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but is it art? June 12, 2009 posted by
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Smoke in a Can – perfect for those foggy disco nights

Smoke in a Can is a cheapo alternative to those disco smoke machines which occasionally pop up in suburban folk lore. Vegetable oil and water vapour based, won’t set off the smoke alarm and guaranteed to hang around in your room for two hours. Sounds awesome. I get the same effect by burning toast. Your ingredient may vary. £5.99.   Create realistic smoke effects without expensive equipment * Fantastic for use with disco lighting effects and lasers * One can…


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Bookmark This! June 12, 2009 posted by
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Da Button Factory – pretty web design buttons all in a row…

Da Button Factory lets you create pretty buttons for your trendy website quickly and easily. Total flexibility and very stylish results make this a keeper if you’re a design type. Font, colours, shadows, gradients…it’s all there. Nice. Tags: web+2.0, da+button+factory, web+design, online+application


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Awesome June 1, 2009 posted by
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Nokia Engage ad – some real viral style advertising

Sometimes you have to tip your head, doff your cap and offer a small patter of applause at the marketing suits for coming up with something that works. Such is the case with the new Nokia Engage ad, featuring lots of crowd sourced stop-go animation, and a fab live computer bricks game as well. It clearly cost a bundle, is mucho fun and deserves to go hugely viral, which it will. Tags: nokia+engage, viral+advert, game


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Awesome June 1, 2009 posted by
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Sorry I’m Late – very cool short film

Sorry I’m Late, is a very cute short stop-motion film shot entirely with a digital SLR and real actors. It’s only 3 minutes long so click through and have a look. There’s a behind-the-scenes look as well. Very cute. Instead of moving the camera for each frame we thought we’d make a fake floor out of pillows and other random stuff we could find at home. If we moved the floor for each frame it would give the illusion as…


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but is it art? June 1, 2009 posted by
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Photo Shower Curtains – a new way to strut your stuff!

Cameraphiles and amateur photographers rejoice! Now you can take your prize pics and turn them into awesome shower curtains! PhotoShowerCurtain manufactures one-of-a-kind, custom fabric shower curtains from your unique photo images and custom digital designs.   The curtains are created by using a sublimation process that fuses the image into the fabric, making a permanent, extremely durable, high detail image. The curtains can be laundered over and over again with no shrinkage or fading. Single orders are $149 – $199…


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Photo Shower Curtains – a new way to strut your stuff!
but is it art? May 29, 2009 posted by
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EcoSphere – self contained ecosystem

EcoSphere is a self-contained micro ecosystem. It requires no maintenance, is completely sealed and just needs indirect sunlight and stable temperatures to do its thing. Inside each sphere is a combination of miniature shrimp, bacteria, algae and other micro organisms. Sunlight allows the algae to generate oxygen which the shrimp breathe. The shrimp eat the microbes and algae as well as their own discarded exoskeletons while exhaling carbon dioxide. The algae convert the CO2 to oxygen and you’ve got the…


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but is it art? May 25, 2009 posted by
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Layoff – could be the official game of the financial crisis

Layoff is one part Bejewelled, one part Dilbert and all snark. Rearrange your workforce to cut costs but don’t you dare try and layoff the businessmen. When times get tricky, beg for a bailout, keep your money and start again. A facts ticker along the bottom of the game helps you maintain the rage. LAYOFF uses a simple casual game paradigm to comment on the current state of the US financial crisis. Both friends and strangers face tough times in…


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Layoff – could be the official game of the financial crisis
Bookmark This! May 21, 2009 posted by
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Clockr – the Flickr clock

Clockr is a live online clock made up of numbers taken from Flickr photos. Also available as a screensaver. Funky.   Clockr uses random digit images from Flickr to display the current time. Click on a number to change the image, doubleclick it to view the full image. Use the mouse wheel to cycle through. In case you see a message box from Flash: The Flickr image urls will be stored locally and only be refreshed every three days – this…


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but is it art? May 18, 2009 posted by
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LoopLabs Online Music Mixer – electro-house music maker

The LoopLabs Online Music Mixer should please those electro-house lovers who fancy having a go themselves. It’s easy and free to use, and comes with the usual competitions, charts and ego smoothing stuff you come to expect. It’s no Musicshake, but it’s awright.  Looplabs is the web’s premiere online music mixing application and platform. Since 2000 we have connected millions of web users from around the world to the art of music mixing through our extremely intuitive and easy-to use software interfaces. Tags: looplabs,…


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Bizarre May 7, 2009 posted by
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Star Trek Voyager Singularity – every Voyager episode at once, for art’s sake

What happens when you display every Star Trek Voyager episode ever made on the screen at once? You get the Star Trek Voyager Singularity. Artist Arthur Vierkant torrented all 172 Voyager episodes, assembled them in Final Cut Pro and produced a 56 minute long episode showing all of the episodes at once. I don’t think there was any sound. Click through and see a 2 minute, fast forward version. [via Information Aesthetics] Concept: Display each episode of the television series…


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but is it art? April 29, 2009 posted by
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Chase Jarvis – iPhone Photo Gallery

I’ve heard some people don’t like the iPhone camera, that it’s not very good, etc etc. Chase Jarvis is a photographer, he owns an iPhone and he takes lots of photos with it. His iPhone photos look all right. The best camera is the one that’s with you. As such, I take between 1 and 1000 iPhone images every day and share at least one online with the world via Twitter and Facebook. These images are uploaded directly from my…


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Chase Jarvis – iPhone Photo Gallery
Bookmark This! April 22, 2009 posted by
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ThetaWall – freeware wallpaper changer for a desktop photo slideshow

ThetaWall is a freeware program which turns your boring old Windows wallpaper desktop into a groovy slideshow using your photos. Just point the prog towards a sub-directory of images and it will update the desktop image every 5 minutes (or on demand with a double click). It likes memory (runs in 20MB of RAM, plus whatever it needs for the images) so watch out if you’ve got large images to display. On the plus side it’ll cope with multiple monitors and…


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but is it art? April 21, 2009 posted by
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Pirate Bay Battle One Over – limited edition trial version T

Fresh from their massive victory in a Swedish court where the lads from Pirate Bay trounced the establishment suits over BitTorrent file sharing, they’ve announced a Pirate Bay Battle One Over special edition T-shirt to celebrate. “The only winning move is not to play.” Indeed. €25.00.  The Pirate Bay Battle One Over The verdict is in! Limited Edition Trial Special! The first round in the war called “The trial against The Pirate Bay” is over. But as we all know,…


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