http://www.superhitops.com/blog Thu, 03 May 2012 02:47:30 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 koss pastels http://www.superhitops.com/blog/koss-pastels/ http://www.superhitops.com/blog/koss-pastels/#comments Sat, 24 Sep 2011 06:37:58 +0000 admin http://www.superhitops.com/blog/?p=892

I found all the layers of these pastels interesting and beautiful, from the old school example of good, simple box design, to the thin, foam, protective insert that got dusted with color, to the dinged up pastel sticks in their tray.

I have no idea where I got them from or how long I’ve had them, but they got taken within ten minutes of going into my curbside FREE pile.

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I put out a request for people’s pictures of their TV’s, usually taken with cell phones (sometimes taken with other kinds of cameras). I also dug up a few of my own that I could find. So many awesome ones got sent in! I also had a few bookmarked that I had come across on facebook. I’ve noticed lots of these on tumblrs, etc, and love them as a new genre of photography.


Digital Digestion –Krysta Sa.



Digital Digestion –Krysta Sa.



Digital Digestion –Krysta Sa.


Digital Digestion –Krysta Sa.


Armageddon –Sarah Dieleman.


TEEVEE QuIzBuStErS –Tiffany Harmon.


TEEVEE –Tiffany Harmon.


Death Proof –Brian Hunter.


Tommy –Brian Hunter.


Dating on Demand –Brian Hunter.


The Honeymoon Killers –Brian Hunter.


some adult swim show –Mike Jones.


a DVD menu for Space Ghost Coast to Coast –Mike Jones.


Twin Peaks –Mike Jones.


The Honeymoon Killers –Katie Barkel.


Days of Being Wild –Katie Barkel.


Modern Times –Katie Barkel.


BAGHPAT –Tom Buckholz.


wt –Tom Buckholz.


32 23 –Tom Buckholz.


begin from today. –Tom Buckholz.


Send in more pictures, and if you took any of these photos and want a link just let me know what to.

]]> http://www.superhitops.com/blog/pictures-of-tv/feed/ 32 VISUAL ILLUSIONS COLORING BOOK – ORIGINAL DESIGNS BY SPYROS HOREMIS – EXCERPTS http://www.superhitops.com/blog/visual-illusions-coloring-book-original-designs-by-spyros-horemis-excerpts/ http://www.superhitops.com/blog/visual-illusions-coloring-book-original-designs-by-spyros-horemis-excerpts/#comments Sun, 31 Jan 2010 08:14:40 +0000 admin http://www.superhitops.com/?p=548
You know, SPYROS HOREMIS?













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This was “found” in the sense that it was “stolen from Brian and scanned”.

]]> http://www.superhitops.com/blog/cyclevision-yellowstone-tour/feed/ 2 BAD TRACKING & VIDEO CAPTURE FREEZE FRAMES http://www.superhitops.com/blog/bad-tracking-video-capture-freeze-frames/ http://www.superhitops.com/blog/bad-tracking-video-capture-freeze-frames/#comments Thu, 21 Jan 2010 01:09:18 +0000 admin http://www.superhitops.com/?p=435


The first and last images of this post are frames of original VHS footage, with colors modified. The images in between are single frame captures taken of children’s educational videos, imported from a VCR with bad tracking.





















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The Terrible Thing of Alpha-9! was created by Jake Armstrong over the course of 15 months or so. Jake says in this excellent post at Cartoon Brew, that he made Alpha-9! entirely in Flash with a Cintiq (stylus and tablet), aside from initial story boards. He also cites specific Bugs Bunny references and other inspiration for the short.

I took some captures of the animation, which highlight a few of my favorite shots.



Jake’s blog is here, and includes a post showing these hand made business cards he stamped.



cartons and things

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Anne Bancroft, Dustin Hoffman, Katharine Ross.


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Above, from BibliOdyssey posts:

A TIME TABLE from the book Mitchell’s New General Atlas, Containing Maps Of The Various Countries Of The World, Plans Of Cities, Etc., Embraced In Ninety-Three Quarto Maps, Forming A Series Of One Hundred and Forty-seven Maps and Plans, Together With Valuable Statistical Tables..’ by Samuel Augustus Mitchell Jr, 1883, from BibliOdyssey post Victorian Infographs.

Untitled scan from the book, London Town (1883), Designed and illustrated by Thos. Crane & Ellen Houghton, from BibliOdyssey post London Town.

Pasquin’s wind card[s] on the wind trade of the year 1720, from BibliOdyssey post, The Mirror of Folly

Uncredited illustration from a Hungarian geology book, from BibliOdyssey post, Splintered Remainders


Above, assorted drawings by E. T. Reed from BibliOdyssey post, A Twist of Reed

]]> http://www.superhitops.com/blog/bibliodysseys-a-twist-of-reed-and-their-other-scans-of-old-books/feed/ 2 WIKIBUMP ANIMATION FOR THE ENTRY, “FULL MOON” http://www.superhitops.com/blog/wikibump-animation-for-the-entry-full-moon/ http://www.superhitops.com/blog/wikibump-animation-for-the-entry-full-moon/#comments Fri, 08 Jan 2010 08:40:00 +0000 admin http://www.superhitops.com/?p=290

The Wikipedia article traffic statistics site lets you enter a term, select a month and year (formatted with “200902″ representing February, 2009), and view a graph of daily wikipedia page views for that subject.

I made the above animation using the page view statistics from January, 2008, through January, 2010, for the Wikipedia page on “full moon”. Each month is a frame, with one or two removed due to incomplete data. You can see that the spiked interest (“Wikibump”) in the full moon article is at its highest each month on the days that a full moon is happening.

Perhaps page views are lower for a full moon in a certain month because it was cloudy that night and fewer people noticed. Or higher the next month because the moon was full on Friday the 13th.




This graph for December 2009 is my favorite, and reflects the fact that we had 2 full moons in the month (on the 2nd and the 31st). If a month gives us two full moons, the second is known as a “blue moon”.


The page views for “blue moon” on Wikipedia rise from an average of three or four thousand throughout the greater portions of December ’09 and January ’10, with a peak of 181,200 the night of the blue moon — also the last night of the decade, New Year’s Eve.





Page views for each day of the selected month are listed at the tops of the bars. Unfortunately, relative bar height is not consistent across months, as seen in the changing notation on the far right edge of the graphs.

I found out about the Wikipedia article traffic statistics page from boingboing.net‘s post, Wikibumps, in which guest blogger Andrea James investigates the site and catalogs a bunch of interesting examples of media events and current events sparking traffic jumps on certain Wiki pages.




On her above side-by-side comparison, Andrea writes, In some cases, the article achieves stasis at a higher level than it had before the wikibump. For instance, Kanye “Imma Let You Finish” West’s bump was 300,000. Taylor Swift’s was 250,000, but Taylor probably came out ahead, as she achieved stasis at more than twice Kanye’s views in December, the last full month of reporting.

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LEG OF BEETLE China


FLAVOR ESSENCE



PROFESSIONAL SIZE SLIDES


OF MOUSE



THE LARVA OF SEA URCHIN



A HOBBY TODAY – A PROFESSION TOMORROW

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