Entries from May 2007 ↓

‘Robert Langdon’ ambigram

langdon ambigram illusion

The name “Robert Langdon” reads exactly the same when rotated 180 degrees. From Angels & Demons and The Da Vinci Code.

Source: John Langdon

Slow motion water balloon punch

waterballoon

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Funny Gentlemen Illusion

funny gentlemen

Artist: Unknown

Twitter Adds Replies Tab

Twitter continues to add new features to their popular microblogging and communication tool, and overnight they’ve added a useful Replies tab. This new Replies tab pulls up all the direct Replies to your tweets from other Twitterers. Some Twitterers are now noticing a few old replies they may have missed at the time of tweeting. (via bloggersblog)

twitter replies

Replies are now being caught by the “@ username” syntax, which has become convention. Twitter’s Biz Stone explains more here.

Steven Wright’s newest friend

Just got this email. Turns out our old friend Steve has added me as a friend on Twitter. (It’s probably not really him though; just an exact replica.)

from: Twitter
3:55 pm (48 minutes ago)
to: Jace D
date: May 29, 2007 3:55 PM
subject: You are Steven Wright’s newest friend!

Hi, Jace D.

Steven Wright (stevenwright) added you as a friend!

Check out Steven Wright’s profile here:

http://twitter.com/stevenwright

Best,
Twitter

Dali’s “The Persistence of Memory”

dali

“The Persistence of Memory”, c.1931
Artist: Salvador Dali

Mandatory nonsense

“I like nonsense. It wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient to living. It’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. It’s what I do, and that enables me to laugh at life’s realities.”
– Dr. Seuss

Two Camels in a Truck

Two Camels in a Truck

“Two Camels in a Truck”
Photoshop
2007

“Singles” Exercises 14 and 15

Singles

Source: Thomas Lang

Ethnicity Haiku

South Pac Islander,
American Indian,
Asian, and Euro.

‘Logos’ ambigram

langdon ambigram illusion

The word “logos” reads exactly the same when rotated 180 degrees.

Source: John Langdon

A Mess of Myself

A Mess of Myself

“A Mess of Myself”
Me and Photoshop
2007

The character of letters

Over the past couple days since The Alphabet Party jam, certain sparks of inspiration caused me to revisit things. It occured to me that I, E, and C would have a noticeable chemistry going on, and both K and G needed to display one of their occasional behaviors.

Special thanks to Christian for his awesome idea of the Q and U attraction.

Some things are never done…

100 Movies, 100 Quotes, 100 Numbers

Too cool. Somebody’s harnessed their OCD and put together a collage of movie clips with quotes from 100 to 1. If you want to follow along more closely, the complete list of the movies is here.

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#11 will always be my favorite.

slayer