The Pantone Color Factory

I saw this before Christmas, but forgot to post it. So lovely.

 

Designers and artists all over the world use Pantone’s color guides to make sure their blue is actually blue. Like a Webster’s dictionary for color, Pantone guides are a standard against which anyone can check their own work. Those standards are created at Pantone’s factory headquarters in Carlstadt, New Jersey. In this video, Quartz talks to the workers who maintain and enforce those standards.

via Digg[TV]

London cafeterias – 50s - 60s.

So fab.

Bizarre short film imagines Paris abandoned and flooded for mysterious reasons.

I LOVED the opening scenes of 28 Days Later, so I'm mesmerized by this.

5:46 am from ArtefactoryLab on Vimeo.

(via io9)

Back to the Start.

Lovely and touching. Sometimes companies genuinely surprise me.



Chipotle: Back to the Start

The Unseen Sea.

Lovely time-lapse video by Simon Christen – the San Francisco Bay area, shot over a period of one year. Watch the original in HD on Vimeo for full effect.

The Unseen Sea from Simon Christen on Vimeo.

(via trendcentral)

Five months + 350,000 Post-it Notes + Love.

Laughing Squid :: The Power Of Love: 350,000 Post-it Notes Used To Express Love

ten things i have learned about the sea.

Really, really lovely. Watch it full screen if you can.

ten things i have learned about the sea from lorenzo fonda on Vimeo.

(via tiny showcase)

Pretty paint is pretty.

This is mesmerizing. Watch it full screen, and your brain will go a little wobbly. I like.



(via b3ta.com)

Help Olga make an album.

She's adorable and talented. (I couldn't resist after watching the video.)



About this project

LAMP is a full-length album by Olga Nunes-- and it's also a story built around the music, told through letters, art installations, and short films. In Chapter One of LAMP, you are introduced to Lamp and Lux, two people who haven't spoken to each other in a very long time. One day Lux receives a package that she thinks can only have come from him. So, she decides to write him a letter. The only problem is, she doesn't know how or where to find him-- so she puts a message in a bottle, ties it to a balloon, and releases it into the sky.

What happens next? I want you to be part of the story.

Every person who donates to the LAMP Kickstarter (to help turn the album and story into reality!) will be invited to submit their old love letters, and help create the backstory of Lamp and Lux. Additionally, I'm holding a balloon release event in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, where people (and maybe you!) will release one hundred of Lux's letters into the sky. Not in SF? No problem. I'll be documenting all the letters in the story and filming the event, so you can follow it through YouTube and through the website.

My minimum target goal to raise through Kickstarter is $3000-- which covers the bare minimum needed for mastering, album production, and part of the costs to create and film Chapter One. The more you donate and the more backers I have, the more you ensure there will be a Chapter Two and Chapter Three, and you get to see how this all ends. There are lots of rewards to choose from if you decide to support LAMP, and if I exceed my minimum goal, I'll begin introducing super special secret unlocked rewards.

You can listen to more of my music here: http://olganunes.bandcamp.com
And you can see a special trailer for Chapter One of LAMP, including part of the first single, in the video above.


LAMP by Olga Nunes — Kickstarter

Simon's Cat in "The Box"

(via Boing Boing)

Words.

This is really fun and lovely once you catch on...


Everynone

Difficult difficult lemon difficult.

"Talk to that Chad boy. The boy from The Shining. He knows things."

And, in case you need a daily reminder, perhaps a cross stitch will help.



(Cross stitch by the brilliant shootcoward on flickr.)

The Tiny Transforming Apartment.

24 different rooms in 330 square feet. I'd seen online features about this over the last year, but seeing it on video is MINDBENDING.



Flavorwire Video of the Day: The Tiny Transforming Apartment

How To Be Alone.

This video was made to the poem, How to be Alone, by Tanya Davis (2009).

Lovely.

I heart meerkats.

AdFreak: Meerkats go massive in epic U.K. ad trilogy

U900 – a fab Japanese ukelele duo.

The fact that they're crocheted makes it even better.



(via my buddy, oneplusinfinity)

Fun vids.

I like.

OK Go - This Too Shall Pass.

If you don't love OK Go, you should. I'm just saying.



Directed by James Frost, OK Go and Syyn Labs. Produced by Shirley Moyers. The official video for the recorded version of "This Too Shall Pass" off of the album "Of the Blue Colour of the Sky". The video was filmed in a two story warehouse, in the Echo Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, CA. The "machine" was designed and built by the band, along with members of Synn Labs over the course of several months.

p.s. Kudos to State Farm: A good neighbor helps OK Go go viral again.

One Year in 90 Seconds.

From Oslo, Norway.



(via Huffington Post)

A Computer Love Story.

Awww.



(via Streamings)