2011 September The Archives
Friday 30 September, 2011
The Ropes at Disney
Getting employees to follow the rules of an organisation can be a quite a nightmare for admin execs. Walt Disney Productions found a pretty interesting way to tackle this and set the rules clear for its staff. In 1943, the company’s personnel (today’s HR) department distributed a specially designed employee handbook, entitled The Ropes at [...]
Thursday 29 September, 2011
Don Draper pitches the new Facebook Timeline
In an awesome video mashup by technology strategist Eric Leist, Mad Men’s Don Draper pitches the idea for the new Facebook Timeline, a nostalgia filled social network that “lets us travel the way a child travels — round and round, and back home again to a place where we know we are loved.” In the [...]
Wednesday 28 September, 2011
What up, comrade?
After photoshopping faces of his friends and family members into movie posters, turning them into Jedi knights among many other things, UK based artist Steve Payne decided to take up image retouching as a serious career. In doing so, he felt that after a while he seemed to miss doing it for the sheer fun [...]
Monday 26 September, 2011
The kitteh every kitteh wants to be
No pants. No shirt. Just a sword, a hat and a pair of boots. That’s all it takes to make one badass kitty. And it looks like he’s gonna get his own movie after all. After swashbuckling his way through three Shrek movies and many other specials, Antonio Banderas’ lovable yet deadly Puss in Boots [...]
Monday 26 September, 2011
Resurrecting legends in 3D
Over the weekend we came across the work of Amsterdam based graphic artist Stephan da Costa Gomez. His work over at his Behance page is beyond awesome, which is also where we found a series of classic portraits of Hollywood stars. Only that these portraits have a grim twist. Each painting contains an element, a [...]
Friday 23 September, 2011
Make your own Daft Punk helmet
Of the many things that make Daft Punk a mysterious yet magnetic act to watch, their helmets take top slot. These specially designed, LED-lit headpieces give the French robots an entirely new persona. It wouldn’t be unexpected then for people to build their own custom helmets. Harrison Krix of Volpin Props has put together an [...]
Thursday 22 September, 2011
Put your friends six feet under
The man in the trench coat waits in the alley silently smoking his cigar as the black Cadillac rolls by. A tall dark figure emerges out as the car stops in front of the casino. The man in the alley checks his revolver. Loaded. No turning back now. As the valet drives the Cadillac away, [...]
Wednesday 21 September, 2011
Rare pictures of a rare gem
Madhubala – the name evokes visions of ethereal beauty, elegance, unmatched poise, graceful movement and of course the original million dollar smile that could warm the coldest heart and melt even a stone. That was the ‘jadoo’ of this beauty, a goddess really, whose brilliant smile was enough to fill colour into black and white vignettes. With [...]
Wednesday 21 September, 2011
Flying over the face of the Earth
Ever wonder what it feels to fly over the Earth thousands of miles above? The guys at the International Space Station might be able to answer that. Here’s a beautiful time lapse video taken from the International Space Station as it orbits the Earth.
Tuesday 20 September, 2011
The minimalistic art of Ty Lettau
Ty Lettau, a San Francisco designer who goes by the moniker SoundOfDesign, is passionate about pop culture and art. His love for all things pop is reflected in his Flickr set entitled Cartooned. Here, popular characters from films, television, comics, music and video games find themselves re-imagined as cute minimalistic cartoons. With a gallery reaching [...]
