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This video has no words for explanation, but is intriguing - also NSFW, or safe for anywhere, really.

Told from inside the presidency, ABC News Nightline and PBS’s Frontline present the first look at the clinton era.

[via Scott Kidder]

McCain said what? [via gawker]

Chris Prillio enthusiastically links us to “Secrets” a nice prefpane to get at hidden app settings.

The idea of “my computer as my music library and my iPod is my walkman” was very quickly adopted. Conversely, it’s very interesting to see how slowly people are adopting the same strategy in regards to video. But, I see the shift starting to happen.

Personally, I’ve started ripping my DVDs (just my favorites) to my computer and purchasing more and more movies in pure digital form. I hate the thought of DRM invading my movie files, but the convenience is just too great. Sitting down with some friends on a late Saturday night, I can rent ,on demand, an HD version of almost any movie I want, through my AppleTV - many of these movies I can also purchase. The AppleTV is severely under-appreciated. I think there will be some big moves in store for the AppleTV in the near future.

So what’s holding us back from clearing our shelves of cumbersome DVD cases and praying to the encoding gods? Hard drive speed and capacity. An hour and a half movie takes up about 1.1GB. HD versions take up about three times that. We need faster and larger hard drives and we need them yesterday.

I can’t wait till the day my shelves are clear of DVD cases.

Amazing video and song sampled entirely from Disney sounds.

[via Luke]

I’ve been following Erik Natzke’s blog Jot for a while now. He’s an extremely talented artist. Check out this post about the NIN Ghosts community videos:

Trent Reznor is inviting people to contribute visuals to audio from his latest release, Ghosts. These are a few contributions I came up with today using some reclaimed footage.

Only really unfortunate thing is that it the videos need to be published to You Tube.
Here and Here are links to versions of them in much better quality.

A ridiculously spot-on video, found randomly on YouTube.

Wow.

This week in the magazine, Nick Paumgarten writes about the lives of elevators, and tells the story of Nicholas White, who was trapped in an elevator in New York City’s McGraw-Hill building for forty-one hours. Here is a condensed look at White’s ordeal, as captured by the building’s security cameras.

The way it’s presented leaves you feeling as though it was a case of accidental Art. Just wonderfully sad.

Portishead merges video and sound so separately but synergistically, in this cool studio performance.

[via Dean, who ought to blog]

Johnny Bunko trailer from Daniel Pink on Vimeo.

[via stephen henault]

This is the most profound marketing I’ve ever seen for a book.

She’s on “the Facebook” now.

She’s also got this ridiculous video for Wanderlust.

Her graphic designer is a king at modern typography, hence his domain name: http://www.moderntypography.com/

What does Björk not do to the nines?

• What if? - A blog that doesn’t update anymore, sadly.
• Check out the Air Zoo - the most beautiful use of trash bags to date.

• Design Within Reach has some nifty doorbells that would go really well with some Neutra designed numbers.

  

• He writes on his hands and makes klein bottles. This TED video is a hoot.

• Apple Is Sued Over iMac Colors Claim

  The Cupertino-based company touts that ability on its Web site and other marketing material even though it knows iMac monitors can display only 262,144 true colors, according to the lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.

  Users are fooled into seeing many more colors because the monitors use technological tricks that involve showing many similar shades at high speeds to create the illusion of the desired shade, according to the lawsuit.

• Joe explains why sucks is a four letter word.
• Some amazing art by Andy Gillmore [via DDC]

Holy crap this is awesome. Seriously, I freaking can’t believe it.

Evolution in Five minutes - via DFCKR

In relation to my last post on comic books, I keep finding the more I look at different mediums and styles of Art, the better my graphic design becomes and the more creative risks I’m willing to take. I knew that before, but never got in to searching for other forms of Art as much as I am now.

Related to that is the amazing work being done over at flight404.

I wish I had the time, talent, and patience to do work like this:

Magnetic Ink, Process video from flight404 on Vimeo.

killer vid via Computerlove

That’s right. While eating a nice lunch with Mom, I spotted this on the TV in the diner… Prison Inmates Dancing to Thriller

“I Met The Walrus” — A Short by Josh Raskin

This is one of the coolest things I’ve seen lately; a history of religion in 90 seconds.