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V3 Guide to the Interneat #10

duncan — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 03:56:58 +0000

This is a bumper edition of the guide to the Interneat to celebrate version 3.0 being resuscitated. Enjoy!

I am loving some of the gems that Letters of Note uncovers. The presidents address that would have been delivered by Richard Nixon in the event of the Apollo 11 mission being a disaster is fascinating (as is some of the discussion about the note itself).
Wicked little spot for Smart from those clever clogs at Buck. Love the style of this one.
The work of illustrator Ryan Snook is fantastic. I am particularly digging this ‘whale driver’.
Scottish trials mega freak Danny MacAskill has a new short flick, Way Back Home, shot beautifully in his home country. Danny does stuff that almost no one else in the world can on a bike. Red Bull sure know how to do sponsorship and branded content right.
Forget Avatar. The best use of 3D so far: 3DD - a book of three dimensional boobs. Probably not safe for work if your boss doesn’t like boobs. It’s art, ok.
An exhibition of incredible wallpaper that is made up of three different patterns in red, yellow & blue from Carnovsky. You can view the patterns individually by viewing through a filter.

(via designboom)
Mattias Adolfsson has some of the most fantastic sketchbooks that I have ever seen. There is an incredible amount of detail & imagination in his sketches.

(via bumbumbum)
All round smart/creative/talented dude Evan Roth has created the Public Domain Donor system. Donate your ideas to the public domain on your death so that they may live on. Just print one out and stick it on your license.
My favourite infographic designer Nicholas Feltron whipped up this awesome caffeine monitor dashboard for the Build Conference.
The Underbelly project is an exhibition of street art from 103 artists that was 18 months in the making. Even more interestingly it was held in an abandoned part of the New York underground transport network. Would love to check it out for myself.

(via designboom)
Brush & Spoke is a sweet blog dedicated to cycle related art. It can be a bit hipster tattoo & fixie fixated, but some really beautiful stuff in there.
I have a soft spot for stupid puns. The Narc-whal (from Iain Burke) hits that soft spot with a giant bat.

(via Laughing Squid)
Floating DJ desk made from Lego. I want one.
Aussie sampling wiz kid Pogo has whipped up a couple of new tunes with accompanying videos. Crimson, which samples Dexter, is my favourite.

(via the fox is black)
I have a new favourite stupid thing on the Internet: CAPTCHArt. Terribly drawn comments incorporating the all pervasive CAPTCHA phrases that everyone knows & loves.

(via Rhizome)

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Visualising the wine making process

duncan — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 08:27:05 +0000

Two of my favourite things together at last, wine & infographic animation. A super factual look at the wine making process.

Via FlowingData

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v3 Guide to the Interneat #4

duncan — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 22:55:34 +0000

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.
Math tells us 3 of the saddest love stories…
Absolutely beautiful illustration work from Johan Thörnqvist
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).

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v3 Guide to the Interneat #3

duncan — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 21:49:03 +0000

This viral sticker campaign for iconic Chiquita Bananas kicks some serious ass.
Godzilla Haiku: Loving Godzilla 17 syllables at a time.
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.
Unicorn Wolf Lazers Fuck You – sometimes the Internet is just too amazing for words.
Imma be loving this graph. No more BEPs!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/dylan_mason/ / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
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.
Fine arts student Kailie Parrish catalogued her dreams for two and a half months, then turned them in to a pretty sweet looking infographic illustration.
An incredible collection of photos from abandoned places around the globe.
The best ad for insurance that I have ever seen:

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v3 Guide to the Interneat #2

duncan — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 05:06:08 +0000

Studio 360 set the husband and wife design team from Under Consideration the task of redesigning Valentines Day. Whether you like the result or not this great post on Brand New with an explanation of the process, methodology, and rationale is fascinating.
I recently discovered Fuck Yeah Math, and it is awesome. If you are half as geeky as I am I am sure you think so too.
Sticking on the maths nerd tip, Found Functions is a cool project where mathematician/photographer Niki Graziano finds mathematical functions in nature, and photographs them. I would love to know whether she looks for the functions to photograph, or looks at her photographs to see which ones she can apply functions to. (Via FlowingData)
Check out this great ‘big graphic blueprint‘. Just add data for trendy infographic goodness.
Florence & the Machine colab with Dizzee Rascal – You Got the Dirtee Love. Live at the Brit awards (thanks to Nivin for the tip).
My friend Peter is publishing a blog novel (a blovel?) entitled a fucking awful weekend. Recommended reading.
Want to know how Dan Meyer spent his time in 2009? Neither did I, until I saw how he presented it:

Dan Meyer’s 2009 Annual Report from Dan Meyer on Vimeo.

(via information aesthetics)

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v3 Guide to the Interneat #1

duncan — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 03:33:01 +0000

This is the inaugural v3 guide to neat stuff on the Internet, the Interneat. It is intended as a semi-digest of the cool stuff that I link to over on twitter that a lot of people miss (plus anything else I come across that is awesome). I have to also thank Amber, her awesome CFS Loves series was part inspiration for my guide to the Interneat.

Without further ado, here is issue #1.

A comprehensive template for writing a typical incendiary blog post. Make sure you check the comments for bonus hilarity (via Simon)
Infographic goodness: Hair distribution as an indicator of previous nights sleep style
New brand campaign for Shimano from REAKT, a communications agency in Chicago. Some of the nicest print work I have seen in a while (via Lisa Frame)
Absolutely beautiful remix of Bop’s haunting ‘Song About My Dog’ from fellow Russian Subwave: Bop – Song About My Dog (Subwave Remix Cut) by SUBWAVE
What do musicians from different genres sing about? Find out with this handy fleshmap showing the relative frequency of body part mentions in a sample of more than 10,000 songs from different genres. (Warning: contains graphic photos of body parts commonly mentioned in hip hop songs)
The Feltron 2009 Annual Report is out now. I highly recommend ordering the print version. I have the 2008 one (kindly gifted to me by Gareth), and it is a stunning piece of work. OCD made awesome.
In the mood for some lovely liquid drum & bass? Check liquiddnb.com podcast #5 from liquid lover and v3 favourite Redeyes
You know what you need more of in your life? Sexy executives.
In December the awesome Four Tet made his final appearance at Plastic People in London. As a parting gift he made this lovely mix:
Much Love To The Plastic People (DJ mix December 2009) by Four Tet
Feed your ampersand obsession with 300&65 Ampersands. New ampersand goodness daily.

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I love infographics

duncan — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 06:46:27 +0000

This year I have become increasingly enamoured with infographics. If a picture is worth a thousand words, then a good infographic must be worth 10,000. I love the way that truly amazing infographic designers can summarize and capture detailed and complex information in something that is both beautiful and easy to understand.

This obsession has got to the point where I now have a section dedicated to infographic blogs in my RSS reader. When I share the ones I really like people often ask where I get them from, so I thought I would share the love. These are the infographic blogs/sites that make the grade:

I also got The Visual Miscellaneum: A Colorful Guide to the World’s Most Consequential Trivia in the post a couple of weeks back. It is a beautiful collection of fascinating infographics put together by David Mccandless (author of Information is Beautiful). It is some of the best bedtime reading I have ever had, I can not recommend it highly enough.

Do you have another awesome source of beautiful inforgraphics? If you do let me know…