Friday Fun Post: Traffic Light Pong

Check it out: a clever way to inspire micro-moments of public life: http://on-msn.com/OgVRVw

Friday Fun Post: North Korean Accordion Version of "Take On Me"

Friday Fun Post: Star Wars Uncut

The force is strong with this one!

Friday Fun Post: "Honey, your coffee just doesn't TASTE any good"

Thanks to YouTuber shaunclayton for producing this sad-creepy-funny look at 50s and 60s-era depictions of family life ruined by "criminal coffee."

Friday Fun Post: Twittersburg Address

This graphic aired on Comedy Central's Daily Show on December 2, 2010.

Friday Fun Post: Happy Halloween!

Getting ready for this weekend's Halloween festivities...

Today and tomorrow are dedicated to final preparations for our ambitious Alien Autopsy II "porch show" [I hope to have pix and video up early next week]. In the meantime, here's a link to a perfectly named website that features bizarre, creepy, and just plain wrong Halloween attire: WTF Costumes.

You've been warned...

Friday Fun Post: Chicago Neon

Yes. This is exactly what you think it is.
Image from Time Out Chicago.

A few weeks ago came across this swell collection of Chicagoland neon signs. I've been thinking about doing a midwest roadtrip sometime in the next couple years, shooting architectural relics and old school signage around Illinois and Michigan. Now I definitely know a few places I'll have to see...

Enjoy the show: Chicagoland’s amazing neon signs (Time Out Chicago)

Friday Fun Post: GVSU LipDub

This is one of the most remarkable videos I've ever seen. If you've not seen it, take a look. You'll figure it out soon enough: It's a goofy lipdub. Yawn. But keep looking and remember: this is one shot (at least until the end). One amazing tracking shot.



Difficulty seeing the video? Point your browser here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yn5L3gsCHgQ

Friday Fun Post: How I Met Your Motherboard

You may recall a few weeks back I wrote a three-part series on my first adventures with computing and webpage design. Now I'm happy to find a collection of similar stories. It's called How I Met Your Motherboard.

Be careful, though, it's best viewed on an Apple IIe!

Friday Fun Post: "I Know"

Looking forward to Sunday's delightful Valentine's Day with Jenny.

Oh, yes. There will be fondue. But no getting frozen in carbonite. I'm just not that cool.

(Image by Garrison Dean. Check out his other cards)

Friday Fun Post: Batman & Robin Comic Generator

It's Friday. It's been a long week. It's time to create a Batman comic!

Try it for yourself - Point your browser here: http://www.batmancomic.info/

Friday Fun Post: Crush the Castle

Given the recent drubbing I dropped on the iPad, there's little risk I'll be confused as an Apple shill for giving props to my newest favorite iPod app: Crush the Castle.

In this game, you don't have to worry about complex strategy or convoluted controls. You tap the screen, then tap it again, and that's it. What happens? You control a gloriously old-school weapon called a Trebuchet, which is basically a giant slingshot that hoists huge rocks against a fortified pile.

Sometimes the castle is made of wood, sometimes stone, and sometimes metal. Which is fine, because the more you play, the better your arsenal becomes, starting from tiny stones and growing to an avalanche of pain. All you do is select the your payload, release for maximum damage, and pulverize that sucker.

Technically you're measuring for speed, distance, and velocity, while assessing how various structural elements like beams and fulcrums can best be knocked down. But really you're just laying waste to a kingdom of pixels that can stand for anything bugging you. Oh, and there's a king, a queen, and plenty of hapless guards in the line of fire.

Even if you slept through your high school physics course, you'll quickly become master of the Trebuchet, raining all sorts of mathematical mayhem on your foes. Before long, you'll eagerly eye the map for your next conquest, your next territory, and your next increase in firepower: bigger rocks, then groups of rocks, then bombs that sizzle as they arc through the air and drop onto shrieking foes (then things get kind of freaky).

It's so easy. Just set, release, and watch as the walls come tumbling down.

Play for free at the Armor Games website. Then download the app. Crush the Castle is a fun medieval timesuck for only two bucks.

Friday Fun Post - The Internet is Made of Cats

Listen once, then try to get the chorus out of your head!



Difficulty seeing this link? Point your browser here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zi8VTeDHjcM&feature=player_embedded

Friday Fun Post: Fails of the Year

Friday: It's a good day. Really!... But it doesn't have to be...

Friday Fun Post: Milk Men

Do you love Mad Men? I mean, do you contemplate this Sunday's season finale with a mixture of excitement and dread that's a bit scary, considering that we're talking about a television show? Then you've got to see this video. It's almost perfect...

Milk Men - A Mad Men Parody

Atom.com: Funny Videos | Spoofs | TV & Movie Spoofs

Trouble seeing the video? Point your browser here: http://www.atom.com/funny_videos/milk_men_trailer/

Friday Fun Post: Awesomely Bad Engagement Photos

Really, what else do you need for a Friday Fun Post?

Prepare to see just how Awesomely Bad engagement photos can be...

Friday Fun Post: Painting from Google Street View

Check out Bill Guffey's clever use of Google Street View. He grabs sites around the world and then paints them: art from the everyday.

Here's a swell collection of images: Vincent Van Google: Artist uses Street View website to travel the world virtually

Friday Fun Post: Clever Contextual Ads

The world is inundated with advertisements, and yet so many of these pitches are mind-numbingly dull. Most are, in fact, but not all.

Check out this set of advertisements that depend on some clever integration of the human- or built-environment to make sense.

The pleasure of making sense of them merits inclusion into the hallowed collection of Friday Fun Posts! Have a great weekend.

See them all: Creativity in Advertisement

Friday Fun Post: Kissing Robots

This is 15 types of creepy. Once seen, this cannot be unseen.

You've been warned.

Difficulty seeing the video? Click here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwZNxFN17jc&feature=player_embedded

Difficulty after seeing the video? Sorry. See warning above.

Friday Fun Post: FB Request from Jesus: Confirm/Ignore

It's been around for a while, but you've got to see this image. How would Jesus Facebook?

Clicky-clicky: http://thenextweb.com/2009/08/02/friend-request-jezus/