Boston.com’s The Big Picture.
Happy New Year! Enjoy this fantastic video created entirely by Methodologie.
♥ me (and everyone else at Methodologie)
I didn’t even know the “Alternative Songs” category still existed on Billboard. How quaint.
— Me, from my other blog, The Bacon Review, where I just completed my 2009 Musical Advent Calendar, topping it off with Passion Pit as #1.
Do you have any idea how much shit six geese generate in a single day?
— The Twelve Days of Christmas, McSweeney’s style.
The Known Universe Scientifically Rendered For All to See, a very cool animation created by the American Museum of Natural History.
The logo — it’s ALIVE! (because of Processing)
OK Deluxe, “a London-based design studio with a foundation in interaction design and the design of media experiences, services and products,” has created a logo for the UN’s 2009 Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen that doesn’t sit still. It reminds me of an animated ball of pubic hair, but that’s beside the point. They used Processing to “add dynamic, real-time movement to the logo and take the rigid grid of the logo and animate it…, rendering out a large variety of styles and moods in formats useable for broadcast HD-TV and vector-graphics for printed media.
Fascinating.
(via CAN)
“Some 10,000 galaxies were observed in this tiny patch of sky (a tenth the size of the full moon) - each galaxy a home to billions of stars.”
For a second I tried to come up with a metaphor describing how small a place in the universe each one of us occupies. But I couldn’t. Christ I feel insignificant. Puts it all in perspective, though, doesn’t it?
This and many other great photos is from The Big Picture’s End-of-Decade review.
Our rats use safe sex
— Every once and a while, I cave to my vanity and Google my name. It’s always a bit strange, because “Royal Stuart” is the name for a lot of things, usually related to English & Scottish lineage. But this site I found, the Royal Stuart Rattery, was a new, pleasant surprise. Also, here.
Legos. I can’t wait to build things with Isaac.
That is one of the best baseball photos I’ve ever seen. From The Big Picture’s 2009 in photos, part 1
