http://www.popmassive.com CULTURE + STUFF, LIKE TECHNOLOGY, NYC, STYLE, TRAVEL, PHOTOGRAPHY & COFFEE Fri, 05 Mar 2010 07:05:30 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en "Logorama" is a brilliant animated short-film that uses all sort of logos as the graphical building blocks for the animation. The movie has received an Academy Award nomination in the Best Animated Short category for this years Oscars. It's got my vote. ... http://www.popmassive.com/2010/03/05/logorama-the-movie/ http://www.popmassive.com/2010/02/09/googles-brilliant-super-bowl-ad/ Minimal Sites believes in "less is more" and has stated "doing more with less" as their goal. The site is an awesome collection of screenshots and links to websites that are shining examples of minimal interactive design. (One of the most minimal we found on the site was Swapped.cc -- ... http://www.popmassive.com/2010/01/16/minimal-web-site-design/ The sidewalk on Broome Street in Chinatown is so cold and uncomfortable on this bitter New York City winter day that this cat has chosen to sit on a bundle of cabbage outside a wholesaler's shop. Copyright 2010. Ivan Corsa Photo. All rights reserved. http://www.popmassive.com/2010/01/09/i-iz-cold-paws/ We dug up this wonderful (if trainspotty) travelogue piece about the city of Edinburgh in the Guardian newspaper, in the U.K., by "Scottish noir" novelist Ian Rankin. As Scotland's political, financial and cultural capital, Edinburgh is a city whose prominence is not in doubt, but it is a most unusual ... http://www.popmassive.com/2010/01/09/ian-rankins-edinburgh/ We've been at home in bed on the eve of this weekend nursing a bad cold during this bone-chilling winter snap on New York City. And when we're stuck at home for long periods of time that usually means we're watching a lot of TV that we might not normally ... http://www.popmassive.com/2010/01/09/blogger-overdoses-on-food-network/ We LOVE the concept for the sculptural art work by artist Christopher Locke. He creates faux-fossilized sculptures of contemporary technology artifacts, stony objects of things likes cell phones, iPods, and the controllers for the Sony PlayStation 2 (pictured below) as if these were just discovered and rescued from the dirt ... http://www.popmassive.com/2010/01/07/techno-fossils/ We found this graffiti-art pwned truck in Chinatown in San Francisco. Love it. http://www.popmassive.com/2010/01/06/san-francisco-graff-truck/ Here's the awesome view of the big, wide, spread-out greater Los Angeles metro area as seen at night from a commercial jet plane headed for New York City. http://www.popmassive.com/2010/01/06/night-view-of-la-from-a-plane/ Happy New Year, Everybody! Hope you had as great a 2009 as we did. We're looking forward to an awesome 2010! We've been away the past couple of weeks on a nice, long winter holiday break out in California, spending time with friends and loved ones in LA, San Francisco ... http://www.popmassive.com/2010/01/06/hello-2010/ As the dude sitting next to me in a cafe in downtown NYC said when I watched this on my laptop, "That's some droll muthafuckin' shite, man!" Word. http://www.popmassive.com/2009/12/23/darth-vader-opens-wall-street/ This clip explains Twitter so well ... http://www.popmassive.com/2009/12/16/twitter-in-plain-english/ From the "There's an App for That" File ... We love Note Taker, a new application by Dan Bricklin for the Apple iPhone. The user-experience ("UX"), user-interface (or "UI") and interactive design is ingenious and awesome. Check out this video demo of the app below and read about how Bricklin ... http://www.popmassive.com/2009/12/16/theres-an-app-for-that/ A dude rigged his house in excessive display of Christmas lights to synced with Guitar Hero game-play performance on a Ninetndo Wii. Say no more. Just watch the video ... http://www.popmassive.com/2009/12/15/guitar-hero-21000-christmas-lights/ The ever-so-wonderful Jason Kottke has posted on his blog today about a trove of little-known photographs by Ansel Adams. See three of these images below or check out all of the images on Flickr. Gerard Van der Leun discovered a batch of 1940s images of Los Angeles shot by Adams ... http://www.popmassive.com/2009/12/15/lost-la-photos-of-ansel-adams/ Check out Flavorwire's list of the world's most beautiful air terminals. Among the architecturally awesome air hubs on the list: Beijing Capital International Airport (see pic below), Terminal 4 at Madrid Barajas International Airport, and, of course, architect Eero Saarinen's iconic TWA Terminal at JFK International Airport in New ... http://www.popmassive.com/2009/12/10/most-beautiful-airports-in-the-world/ The website and work of Japanese architectural and interior designer Masamichi Katayama and his firm, Wonderwall, is AWESOME. Katayama is probably the most influential force in contemporary interior design in Japan. His work includes creating spaces for A Bathing Ape (BAPE) shops around the world, among many, many other projects. http://www.popmassive.com/2009/12/10/wonderwall/ The NY Times magazine recently reported on a clever marketing stunt by Blu Dot, the furniture design-manufacturer and retailer. In what the company dubbed "The REAL GOOD Experiment," the Blu Dot team worked with an agency called Mono to strategically place several of its beautifully designed "Real Good" chairs (see ... http://www.popmassive.com/2009/12/08/clever-guerilla-marketing-of-furniture/ Actor, comedian, and author John Hodgman of the Daily Show and "I'm a PC" fame joins Kevin Rose and Alex Albrecht on the latest episode of the DiggNation weekly video podcast, recorded at Hodgman's office in Brooklyn, New York City. It's a riot. Among other high-jinks, Hodgman makes gin ... http://www.popmassive.com/2009/12/04/john-hodgman-on-diggnation/ Mac n' cheese heaven has a name in downtown New York City and it's at Macbar in Nolita / SoHo. It's a tiny restaurant "100% devoted to mac and cheese." The menu is simple, but offers an intriging variety of mac-and-cheese combinations. Macbar has been open for a few months ... http://www.popmassive.com/2009/12/04/macbar/