January 3rd 2008 | Posted by:
Adam Martin
My Fat Canteen friend Philine sent me a link to FFFound.
‘FFFFOUND! is a web service that not only allows the users to post and share their favorite images found on the web, but also dynamically recommends each user’s tastes and interests for an inspirational image-bookmarking experience!!’
It’s fffffu… it’s fffffuc… it’s really rather pretty and addictive, a lot like Penelope Cruz if she were made of crack, I imagine.
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January 3rd 2008 | Posted by:
Adam Martin
Simple creative produces the most effective results:
(via Presscue)
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January 3rd 2008 | Posted by:
Adam Martin
Information aesthetics and data visualization are real eye candy… Digg does it again this time with Digg Pics.
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January 2nd 2008 | Posted by:
Adam Martin
Spam one-liners have never been so illuminating …. (via Information Aesthetics)
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January 2nd 2008 | Posted by:
Adam Martin
Brian Cain gives Vince Vaughan’s enlightened monologue the intonation treatment:
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January 2nd 2008 | Posted by:
Adam Martin
(via NYTimes)
NEW words are most happily received when they arrive without fanfare. When they appear with “ta-da!” or “look what I did!” and are touted as clever or cute, they feel like impositions on our time. We resent that they exist mostly to exalt their makers.
On the other hand, when we revel in new words it’s often for the little jokes and puns implanted by their coiners. We delight in coining them, too, especially goofy throwaway blends in which two words combine syllables and meanings to make one. (How about “bromance,” a strong relationship between two heterosexual men, which combines “bro,” from brother, and romance?)
A large part of the delight derives from the re-orientation that new words make possible. They are fantastical transportation — portkeys and improbability starships — into other cultures, workplaces, minds.
Please lord, save me from a gorno Navy Shower, a nose bidet and a vegansexual, actually on second thoughts I’ll try a bit of vegansexual in the walkshed…
(this photo was tagged, ‘vegan gingerbread dalek’ in Flickr)
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January 2nd 2008 | Posted by:
Adam Martin
* replace as appropriate with anything viral, you know like syphillis, ebola, America’s Next Top Model etc…
At the Fat Canteen we ponder such questions as ‘how to make it superviral?’, just uploading your witty vid to You Tube won’t guarantee success unless it features laughing babies, bouncing boobs, weeping drag queens or serial killer confessions.
Dan Ackerman Greenberg has created a company, The Comotion Group to help your video reach 100,000 views (or your money back!). He calls it, a ‘video viral marketing company’. I call it digital savvy and a little bit creepy, particularly the part where Comotion employees login with fake user names and have heated conversations with themselves in the comments section… that way madness lies… …
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