Tag: links of the moment
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Links of the moment
An ongoing series Typewriters + dictionaries + lexicography = the backwards index. Jurassic Park computers in excruciating detail. A listening museum of mechanical keyboards and typewriters. How IKEA furniture lost its color. Fictional journeys drawn on the real world. A modern apartment full of ordinary things that once inspired awe. Don’t paste the AI and…
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Links of the moment
An ongoing series Several of my interests in one: Steven Spielberg on The Rewatchables talking 2001: A Space Odyssey. Wikipedia as a Windows XP desktop. Shoutout to the Night Witches, (unfortunately) not an awesome band but an all-female Soviet bomber regiment who attacked the Nazis during World War II.
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Links of the moment
An ongoing series Love this deep dive on the color theory behind why so many control rooms were seafoam green. What happened to movie taglines? I cannot believe the leaf sheep slug is a real animal. What a world. The Extrapolated Futures Archive maps real-world scenarios to the sci-fi stories that explore them. A clock that displays…
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Links of the moment
An ongoing series Love this deep dive on the origins of The Beatles’ “I Feel Fine”. Certified musical legend Alan Mencken breaks down his ‘90s Disney movie hits. Lots of fun and goofy designs in this 1956 Fun With Your Typewriter book. Really cool online tool to generate slipcovers for VHS, Blockbuster cases, and other…
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Links of the moment
An ongoing series Been loving Marcin Winchary’s thoughtful design takes lately, like Flickr’s inspiring URL scheme and the software versions of molly guards and Moylan Arrows. Times New Resistance is a Times New Roman impersonator font that “autocorrects the autocrats.” These 11th-century paper flowers, sealed in a Chinese cave, are a marvel of preservation. Speaking…
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Links of the moment
An ongoing series Make something heavy. Pop songs in Renaissance and Baroque style. Great longread from Bilge Ebiri on Terrence Malick and his influential filmmaking style. “What if you held a tree long enough for it to grow around your hand?” You know I’m here for a Tangible Media Collection. Which HTML element are you?
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Links of the moment
An ongoing series Size of Life is another banger from Neal.fun, one of the best places on the internet. Shoutout to ROMAN and other obscure Excel functions. Unfortunately, I have to side with Marco Rubio in the Times New Roman/Calibri font war. In praise of the prescient and “punishing digitopia” of Spielberg’s Minority Report. The…
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Links of the moment
An ongoing series How I, a non-developer, read the tutorial you, a developer, wrote for me, a beginner. How Marlon Brando changed acting. Red sprites FTW. How to fix a typewriter and your life.
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Links of the moment
An ongoing series As a Class of 2010 graduate, I can confirm: the best time to be in college was 2006-2010. Approaching our work as art can change our worlds. Cards Against Humanity Explains the Joke is an “incredible informational product that is 100% EXEMPT FROM DONALD TRUMP’S STUPID TARIFFS!” A dad turned his favorite…
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Links of the moment
An ongoing series I think I might have found the most Chad thing on the internet: a database of the most obscure words in movies. This is hardcore but also admirable: “I deleted my second brain.” Shoutout to these guys who hated Comcast so much they built their own ISP. Can’t wait for this iceberg-based Arrival sequel. Happy 30th anniversary to…
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Links of the moment
An ongoing series Dug this history of album art. Eminem’s “Lose Yourself” sung by 331 different movies. TFW you go fishing and find a 152-year-old shipwreck.
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Links of the moment
An ongoing series Tia Keobounpheng’s really cool and colorful weavings inspired by geometry and Finnish/Sami heritage. I want this 1961 National Library Week poster. Want to de-junkify your Google search results? Just add &udm14 to the URL. A handy tool to compare the true size of countries.
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Links of the moment
An ongoing series This Lonely Island musical medley is a thing of deranged beauty. Another winner from Beautiful Public Data: Cold War military slides. Didn’t realize the “junk journaling” I do was a thing. A gorgeous longread on the “hardest working font in Manhattan.”
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Links of the moment
An ongoing series What the next Beatles album could have looked like if they hadn’t broken up. Title design of Best Picture winners and 20th century sci-fi. Behind the scenes of Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl. Behold the sight and sound of a meteorite strike. These videos of a landscaper mowing overgrown lawns are…
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Links of the moment
An ongoing series Uncovering the mystery of the forbidden photos of Nazi-occupied Paris. The chilling sound of the Aztec death whistle. [Trigger warning: it’s creepy AF!] One dad’s collection of hundreds of VHS tapes with beautifully hand-drawn labels. Looney Tunes but just the backgrounds. A nice interactive history of Notre-Dame cathedral in honor of its post-fire restoration. French archaeologists discovered a…
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Links of the moment
An ongoing series How the Pulp Fiction poster became a dorm room staple. The first Zoom meeting happened in 1916. Humanity’s first interstellar transmission turns 50. Find the net elevation—i.e. the height difference between their birth and death place—of dead people. Memento Movi is a cinematic progress bar for your life.
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Links of the moment
An ongoing series Reimagined ‘80s logos of popular brands. Restoring a 1,200-year-old psalter discovered in an Irish bog. How did you find accurate information before the internet? Librarians, of course. Where did our 2004 photos go? An interview with Saturday Night Live’s early ‘90s graphic designer of sketch titles, parodies, and props.
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Links of the moment
An ongoing series In praise of reference books. Your name in LANDSAT. America must free itself from the tyranny of the penny.