Archive for March, 2010

The Impossible Project : Polaroid Film

Impossible GmbH, in cooperation withAPLR IP Holdings, has released re-engineered film for the once popular Polaroid style cameras.AGoing for $22 a pack of b/w, they go on sale this thursday- color packs will be available this summer.

Made up of up to a dozen parts to a layer, there are six major layers- mask, receiving sheet, developer, negative, rail and mash. The film looks blue when it comes out of the camera, instead of white like the old Polaroid film.

Instead of expiration dates-

The new packs will be marked with production dates. "It’s a little like a wine," says Kaps. "There is a lot of handwork; it’s slow production." Each vintage is unique and who can say when a wine is done for? You have to taste it.

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Who’s White?

Most ancient peoples defined population differences culturally, not physically, and often regarded lighter people as less civilized.

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Documenting Babel

: David Bawden on languages in information science :

My Ninja, Please! 3/29/10: Play Jail

Here’s one playground drama that’s deserving of attention: community activists recently discovered a jungle gym with a cell door, prison bars and the word "jail" painted on it at the Tompkins Houses, a housing project in Brooklyn. The playground just so happens to be in Bedford-Stuyvesant, a historically Black neighborhood with the largest prison population in the state. Coincidence? We think not. LINK

Um… so, I’m not trying to say that I’ve never heard of kids playing Cops & Robbers. But, damn, ninjas, how you gonna paint that in the playground? In Brooklyn?? Furthermore, residents said they spray-painted over the "jail" sign several times in protest, but the Parks Dept just kept coming back and restoring it. What kinda )*#& is that?! My ninjas, please.

Thanks to B for the link.

Content Aware Fill for Photoshop?

Wow, this certainly puts a different spin on things.

Disputed Island Disappears into Sea

NEW DELHI (AP) - For nearly 30 years,AIndiaAandABangladeshAhave argued over control of a tiny rock island in the Bay of Bengal. Now rising sea levels have resolved the dispute for them: the island’s gone.

New Moore Island, in the Sunderbans, has been completely submerged, said oceanographer Sugata Hazra, a professor atAJadavpur UniversityAinACalcutta. Its disappearance has been confirmed byAsatellite imageryAandAsea patrols, he said.

"What these two countries could not achieve from years of talking, has been resolved by global warming,"Asaid Hazra.

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Architecturally inspiring neck-wear, via A Glimpse of Glamour

Muzak Video Sunday 3.28.10

Suki Yaki Hot Saki Sue - Raw Dog (from the Last Dragon soundtrack, thanks Mr. Andrew)

The Mouse & The Mask - DOOM/Ghostface/Dangermouse

Weary - Amel Larrieux

TLC - Ain’t 2 Proud 2 Beg

Al B. Sure! - Night & Day (thanks Lissy)

Although many people believe that Samuel Johnson said "The road to hell is paved with good intentions," he shouldn’t get credit for this one.

Johnson said something close, but he was following in others’ footsteps. In Boswell’s Life of Johnson, in an entry marked April 14, 1775, Boswell quotes Johnson as saying (on some other occasion), "Hell is paved with good intentions." Note, no prefatory "the road to…" Boswell’s editor, Malone, added a footnote indicating this is a ‘proverbial sentence,’ and quoting an earlier 1651 source (yet still not in the common wording). Samuel Johnson SoundByte Page