This is absolutely fantastic. Hidden messages placed in old 8-bit games – programmers complaining of rank coworkers, shout-outs to the good guys, and general reminiscing, all tucked away in a weird corner of the game’s data and hidden away for years.
Gah! It looks like a rocket but it’s a jellyfish.
Illustrations by Rockwell Kent for the Arion Press edition of Moby Dick.
Aw.
The science section is pretty awesome, too. Aaand the “fantastic space” part.
How fun is that? Google ASCII art and check the logo.
Mythical creatures venn diagram. Not entirely accurate.
Finally, a Count I’m proud to have on my bookshelf.
Circular polarization is something I’ve always wondered about but never knew was real. If electromagnetic waves have amplitude in one direction, why not two? or three? After all, there are compression waves, too.
So I would think, some nights when I couldn’t sleep: if a wave moving along the axis Z had a wavelength W along the perpendicularY axis, and a similar wavelength along the doubly perpendicular X axis, wouldn’t it propagate in a helical fashion? And if you change the phase, won’t it change the handedness of the helix? As it turns out, yes it does. I only just found out it’s an established phenomenon (as I might have guessed) while researching stereoscopic methods for a post.
Of course, it doesn’t have to be circular. The more general form is elliptical polarization, but that doesn’t look as cool.
Long exposure of a helicopter landing, from the February 1949 issue of Life Magazine. By Andreas Feininger, and archived at Google. Fantastic picture.
Woah! Dresden Codak, which I found through one of my favorite webcomics, Hark, a vagrant, has one of the coolest art styles I’ve seen in ages. Click the above to zoom in, or click here for the whole comic, which is actually both interesting and funny.
Ha! This one’s great, too. Just figured out what I’m doing all afternoon (apart from working).
Photo I took for my ramen post. I’ve never really done food photography before (plus I don’t cook) so this was a new experience.
The Art of Memory is a blog covering minimalism in music and film. There are many film frames and great art finds, all of which are gathered at this superb Flickr page. I shuffled through 50 pages of collected art, photos, and ephemera and found some really amazing stuff.
It’s associated with Invisible Birds, a relatively new record label focusing on natural and minimalist music.
The latest book-length post from Devin Coldewey: Why I Don’t Use Twitter.
God damn.
Some excellent Prince Valiant frames for you. Click for large versions.
Behind the scenes at the Mt St Helens Vietnam Band music video shoot.
Heh heh. That human isn’t gonna make it. We’re snacks!
Top 40 worst drawings by Rob Liefeld
This is hilarious. I have a couple of these comics or have read them, and I definitely recognize Liefeld’s art and the ridiculous things his does in it.
I just tested out the Bald Bull thing in Punch-Out described by the designer and hidden for 22 years. There it is! The flash! I’ve always been punching him on his third jump, but this is a more unambiguous cue.
I’m so controversial!
This “Catholic Resources” site has every single illustration Gustave Doré did for the Bible. In high resolution! I’m gonna get some of these printed.
My watch. Took a picture to show some people. Isn’t it a beautiful little object?
