Monday, June 30, 2008
Sunday, June 29, 2008
Brazil's Tidal Wave
Executed for Nissan's X-Trail SUV, a documentary of three surfers, a tidal wave, and a little river called the Amazon. Search tidal bore for more info on what the hell is going on.
Thursday, June 26, 2008
What It Is, Is What It Isn't
I wrote this for a friend's project. It was supposed to be ambiguous. This is what I came up with:
"The smallest act is the largest detail. It’s never too far to the left, too far to the right and most certainly never in the middle. Unintentional shapes form meaningful design to contrary belief. What is dictated is never followed. What is alternative is its own mainstream. What is inexact is the precise way. But what it isn’t, is what it needs to be."
Put that in your pipe and smoke it.
"The smallest act is the largest detail. It’s never too far to the left, too far to the right and most certainly never in the middle. Unintentional shapes form meaningful design to contrary belief. What is dictated is never followed. What is alternative is its own mainstream. What is inexact is the precise way. But what it isn’t, is what it needs to be."
Put that in your pipe and smoke it.
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
Monday, June 23, 2008
Sunday, June 22, 2008
I Like To Read, So Zoomii
Welcome to Zoomii.com, a pretty enchanting interface to search for books and whatnot. Imagine Google Maps for a bookstore. It's powered by the Amazon.com search engine and are all Amazon books. Here's Zoomii.com and here's a little explanatory on how it works:
Edgar Allen Poe Flaws The Game Theory
The man, the poet, the soldier, and the scientist? In Poe's "The Purloined Letter," he manages to find a flaw in the omniscipent Game Theory. For those who slept during applied mathematic theory class, Game Theory essientially is my statistical chance of winning in strategic situations based on the choices made by my opponent. It's now applied to a broader spectrum of applications like social science, biology, and pimping. Yes, pimping, but that's not why this is being written.
Here's what Mr. Poe said:
“I knew one about eight years of age, whose success at guessing in the game of ‘even and odd’ attracted universal admiration. This game is simple, and is played with marbles. One player holds in his hand a number of these toys, and demands of another whether that number is even or odd. If the guess is right, the guesser wins one; if wrong, he loses one.
“The boy to whom I allude won all the marbles of the school. Of course he had some principle of guessing; and this lay in mere observation and admeasurement of the astuteness of his opponents. For example, an arrant simpleton is his opponent, and, holding up his closed hand, asks, ‘are they even or odd?’ Our schoolboy replies, ‘odd,’ and loses; but upon the second trial he wins, for he then says to himself, ‘the simpleton had them even upon the first trial, and his amount of cunning is just sufficient to make him have them odd upon the second; I will therefore guess odd;’ — he guesses odd, and wins.
“Now, with a simpleton a degree above the first, he would have reasoned thus: ‘This fellow finds that in the first instance I guessed odd, and, in the second, he will propose to himself, upon the first impulse, a simple variation from even to odd, as did the first simpleton; but then a second thought will suggest that this is too simple a variation, and finally he will decide upon putting it even as before. I will therefore guess even;’ — he guesses even, and wins.
“Now this mode of reasoning in the schoolboy, whom his fellows termed ‘lucky,’ — what, in its last analysis, is it?’
‘It is merely,’ I said, ‘an identification of the reasoner’s intellect with that of his opponent.’”
[From “The Purloined Letter.” Paragraph breaks added]
Here's the rest of the article from ScienceNews. Enjoy.
Here's what Mr. Poe said:
“I knew one about eight years of age, whose success at guessing in the game of ‘even and odd’ attracted universal admiration. This game is simple, and is played with marbles. One player holds in his hand a number of these toys, and demands of another whether that number is even or odd. If the guess is right, the guesser wins one; if wrong, he loses one.
“The boy to whom I allude won all the marbles of the school. Of course he had some principle of guessing; and this lay in mere observation and admeasurement of the astuteness of his opponents. For example, an arrant simpleton is his opponent, and, holding up his closed hand, asks, ‘are they even or odd?’ Our schoolboy replies, ‘odd,’ and loses; but upon the second trial he wins, for he then says to himself, ‘the simpleton had them even upon the first trial, and his amount of cunning is just sufficient to make him have them odd upon the second; I will therefore guess odd;’ — he guesses odd, and wins.
“Now, with a simpleton a degree above the first, he would have reasoned thus: ‘This fellow finds that in the first instance I guessed odd, and, in the second, he will propose to himself, upon the first impulse, a simple variation from even to odd, as did the first simpleton; but then a second thought will suggest that this is too simple a variation, and finally he will decide upon putting it even as before. I will therefore guess even;’ — he guesses even, and wins.
“Now this mode of reasoning in the schoolboy, whom his fellows termed ‘lucky,’ — what, in its last analysis, is it?’
‘It is merely,’ I said, ‘an identification of the reasoner’s intellect with that of his opponent.’”
[From “The Purloined Letter.” Paragraph breaks added]
Here's the rest of the article from ScienceNews. Enjoy.
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
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Thursday, June 12, 2008
Listen To The Song
Some stuff from Dizzy Rascal from across the pond. He's not my favorite, but this piece makes me dislike him less.
With Diamonds
I would
steal the moon with everyone looking,
take the splash of bullets from a puddle,
pick fireflies from the sky to give you fiery blossom,
make a lady line a mile long,
build you a stage so you could never stop twirling,
pick the seeds from your watermelon,
make all the drinks in the world ice cold
spend rainy days in the laziest way,
give you a porch on house on a cliff on a beach,
do what it takes to make everything okay,
do it for you.
Just come away with me.
steal the moon with everyone looking,
take the splash of bullets from a puddle,
pick fireflies from the sky to give you fiery blossom,
make a lady line a mile long,
build you a stage so you could never stop twirling,
pick the seeds from your watermelon,
make all the drinks in the world ice cold
spend rainy days in the laziest way,
give you a porch on house on a cliff on a beach,
do what it takes to make everything okay,
do it for you.
Just come away with me.
The Pre-Photoshop Arabesque
This was the cover of the 1986 album "Island Life" with Grace Jones from Island Records. This move is pretty much impossible to achieve, unless you're photographer Jean-Paul Goude. Before Photoshop, there was just lots of frames and then lots of studio time working with the negatives. Dodging and burning, the good old days of photography. (Although I do love digital)
Click here for more info on the making of this shot.
Monday, June 9, 2008
Student Advertising Work Copyright
This is a disclaimer for all of the personal advertising work that I produce at school and post on this blog. All ideas, executions, and creative licensing belong to me, Will Thomsen, and all partners involved in the creation of the work.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported License.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported License.
Sunday, June 8, 2008
Friday, June 6, 2008
Radiohead 'Nude' Goes BetaMax
So this dude, recreated the Radiohead song using "A Sinclair ZX Spectrum 8-bit PC was used for rhythm and lead guitars, an HP Scanjet 3c was used for bass guitar, an Epson LX-81 Dot Matrix Printer was used for drums, and an array of hard drives were used as bad speakers to distort and reproduce vocals and effects." -The Gizmodo article.
I don't like Radiohead, but that's pretty awesome. Much respect. Bringin it back 80s style.
I don't like Radiohead, but that's pretty awesome. Much respect. Bringin it back 80s style.
Take That Crop Circles
What you got Mr. Alien? You think you can mess with our rice art kung fu?In the land of rice and small spaces, some farmers had some big ideas. Using different grains of rice, these farming artists (or fartists, yeah I went there) use different grains to creative the various colors. The only shame is that these field art have about the life span as the harvest. Edible art. Hmm... that means you can be eating that weird dragon guy on the left. Pass the salt.
Check out the rest of the rice paddy art.
Thursday, June 5, 2008
Wednesday, June 4, 2008
Some Stuff From Class
So, as a writer, it's good to explore visually as well, so I took a photo class for non-image majors at my school. Here's some of the stuff that I liked. I'll post more once I get everything close to being done.
I can tell you what she's not supposed to be, innocent.
I can tell you what she's not supposed to be, innocent.
I don't like taking self-portraits. I feel vain when I do. That is why I chose those props in the pic. Let's just say the camera is the gun.
That's my cat (or kat because he is my best friend), Mr. Bojangles. Much love kitty.
Monday, June 2, 2008
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