newsweek:

In this week’s Newsweek, a little something about Yahoo & Tumblr’s marriage. And a request: “Please don’t mess with any of our favorite Tumblrs, like the beauties below.”

• BEST TUMBLR FOR BREAKING NEWS: SHORTFORMBLOG 
• MOST LOL-WORTHY ANIMAL TUMBLR: CATS THAT LOOK LIKE RON SWANSON
• BEST CROWDSOURCED TECH TUMBLR: THE INTERNET WISHLIST 
• MOST CHARMING VINTAGE-Y TUMBLR: QUESTIONABLE ADVICE AND ADVERTISEMENTS 
• MOST STIMULATING ART-AND-DESIGN TUMBLR: HELLO YOU CREATIVES 
• MOST GORGEOUS PHOTOGRAPHY TUMBLR: FOTOJOURNALISMUS
• TRAVEL TUMBLR THAT’S ALMOST AS GOOD AS AN ACTUAL TRIP: THE TRAVEL NETWORK 
• MOST POP-CULTURE-SAVVY FASHION TUMBLR: TEXTBOOK 
• BEST BOYFRIEND TUMBLR: YOUR LL BEAN BOYFRIEND

Congrats everyone! Now go follow those tumblrs and get them up in yo’ dashboard. Sorry about the caps, btw, we copy/pasted straight from the website and did we feel like going through and rewriting these headilnes? No we did not. We are too busy applauding. Click through though to see what we wrote about each winner.

I’ll check these out at lunchtime.

laughingsquid:

The Ultimate Spaceship Face-off, Interactive Guide For Comparing the Speeds of Famed Sci-Fi Ships

🎤Memories

iheartmyart:

Exhibition Souther Salazar: Souvenirs at Jonathan Levine Gallery, May 18 - June 15, 2013

Jonathan Levine Gallery
529 W. 20th Street, 9th Floor
New York, NY 10011

Interesting how recent news made my eye focus on the last 3 letters in this image. :-P

nprfreshair:

For your daily moment of “Wait… who is that?”: “Classic Paintings Recreated Using the Faces Of Modern Celebrities”

via Laughing Squid

Now THIS is funny! Click through for more hilarity.

pbsamericanmasters:

Premiering nationwide this Monday on PBS (check local listings), ‘Mel Brooks: Make a Noise’ features new interviews with Brooks’ friends and colleagues, including Matthew Broderick, Nathan Lane, Cloris Leachman, Joan Rivers, Tracey Ullman, and of course his close friend, Carl Reiner.

http://to.pbs.org/XGuxmB

I’ve been waiting a lifetime for this American Masters segment. It’ll bookend very well with the episode on Carol Burnett. 😊

merlin:

“Could be worse.”

I’ve been compulsively quoting this line a couple time a week since high school.

It works on so many levels.

LOL. I should watch this several times a week!

Men vs Women - the tech way by !efatima on Flickr.

Love this. I’ve always hated the Mars versus Venus paradigm. People are not aliens.

Famous words of Steve Jobs by !efatima on Flickr.

Stay thirsty. Stay foolish.

zablotny:

‘photos every day’

this is a spot by tbwa/chiat/day for apple, called ‘photos every day’.  the craft is fantastic, and there’s some subtle, unusual attention to detail in it.

let’s take a look at the sound mix.  here’s a waveform of the spot:

and now here’s the waveform of a conventionally mixed spot — this is that ‘old spice’ commercial everyone flipped out for a couple years ago.  it might as well be any ad you see on tv today.

huge difference.  there’s incredible restraint in the amount of compression applied to the music in ‘photos every day’.  (from wikipedia, compression “reduces the volume of loud sounds or amplifies quiet sounds by narrowing or “compressing” an audio signal’s dynamic range”.)  my point here is that if you caught this on tv, it would be substantially ‘quieter’ sounding than other ads around it.

the other interesting thing about the mix is that the iPhone shutter click sound is substantially undermixed.  it comes across as incidental, and unobtrusive.  the ambiences are the real star here, and the sound editor wasn’t even afraid to drop them out entirely for effect (see snowy skyscraper, 0:23).

other observations:

• there’s a real nice match-cut at 0:06 of the guy jumping off his skateboard into the shot of the jogger running.
• 0:25, the iPhone bobs up and down at a concert, and halfway through, the shot itself starts bobbing with the phone, keeping the screen stationary in the frame.
• overall, there’s a very careful variety of perspective, scale, and involvement.  are we peering over someone’s shoulder?  watching from across the street?  ostensibly taking the picture, ourselves?
• i could have done without the voiceover at the end.

I love this commercial. Such a contrast with Samsung’s everything-plus-the-kitchen-sink anti-iPhone ads…like the difference between Android and iOS themselves.

I’m fine with the voiceover at the end.

laughingsquid:

The Inbox, A Man Receives a Visit From Real World Versions of Computer Viruses, Spam & Email Scams

Get a Mac. ;-)

att:

No Text is worth Dying For. It Can Wait.

Please join us, Verizon, Sprint, T-Mobile US, Inc. and more than 200 other organizations to stop texting while driving. Encourage everyone in your community to join the movement and take the pledge today to never text and drive at www.itcanwait.com. 

This is one big reason I am so not thrilled with computer screens being built into car dashboards. Multitasking cognitive activities is a myth.