David Lynch needlepoint
There is a girl named Ksen. She made this. It is a beautiful tribute and a beautiful work of art. Ksen explains herself here.
Detail via flickr/ksen.
Two neat new iPhone things [WITH VIDEO!]
When a person has an idea for software and puts together an engaging piece of video to demonstrate it, everyone wins. Today everyone wins twice.
First, the app known as MagicPad, which will soon be in the App Store, seems to be the closest thing to a real(ish) text editor to make it to the iPhone. Little things we take for granted on the desktop, such as variable fonts, have made their way into the app. But the attention-getter is its implementation of copy and paste. It differs from my fake multitouch implementation in that the highlight method involves a single touch and hold to enter select mode, and the clipboard functions only within the application, but it’s so good to see this level of functionality in action. I worry that the touch, hold and drag method might be cumbersome for selecting larger blocks of text that span multiple screens (as it is in the Home Screen icon manipulation). But A) I could be wrong and B) it doesn’t matter because an iteration is better than nothing. Check out the MagicPad demo video here.
UPDATE: MagicPad’s Phil Larson wrote me to set the record straight on his text selection method:
You actually DOUBLE tap and hold, then drag to do word selection. It starts selection at the beginning of the word if you are in the first half, and starts selection at the end of the word if you’re in the second half (say you’re trying to select backwards). There is also a precise selection mode, where you use the loupe as normal and if you activate the loupe within half a second after releasing the first loupe, it will start a selection with the precise start point.
This method seems like it could be pretty usable once the hang of it is gotten.
Second is the MultiTouch.framework which has a neat video demonstrating the use of a desktop in tandem with an iPhone for developing and testing your multitouch app, and is especially great because you can just close your eyes and the music will transport you to the rainforest section of your favorite world music retailer.
Also worth combining into one big iPhone nerd post, 1Password just released its magical and FREE iPhone app AND an update to its indispensable $35 Mac app which will let you wirelessly sync all your secrets, of which there are many, you’re not fooling anyone, pervert.
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More like ‘Knot for Fail’, am I right?
I saw this on Venice Blvd. yesterday and slapped myself for not having taken picture of it. But my friend Jeff did, and am I’m glad he did because I hadn’t even noticed the horrible irony of the sign amidst all the horrible pun.
Incidentally, best punny name for a yacht, courtesy Arrested Development: The C-Word.
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Gnarls Barkley “Who’s Gonna Save My Soul” dir. Chris Milk
A charming and evocative video starring Jorma Taccone of Hot Rod, the Lonely Island and SNL.
via Buzzfeed
Deerhoof’s new single is sheet music
From the site:
“Fresh Born” is the first single from Deerhoof’s upcoming record, Offend Maggie. Download the sheet music, make your own version, upload it to your webpage or blog, then post the link here.
Since the sound of Deerhoof is not one that can be easily mapped to standard music notation, I’m looking forward to all the ways people explore this idea, and the many different reads on ‘fawn fawn fawn fawn fawn, tot tot tot tot tot’.
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Sacha Baron Cohen to play LA’s ubiquitous abogado
Movie Newz: According to Variety, Sacha Baron Cohen sold a pitch to Fox Atomic to produce a film about and likely portray Juan J. Dominguez (or a character presumably based on Juan J. Dominguez, moustachioed above).
New Yorkers have their Dr. Jonathan Zizmor. In LA, we got this guy.
Image courtesy flickr/kidjay.
UPDATE: After being reblogged by none other than Mark Lisanti, I realized I neglected to mention the name of the project: Accidentes. My journalism is sucky.
“He also says that The Truman Show had an impact on patients that other films did not, no matter how powerful they were. “I never heard people say, ’ The Godfather, that’s my life.’ “
While Dr. Gold says they could have easily called their new disorder the EDtv Delusion or the Matrix Delusion — both films that refer to an unreal existence— three of the five patients he treated at the storied mental health hospital directly likened their plight to The Truman Show, the 1998 film about Truman Burbank, an affable suburbanite who slowly becomes aware that his every movement is broadcast 24/7 to voyeuristic viewers around the world.
National Post wrote an article about you, the cheeky bastards. Give it a few years before the Number 23 Syndrome really takes hold.
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Channel 4 Promo for The Stanley Kubrick Season
To promote the 10 day Kubrick festival, they recreated a behind-the-scenes of The Shining from the Kubrick’s POV, using his favo(u)rite lens, the 25mm Cooke.
Watch it here in H.264 (Kubrick’s favourite codec).
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