apparently a lot of people fell for this fairly elaborate april fool’s hoax: the ‘re-35’ digital catridge
The RE-35 cartridge replaces the film in your classic analog 35-mm camera. Set the ISO to 400 and your done – your camera will now take high quality digital pictures.
i suppose the trick with these kinds of jokes is to say something that people really wish were true and then they want to believe it easily too… (tip via ‘sami’)
From: Simon Dempsey
Date: Thursday 31 March 2011 12.37pm
To: David Thorne
Subject: No Subject
Did you draw Justin Biebers face on all the images in my stock images folder and save them over my files?
it’s him again: the world’s most sarcastic and annoying graphic designer david thorne (via my mate ‘sallie’)
…an unexpected side-effect of the flooding in parts of Pakistan has been that millions of spiders climbed up into the trees to escape the rising flood waters. Because of the scale of the flooding and the fact that the water has taken so long to recede, many trees have become cocooned in spiders webs. As a result, the mosquito population seems to have decreased, a small blessing likely caused by these webs…
(via mister ‘ stephen fry’ on twitter)
interesting project that reduces a feature film down to a colour barcode, with each pixel width representing one frame of the film, the result creates a kind of unique ‘dna code’ for each film (tip via ‘fontanel’)
they are a bit of an acquired taste these fusion shoes i reckon, but it’s one of those ideas that feels like it must have already existed ages ago…. (thanks to ‘john de vries’ for the tip)