note to self: indulge in this

enjoyed the old spot, very curious about the new one

drooling over these flavors

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from their recent Kimmel performance

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Amazing

I'm off to Tennessee for a week. Blogging may be sparse to completely absent. It's been six months since I've been back and I am in dire need of soaking up some quality time with friends and family. If you're looking to hang out - hit me up. If you're looking for blog content to distract you - hold tight, I'll be back soon enough.

• Perturbator - "She Is Young, She Is Beautiful ... " - still really hate the name of this band but the 8-bit hard sci-fi story here is just about enough to forgive them.
• Wally Jurassic Park - if the new Jurassic Park sequel can get anywhere close to this awesome, it wins. But let's be honest, almost nothing is better than this!
• KILL BILL (Vol 1 and 2) - 8 Bit Cinema - been kind of on a hardcore 8-bit nostalgia trip recently. Seeing videogames based on movies like this makes me yearn for a few days locked in a room playing an incredibly frustrating adaptation.
• Excuse me... - wait for it.
• I Dare You To Watch This Entire Video - pretty amazing College Humor piece that really takes you to task to test your every shortening attention span. I made it the full video because I'll be damned if some Internet video is gonna make a chump outta me!
• What a dance by a chubby Korean baby! - and here's a refresher for you from that grueling 3 minutes you just spent watching the above video proving that you're still in control.
• Fleetwoods Mr Blue Midnight Special - these guys are new to me and I'm enjoying their intensely melancholy tunes. Maybe not the most upbeat way to go out for a week but it's surprisingly pleasant.

Have a great weekend. And if I don't see ya - have a great week.

It's kind of great that Google I/O has slowly become more and more of a worthwhile event - at least from the perspective of intriguing web content being released by the massive Google Beast. The Google Design Guide will take plenty of time to digest but there plenty of other fun projects that are unveiled as well - like Google Cardboard, a DIY kit paired with an Android app for experiencing VR. Basically, it's a corrugated Oculus powered by your phone. The site showcasing it is nice and the instructional kit is just the right amount of Maker Geek to inspire some folks to actually make it.

If that's not quite up your alley, allow yourself to be majorly distracted by The Experiment. Seriously.

I can't tell if I love these 80's Villains Album Covers because of the kitsch and the nostaglia or despite them. Either way, I'm liking what I'm seeing... a lot. Please be sure to view the whole set. If you like what you see, you can follow along for more nerdy goodness.

via Paul Hinman, Esquire.

I have distinct memory of the Dick & Jane books that the Jon Bentley painting series, My Life in Art, is based upon. His growingly absurdist take on the adventures of the nuclear family are a real treat. I think the Giant Crab may be my favorite but it's tough to beat that one of "Daddy" exercising his demons.

if this wasn't conceived in a fever dream I'd be very surprised

office jargon, decoded. via @fluxistrad

The Made In Network has a show called 24 Hour Records in which they gather a handful of artists from like-minded bands and throw them in a studio for a full-day with the goal of recording three songs.

The latest collaboration refers to themselves as FIST and consists of four members of some very respectable Nashville rock bands. The making of video is an entertaining bit of frustration as they try to put the songs together and the results are some very solid, enjoyable rock songs.

• FIST - My Way Home
• FIST - We've Got You Surrounded (My Latin Baby)
• FIST - Headed West

There are a lot of videos being output from Made In but the 24HR Records undertaking is certainly my favorite.

Until somewhat recently, Google wasn't exactly known for its design edge. Occasionally they'd release something sharp but, on the whole, it felt more programmer-y than designed. That's changed over the last few years as all of the different Google products have found a common cohesion and really gotten their act together (so to speak). If you browse through this Google Design repository I think you'll get a clear feeling as to how that happened. The Google Design Guidelines alone are a fascinating read about material synthesis, interaction and motion. Maybe it's not a new headspace for you but it is, at the very least, an eloquent reminder of where to aim.

Does this mean Android apps will start seeing a marked improvement in their design? The largest complaint I've heard about many of the apps is that they don't feel like they have the polish they should.. seems possible that these resources could help aid in that.

nice profile on a thoughtful game designer. The hyper sexual aspect of early 90's game advertising is quite interesting

This Monochrome browser could easily be written off as a silly little thing - as it is just a fixed width mobile viewer - but there's something rather handy about having a viewport dedicated to getting mobile viewing sizes right. Yes, I know this can be done with a detached browser tab as well but it's all about the headspace it puts you in.

Sondre Lerche

collaboration of Nashville talent make for a nice one-off band

love this. even if Drafthouse and VHX weren't buddies, I'd love this.