shawn feeney's bff project

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008

An artist named Shawn Feeney is creating composite facial drawings using the faces of best friends, and eventually he plans to create one drawing that's a combination of all the faces.

The images he's created are incredibly entertaining, and as each new set goes up (he only has 19 now), it heightens my anticipation for the final sketch.

splendad.com

Thursday, June 19th, 2008

Several months ago I heard a song on a commercial and looked everywhere online trying to find it. I finally did at SplendAd.com, a website dedicated to music that's on commercials. Didn't know there was such a thing, right? Me neither, but it's a great idea and it saves me hours of searching.

They have several years' worth of information, and it's constantly being updated, so it's a great resource when you really need to know!

banksy uk

Monday, June 9th, 2008

Banksy is an incredible UK graffiti artist whose work challenges social norms. Everything he does, including indoor graffiti and pen-and-ink drawings, is thought-provoking, often funny, many times sad and truly inspired.

I came across information on him after reading an article on the BBC News, looked up his website and proceeded to bookmark it in my "interesting" folder.

mcsweeney's

Thursday, June 5th, 2008

Honestly, I don't even know how to explain McSweeney's, but I've had McSweeney's Recommends bookmarked for ages. It's hysterical and loads of fun and weird and just everything you could ever want in a website built for wasting time. :)

pete goldlust's carved crayon

Monday, May 12th, 2008

Pete Goldlust is an artist who uses multiple mediums to create incredibly unique pieces. My favorite of these is a collection of intricately hand-carved crayons.

I'm positive a blogger posted about these, but I've no idea which one, as this link has been in my bookmark bar for over a year.

mark story: living in three centuries

Friday, May 9th, 2008

Living in Three Centuries: The Face of Age is an incredible collection of black and white photos of centenarians (people 100 and older). The images are moving and really reflect how different living conditions affect people's bodies. A woman who is 86 looks older than a man who is 112 (who, by the way, drove until he was 106)… each picture has notes, some longer than others, about the life and times of each person.

In his artist statement, the photographer (Mark Story) states: "The experience of talking with a 110 year-old man whose father stood next to Abraham Lincoln during the Gettysburg Address does not easily lend itself to words. A photograph seemed appropriate."

does grandpa have an fbi file?

Thursday, May 1st, 2008

My grandfather was a bit eccentric. A perennial inventor, the lore is that he was the one who originally created the slushie (frozen drink), but after sharing his idea with an investor, he was told it was ridiculous. And a few months later, the Icee came out and he made nothing. Sadly, in his later years he was quite senile and quite deaf, so there was no way for me to ever get the story from him.

When he died in 2005, my dad and his brothers cleaned out his storage space and found file drawers containing hundreds of invention ideas. That led me to start looking him up online, to see what I could find. One site I came across was GetGrandpasFBIFile.com.

The reason I bookmarked it was because I didn't have all the information I needed to fill it out and saved it for later, when I could ask my dad the pertinent info.

Think your grandfather might have an interesting past? Check it out… it's free.

shelfari, your personal, online library

Sunday, April 27th, 2008

Shelfari just recently joined my bookmarks bar (i.e., about 20 minutes ago when I stumbled across it via the WordPress plugins codex), but after spending those 20 minutes rapidly adding books and reading others' comments about them, I'm in total love.

You create a free account (free is always better), create your personalized URL (similar to flickr) and then go to your shelf and start adding books. Fortunately you can add via author or title.. if you do author, it'll give you a list of all their books (perfect for me, since when I find an author I like, I tend to buy all their books). And each book has their own page on the site where you can go to chat about the book with other shelfari users.

The top two reasons I love this site? The interface is beautiful (actual shelf, with your books on them AND you can click-and-drag them to whatever order you wish) and I can add widgets to my blogs to show what I have or what I'm reading. I have hundreds of books, and while I've always wanted to catalogue them, the task was just far too daunting. This site allows me to catalogue everything I have at a much quicker pace.