The kooky planetoids above are all polar panoramas: 360° panoramic photographs, digitally rolled via Photoshop into spheres.
The last two pix are of the Raygun Gothic Rocket Ship sculpture on San Francisco’s Embarcadero by Stephen Dos Remedios – before and after ‘polarisation’.
Thousands more examples on this polar panorama Flickr group.
How to make Polar Panorama with Photoshop (Instructables)
Illustrator, Maxim Dalton’s poster (for an upcoming exhibition at New York’s Bold Hype Gallery) featuring the as-yet pulp-fictional Pulp Fiction collectible action figurine set.
Somebody put this into production. I dare you. I double dare you.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OivpEbe1Phc
Yes, you snickering bastard. I forgot to jump. Now call a frickin’ ambulance.
Six incredible black and white pix of Elizabeth Taylor at Voyons Voir
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CD2LRROpph0
Unless some 14 year-old hasn’t already filled you in, here’s this:
The Rebecca Black saga in brief: Parents hire company to produce two cheesy pop songs and one cheesy video for 13-year-old daughter. Self-described “music factory” writes song including explanation of order of days of week. Daughter sings song. Producers auto-tune the bejesus out of it. “Music factory” unleashes song and promo on unsuspecting world. Video goes viral when critics trash it as “the most appalling thing on the Internet.” Girl complains of “cyber-bullying.” Then comes vindication. Gaga says she is a genius. Forbes declares her a millionaire.
Did Rebecca Black really make $1 million from ‘Friday’? (Slate)
BONUS: Rebecca Black’s ‘Friday’ as interpreted by a bad lip reader (hilarity ensues)
UPDATE: The Elmo style Lip Dub Version (even more hilarity ensues)
I’ve never had a good answer to the question “What does it mean to be Irish?” Today Twitter provided an answer using the hashtag #citizenshiptest.
No leprechauns, no plastic Paddys or broken cottages. From the profane to the profound, from sentimental to scathing to the simply funny. If you understand the questions and the answers then you’re probably Irish…
Arragh, go on. Take the test.
What Does It Mean To Be Irish ? (Storyful)
The conversion of the rather staid Mercedes-Benz S-Class into the Brabus “iBusiness 2.0” begins in the boot, with a Mac Mini mounted in a leather-lined tray inside the trunk. The Mac connects up with a 15.2-inch TFT, 16:9 aspect ratio display that mechanically unfolds from the alcantara-coated headliner and can also be used as an auxiliary display for the – not one, but two – iPad 2s mounted in the electronically deployed and adjustable custom tables mounted behind the two front seats. The tables secure both the tablets and a Apple Bluetooth keyboard, and allow the Russian mobster in back to chat with his Swedish princess over Apple’s Facetime video conferencing system.
Mercedes hasn’t announced pricing yet, but anyone who’d pay €100,000 for a regular, crappy Mac-less old S-class won’t care about that.
Blue Canary Night Light – inspired by the now 21 year-old song ‘Birdhouse in Your Soul’ by They Might Be Giants.
See, now you have to hear it again.
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