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A railroad in the palm of your hand

AJ Fischler — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 23:37:27 +0000

While I was visiting with my dad yesterday, he showed me this web site detailing one of the most miniscule, working model railroad layouts ever made. The layout measures 4′ by 8′ in N scale. In real life scale, that means you can hold the whole thing between your fingers.

What effort and patience it must have taken to create this. I would probably have gone insane trying to work with things that small.

Artistic distractions

AJ Fischler — Sat, 25 Jun 2005 19:56:33 +0000

When I’m in the mood to look at something artistically inspiring on the web I turn to Drawn!, the illustration blog that turns up some of the best visuals to be found. Recent posts that have caught my attention include Futurama panoramas, the Esao Andrews portfolio site and the animated short Le Building.

Because I haven’t been giving you all enough eye candy to gawk at lately.

Get perpendicular!

AJ Fischler — Wed, 13 Apr 2005 17:28:48 +0000

Hitachi has found a way to pack more storage space into hard drives so you can carry around more of your music and what nots, but instead of the usual stale and dry white paper on how they pulled off this feat, they decided to do a Schoolhouse Rocks! style animation.

Don’t blame me if you get the cheesy song stuck in your head — I’m only the messenger here.

Break dancing robots

AJ Fischler — Tue, 27 Jul 2004 00:45:30 +0000

Ever see a Transformer breakdance before? Well, now you can say you have.

From Axeman to Zombies

AJ Fischler — Fri, 23 Jul 2004 20:25:00 +0000

Our hero battles twenty-six alphabeticised terrors. Pray for him.

Visualize the haze

AJ Fischler — Fri, 20 Feb 2004 22:14:16 +0000

Colored smoke photos. Ooooh, pretty!

A thousand points of postal light

AJ Fischler — Wed, 31 Dec 2003 18:01:02 +0000

This zip code map is a great example of the visual presentation of information. As you type in numbers the points on the map dim down until you’re only left with those still matching your query. Friggin’ brilliant!

Cash & Monkeys: two tastes that taste great together

AJ Fischler — Wed, 31 Dec 2003 17:55:53 +0000

Johnny Cash sings “Desperado”…but with Monkeys. Gee, there’s not too much more I can add to that description. Nice visual style and a decent tribute to the man in black.

Smooth beats and eye candy galore

AJ Fischler — Wed, 26 Nov 2003 22:37:05 +0000

Check the video “Slim’s Return” for some smoothly mixed Blue Note jazz courtsey of the DJ known as Madlib. Killer visual style too.

Impressive Halloween craftsmanship

AJ Fischler — Fri, 07 Nov 2003 08:19:39 +0000

A lot of time and effort must have gone into this iPod costume. The internal soda holder for the wearer is a nice touch.

Design lust in motion

AJ Fischler — Sun, 12 Oct 2003 10:40:47 +0000

4D SWEATER PORN: Just a sweet little video with a great visual style and not a single naked person (if THAT’s what you were expecting, shame on you!)

And now for something completely different….

AJ Fischler — Sat, 19 Jul 2003 02:04:55 +0000

I thought some truly passive visual stimulation would be good for the readership today. Things like Flash 6 and Windows Media Player are going to be required to see them, but it’s well worth it. For your viewing pleasure, we present:

A Honda ad called “Cog” where parts from the new Accord are turned into a Rube Goldberg-ian machine. All real parts, no computer animation and it only took 606 takes to do it. Links to articles about the ad are also on the page.
A japanese kabuki theater troops take on the Matrix…as it pertains to ping-pong. So inventively funny it hurts.
Some sort of robot-style dancing contest, with the gentelman in orange sporting some inhuman moves. Makes one wonder if his skeletal structure is created from rubber or what not.

(Hat tips to My boss, Memepool and Davezilla respectively)

Complex visuals and a simple experiment

AJ Fischler — Mon, 09 Jun 2003 12:14:24 +0000

My boss sent me this link to one of the most creative commercials I have seen in a while. Done in a style that would make Rube Goldberg jealous; it’s like one of his contraptions come to life.

Strangely enough, I have yet to see it on TV as of yet. I’m curious as to why not. I mean, it’s far and away much more entertaining than the entire lineup of the PAX network could ever hope to be.

Hey, I got an idea. Why not loop this commercial in place of the PAX network for a week and compare the average ratings. I wonder which would have the higher ratings? ^_^

Grafitti goes robotic

AJ Fischler — Wed, 02 Apr 2003 22:50:35 +0000

Check out Hektor, a spray-painting plotter that can turn any blank wall into a work of art. Make doubly sure to check out the movie of it in action.

They even have terrorist camels….

AJ Fischler — Mon, 17 Mar 2003 08:18:06 +0000

Patriotic flash fun! Put Osama and the Taliban underfoot in Squpoosh a Terrorist!

(Hat tip to my sister Shannon for this one)