(Google maps render from Urban Jungle)
Bam. It’s Friday. Friday round-up time. Time for things found on the internet.. Let’s get some beat-boxing out of the way and start this up. ooom-tss ooom-tss ooom-tss.
Below the break.
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My Husband’s Stupid Record Collection
Librarian Sarah O’Holla’s Tumblr blog wherein she reviews her husband Alex’s record collection (with over 1,500 FREAKING LP’s!), one album at a time. She’s taking on each record from the collection alphabetically, and more often than not is less than impressed by the music her husband has been hoarding. The reviews wind up being both hilarious and honest, and she does a fantastic job picking apart each work as someone outside of the vintage music-geek subculture and who isn’t (but probably should be) a professional music reviewer.
DVDP
DVDP is a Tumblr collection of .GIFs provided by DVDP, otherwise known as Davidope… otherwise known as David Szakaly.
The .GIFs are mostly abstract, often hypnotic, and always really fascinating to watch. Many of the works are even made by Szakaly himself. If you’re easily entranced by warping lines, pulsating colours and confusing geometry, you may want to give it a look!
Urban Jungle
Urban Jungle is a really great idea and works surprisingly well in practice. The site takes Google Map’s Street View and its depth data, which is normally not used by the service, to render a 3D interactive view of any location you choose as if it had become overgrown and abandoned by humanity. In other words, you can turn any city you want into your own post-apocalyptic movie scene.
2048. Use the arrow keys on your keyboard to move and join tiles to form the mythical 2048 tile. There isn’t much to it, and that might be why the game’s so damned addictive.
There’s also a DOGE2048 version, if you must know.
Hunger/La Faim
La Faim by Peter Foldès is a computer-animated film from 1974 and published by the National Film Board of Canada. It tells the somewhat abstract tale of a man’s uncontrollable self-indulgence and his path toward outlandish greed and selfishness.
The animation, especially considering the time in which it was produced, is surprisingly fluid and engaging. The soundtrack is pretty wild and awesome, too!
Hunger from National Film Board of Canada on Vimeo.