Amazon launched a new feature today that is impossibly cool: They’ve integrated their yellow pages and Mapquest with a database of images enabling users to visually scroll up and down the block. You can see an example of what I’m …
Archive for January, 2005
1.30.05
.pdf excerpt of forthcoming ‘Bizarro World’ hardcover.
Direct from DC Comics.
1.30.05
participating in DC Comics’ ‘Bizarro World’ Hardcover.
1.30.05
Clips from French documentary special on Art Spiegelman
, In English with French subtitles. (He does his layouts in Quark on OS 9)
1.30.05
Lots on ‘Mad’ artist Harvey Kurtzman’s Career.
1.30.05
Discussion of ‘The Kryptonite Kid’
- a 1979 novel composed of a disturbed teenager’s letters to Superman.
1.25.05
Audio: Actual Tasmanian Devil Noises.
Sounds like the Inuit throat singer on Bjork’s “Medulla.”
1.24.05
MP3 archive of a 1992 Subpop festival
featuring live sets (And unrecorded songs) from Sloan, Velocity Girl, Eric’s Trip, and tons more. [Thanks Jason!]
1.23.05
His ‘artist biography’ strips (which adopted characteristics of each particular artist’s work) in McSweeney’s #13 were great!
1.23.05
Detroitfunk on the closing of America’s oldest aquarium.
Kwame Kilpatrick strikes again.
1.21.05
‘Bone’ creator Jeff Smith auctioning original artwork for tsunami relief
- He never sells originals.
1.21.05
- Daily photolog
1.21.05
Trailer for Tim Burton’s new Stop-Motion epic: ‘The Corpse Bride.’
Due out this Halloween. Alert Hot Topic!
1.18.05
(The making of a grape / apple hybrid)
1.14.05
1.13.05
Previously unknown Beatles track unearthed?
“Mississippi River Born” supposedly has Paul on lead vox, John & George singing harmonies.
1.13.05
- Like ask.metafilter.com, but without the pleasant design
1.12.05
Marty Smith has a website?!
I’m what you would call a casual sports fan. One of my roommates, however, is always watching ESPN. I wandered into the living room on Sunday while “Sportscenter” was on and saw the BEST THING EVER.
First, some background. My …
Vincent Marquardt writes:
”When I was about 10 years old, someone gave me a bunch of 45′s, all lousy no-name performers; No wonder they were giving them away!”
”Anyhow, one of them was a female singer singing a song called
…
1.8.05
eBay auction for (almost) every Sub Pop Singles Club 7″ ever.
He’s missing the Luna 7″ from the 2nd run. The auction has photos of every single record. (Thanks Chris!)
1.7.05
Comedy Central has picked up “Stella” for 10 episodes
(3 ex-members of MTV’s ‘The State’)
1.7.05
Detroitfunk on the death of Harry Houdini in Detroit.
I had heard rumors the show was to take place in the Majestic complex, but it looks like it was the ‘Garrick Theatre.’
1.7.05
Quantegy (the last remaining manufacturer of analog tape used in analog studio recording and mastering) ambiguously announces plant closure for ‘restructuring.’ The age-old analog vs. digital argument ensues on Slashdot.
1.7.05
Audio: Synthesized speech from “The Impossible Mission” (C64).
Ah, memories. I never could understand the first few syllables, though.
You may have read about the recent discovery of a bit of animation on an ancient Iranian goblet, said to be the first recorded example of man-made animation. The article that’s been making the rounds (I first saw it on …
Indie Comic artist Johnny Ryan, known for his ‘Angry Youth‘ Comics and general poor-taste, has been skewering the elder statesmen of indie comics in his ‘Shouldn’t You be Working?’ strip. These strips are mostly not safe for …
1.3.05
1.3.05
featuring an inexplicable photo of an impossibly happy young man and his 1st gen. Gameboy.
So, I finally got around to seeing Spider-Man 2. It was pretty fun, even if it did seem to hit the same notes as Spider-man 1, in roughly the same order. One thing about it has been bugging the CRAP …
I added two videos to my Zumpano page: “I Dig You” and “Behind the Beehive.” They appear to have been encoded using some archaic codec, so quicktime chokes on the sound. Until I find the time to re-encode them, …