September 2010

Happy 50th birthday, Flintstones!

09.30.2010

Yabba dabba doo! The Flintstones turn 50 years old today. Appropriately enough, Google’s paying their own homage with the characteristically awesome doodle seen above. Those guys. While you’re here, you might as well revisit the classic intro to the TV show dedicated to our favorite modern Stone Age family: You need to a flashplayer enabled [...]

Mark Zuckerberg vs. Bobby Fischer

09.30.2010

David Fincher’s decade-defining film The Social Network opens tomorrow. Roger Ebert — an embracer of both Facebook and Twitter — loves the film, and has posted a review that compares Facebook creator Mark Zuckerberg to World Chess Champion Bobby Fischer. [Zuckerberg] reminds me of the chess prodigy Bobby Fischer. There may be a touch of [...]

National Coffee Day

09.29.2010

Happy National Coffee Day! Here are 10 coffee facts you may not know. A refill of coffee trivia can be enjoyed here. And is caffeine bad for you? RELATED: The perfect cup of coffee.

Bam.

09.28.2010

“No iron spike can pierce a human heart as icily as a period in the right place.” – Isaac Babel (1894-1940)

HEAT WAVE! Tips to keep pets cool

09.28.2010

It’s baking in Los Angeles this week, with yesterday’s temperatures reaching an all-time record of 113 degrees downtown yesterday. Via the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, here are some important things to keep in mind as pet owners: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 28, 2010 Los Angeles CA â€“ Los Angelenos thought summer [...]

Google turns 12

09.27.2010

Google is celebrating its 12th birthday today with a (comparatively unremarkable?) doodle featuring a painting by 79-year-old American artist Wayne Thiebaud. The GOOGLE.COM domain name was registered on September 15, 1997, but the company wasn’t incorporated until a year later. What Google’s official birthday is remains debatable, but for today, it’s September 27th. Happy birthday, [...]

Gentlemen, we can rebuild him. We have the technology.

09.27.2010

It doesn’t get much more vintage than the Six Million Dollar Man intro from the ’70s: You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video

At the PBBC

09.26.2010

A perfect day at the Portuguese Bend Beach Club in Rancho Palos Verdes CA. 09.25.2010. Photo by M.

Where Good Ideas Come From

09.26.2010

The trailer for the upcoming book by Steven Johnson. You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video “Chance favors the connected mind.”

M Jam #00024

09.24.2010

Creative Copy Challenge

09.23.2010

Creative Copy Challenge is website that offers the creative community a simple, quick way to crush writers block and unleash our creative muses. Periodically the site will create a new exercise in the form of a blog post that contains ten random words or phrases. The challenge for us is to submit a cohesive, creative [...]

Equinoxes and solstices

09.22.2010

Today’s the first day of Fall, my favorite season of the year. The autumnal equinox will be hitting us overnight. What’s the difference between an equinox and a solstice? The word â€œequinoxâ€ comes from Latin and means â€œequality of night and day.â€ Contrary to popular belief, the equinox does not last for 24 hours. It [...]

Beast and Portnoy

09.21.2010

Beast and Mike Portnoy. Sent tonight from his iPhone backstage at the Avenged gig in Bakersfield. RELATED: A killer photo that Randy Johnson took behind Mike’s kit the other night in Phoenix. *UPDATE 09.26.2010. Just in from Vancouver:

2011 Lexus IS: Behind the Scenes of ‘Music Track’

09.21.2010

A behind-the-scenes look at the mathematical strategy, musical intelligence, and meticulous engineering that went into the Lexus IS ‘Music Track’ commercial. You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video

F is for Fail

09.20.2010

F is for Fail is a short film about the creative process, and the failure we always encounter, but usually overcome. Told using the alphabet, each letter informs us of the state of the protagonist’s creativity/state of mind. Each letter has two words associated with it (except A and Z); sometimes the positive word overpowers [...]

Tempest long exposed

09.19.2010

A long exposure photograph of the Tempest arcade game. Rad. From a series of photographs at rosemariefiore.com.

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