Some ambient sound to improve your workday: Coffitivity – Increase Your Creativity!.
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How emoji conquered the world
Haiku Film Reviews
Haiku film reviews straight out of Austin
The Adjustment Bureau: Love conquers nothing / Oh hold on, sorry, our bad / Love conquers all things.
Cartoon Calendar Predicts Pope Resignation
In an unlikely turn of events, the only people not surprised by today’s resignation of Pope Benedict are the users of a German comic-a-day calendar. Yesterday’s calendar entry depicted His Holiness with a thought balloon reading “Holy haybag! I’m resigning tomorrow!” The calendar, created by illustrator and alleged clairvoyant Katharina Greve was printed last summer.
For more, an article in German mangled via Google Translate.
Malaria
An animated tale with no actual animation.
Fill In The Blank
Doonesbury makes case for print, enrages Web comics
The strip has kicked off a meme among producers of Web comics, who are inserting art from their own work in the blank space.
The Centrifuge Brain Project – Short Documentary
Characters Based On Food Eventually Made Into Food
In Japan, Food Can Be Almost Too Cute To Eat
Take children’s television, for example. Some of the most beloved cartoon characters in Japan are based on food items.
One favorite is Anpanman, or “Bread Man” — a superhero whose head is made out of a sweet roll filled with red bean paste… Anpanman spends most of his time running around, saving starving children by letting them take bites out of his oh-so-delicious head.
“Waiting is dead.”
Netflix CEO Reed Hastings talks about new series and new ways to consume them at GQ.
“What if you could radically alter the way stories get told?” asks Ted Sarandos. “What if the way people wanted to consume content actually changed what you could make?”