In this edition: beautiful pictures, crazy places, mathematical love stories, mash ups, visualising stock markets, music production, sleeping insects & perpetual creatives.
Incredible photos of the Bombay Beach & the Salton Sea here & here. The largest inland body of water in California, once touted as the “American Riviera”, now a polluted ghost town.
I am not an artist is a project collecting little animated gifs celebrating/commiserating the paranoia of non stop design workers from international contributors.
Wait What has mashed up The XX with Notorious B.I.G. and the result is a full album released as a free (albeit 128kbps – ewww) dowload, The Notorious XX. On first listen a little disappointing, but something you might like to check out anyway. (You can also preview the whole thing over on Soundcloud if you don’t want to commit to downloading it)
Miroslaw Swietek captures sleeping insects covered in dew at 3am, making for some otherworldly photos. Apparently he is married. I wonder how his wife feels about his hobby?
The Hobnox Audiotool looks like a pretty powerful piece of audio production kit. Definitely something you could spend a few hours playing with.
Michael Najjr has an awesome set of images that visualise stock market indexes by creating mountain ranges from photographs he has taken (via information aesthetics).
If you are like me and love animated GIFs then you are going to love gifparty & lovegifs – two of the greatest tumblrs around.
How sexy are these wine labels based on the latitudes of the wine regions of Italy? Wow. (via more.peterdibartolo.com)
René Le Prou is of my good friends who happens to also be an excellent DJ. Check out this banging little house mix that he put together last month. Carny house is hot! René Le Prou – Housesque Volume 1 Feb 2010 by René Le Prou
Creative agency SarkissianMason has one of the coolest websites I have seen in a while. Creativity quantified via a handy dashboard.
Check this beautiful Unquote remix of the amazing Bop – Enjoy the Moment. Forthcoming on the Remix Your Mind EP, which is shaping up to be one incredible collection of music.
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