This month
Roger Ballen directs Die Antwoord video | Photography | Agenda | Phaidon
by sbrothier
Obviously we're big fans of photographer Roger Ballen’s dark and disturbing black and white photographs here at Phaidon. So we were pleased to get a call from him this morning telling us about this music video he's just directed for Cape Town hip hop trio, Die Antwoord. The band's music is characterised by its Zef references (Zef being South African slang for modern and trashy, with lots of knowingly discarded cultural references).
Ballen of course is famous for his psychologically charged and unsettling images from South Africa of individuals marginalised from society often depicted in the setting of strange, cell-like rooms. So how did the coupling come about?
December 2011
The Sexperience 1000 - Sexperience
by gregg
Welcome to The Sexperience 1000, an interactive journey through the sexual experiences and preferences of one thousand British individuals. What’s the favourite sexual position of iPhone users in the North? Do country music lovers over 55 prefer to do it in
the dark? Explore the 20 questions of our survey and discover what the great British public get up to between the sheets…
Dark Score Stories
by sbrothier & 1 other
Site pour le lancement de la série Bag of Bones, avec de chouettes cinemagraph, de sublimes photos, des références planquées dans tous les coins à Stephen King et des énigmes bien subtiles.
Dark Score Stories
by gregg & 1 other
Site pour le lancement de la série Bag of Bones, avec de chouettes cinemagraph, de sublimes photos, des références planquées dans tous les coins à Stephen King et des énigmes bien subtiles.
November 2011
Muddy Colors: Death Mark - Dark Sun Painting
by bouilloire
Sérieux les gars, faut arrêter d'avoir autant de talent, ça fait pleurer les visiteurs :'(
October 2011
Japan Update: the Post-Tsunami Landscape | Architecture for Humanity
At the Mediatheque, and throughout the city, a policy developed to conserve electricity–rolling blackouts threatened the Tohoku region while the damaged Fukushima power plant conducted extensive safety tests. Indoor spaces remained dark and warm through the summer.
August 2011
July 2011
June 2011
X-Men: The Dark Phoenix Saga
by alamat & 1 other (via)
The Dark Phoenix Saga by Chris Claremont and John Byrne was simply the best comic book story I have ever read. While this trade paperback contains most of it, the story really ran for about 25 issues *before* the issues in the TPB.
May 2011
Witchblade Volume 5: First Born
by alamat & 1 other (via)
I’m not that terribly familiar anymore with WITCHBLADE or, come to think of it, a lot of the other Top Cow titles. Regarding WITCHBLADE’s mythology, I know that the Witchblade itself is a tremendously powerful supernatural artifact wielded by NYPD homicide detective Sara Pezzini, and that this is a very dark comic book series.
Hellspawn: Complete Collection
by alamat & 1 other (via)
As a casual comic reader (mostly cherry picking the best series once collected), I’m not sure I enjoyed this collection. The artwork, while beautiful, frequently caused confusion as to who was who. It certainly set the mood, but when dialog happened I frequently couldn’t even tell who was speaking. The story, while appropriately dark and gritty, occasionally exacerbated the confusion by switching narrative approaches.
Batman: The Killing Joke
by alamat & 1 other (via)
“The Killing Joke” is widely considered to be the be-all-end-all of Joker stories, so what better way to pay homage to the greatest comic book villain of all time near the eve of his re-unveiling in The Dark Knight than by reviewing his definitive story? This is the comic that (sort of) revealed the origin of The Clown Prince of Crime, humanizing him to an extent never before, and truly examined -with pictures rather than words- the antagonistic symbiosis that exists between Joker and his arch nemesis, The Batman. A beloved Gotham regular will never be the same and another will be put through hell before this story is done. Oh, and there are creepy little henchmidgets as well. Gotta love the henchmidgets.
March 2011
Slideshows for your iPad « Flickr Blog
by sbrothier
We’re happy to announce some big improvements to the photo light box for iPad users! The light box is a handy, full browser photo viewer available from any photo page. From a photo page on Flickr, simply tap on a photo to view it larger (if available) and on a clean, dark background. Now you’ll be able to quickly swipe between photos, add to your favorites, and share with friends and family gathered around you. So grab your iPad and try looking at your favorite photos, your photostream, or the latest updates from your contacts in the new light box. Enjoy!
vis4.net - über Infografiken und Datenvisualisierungen in Flash, HTML5, SVG und Processing
Large bars = normal text line, small bars = footnote line. Dark red bars stand for full rip-offs and masked rip-offs, red bars represent other plagiarism categories (german).
February 2011
liteAccordion, plugin jQuery pour afficher un accordéon horizontal
by eledo34 & 2 others (via)
liteAccordion est un plugin jQuery permettant d’afficher un menu ou une galerie d’image sous forme d’accordéon horizontal.
liteAccordion a ceci d’intéressant que le script “pése” seulement 4,5 kb non compressé (très largement commenté) et 1,2 kb compressé ! De plus, les différents thèmes n’utilisent pas d’images “background”. A ce jour, seuls deux thèmes sont prêts à l’emploi : le thème Dark et le thème Basic. Vous pourrez créer les votre sans le moindre souci.
Pour le contenu des “slides”, avec ce script, vous pourrez aussi bien afficher du texte, que des images ou des vidéos etc. En fait, tout ce que peut contenir un DIV classique.
liteAccordion a été testé avec les dernières versions de Firefox, Chrome, Safari et Opera (sous OSX et Windows7).
January 2011
December 2010
All it takes is a little faith and a lot of heart, sweetheart.
by blackgoldfish
Your hands are warm and my body is wide,
to hold all the promise
of blue-velvet dark and stars.
PDF to HTML - Convert PDF files to HTML files
papi fait du Web sémantiqueAlthough the digital dark age is a menace of the
present, the processes of media ageing, semantic
ageing, and cultural ageing have been effective since
pre-computer times
November 2010
Play Age of Kingdom
by axlarry (via)
Lead your kingdom through the dark age and advance to the modern and robotic ages. Provide home and food for your citizen. Trade to get some cash or material. Train your soldiers and protect your land from your neighbouring enemies.
The xx : Repris par OMD ! - News, actualité, interviews, actu, brèves - Magicrpm : Artistes indie-pop-rock
by enoradenis
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark
Dark Clouds WQUXGA
by DrAlzheimer (via)
Dark Clouds WQUXGA Dual Widescreen Monitor Wallpaper (3840x2400, 1647kB)
