Posts filed under "asides"
Das Keyboard For Mac - I have to say I’m jealous of Merlin Mann and John Gruber’s clickity clackity keyboards. It’s like when someone eats a burger on TV and you have this amazing craving for a burger…same sort of thing. This Das keyboard is the closest I’ll get, but I honestly don’t know if I can cheat on my aluminium Apple keyboard, which honestly is a thing of beauty.
The Cosmonaut - Interesting short film by the Vinegar Hill community.
Falling Skies - Ever since BSG finished years ago, I’ve not gotten into a new Sci-fi series. I guess between BSG and Babylon 5, something special has to come along. I’ve not heard anyone talk about this series but definitely interested in seeing a few episodes.
Iron Sky - Honestly I don’t know whether this is going to be great fun or complete rubbish. But I’ve got to give it to them, space Nazi’s is something I’ve still not seen used in popular culture.
Red Bull Stratos - Came looking for inspiration of the helmet design, stayed for the insane idea. The thing that I honestly don’t know is who the hell drinks Red Bull? Who do you know drinks that stuff, except university students with their vodka. Either way, they keep sponsoring these projects and activities (including their Formula One operation) and I’m cool with that.
A Visual History of Daft Punk Helmets - I’m on a bit of a helmet hunt at the moment (it’ll become clear why in due course).
http://www.brokenkode.com/a-visual-history-of-daft-punk-helmets
Fountain - What makes this is extremely interesting to me is that I imagine that this markup language can also be used (within reasons) for writing comic scripts. I’ll need to play around with it a bit more but definitely something to consider as well.
New OK Go Music Video - The kings of the music video (at least in the 2000s) have released their latest masterpiece. This one features over 1,000 musical instruments hit by a moving vehicle.
Pears - This is an interesting resource by Dan Cederholm of Simplebits. As always with Dan’s designs, you can tell he created it, distinct styling.
Mike Dutton - That talented bastard. People like him make me depressed and then determined to go and draw. Here’s his official website.
The Amazing Spider-man Trailer - Latest trailer for this movie, which surprisingly is looking pretty awesome. I’m still not convinced by the Spidey suit, but the feel of the movie has me excited.
LongReply - Is a service that lets you reply in a longer form to tweets. The interesting part for me is the fact that it’s brought to us by MailChimp labs - although it’s not highlighted on their page. I just find it interesting what an active company MailChimp actually is, even though I don’t very much care about the name or branding (yeah I know the character was designed by Jon Hicks, but it’s no Firefox logo).
Urbanized - Completely missed this, but from the creator of Helvetica and Objectivied, Gary Hustwit, comes Urbanized; all collected in this lovely box set.
15 fantastic data visualisations - Visualisations have become a normal part of the landscape. My favourite from last year was definitely was Toutapp, which gives you a visualisation of your inbox.
I Never Finish Anyth - This print made me laugh. Love it.
Nooka - Never heard of or seen these watches before (and I remain a real traditionalist when it comes to my timepieces) but the way they present time is if anything interesting and now you can check it out with their new iPhone app.
Reflections at Keppel Bay - by Daniel Libeskind. Possibly one of the first completed works by the architectural practice that I find kind of mesmerising. There’s something beautiful about them.
Ferrari F2012 - Typically (and I hate to admit it) Ferrari usually make pretty Formula one single seaters…this year’s thing is an absolute abomination.
Cover Browser - Probably one of the greatest websites I’ve stumbled across ever. Covers of comic book series….I don’t know where to start.
Volkswagen’s Autostadt - At first I wasn’t sure if this was real, or an architectural rendering. It’s real, and it’s insane.
App Icon Template - Excellent resource and something that I’m hoping to be using in the not too distant future.
There Everyday - This stuck with me as very true. Building your site’s following is down to delivering consistently. In recent years, I’ve not really continued up with my site, but that’s to be expected since it’s not my day job, and I’ve been writing it for over 8 years now. I’ve been working hard on updating things around here a bit, which should start appearing shortly.
Bill Gates Interview - Excellent interview with Bill Gates. It goes into some details with regards to the comments Steve made in relation to Gates.
Cerebral Interviews - The official Broken Kode newsletter, powered by TinyLetter. Been meaning to do something like this for a while. The goal is to craft 12 useful and entertaining emails in the year 2012. No more no less. Published at the end of every month.