Archive for April, 2005

April 29th, 2005

“Hitchhicker’s” reviews

Two great reviews about Hitchhiker’s: Can Hitchhiker’s survive Hollywood? (via Incoming Signals) and “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” on Salon.

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April 29th, 2005

Firefox: 50 million downloads

Fifty Million Firefox Downloads

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April 29th, 2005

Nostalgia Nudes

Nostalgia Nudes lots of pictures of nudes from the XIX and beginning of XX century. One of the most controversial issues in Victorian art, the representation of the nude figure occasioned continuing debate over whether it was associated with High Culture or constituted an assault on public morality…. I don’t post images of nudes here [...]

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April 29th, 2005

Bryan Berg – Cardstacker

Bryan Berg – Cardstacker. He makes amazing creations of architecture with cards. His latest record-holding structure in the category is over twenty-five feet tall. You can buy some decks of cards on his site but an advice: Buying and using these cards may not make you a professional cardstacker like Berg. Cardstacking is like many [...]

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April 29th, 2005

Fawn Gehweiler

No Candy: illustrations, graphics, paintings and fashion by Fawn Gehweiler. Her very pink works are cute and dark. Fawn’s signature characters combine the influence of abandoned theme parks, English eccentrics and garden parties, the kind of dreamy nostalgia that only little girls of the 70′s can create, vintage childrens books, and a long-standing obsession with [...]

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April 29th, 2005

Saelee Oh

Saelee Oh – illustration. She has a nice work with cute and cheerful images.

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April 29th, 2005

Photos of 70s and 80s bands

The Flickr user jlacpo made me feel very envious of his photosets with groovy rock and roll bands form the 70s and 80s: B-52′s, Boomtown Rats, Jethro Tull, Ramones, Genesis with Peter Gabriel, Blondie, Aerosmith, Tom Petty, David Bowie, Elvis Costello, Kiss, BB King, Frank Zappa, The Who and more. Lots of some pictures. From [...]

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April 29th, 2005

The Hype Machine

The Hype Machine: archive of blog audio. The Hype Machine is an experiment that gathers songs posted on MP3 blogs and presents them in an easy to consume manner. It lets you easily listen to the new stuff that has been posted today by a great variety of bloggers – discover and fall in love [...]

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April 29th, 2005

Jean-Honoré Fragonard

Jean-Honoré Fragonard museum-villa has some works of Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Antonin Fragonard, Alexandre Evariste Fragonard, Marguerite Gerard and Théophile Fragonard. With a lively touch which is more suggestive than indicative, Jean-Honoré Fragonard captures the fleeting moment, the storm’s whirlwind of clouds, exuberant foliage, the liveliness of a gesture, or a fabric’s graceful fold. To see more [...]

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April 29th, 2005

Site offers legal film downloads

Site offers legal film downloads: A UK website is to offer the internet’s first legal film download service. Wippit, which already sells music downloads, has announced plans to provide movies that users will be able to keep, from this summer onwards.

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