Jump!, originally uploaded by S.G. Chipman.

jump kiddo, jump

http://treejewelry.net/

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I don’t really play video games but it’s cool that Rollercoaster Tycoon lets you do this:

http://www.eyeport.co.uk

Untitled (Button Drawing), originally uploaded by Fingerless Gloves.

phonograph button spit up, scoop it up and put it on my ice cream

Authorities say the 7-year-old boy’s only form of communication was “chirping” after spending his life in a bird cage-filled apartment with a mother who treated him like one of her pets, Pravda reported.

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“When you start talking to him, he chirps,” Volskaya said.

Volskaya also said when the boy becomes frustrated by being unable to communicate with authorities using bird-talk, he waves his arms as if they were wings.

The boy’s mother has given him over to authorities, who have reportedly placed him in an asylum.

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Historically, insane asylums began as leprosariums in the middle ages. Then when leprosy was cured they were repurposed as loony bins. So, people think the boy is crazy, I can understand that. But do the birds in the ‘aviary’ think he is crazy?

Check out the “little angels” section on this guy’s site. Really amazing work.

visit his website >>

I thought these were good questions raised by a poll on AdAge.

BACKGROUND: Ad industry creatives apparently have a crush on Obama, with many launching high-quality pro bono work onto the web and elsewhere. While these individual efforts don’t involve overall agencies, what happens when an agency head signs up for a campaign? Taxi, New York, President John Berg says execs should turn down political work as it puts employees in a tough spot.

a super-secret advertising research project in Australia has set up a test facility with mock living rooms where 3,000 people have been closely monitored as they are exposed to radically new kinds of TV commercials

via | AdAge

megatron, originally uploaded by Intake Inc..

haha this is such a cool design

From the wired post:

… we want people who walk by the doors to hear the nostalgic sound, “hadouken!”, and say, ‘Did I just hear a Hadouken? I want to check that out.’”

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… Seeing the cartoonish cel-shaded visuals in still screens is one thing, but watching them move is quite another. I observed, standing there, that they looked like the illustrations in the classic Super Nintendo instruction manuals come to life. As it turned out, this was exactly Ono’s goal.

“Capcom has a history of great artists, and the paintings we have for the characters are really compelling. What we wanted to see if we could do with this was make a game that looked like those paintings, moving before your eyes,” says Ono.

That’s so cool to me. I love the illustrations in those instruction manuals. Capcom HAS always had amazing artists. All of those Capcom / Squaresoft team-ups had outstanding illustrators making the art for them.

Anyway, yay. Looks good! Nice one, Capcom. That’s a huge Hadouken right in your competitors’ faces.

via | wired blog

# mysterious room, originally uploaded by dRopped sUgar.

this IS a mysterious room. the ‘unfinished’ style of illustration adds to the intrigue …

http://www.olafhajek.de

Sonomi Kobayashi, originally uploaded by Nekoloco.

http://sirehdancengkeh.com/?p=385

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i know i moved toward it in the design of this blog. yeah well, i’m an idiot.
this guy has a compelling presentation on where the web 2.0 look went off the deep end.