looking for the perfect gift?

gift this book. jason polan has sketched out every piece at the MOMA. got two precious pages here for you.
http://www.jasonpolan.com/art/book/

p.s -
another book worth gifting - http://www.thameshudson.co.uk/books/Candida_Hofer/9780500543146.mxs/27/0/

bits of paper

peter callesen does amazing things to paper. look.
http://www.oncotton.co.uk/peter/index.html

photojob

make your photos look dumber, is what the site promises.
haven't tried it yet. But do try and send me your results, k?
http://www.zingfu.com/#

bond-ah

the only thing i liked about the last james bond movie was the title sequence.
here're all of the title sequences from (nearly) all the bond flicks.
http://martinklasch.blogspot.com/2006/11/video-james-bond-title-sequences.html

learn

may not appeal to all of you. but it demonstrares simply the various printing methods. useful for students and teachers.
from moma, of course.
http://www.moma.org/exhibitions/2001/whatisaprint/flash.html

look at book

What happens when one empty notebook gets passed between four friends (artists) over a span of 36 weeks?

Mayhem. In colour.

And here it is for the www's viewing pleasure.

http://www.lookatbook.com/

a similar project can be found here -
http://www.madmadmad.com/blank/

the world's front page

all newspaper front pages from the world over. with a clickable map and a downloadable pdf of the region's daily. worth a read.
http://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/flash/

excuse generator

found this a few days too late. would've loved to have used it, but hey! there're other parties to find excuses for. here - use. enjoy.
http://holiday.enlighten.com/

Insect Lab

I don't know whether this is good or bad (bad, from an i-love-dragonflies point of view). But it sure is fascinating.


Here's an excerpt from the homepage -
Insect Lab is an artist operated studio that customizes real insects with antique watch parts and electronic components. Offering a variety of specimens that come in many shapes, sizes and colors; each specimen is individually designed and hand- assembled, each is one of a kind and unique.Borrowing from both science fiction and science fact, Insect Lab's customized insects are a celebration of natural and manmade function. Specimens are presented in either custom made black shadow boxes or glass bell jars, allowing for display anywhere.

http://www.insectlabstudio.com/index.php/

p.s - about the pic featured here -
Odonata: DragonflyBlack body with iridescent teal/ purple wings, 2 inch wingspan. Steel ribbon, dial, and parts, capacitor, small green LED.

nice games

literally "nice". these have calming colours, cute visuals and sweet easy games that leave you all calm and happy. p.s - don't forget to tun up the volume. lovely music.
http://www.ferryhalim.com/orisinal/

About Time

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1569514,00.html?aid=434&from=o&to=http%3A//www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0%2C9171%2C1569514%2C00.html

Thank you. Same to you.

ten minute id

those sites that keep asking you for your email id and then say they'll email you the confirmation and then click on that and then go back to log on to the site and later spam you with nonsense?
here's the solution - http://www.10minutemail.com/10MinuteMail/index.html.
"Welcome to 10 Minute Mail.By clicking on the link below, you will be given a temporary e-mail address. Any e-mails sent to that address will show up automatically on the web page. You can read them, click on links, and even reply to them. The e-mail address will expire after 10 minutes.Why would you use this? Maybe you want to sign up for a site which requires that you provide an e-mail address to send a validation e-mail to. And maybe you don't want to give up your real e-mail address and end up on a bunch of spam lists. This is nice and disposable. And it's free. Enjoy!"

ladies, for you

http://kitchen.robbiehaf.com/NapkinFolds.html
This site tells you how exactly to make those tables look better with fancy napkin folds. A step by step guide to leaving ma-in-law quietly slurping the soup.

there's a place called 'dildo' in canada

http://www.rudebritain.co.uk/gallery.asp

Click. And you'll also find Beaverlick, USA. Not to mention - Shooting Butts Road in NZ.

A, B, C

http://better-together.co.uk/index.html
The chap who's put up this site, has noticed that our typical alphabet charts are going way too politically correct. So he's gone right ahead and designed an impolitically correct alphabet chart. it's nice to look at. and hey, you can even show one or two to your kids!

the face hunter

http://www.facehunter.blogspot.com/

It's a blog. Filled with people (moslty from NY). Thought it nice to see people around the world and what they're wearing now (ahem). Hey! You may also bump into some long lost friend.

thinking photography

http://www.chrisjordan.com/
chanced upon chris jordan and his portrayal of american consumerism. lovely shots, scary feeling.

the first pictures features circuit boards and the second one (gasp) cell phones!

e-piano

http://www.grotrian.de/spiel/e/spiel_win.html
I spent quite a while plonking on this one before posting it up for you.
Here's how it works - The right hand side has the chords and the notes in tiny coloured boxes. You drag these boxes into the big box on the left and these little notes keep bouncing around and creating beautiful tinkly music.

the population - pixel by pixel

http://www.royalsapien.com/pop1/

This here is a website that has shows the population of the world. Yes, pixel by pixel. With the first one being you. Awe-inspiring. And slightly scary that the population can be reduced to your comp screen.

the future password

http://labs.mininova.org/passclicks/
Currently what we do is feed in words as our passwords. The future assumes us dumber and more dependent on technology and has devised visual passwords. Click here for an example of how it will work. Your kids'll probably use it. So it's wiser we read this now and go 'ho-hum' later.

London's only combined bus, tube, train and walking pocket map

http://www.quickmap.com/index.htm
Quickmaps connect centres, places and events by buses, tubes and trains, and by walking.

http://www.geogreeting.com/
this site allows you to send a greeting in a very geo way. What it does is pick buildings from the surface of the earth that are in the shape of the alphabets of your wish.
Then yo usend the link as a GeoGreeting to a pal and impress the hell out of them :)

listen. remember.

http://www.freeinfosociety.com/site.php?postnum=460

All those historical moments in history here for you to listen, from the people who created them - castro, amelia earheart, gandhi, roosevelt.
Yes, a goosebumpy ride this.

look inside

http://www.innerbody.com/htm/body.html

new signs for the new world

and about time too.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/87547772@N00/sets/72157594323393196/

grow your own furniture

Here's how.
http://www.grown-furniture.co.uk/

christmas cheer

http://www.oddtodd.com/hwu.html

Turn up the volume. Then click all those li'l icons and words you see and create your very own heart-warming jingle jingle for the season.

metro metro

http://mic-ro.com/metro/index.html
all the metros from the world over. featured here. lovely detail - there's a link that takes you to the different ways the announcements are made in different cities, also - metro art, and the different logos (pic featured here). absolutely worth a click.