Let them sing it for you October 26, 2009
Posted by Patrick in Muzak, Webshite.Tags: Lionel Richie, Sr.se
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Sr.se, which seems to be some sort of foreign radio station, have come out with a new tool that turns your text into a song. Each word, or indeed syllable, is made up from their previous uses in popular music. For example, if you use the word “hello”, be prepared to hear it sung back to you by Lionel Richie.
Unfortunately, it doesn’t have some lesser used words, but the site will keep you occupied for hours anyway. I love whoever came up with this.
Click here to have a go.
[Image: Johnny Doome]
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Let’s squish our fruit together October 21, 2009
Posted by Patrick in Webshite.Tags: Grocery Store Musical, ImprovEverywhere, Manahttan Transport Agency, Subway Yearbook Photos
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The team over at ImprovEverywhere.com have just released a new video where they perform a spontaneous musical number in the fruit section of an American supermarket.The reaction of the guy at the end is hilarious, summing it up perfectly. “They just totally turned it into a musical. Life – they turned life into a musical!”
Last month the website also set up a fake yearbook photo studio on an actual subway train in Manhattan. They told subway riders that they were told by the MTA (Metropolitan Transport Agency) to take all of their pictures to compile them in a yearbook at the end of the year. Even though there won’t actually be a yearbook (to my knowledge…), the results are hilarious and also really nice. Someone should stick one on a Dublin Bus and see what happens…
Should I be happy today? October 12, 2009
Posted by Patrick in Webshite.Tags: Facebook, mood, USA
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Facebook has unveiled a new feature which can tell us over time the moods of the US population on the social networking sites, just by monitoring positive and negative keywords used in users’ status updates.
From the official app page:
Every day, millions of people share how they feel with the people who matter the most in their lives through status updates on Facebook. These updates are tiny windows into how people are doing. They’re brief, to the point and descriptive of what’s going on this week, today or right now. Grouped together, these updates are indicative of how we are collectively feeling. Measuring how well-off, happy or satisfied with life the citizens of a nation are is part of the Gross National Happiness movement. When people in their status updates use more positive words–or fewer negative words–then that day as a whole is counted as happier than usual.
Unsurprisingly, people are generally happier on national holidays like Christmas, Halloween and Easter. The thing that probably shocks me most from this graph is that Americans are happier on Thanksgiving than they are on Christmas. Really makes me feel like I’m missing out on something.
[Image: New York Times]
You were holding the blue book, I was holding the red book… September 30, 2009
Posted by Patrick in Misc, Webshite.Tags: art, missed connections
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‘Missed Connections’ sections of newspapers and websites are often looked upon as pathetic and slightly creepy stories of strangers who perve on other strangers but forget to ask them their name, or, you know, any information that would identify them in any way.
The chances of actually finding your missed connection are slim-to-none. What are the odds that the publication you submit yours to will be read by the object of your unrequited affection? That is, unless, you’re lucky enough to have a missed connection with someone just as desperate and lonely as yourself.
The reason why I mention Missed Connections today is that someone, specifically Sophie Blackall, has given these lonely paragraphs of text (specifically those belonging to the Missed Connections section of craiglist in NY) an upgrade in the form of various paintings. And they’re also really good.
This…
Monday, August 17, 2009
- m4w – (greenpoint)
asked myself why the letter ‘n’ all night long, then you were gone before i got a chance to ask. also, i saved you a piece of cake.
do you always sit in a circle of asian girls? and sit at the top of the stairs so everyone gets a crush on you when they get to the roof?
is transformed into this…
And this…
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
-w4m -22 (williamsburg)
i bought you that milkshake
you just didn’t realize it.
becomes this…
I think I might like these as much as Postsecret.
For more, check out Sophie Blackall’s Missed Connections blog.
[via Buzzfeed]
Never talk to strangers, give them your camera September 9, 2009
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The idea is simple: leave a disposable camera on a bench with a note tied to it telling the finder to take a roll of photos and then leave the camera back on the bench when they’re done so that the person who left it there can, well, upload them to their website. Okay, it’s not actually that simple, or rather not that common a thing to do. But Jay from theplug.net did just that.
The results are interesting – a mix of random people and places in Atlanta, Georgia. The photography is hardly groundbreaking, but its the idea of a stranger taking photos for another stranger that makes this project noteworthy. It was in fact repeated in a Tokyo park, resulting in yet another crop of stranger’s photos.
So basically what I now want to do is place a disposable camera on a bench for a stranger to find. Or better yet if someone could leave one on a bench near where I live so that I can do it. Thanks in advance.
[Thanks to Anna for the tip, via The Plug]
Stay in your seat… July 6, 2009
Posted by Patrick in Cinematics, Webshite.Tags: Iron Man, MovieStinger, Samuel L Jackson
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Having worked in a cinema for a year and a half, I always cursed the people who would sit there in the theatre for the entire closing credits. Either they were waiting to see if there would be some interesting little bonus scene at the end, or they were just doing it to annoy me as I gave them the death stare for making me wait for them to leave.
Whatever the reason, even sometimes I have been known to linger during the credits of a film, either to hear a good song or to wait for an extra scene (like the one pictured above, where Samuel L. Jackson makes a pivotal cameo as Nick Fury after the credits of “Iron Man”). I always thought, “wouldn’t it be great if someone could actually tell me whether it’s worth my while staying until after the credits?” And lo and behold, there is a website for that.
This is where MovieStinger.com comes in (‘stingers’ being the name of those post-credits scenes. Bet ya didn’t know that?). The site aims to be a comprehensive guide for those occasions when you should stand your grand and annoy the crap out of the ushers.
This week, for example, don’t waste your time hanging around after “Public Enemies”. Good to know.
See Videoeta for list of their top 10 all-time movie stingers.
Visit MovieStinger.com.
Looking into the past June 23, 2009
Posted by Patrick in Misc, Webshite.Tags: Flickr, Looking Into The Past
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“Looking Into The Past” is a Flickr group that collects pictures where people basically lay an old image over where it was originally taken, to create a fascinating contrast.
Most of the posts involve comparisons of buildings as they were in the past with how they look now, but there are a couple that feature people. Three of my favourites are featured here, and there’s plenty more over at the group itself.
[via Looking Into The Past - Click on images for individual sources]
Viva la Every Song Ever June 4, 2009
Posted by Patrick in Muzak, Webshite.2 comments
I like mash-ups, but this Viva la Vida MEGA mash-up, titled “Viva la Viral” combines SEVEN songs, poking fun at the fact that Coldplay’s “Viva la Vida” was plagiarised apparently from Joe Satriani’s “If I Could Fly” (and several others, but let’s not go into the gory details).
It’s actually not too bad, and it’s interesting to see just how well every song included goes with the “Viva la Vida” instrumental.
The songs included are…
1. Coldplay – Viva La Vida
2. The Killers – When You Were Young
3. Kelly Clarkson – Because Of You
4. Bon Jovi – Livin’ On A Prayer
5. Empire Of The Sun – Walking On A Dream
6. Muse – Starlight
7. Hellogoodbye – All Of Your Love
[Image: M is for Music]
I almost don't want to watch it, so I can, ya know, watch it again later June 3, 2009
Posted by Patrick in Cinematics, Webshite.Tags: Kristen Stewart, New Moon, Robert Pattinson, Stephenie Meyer, Taylor Lautner, Twilight, video
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Obsessive Twilight fan watches the “New Moon” trailer for the first time. A lol attack ensues…
What’s black, white and written all over? June 2, 2009
Posted by Patrick in Lit, Webshite.2 comments
Most of us, when given a black marker and a newspaper, would probably draw stupid faces over photographs of people. Austin Kleon on the other hand, has made an art form out of it by creating poems from certain words in newspaper stories.
It’s a great idea, and the majority of the poems are actually really good, while some are just stupid and funny.
The poems will form the basis of a book, appropriately titled “Newspaper Blackout Poems”, which will be published by Harper Collins and is set for a September release.
See more at the Newspaper Blackout Poems blog on Kleon’s official site.
“One can imagine taking up blackout poetry on their daily bus commute in place of sudoku or the crossword puzzle.”— Toronto’s National Post
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