+Anne--Right about the time I forget about this, it shows up again. Too funny.
- Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)
interesting. I've tried a few times to get animated images to work on FF without success.. I guess piping it through twitpic might be the answer!
- veo
veo, yeah Twitpic, RSS (MediaRSS), Delicious, Tumblr all seem to work. There are more than that but those come to mind.
- Josh Haley
Just one question, Josh: are you by chance spinning on 9 different Aeron chairs that were a steal after the first dot-com bubble burst? The future of the internets: you're looking at it =)
- Micah Wittman
could anybody describe how to create such a picture? thx
- Arnaud Fischer
Arnaud, see http://friendfeed.com/mokarga... for tips. And Josh correct me if I'm wrong, he uploaded to Twitpic the same animated GIF 9 times, then created a friendfeed post and attached all 9 images by URL (instead of choosing images from his hard drive). Images coming from twitpic, soup.io, etc will animate, but photos hosted by friendfeed itself won't.
- Micah Wittman
Did not sleep well with all the spinning. :p
- Josh Haley
from iPhone
It's infinitely more amusing when they don't all load at the same time. Spinning chaos!!!
- CAJ, somewhere else
Why the friendfeed limitation on animated .gifs? It seems arbitrary and odd to me. I could see wanting to limit filesize (animated .gifs can get large) but you can upload huge .jpgs without any trouble.
- veo
Mesmerizing like a lava lamp. Hey! You are a 'Lame-o Lamp'! And you might want to call the folks in the makeup department and get that forehead de-sheened. Remember, your forehead is an alternate landing site for the Space Shuttle - And you don't want to blind the crew on their final approach, do you? :-)
- Morgan Haley
Good luck trying to land anything on that while it's moving. :p I can always count on my brother.
- Josh Haley
OMG! That should be the next installment at some fluecy deucy art museum!!! AWESOME. :) It's like whack-a-mole... I keep trying to figure out which one will show your face next and for some reason I'm always wrong.
- Lindsay is in 20-ten
Thanks, Lindsay! :) I think that's the first time someone described wanting to systematically hit me on the head repeatedly, yet have it come off as a compliment. I would love to take credit like I was Andy Warhol or something, but alas I was just tired and felt like doing something silly. :p
- Josh Haley
from iPhone
yep, what Lindsay said. That was one of the first bona-fide instances I've seen of using Friendfeed as a medium for net art. You could get in the Whitney & stuff. GOOD JOB
- Kamilah Gill
LOL! I actually didn't mean it the way it came out (the hitting you on the head part, the compliment part is ok ;)). But I'm in tears laughing when I read your reply. Whack-a-mole always frustrated the heck out of me... I did a lot more staring than hitting when I tried to play. It was mesmerizing.
- Lindsay is in 20-ten
you wait - the scary part of this comes when one of these ffoodoo heads stops turning, starts grimmacing and talking to you ..... have you seen one of these heads actually get up off the chair and curse the world??? ... the seeming dissynchronicity, the haphazard discord with which these dollheads turn might drive you ...nuts
- Petr Buben
I don't agree with the notion that life on Earth originated on Mars (or any other planet). I think it started and evolved from chemical reactions right here. Still, love this graphic out of context.
- Kamilah Gill
Kamilah: I'm not sure what to believe about where it started but the conditions would have had to been right
- outofmyarse
there is still a chance that it was carried here from other sources (comets from other systems etc). The only thing we can say is that it's here :)
- alphaxion
I love these sorts of creative things!
- Rick Cogley
I always wish they'd show what these things look like from something other than the exactly perfect perspective. Because to most people passing by these would look totally different.
- Brian Johns
These never get old. Thanks for sharing. :)
- Kevin Winn
There's a new group around here, Water the Future and I wonder if they thought about their acronym or if it's just something to make me chuckle every time I see it.
- Heather Solos
extra extra like. and want. actually these are easy enough, you can get them custom made at office supply stores. talk about an awesome stocking stuffer. who wouldn't love this?
- Blackeyed P
Emma: I've decided to make the "Double Chocolate And Pear Cakes" you posted early this week. The fine sea salt for this recipe was not available. I will definitely save you some, lol ;)))
- Brandon
Ross and Dan made this video to illustrate the advanced technology we use behind the scenes at FriendFeed. (Ross and Dan, you are amazing - I can't believe how awesome this thing turned out)
- Bret Taylor
from Bookmarklet
How very creative. This is very fluid and cool.
- Louis Gray
OK, not exactly what I was expecting, but very cool.
- Kevin Arth
Anyone have the video somewhere other than Youtube? it's banned here in Turkey and I can't wait until we get home (next month) to watch it!!
- Chris Myles
Bret, this video should be titled: A Love Song for FriendFeed ! Great vid (and music) !
- Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
This is superb. I just showed it to my 5 year old son who enjoys Lego and has already taken some great photos, including one or two of his toys. So now he has the seed of the idea that, in time, he could take multiple stills and put them together to make moving pictures. Thank you very much for posting it and giving me and him that opportunity. Maybe, he might use FriendFeed one day too!
- John W Lewis
I think they need to make a full stop-motion version of the Matrix in legos. Now THAT would be awesome. I wonder what bullet-time looks like in LEGO?
- Bret Taylor
i'd pay to see the stop animation lego matrix, but not the sequels
- patrick
"Equipment Generously Provided By Casey Muller" - hahaha!! THIS IS AWESOMESAUCE!!! I love the creative energy and vibe in this video... LOTS of work went into that one! Thanks guys!! :)
- Susan Beebe
Genius, how much time did that all take?
- Wayne Hornsey
Chris Myles: if you want ot - DM me an address and I'll mail you a copy.
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
کارهات خوبند شاندیز فقط باید اون شیوه طراحی خودت رو پیدا کنی و مطمئنن میتونی, فقط هر روز طراحی فراموش نشه! بهترین استاد هم فقط کار دیدنِ! فقط کار طراحی و تصویر سازی خوب ببین و آنالیزشون کن, اساسا رو کارت تاثیر مثبت میزاره! ایول :)
- Nima Nilian ★
نه نیما / ما با برنامه هایی مثل اسکچ اپ یا رویت یا اتو کد ساختمان رو سه بعدی می زنمی و رندر می کنیم توی خود برنامه یا با فوتو شاپ چون این حالتی که بابی کار می کنه بیشتر توی همون مایه های تصویر سازی و اینا هست :) برای همین پرسپکتیو من پیشرفت نمی کنه چون هر زاویه ای بخوام راحت می چرخونم و اسکرین شات می گیرم
- Shandiz
این اسکچ اپ چطوریه؟ من دارمش اما نصبش نکردم هنوز
- Nima Nilian ★
خب آره میدونم شیوه کارتون تو رشته معماری فرق داره! برای این گفتم که اگر وقت داشتی تصویرسازی هم کار کنی مطمئنن رو کارت تاثیر میزاره
- Nima Nilian ★
خیلی خیلی راحته :) استفاده اش کن / برای مراحل اولیه طراحی خوبه
- Shandiz
"A new magnificent 800-million-pixel panorama of the entire sky has been unveiled online today. It was stitched together from 1,200 photos by astronomers at the European Southern Observatory from viewing sites in Chile."
- Benjamin Golub
from Bookmarklet
You're not going to see anything like this in the Northern Hemisphere. This is only the night sky for those south of the equator. But it is cool.
- Nina Jansen
hmmm didn't supply a link in the article! Ahh its the Daily Mail, to explain to non-UK-ites, the Daily Mail is the UK equivalent of Fox News.
- Toby Graham
Very civilised savages: A new exhibition asks who were more brutal - the Aztecs, or the 300 Europeans who annihilated them?
| Mail Online - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news...
"With a population in excess of 200,000, it was bigger than London, Madrid and Rome put together. It drew its immense wealth presiding over an area the size of Britain. As the Spanish captain, Hernan Cortes, and his conquistadors, rode in procession through an arrow-straight causeway into the city, there were more sights to amaze them. Venice-like canals criss-crossed it. Artificial gardens floated on the water. Man-made dykes protected it from flooding. Compared to the crowded, rubbish and excrement-strewn conurbations back in Europe, the place was pristine, as were its people. Sweepers kept its streets clean. There were public bathing places and even public lavatories. 'On all the roads, there are shelters made of reeds or straw so the people can retire when they wish to and purge their bowels, unseen by passers-by,' wrote one contemporary Spanish chronicler, well impressed. This was the height of civilisation."
- RAPatton
from Bookmarklet
"But the Aztecs made no apologies for their bloodthirsty traditions. Rather, these rites were at the core of their beliefs. Only if the gods were fed blood - or 'precious water' - would the soil be fertile and rains return. They claimed the victims, most of whom were prisoners taken in battle, went willingly to their deaths, knowing that their sacrifice would keep the cycle of life...
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- RAPatton
"But the blood line remained. Cortes took Moctezuma's sister as his mistress and fathered a child by her. He married off some of his captains to the daughters of Aztec noblemen. From this integration, a new and distinctive Mexican nation began to emerge, part Spanish, part Aztec. The past was buried. Tenochtitlan was destroyed and a new Spanish city built over it. Given the name of...
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- RAPatton
Yeah, I'm going to have to go with the Aztecs. Say what you will about the Catholics, they never made pyramids of skulls a central tenant of their faith.
- Alex Scrivener
"Wouldn't it be fantastic if instead of Disney's wussification of Marvel's characters, the tables were turned and instead Marvel turned the Disney princesses into Skrull invaders and zombies like this Dark Little Mermaid?"
- RAPatton
a css tool I'd like is to take inline CSS and export it to a new file. Not only could I use it to help clean clients code it would make the net a better place.
- Toby Graham
Hmm, I'd recommend doing this by hand still. These do not always refactor properly.
- Mo Kargas
"As promised, we’ve got a look at the Batwoman feature from DETECTIVE COMICS #857, as Batwoman faces off against Alice in an attempt to stop the villainess from unleashing a toxic death cloud over all of Gotham. But Alice has more up her sleeve than just poison, and Batwoman’s life will never ever be the same again. What more do you need? Oh, right. Artwork. Well, here you go. From the team of Greg Rucka and J.H. Williams III, DETECTIVE COMICS #857 hits 9/23."
- RAPatton
I just love J.H. Williams III work on this title, and find the little touches like the adornment of the splash page with the Batwoman logo on the 3rd and 4th page divine
- RAPatton
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- Stefano
from Bookmarklet
Nice strategy. I myself have been using a similar strategy, i.e., using a formula that generates site-specific passwords instead of hard to memorize unique-passwords.
- Pandu ● IT Optimizer
from fftogo