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For those of you in the world who may have caught tonight’s crescent moon: here’s a brief, janky glimpse from a basic flipcam I hand held through a 150mm (6 inch) reflector with a 35mm eyepiece. The battery ran out while it was drifting below the horizon.

Holidays got you down? or is it just the Man again? Have a laugh with these great spoofs of your holiday favorites. They’re only funny cuz they’re true. Oh, and got laid off recently? check out unemploymentality.

This is the story of an average, badly-in-need-of-a-haircut American with crooked teeth, who filed his voter registration with the DMV, which was subsequently not processed in time to vote for the election, and whom therefore and thenceforth documents the entire election 2008 experience of petitioning the government for the right to vote in the 2008 [...]

Friday the 13th killer and longboard aficionado jason takes a leisurely afternoon skate session before heading out to behead his next victim. music by tm Juke.

NASA’s TRMM spacecraft observed this view of Hurricane Gustav on August 27, 2008 as it attacked Haiti. At this time the storm was a category 1 hurricane with sustained winds of 65 knots (75 mph) and a pressure reading of 992 millibars. The cloud cover is taken by TRMM’s Visible and Infrared Scanner(VIRS) and the [...]

here’s a great video on the art of lomography by thom hudson.

check out this amazing video mike horn created of various star wars ships and vehicles orbiting, flying, landing and cruising around san francisco. the official star wars blog has an interview with him. i plan on asking him a few questions myself, next time I see him in the bathroom stalls at work. I’ll be [...]

the shamptonian institution has entered the colbert report’s make mccain exciting ‘green screen challenge’ with our newly uncovered video, dr. mccain’s underground lair. while we’ve been hobbled by injury, our determination to make mccain exiting will not be deterred [nor will our resolve to end the lawless reign of bears roaming the western cascades to [...]

check out the main adidas site as well as ffdg, which has a great behind-the-scenes post with pix and vid.

Radiohead just released a new video for its song “House of Cards” from the album “In Rainbows”.
No cameras or lights were used. Instead two technologies were used to capture 3D images: Geometric Informatics and Velodyne LIDAR. Geometric Informatics scanning systems produce structured light to capture 3D images at close proximity, while a Velodyne Lidar [...]