Year: 2009

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Arty Risqué Weirdness

Cyporn by Pierrick Thebault

Pssst. Have you come home from a tiring day at the office? Do you want to relax, have a cup of soothing Chamomile tea, and enjoy some pixel porn? Well then I have just the thing for you.

Cyporn is an art installation by Pierrick Thébault, and interface designer and journalist for Amusement Magazine. Inspired by the avatars of Cyworld, which is apparently the number one social networking website in South Korea, Thébault created a set of 5 pixel porn scenes of characters who left their saccharine-sweet home of Cyworld and to seek a more hedonistic lifestyle in the Game Boy.

Find the pixel porn scenes after the jump.

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Arty Cartoons & Comics Video Clips

Homer Simpson’s Photo-A-Day For 39 Years

This is so 2007, but cool nonetheless. Taken from The Simpsons Season 19 episode 9, which was aired December 16, 2007, Homer takes a photo of himself every day for 39 years. It’s a parody of Noah Kalina’s famous video where he took daily images of himself for a period of 6 years. The original music is by Carly Commando and entitled “Everyday”.

See Homer’s transformation below.

And see Kalina’s video after the jump.

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Arty Photoworthy

Creative Photos And How They Were Taken

Taking good photos can sometimes be like performing magic – the results are wonderful and you’re always wondering how the trick is done.

The creatives at Digital Photography School’s How I Took It section often take fantastic photos and then document how they took the shot. Have a look at a selection of photos below – click the images to read about the technique used.

See more great shots at Digital Photography School.

[via Digg]

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Site Announcements

An Invite To Cape Town’s Biggest Console Gaming Party

A good friend and fellow PS3 gamer dropped me a line today about an awesome night of gaming soon to happen. Vectaman and friends from the Playstation 3 South African Community are throwing a console gaming party in Cape Town, and you’re invited.

At the PS3 Cape Town LAN *6* you can meet up with other gamers, join others in co-op sessions, see the latest content from the PlayStation Network, and stand a chance of winning some super prizes. You don’t specifically need to have a PS3 to attend, it is open to all gamers from any platform ;-)

Gamers, we’re a friendly bunch, even when we’re trying to shoot/maim/crush each other. We also know quite a bit about loss, the power of patience, and the joy of winning, all of which you can experience at PS3 Cape Town LAN *6*. It’s set to start from 8:00pm on September 26, 2009 at The Box in Claremont. Entrance is an affordable R10.

Full details can be found at PS3CTL’s Facebook page.

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Featured Site Announcements

Competition Reminder: Win Death Head Tees!

Thanks to our friends at a store, we have two styling Death Head t-shirts to give away, and if you haven’t done so already, this is just a quick reminder to head over to our competition post and get your entries in.

This competition will run until midnight September 12th. Good luck :clover:

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Science & Technology

Pigeon Race 2009: Will A Homing Pigeon Beat The Telco Giant?

In a satirical attempt to highlight slow and often inconsistent transfer speeds in South Africa, a financial services company has decided to host Pigeon Race 2009. The company postulates that in a data race, a pigeon could haul a 4GB file to a location faster than it can be transferred through a normal land line. The affable 11-month old homing pigeon, named Winston, will have a 4 GB flash stick SD card strapped to its leg and will fly from the company’s call centre in Howick to its head office in Hillcrest, Durban, a distance of 80 km.

Risking bad weather and death by predatory hawks, the pigeon is expected to arrive in 45 minutes whilst the landline transfer is expected to take two days. The race is expected to start tomorrow. Keep updated with the story on Pigeon Race 2009.

Already people have placed more favour with the pigeon over the telco giant – a commenter on The Times article feels that the pigeon will be faster even if it walks. And some MyBroadband forum members think someone will shoot the bird so they can braai it. Others think Telkom might be hard at working trying to secure an unimpeded connection to secure the win.

What are your thoughts?

[via MyBroadband]

Update (09/09/09):  Winston did not disappoint his 1000+ Facebook fans, landing safely in 2 hours 6 minutes and 57 seconds. At that point the ADSL transfer still around four percent complete. A round of applause  for Winston and birdband :yes:

News travels fast – Winston makes it onto the Daily Mail and gets Slashdotted.

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Arty

Oozing Coolness: Coarse Toys

German artist Mark Landwehr loves sculpture and when he decided to create 3D pieces out of his drawings, he didn’t even think about producing toys. Working in Honk Kong, he now runs the Coarse Toy company, making fantastic art toys. Some 12-25 inches tall, the toys are made out of vinyl, resin, and fabric, and come in packaging that is just as arty at the model itself. Have a look at some of them below.

See more at Coarse Toys.

[via Fubiz]

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Arty Inspirational Designs

Purdy Wallpapers to Brighten Your Desktop #5

From self-taught digital artist Jared K. Nickerson comes a pack 20 creative vector wallpapers to brighten your desktop. The images are all 1920×1200. See a few of them below.

And the rest are after the jump.

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Mindlessness

James May And The Full-Sized LEGO House

With a penchant for good wine and ‘careful’ driving (he passed his driving test on his second attempt), the multi-talented James May is exploring yet another passion – toys, more specifically LEGO. After a couple of beers down the pub, May decided it would be a good idea to build the world’s first two-storey house from LEGO bricks. The process will be filmed for the BBC series, James May’s Toy Stories.

Situated at at Denbies Wine Estate in Surrey, May’s LEGO palace is based around a wooden infrastructure, will use over over 816 million LEGO pieces and will even have a working a LEGO toilet. Around 1,200 people have been helping May, and once the house is built, he has promised to live in it.

I’m planning to stay there for two or three days, or until it falls down – whichever is sooner. I’m pretty relaxed about it, but will just have to be careful moving around.

If I wake up buried under a pile of bricks I’ll know it’s gone wrong.

Have a look at the construction below. More images can be found at Jalopnik.

Started on August 1, the house is due to be completed at the end of this week.

[via Daily Mail]

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Featured Flash Games

Canabalt

Created in 5 days by indie game developer Atomic Adam for the Experimental Gameplay Project, Canabalt is a fantastic running and jumping side scroller that uses a mere 6 colours to display everything. You play a well-dressed man who can’t stop running, leaping from one building to another, avoiding robots, spaceships, and other obstacles as you race along. Your mission – survive for as long as you can.

The levels are randomly generated and get faster as you progress. The music complements the gameplay and was created by composer Danny B.

It’s top-notch, addictive, and only requires the use of one button. Play Canabalt at adamatomic.com. I lasted 2088 metres before hitting a fokken wall. Let us know how you fared.

[via The Awesomer]

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