What if you could play Tetris with real buildings? Graphic designer and artist Axel de Stampa gets to do just this in his new Architecture Animée series by reconstructing contemporary urban architectures and serving them up as GIF art. From spinning the Memory Museum around an imaginary axle to a getting the Emerson College in… Continue reading Architecture in Motion Series Reconstructs Buildings into GIFs
Month: May 2014
The Self-Driving Pet Sitter [COMIC]
Are you getting tired of walking your dog each day? With Google’s self-driving cars on the horizon, it turns out people aren’t the only ones thinking about going for a hands-free joy ride… Comic by The Joy of Tech
Photo or Fine Art? See if You Can Discern What This Artist Uses for His Colorful Images
Are you an art expert? Do you think these images are photos or paintings? The pieces are actually drawings by self-taught artist Samuel Silva who uses ballpoint pens to create his stunning, photorealistic images. Born in Portugal in 1983, Silva has been interested in art since the age of two, from drawing to painting to… Continue reading Photo or Fine Art? See if You Can Discern What This Artist Uses for His Colorful Images
Vimeo Adds Its First Original Comedy Series, ‘High Maintenance’
Following in the footsteps of video streaming services like Netflix and Yahoo Screen, Vimeo too has commissioned its own original comedy series. The series, High Maintenance, follows the intermingling lives of a pot dealer and his clients while shedding light on the multifaceted realities of “typical” New Yorkers. Six new episodes of High Maintenance will… Continue reading Vimeo Adds Its First Original Comedy Series, ‘High Maintenance’
Listen to the ‘Roots Picnic’ Hip Hop Mixtape Now Available for Free Download
The Roots were a foundation of hip hop growing up in the 90s and are still leading the way into the next century. In the 7th annual Roots Picnic mixtape via Matthew Law you can hear some of the old school Roots’ vibes from jams like “Essaywhuman !!!!!” and “Things Fall Apart” given new life… Continue reading Listen to the ‘Roots Picnic’ Hip Hop Mixtape Now Available for Free Download
There’s a New Tinder-Inspired App But This One Sets You Up With a Dog
You used Tinder to find love and Jobr to find a job, so all you need next is a furry companion to make your life complete. You’re in luck because now, in true Tinder-style, you can get matched with dogs in your area with the BarkBuddy app. BarkBuddy lets you browse through thousands of profiles… Continue reading There’s a New Tinder-Inspired App But This One Sets You Up With a Dog
Facebook Now Discourages Apps from Automatically Posting Status Updates
Automatically posting your Spotify and iTunes listening history to Facebook used to be cool (maybe?), but by now it’s grown kind of (really) annoying. And apparently Facebook’s caught on. The company now recommends that developers turn off automatic posting and replace such posts with more purposeful, manual posting options. The network has also launched a… Continue reading Facebook Now Discourages Apps from Automatically Posting Status Updates
Good News for Twitter: User Base Expected to Rise By 25% from Surge in Asia [REPORT]
Despite Twitter’s significant drops in stock prices and an underwhelming initial acquisition of users this year, there may be hope for the social network still. In the current global forecast for Twitter, numbers show that its Asian audience will increase by nearly 25% this year, and that by 2018 more than 40% of Twitter users… Continue reading Good News for Twitter: User Base Expected to Rise By 25% from Surge in Asia [REPORT]
