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2006/02/28
Chas Mollet — 06 Seven Ears. Maximus glitchus!

Kill your opponents and then trample their bodies while continuing the fight…RumbleBox, no blood, only boxes.

The buildings are taking over…
This tangentially reminded me of Archigram’s Walking Cities. Yeah, go ahead and see the rest of their projects. Completely worth your time…
Haven’t you noticed that every other design project or product nowadays is called origami? Every couple of years you get this trendy word and you are supposed to design something with that name in mind… Like Simon Says for the design world.
The last 2 have been:
Pixel
Pod
Know of any others?

It took me 5 minutes to “understand” these motorcycles. Wow, I have no words for them, they are spectacular! Confederate Motorcycles…

I know I’ve always wanted my very own secret passage… Batman style!
Beware, crappy music ahead.

When will the fun ever stop?
If you have Google Earth (if you don’t, download it…you’ll thank me) you can download a KMZ file with all the venues and maps for the Torino Olympic Winter Games…
Is this the future or what? Now, I can watch the games on TV while getting an overhead view of where its taking place.

For a while now I’ve felt uncomfortable with the level of exaggeration in photo retouching. Every curve, color, and imperfection is fixed to achieve a pseudo-perfection that has become the hallmark of our times. People don’t look like this…
I’ve been expecting some sort of backlash against hyper retouches…
The Art of the De-Touch is a shot in the right direction. It allows you to see not only the before and after, but which pixels were modified. I hope this demo turns into a full-fledged browser plugin that allows you to see in real-time were the magic dust was sprinkled.
(via Waxy)

Remember the Flowline reel I posted a while ago? Now they have a new one up with sharks and all. CGI taken to the next level.

This is probably as dangerous as it looks. The Aphaenogaster is one mean little scooter. It’d be nice to race them!