Where the Hell is Matt?

I like talking. I'm good at it. You've noticed that if you read this thing. And, as much as I really want to talk about this video, and how awesome, but also super important, it is, I'm just going to let the thing speak for itself.


Where the Hell is Matt? (2008) from Matthew Harding on Vimeo.

Best Game Ever

If you play a sport as a kid, especially when you do it because you like it, it's easy to entertain pipe dreams of making it to the big leagues, being a super-athlete with screaming fans and big paychecks. Sometimes, just being on the field and making a big play is enough to feel like you've already made it.

Of course, it helps to have all those screaming fans, and a jumbotron with NBC sports doing the announcing. That's why Improv Everywhere decided to take it to the fields in their most recent stunt, selecting a random Little League game to make two teams worth of ten year olds feel like they're in the majors.

Improv Everywhere strikes again.

Yesterday's Roundup

Yesterday was an incredibly busy day for this pilot, so this morning (AFTERNOON!) is a roundup for yesterday.

- Ptv -

OH MY GOD. Less than a week left in the countdown to Pitchfork TV. Admittedly, I wasn't excited about it at all. I figured it'd be a great way to see some new music videos, nothing all that different from the Forkcast.

I have been so wrong.

The first week opens with the full length documentary about the Pixies, "loudQUIETloud," various documentations of shows, interviews, my God, who is going to have the time to WATCH this fucking thing?!?!?!?!?! I, for one, intend to just abandon all responsibilities to watch nearly full-time. Mark your calendars: April 7.


- Architecture -

Another beautiful Stumble find, this site of badass architecture needs no further introduction or description... which is lucky, because I know ZERO about architecture.


- Space Collective Gallery -

Still trying to wrap my head around what "Space Collective" is exactly... but this gallery of lots of things Space-Collective is sure to keep you busy for quite some time. Art, philosophy, design, and tons more, it's like wading through translucent mud and then deciding to put on a snorkel and stick your head under.


- M83 -

Just got their new album, which is fairly enjoyable, but seems to cop off of the previous two (similar vocal lines, story-telling clips). But regardless, I really like them because of their ability to project and propel me into a headspace that feels like I'm running away from some mecha-beast 100 years in the future.

Sorry, I don't know where I was going with that. If you like skateboarding, M83, and/or explosions, you're gonna LOVE this:

Stumble - Milk

Boredom led me to the StumbleUpon site, a service I was aware of but had never really used. If you don't know how it works, you put a plug-in on your browser and hit "stumble" and you end up at a random site. End of story. But they're sites that people post to the service, and it tries to cater your stumbling to your previous tastes. But you can also just use the site to find random stuff.

Enter "Milk." If you've ever wanted to have sex with sleek design (think the last few years of Mac design), you're going to need some time alone with a tissue box on this one. The Milk is a fantastic solution to a desktop catering to your computing and badass needs.

Keep your pants on.

Video Juegos

I've played this game, and it is the awesomest. You have one objective main objective, and when you reach that objective at the end of the only path you're able to follow, strange shit happens, dude.

Check check it.

This

...is an awareness test.

DVNO

Don't know what it stands for, but as far as I'm concerned it stands for AWESOME:

Justice - DVNO

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Can you figure out all of the logos they're referencing?

TSA GANGSTAZ

Just TRY to get that water bottle through, mothafucka.

Higgs

What do pretty pictures, humongous machines, and slightly witty reportage writing have in common?

They are the subject of a very neat article by National Geographic concerning the world's brand new particle accelerator. What are the Europeans (nay, all physicists) looking for with this giant, 17-mile-wide ring underground, smashing bits of invisible stuff against other bits of invisible stuff? A little thing that the press likes to call "The God Particle." Also known as the Higgs Particle, it is believed that this particle is the base particle, the single ingredient out of which the entire universe is constructed.

If your interest is piqued, then I suggest you read this article, which does a fantastic job of explaining how all this junk works, while throwing in a couple of snickery jokes here and there. Worth your time to read, like I say, if you're into that kind of thing.

Lori Nix

Check out the luscious photography of Lori Nix, who stages dioramas of destruction, grandeur, and other extravagant scenes and photographs them to create startling, pleasureful, and eerie imagery.

A behind-the-scenes video about her work.

Lori's official site

A letter to your future self

At last! An internet-based time capsule that has personal relevance!! We always wish that we could go back in time and stop ourselves from doing something stupid. But time travel still doesn't exist, so deal with it. On the other hand, we're constantly telling our FUTURE selves things of various import - don't forget to feed the particular animal that you have in your home; you should go to the doctor and get this rash checked out; X's girlfriend's name is Y, so don't call her Z when you go to her house for dinner; and so on. But maybe you want to write a more personal note to yourself? Something special, something from the depths of your heart, sole, or psyche that you're afraid will get lost in the mix of the everyday. If that's the case, then look no further than Dear Future Me.

Frozen in Time

In the book "Einstein's Dreams," countless scenarios of time-space are hashed and analyzed poetically, beautifully. One of the worlds is a world of frozen time, where the closer to the epicenter of this timequake one gets, the slower time moves. Those caught at the center are frozen forever in a single instant. What would this mean? What would it be like? To be caught in a beautiful moment forever? A sad one?

207 people got together for some fun. The group, "Improv Everywhere," has done some great stuff that is really nothing short of performance art. Unfortunately, I can't embed this video but I can link to it. This video is so awesome! I got chills, was super stoked by it. Wish I could have partaken.ENJOY.

Oh my "God"

The Glue Society has doctored four photos that are extraordinarily convincing, posing as Google Earth satellite images. What's so special about them, you ask?

They're Google Earth photos of biblical events.

In My Opinion, this is an exciting photo series that is both a tongue-in-cheek commentary on our belief system (in terms of the belief of religious events in the bible as being true events, and in terms of our insistence on all photography being believable, honest accounts of true events) and a fantastic display of photoshop prowess and technique.

Whoa, Dudeo.

What do you get when you have three guys with some money, passion, understanding of technology, and TONS of free time? Something badass, that's what.

The Hood

I just found an amazing site called The Hood Internet. The mashups on this site are amazing - nothing short of it. You should browse around for yourself, find some hip-hoppers and indie rockers that you like that are butting heads. But I'll recommend the following song to get started right:

MMMM

Big shit poppin.

Upppphphhhhphphhphph

That's the noise your lips make when you watch these videos. Afterwards, you probably will dookie a shooter. IMO - This guy needs his own show. Nay, his own country. CAN SOMEONE PLEASE GET THIS MAN A COUNTRY TO RULE?!?!

Now you see me...

This is really incredible. According to the original post, scientists still don't know what cause this reaction. It reminds me of the lizard dude in X-Men who can teleport short distances, or the image conjured in my mind by the spread of Ice-9 in Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut. Very neat.

Flight of the Paper Plane

I'll forgive them for being stoners. This is a magical thing.

B.E.A.

Youtiful.

Eye Scapes

(Tip: try rooting around in the directories of the site, by deleting stuff ahead of some of the slashes in the web address, his website or this other one to see some of his other work)

Hi!

Long time, no see! I hope this makes up for it. IMO, sweetest thing evar [sic].



Maywa Denki
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(Too many links and videos to show here, so I've chosen to embed the video, as well as link to the Maywa Denki website and the BoingBoing post I found this stuff at originally. The rest is up to you!)