Blatherific

icicle tricycles... so very portland

one more reason to love the economist

Elegantly designed new 3D Flash-animated, interactive microsite by the Economist profiling some of their more famous readers' "thinking spaces":

quintessentially american

The front pocket being, presumably, for ketchup. Why did it take so long for our culture to evolve to this zenith?

long odds indeed

Very interesting article at Slate by Chris Wilson on the odds that a video uploaded to YouTube will ever go 'viral', a term that has been as abused as any in the marketing lexicon over the last few years. One of the mitigating factors is competition as evidenced by this mind-blowing statistic: 20 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute.

(via PSFK)

video crowdsourcing

Lovely little music video from the Japanese band Sour, shot entirely on webcam by the band and a few dozen fans from all over the world:

powerfully blurry idea

Wonderful idea that blurs the real and virtual worlds from Nike/Livestrong whereby cancer survivors and their friends & families can see their sentiments spray painted on the Tour de Force course:

blues fest

our new conference room in the woods out back

these things will grown anywhere

what it all comes down to

Wonderfully humbling little film by Chris Milk:

Last Day Dream [HD] from Chris Milk on Vimeo.