I Met the Walrus

November 12th, 2008 / No Comments » / by Victoria

I can’t believe I hadn’t seen this before today.

In 1969, a 14-year-old Beatle fanatic named Jerry Levitan, armed with a reel-to-reel tape deck, snuck into John Lennon’s hotel room in Toronto and convinced John to do an interview about peace. 38 years later, Jerry has produced a film about it. Using the original interview recording as the soundtrack, director Josh Raskin has woven a visual narrative which tenderly romances Lennon’s every word in a cascading flood of multipronged animation. Raskin marries the terrifyingly genius pen work of James Braithwaite with masterful digital illustration by Alex Kurina, resulting in a spell-binding vessel for Lennon’s boundless wit, and timeless message.

Periodic table of visualization methods

November 12th, 2008 / No Comments » / by Victoria

Ralph Lengler and Martin Eppler come up with this rather nifty periodic table of visualization methods. Click on the image to get to the visualization. When you hover over a particular concept an explanation and diagram pops up

Periodic Table of Viz

[via Fortnightly Mailing]

Alex Macarthur

October 14th, 2008 / No Comments » / by Victoria

One of the best parts of the Burning Man

October 13th, 2008 / No Comments » / by Victoria

..The people we met there
Center Camp

Old and New

October 13th, 2008 / No Comments » / by Victoria

[Above: Pat and the Macarthur kilt with my little cousin. Below: Pat again, 7 years later and my cousin isn't so little now!]

McCormick Reunion 2008 shots

*g* I love FailBlog

October 13th, 2008 / No Comments » / by Victoria

Desert Feet

October 12th, 2008 / No Comments » / by Victoria

Natural Pedicure

It’s all in the family

October 11th, 2008 / No Comments » / by Victoria

I’m really loving these old family photographs.

[Eva McCormic, my great-grandmother]

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Family Photos

October 9th, 2008 / No Comments » / by Victoria

A couple of months ago I was at a family reunion that spanned five generations. It was the second time that we all got together, that last being about 7 years ago when I was a lot younger and didn’t really appreciate the whole idea. Since then, a number of members of the family have been gathering old photographs and even video, and projector slides, with a lot of it accumulating in a flickr group. I can’t imagine how any of this would have been possible without the accessibility of flickr. Hopefully, in a couple of months I am going to use some of this to develop an interactive multimedia family tree. In the mean time although, it’s pretty amazing to look back at the generations that came before you. It makes you realise what a short impact you make on the world. Before, I would have only heard their names in passing. Now, I am full with photos and stories, that seem to put into focus my own beginnings and heritage.

[In the photo above is my grandmother (who I never met) on the right, with her cousins and sister at the Dublin horse show]

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Pop a bubble wrap bubble a day calendar

October 8th, 2008 / 1 Comment » / by Victoria

Bubble Calendar

A massive bubble calendar with a bubble to pop for every day of the year. Pretty darn satisfying, but at nearly 50dollars, I think I’d like to take a stab at printing off some paper with the numbers and placing a sheet of bubble wrap on top. Granted, these guys have actually printed onto the bubbles themselves.

Anyone have any ideas on why exactly it is so satisfying to pop bubbles?

[via fffound]

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