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It’s often hard to convince people that Olivo Barbieri’s aerial photographs are real. They look uncannily like hyperdetailed models, absent the imperfections of reality. He achieves this distinctive look by photographing from a helicopter using a special tilt-shift lens.
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The Simpsomaker lets you design your own Simpsons character. The guy to the left is based off of me. Not surprisingly he turned out to be the coolest, cutest, best Simpsons character there has ever been. Fancy that!
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A pretty image collection featuring things being smashed, taken using high-speed photography. Me like to smash things good. Me like pretty pictures.
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Gotta love open standards. Here’s a clock where the numbers you see for the clock are randomly pulled from images on Flickr, using Flash no less. Seriously, I’m old enough to remember when Flash was sorta stupid, now its all growed up!
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This guy takes childrens drawings of monsters and superheros and recreates them with his mad artistic skillz. Super cool!
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Once the image loads, hold down your mouse button and drag it up and down to zoom in and out of the image. And then watch as your mind is blown into a zillion tiny pieces by the raw power of the zoom quilt’s coolness. PS: after the link, pick the ‘Flash’ option.
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I like pandas too, and based on this film I also like Jessica Borutski. Seriously, this is fabulous!
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I don’t know what absolutely loving this short film says about a person, but I’m so handsome that I’m not going to worry about it.
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This is a cool little flash app. It could be completely useless but I think I could probably spend the rest of my life playing with it. The fellow in the picture to the left is named Beaver. If you think he looks familiar then you are wrong, because I MADE HIM.
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Needlepoint just stopped being polite and got real. Cross stitching gets subversive
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This is a Java application that runs in a browser window. You can use the Perception Laboratory’s Face Transformer to change the age, race or sex of a facial image, to transform it to the style of a famous artist, to make an exagerated caricature or even make an ape of yourself!
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A neat trick you can do with your desktop background image. People match the wallpaper with what is behind their monitor to make the screen look invisible.
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I can’t really describe this, except to say that it involves dog shit and the President.
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PostSecret is an ongoing community art project where people mail-in their secrets anonymously on one side of a homemade postcard.
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