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I don’t know why I like this video so much, but I just had to post it. It’s a short clip featuring music from a artist known as RJD2 (who also appears in the video — he’s the man with the beard at the beginning who tries to help the man on crutches), and it [...]

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Art: A nicer form of dumpster-diving

by Mathew on September 28, 2008 · Comments

Montreal-based artist Michel de Broin created a hot tub out of an old commercial dumpster for his work Blue Monochrom. Found via the Make magazine blog. The artist’s site is here, and he’s also the creator of a number of other interesting works, including one called the Shared Propulsion Car, which consists of a 1986 [...]

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Ethan Kaplan, who is the vice-president of technology at Warner Brothers Records, wrote a long and thoughtful post today about the value of art, and how we as a society need to think long and hard about how we value art — including how (or if) we are prepared to pay for it — so [...]

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ASCII blogger art

by Mathew on July 23, 2007 · Comments

Just discovered that Amit Agarwal, who writes the excellent Digital Inspiration blog, has created a site with ASCII art images of 100 popular bloggers, including yours truly (I’m the one in the second row without a head).
Nice link bait, Amit :-)

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A very Canuck PC case-mod

by Mathew on April 13, 2007 · Comments

I think it’s important that every patriotic Canadian order one of these custom PC case-mods from a design group called (appropriately enough) Your Psycho Girlfriend. Found via Engadget, by way of Wired, it’s a full computer system inside a stuffed beaver. How long before it explodes into flames? Who knows. Does it smell when the [...]

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