The Cartoon Kit Anything worth doing is worth doing meta. And Tom and Jerry is no exception. I've been trying to learn a bit more about the various eras of the Tom and Je...
Mixel: Art and Soul Last week, I was thrilled to see the launch of Mixel . If you aren’t familiar with it, go grab the iPad app , and while it downloads, take a look at this vid...
Animated GIFs Triumphant “ If you can make it here… “, Jamie Beck, 2011 It’s been 84 years since talkies began their march towards dominance over silent film. But while 1.3 billion...
Communicating Through Design Here’s some examples of how graphic artists are trying to save people’s lives. Prince Pickles is the manga-style cartoon character who represents Japanese...
It's the Help Cat! The Nintendo Wii is an amazing and magical device that, for the last week, has left my heart full of joy and my sad geeky arm sore and full of pain. But perh...
I'm in the Time Shares Exhibition I’m flattered, somewhat amazed, and more than a little amused to point out that I’m part of Time Shares , a series of online exhibitions presented by R...
Zidane World Cup Headbutt Animation Festival Zinedine Zidane’s savage headbutt of Marco Materazzi in the World Cup final has touched on many things : Race, family, country, terrorism, sportsmanship. But...
Bay Movies, Bernoulli, Slang at the Pole and KartMatch Sometimes I miss when I used to just share random links with folks. So here’s what’s caught my eye lately. Greencine’s list of movies filmed in the Bay Area...
The other reason we have the web Other than amusing animations, the web was given to us that we might post cat pictures. (I picture Tim Berners Lee getting his liver plucked out by an eagle da...
How the web should be Michal Levy reminds us what we love about the web. With Giant Steps , Levy took Coltrane’s masterwork and set it to Flash in a beautiful interpretation. Nothi...
Loco parental Because I can’t remember the last time a flash animation actually cracked me up, please visit Dad’s Home . If the world ever has the misfortune to let me be a...
the public domain The beautiful thing about Cory’s speech being in the public domain isn’t merely that I could make an HTML version called Cory Doctorow: Microsoft Research DRM...
International Lip Synching I finally got around to seeing Finding Nemo this weekend. It’s pretty good, not great, but I suppose I’d appreciate it a lot more if I were a parent. In summ...
Motion Capture During the month of October, I spent at least two days in each of the following cities: Chicago, Toronto, Barcelona, Nice, and Munich. And in between trips I e...
it defies reason One wouldn’t think it possible, but today, someone we know discovered CSS’s a:hover class, which lets you change the color of a link, or worse, its background,...
whygodwhy : lounge I am playing Kevin ‘s version of “Desafinado” over and over. I will do so again tonight, when I finally get to read Manual . Which document, I think, shoul...
Joe Maller: All Day Ice Cream One of the most interesting people I’ve met in the past few weeks is Joe Maller . In addition to being an influential techie writer since the early days of th...
privacy bird I’ve been working on a project to display more information about web pages to users, surfacing bits of metadata that they might not have been aware of. I had e...
puddle stomping step one: wear my new favorite white sweater step two: get puddle-splashed by a passing taxi step three: cry...
I am always surprised at I am always surprised at what things get huge responses… People have been emailing me like crazy about the “links in new windows” thing. Let me clarify: I’m no...
On Sunday I watched The On Sunday I watched The Iron Giant after having genuflected in front of the MetaFilter server . I am now spiritually renewed as a weblog author....
My book proposal, with assistance My book proposal, with assistance from Jesse : An encyclopedia of animated .gif images, done as a flip book. You’d buy that, wouldn’t you?...
Behold! My terrifying new buddy Behold! My terrifying new buddy icon. And my usual buddy icon makes a repeat appearance:...
Did I already link to Did I already link to this? Everybody else did. But here it is again, Powers Of 10 . Dig this....
The ball weaved a bouncing The ball weaved a bouncing path between the cars and ended up starting its final descent onto our street a few feet above my head. I reached up and grasped t...
I know, I know, I've I know, I know, I’ve linked to explodingdog before. Multiple times. But there is something so profound and evocative about these drawings that I just can’t...
This is a weird thing: This is a weird thing: On the side of a phone booth outside my office building, there’s an ad from a company called Streetbeam . (Warning: Wacky Flash anima...
So I've been playing around So I’ve been playing around this week with extracting the bitmaps out of all the programs on my computer and seeing what little graphical surprises lie in st...
I like the bright, pretty I like the bright, pretty colors on takarajimasha ‘s site. Especially on the little animated phone....
We're going to see Fantasia We’re going to see Fantasia 2000 tonight. Despite some misgivings I have about Mouse, Inc. I think that the original Fantasia was one of the closest things...
MS touch mouse A nice update on the idea of improving tactile feedback is this related concept from Microsoft Research , a touch-sensitive mouse . The prototype appears t...
Metro North warning graphic So for every "rule" of web design, there are of course necessary exceptions . I hate animated GIFs for the most part. I hate pointless uses of brigh...
Star Wars Asciimation Okay, sorry about all that silliness yesterday, we now return to serious, useful, and relevant content. Exhibit A: This incredible work of art , courtesy of...
