The Friday Links

Happy Friday!

Great to see you all again.

Let’s get to it!

Igor Lipchansky

On his instagram page, Mr. Lipchansky recreates what’s going on just outside of the frame of several well known album covers.

Hilarious! Also cleverly executed.

Tom Ryaboi: Rooftopping Toronto

Caution: not recommended if you have a fear of heights.

Some breathtaking photography of my city from way, way up.

Beautiful.

Christopher David White – HUMAN:NATURE

“American artist manages to give his creations the organic aspect of wood, creating surrealist works of fascinating beauty”

And he does so by creating them out of ceramic.

Not simple. At all. Really beautiful work here.

Monster Breeder

An odd little online game. Created by polymath Nick Cicierega.

Entertaining!

A Miniature Video Store Offers a Tiny Slice of ’90s Life

As someone who worked in an indie video store, I would also add “a tiny slice of mid-80’s life too.”

This is delightful.

Created by Andrew Glazebrook, who works in makeup effects, props and miniatures for the film industry.

And finally: This discussion of setting up the Super Bowl half-time show is a little mind-blowing.

That’s that! Have a great Friday everybody, and stay warm.

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Happy Friday!

Happy February!

Happy link discovery time!

Heeeere we go…

Calvin Nicholls Paper Sculpture

This artist from Lindsay, Ontario (Canada) creates some incredible 3-dimensional sculptures of wildlife using paper and a boatload of patience.

These are just beautiful.

A Spacecraft For All

“In 2014 Dennis Wingo and Keith Cowing formed the ISEE-3 Reboot Project, a crodfunded effort to attempt to get in contact and gain control of the decommissioned spacecraft for the benefit of citizen science.”

I remember hearing about this then. They did it! So this site shows you live data and a bunch of cleverly animated scenarios to show the spacecraft, its current stats, and what it’s doing at the moment.

Mind blowing.

Larry’s Quest

For some reason someone (?) made this web thing featuring Leisure Suit Larry (90’s era game character.) For the first bit, you control him. Then… others appear.

It’s a little weird.

Sent in by Tyler C.

BitCopter

Sort of like a take on flappy bird, only you’re “Flying” a bitcoin. Avoid (for some reason) potatoes. It’s just like real cryptocurrency! (not)

Ipnot: Embroidered food

Some pretty incredible, super tiny creations made entirely of thread.

h/t SoBadSoGood

That’s all I have this week. I hope your Friday is awesome.

Only 47 days until Spring, everybody!

Happy Friday.

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Friday has arriiiiiived!

So fast. But it’s not done yet. There’s still time for these links!

The Grammies: What Should Have Won

“Before we all lose our minds over who wins big at the 60th annual Grammy Awards on Sunday, it might be helpful to remember that the Grammys have always been lousy at celebrating the present and even worse at predicting the future.”

The Washington Post’s Chris Richards re-picks the past 38 years of Grammies, focusing on the really innovative works versus corporate (or “who knows why”) winners.

Some great choices here.

Little Brick Lane

“Have a scale model of your home built exclusively out of Lego pieces! Celebrate your home with this creative art form and the perfect addition to your home decor!”

Pricey, but pretty cool.

The Selfie Toaster

This artist accepts an image of your face – only one face in the image, very important – and creates a custom insert for your toaster to “print” that face on your toast.

It looks like a lot of people didn’t get that point about the one face only, but what a clever idea!

Ugent: Map Quiz

A map quiz game where you have to accurately guess how much larger one country is versus another.

I scored 64%! They’re pretty picky about the accuracy of the sizing.

United States Capitol Subway System: A Brief History

“The United States Capitol subway system was first built in 1909 to link the US Capitol to the Russell Senate Office Building.”

I had no idea! (But also: I’ve never been, yet.)

Suggested by Tamara H.

And there we go.

Links! Sorted!

Happy Friday everybody.

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Welcome to your Friday Links!

We’re already hurtling towards theend of January. So fast!

Here we go.

Omoshiro Block: A Memo Pad That Excavates Objects as it Gets Used

Laser perforations allow each page to leave behind a part of the note page, that together form an architectural sculpture.

These are just gorgeous! What an amazing concept.

Women Farmers Of Appalachia

“Women Farmers of Appalachia is a photography and interview series whose purpose is to give an honest representation of the daily lives of Appalachian women in agriculture.”

Created by members of Virginia Tech, this is a pretty engrossing photo essay of, well, Women farmers in Appalachia. These are some hard working, badass ladies.

Recommended by Erin L.

LitoGraphs

Words, either from a book or your own custom content, aligned with a specific design, printed on shirts, scarves, tote bags, etc.

I saw someone recently got their PhD thesis printed on a scarf using this. What a crazy good idea!

FalconHeavy.Space

A very simple “simulation” of the steps required to erect, fuel, test fire and launch the Space-X Falcon Heavy spacecraft.

It is surprisingly challenging.

Ruby Silvious: Tea Bag Art

Some quite lovely artwork using Tea bags as the canvas.

h/t colossal

Finally: I also loved this take-down of Liam Neeson as filmdom’s worst (THE! WORST!) passenger. It is funny and incisive.

I hope your Friday, and your weekend, is lovely.

Happy Friday!

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Hello, and welcome back to the Friday Links. We’ve been waiting for you!

Here we go!

How Generative Music Works: A Perspective

An engrossing web installation about the history of generative music.

I really enjoyed this. It has an interesting interface too.

Beijing Silvermine

“Beijing Silvermine is an archive of half a million negatives salvaged over the last seven years from a recycling plant on the edge of Beijing. Assembled by the French collector and artist Thomas Sauvin, Beijing Silvermine offers a unique photographic portrait of the Chinese capital and the life of its inhabitants in the decade following the Cultural Revolution.”

It’s a pretty crazy collection. I found this fascinating.

Twitter Moments: Replacing real Trump with animatronic Trump is the meme you need right now

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Because it’s Twitter, it’s definitely making the rounds.

Well done.

Get In Shape

A very challenging game.

The goal is to hit a key that they give you to keep your little square alive for as long as possible. Then at the same time, they’ll add a new “room” and a new key to hit, at the same time.

The goal is 30 seconds, in 4 simultaneous rooms, at the same time.

You spend a lot of time just figuring out what the key press actually does.

I “sort of” like this game but holy cow can it be frustrating.

Sent in by Ashy T.

McSweeneys: New Latin State Mottoes For The 21St Century

e.g.:

South Carolina – Memento semper victos belli civilis

“Always remember the losers of the Civil War”

Happy Friday everybody!

See you in one week.

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Welcome back to Friday, which is still a thing in 2018.

Hey also: welcome to 2018!

It’s link time!

Every Second

A series of lists (with quantifiable references) for things that occur every second. (e.g.: spotify song plays, animal heartbeats, McDonald’s burger sales, etc.)

Sort of making the rounds. I like it!

Vector Park: Sandcastles

Create a variety of dynamically generated sandcastles and then watch them get washed away to sea.

Uses either html5 or Flash. Nicely done.

Dwitter

Clever little JavaScript animations, but written in only 140 characters or less.

I’m amazed at what these people come up with. Kind of cool.

Slightly Annoying Traffic

The goal is to stop cars from hitting each other. It gets crazy difficult the more cars there are, which takes some time.

What every Browser knows about you

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To be clear though, these are things that browsers have always known about us.

I’m concerned that we’re nearing a point where some sites just won’t work without allowing all of it.

Interesting!

Finally, there were so, so many “year in photos” galleries. I’ll just link to the great compendium kottke put together.

Or how about this Flickr group for your best shot of 2017? Also pretty great.

And that is the end of your first Friday Links of 2018!

Enjoy your (hopefully not too cold, Bomb Cyclone sufferers) weekend.

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Welcome to the final Friday of 2017.

Guys: We made it! Cheers!

And now: your Final Friday Links (for 2017.)

DynamicLand

“…We are building Dynamicland as a community space, where the people of Oakland will come to ‘live in the future’ and shape the medium with us”

This is… quite something. Every surface is a potential computing area. Really well done.

Cards Against Humanity’s Pulse Of The Nation

“For the fifth day of Cards Against Humanity Saves America, we used your money to fund one year of monthly public opinion polls. We’ll ask the American people about their social and political views, what they think of the president, and their pee-pee habits.

“In fact, we secretly started polling three months ago. What a delightful surprise!”

A weird range of questions, which is to be expected from Cards Against Humanity. 🙂

Sent in by Jennifer R.

Drunk Pirate

An online drinking game.

Best with more than one person. You are given a randomly selected card and must perform what is stated on the card.

The first person to fail – or meet a criteria – must take a drink.

Repeat.

Just in time for New Year’s! You’re welcome. (Ugh)

Short Life

You just try to make it through each level. The animations are funny, and the injuries are rather gory (caution!)

But it’s super fun, and super funny.

It looks like it was made by the same people who gave us QWOP. (But I don’t think it is.)

I Hacked HQ Trivia But Here’s How They Can Stop Me

Ever since friends invited me to play this extremely challenging trivia game, I’ve wondered about doing precisely this.

Pretty great / complicated. 🙂

Finally: Were you aware that famed pilot Amelia Earhart was working on her own fashion line? I was not! (The more you know…)

And that’s a wrap on 2017, for Friday Links anyway.

I want to thank all of you for following along with me.

See you next year!

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Welcome!

It’s the second-last Friday in 2017, and I’m so happy to spend this portion of it with you.

And now: some links!

Origamis by Cristian Marianciuc

Definitely also check out his Instagram feed and Etsy shop.

Holy cow these are intricate and just lovely.

Ugly Christmas Sweater

You can completely create your own godawful xmas sweater using their intuitive interface.

I know: it’s too late now. But I was just sent this and I think it’s cool. 🙂

Ugly Renaissance Babies

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Merry Christmas! 😉

Slingshot Santa

You have a catapult. Santa is in it. You have to start the catapult moving and then fire Santa across a chasm.

Why? No idea. But it is difficult.

Sent in by Vicki C.

New Year’s Music Box

Click one of the circles (orbs?) to change the instrument, modify the volume to suit your own mix tastes, and optionally add an ambient sound effect.

It only plays Auld Lang Syne, and the harmony voicings are… a little weird. But it’s a neat idea.

Finally here is an interesting read about how far ahead Google Maps is from every other online / virtual mapping service: Google Map’s Moat.

Now you are all Friday Linked Up!

Have a lovely Friday, a great weekend, and a very Merry Christmas.

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Welcome to Mid-December!

And your Friday Links.

There are now 9 shopping days left until Xmas. Do with that what you will.

Apollo17.org

“A real-time journey through the Apollo 17 mission.”

aka the last time humans went there, in 1972.

As I write this it is a real-time, moment by moment replay of the entire mission, but after that it will remain an extensive online archive of it.

Some huge heavy lifting must have been needed to gather all this content. I love it.

The Rotten Apples

“The Rotten Appl.es is a searchable database that lets you know whether or not a film or television show is tied to a person who has been accused of sexual misconduct.”

This is where we are now.

Women To Look Up To

“The Christmas Angel, Fairy, Tree Topper, by whatever name you call her, is a woman from a bygone era; a woman made of no more than plastic and glitter. No wonder, when the Victorians invented her!

“The old dame was due a modern makeover, so we thought why not venerate the real women inspiring us in 2017. Women leading politics, culture, business, who are worthy of wings – the likes of Serena Williams, Beyoncé, and a woman voted for by you.”

These are fantastic!

Santa’s Village: Wrap Battle

Think “Parappa The Rapper” but in your browser, and more Xmas-specific.

Definitely an addictive little game. The music is pretty great.

Created by Google as part of their overall “Santa Tracker” campaign. I love it.

Buzzfeed: 19 Weird Ways Christmas Was Totally Different 100 Years Ago

…You mean besides having no Internet, TV or self-driving cars?

It’s an interesting list.

These have been your Friday Links!

Have a lovely weekend everybody!

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After today, there are only three more Fridays in 2017!

So let’s make it count people.

Here we go!

Tom Whitwell: 52 things I learned in 2017

That’s one thing a week!

“#25: Women are eight times more likely to ask Google if their husband is gay than if he is an alcoholic.”

Some really fascinating learnings here!

h/t kottke

Zacharie Gaudrillot-Roy: Façades

“While Gaudrillot-Roy’s original iterations of the series included deconstructed images of urban landscapes by day … his recent explorations highlight buildings whose exteriors are illuminated by one, or several street lights.”

This is kind of haunting. I like it.

Also featured on Collossal.

Tianjin Binhai Library in China

“Dutch design firm MVRDV has completed the Tianjin Binhai Library in China. Made in collaboration with local architects TUPDI, the 34, 000 square meter space features an otherworldly spherical structure in the centre and mesmerizing undulating bookshelves. It can also hold up to 1.2 million books!”

This is beautiful!

Rush Rush Santa

A pretty straightforward Xmas-themed side-scroller. Fun though!

Magnum and the Dying Art of Darkroom Printing

aka: How photo post-production worked for nearly a hundred years before Photoshop existed.

Amazing and quite intricate.

Also: This story of how one man managed to make his shed in the UK the #1 rated “restaurant” on TripAdvisor is awesome.

And now you’re all linked up everybody!

Have a lovely Friday. See you next week!

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