The new Vine site launched yesterday and I'm a bit intrigued. They're obviously positioning themselves as more of a destination. This will certainly help fuel discovery and maybe push them beyond being viewed as just an App - an app losing a bit of a battle with Instagram video. Oh, and have they always had Playlists or is this a new addition with the relaunch?

I recently posted about the John Leigh (aka Karborn) portfolio with specific focus on the "Evidence of Time Travel" pieces. Well, he's taken those and launched them into their own site. evidenceoftimetravel.com showcases the images in a more immersive way and also shows that six more volumes are on the way throughout this year. Can't wait.

Really happy with the way that this new Tipper Whore LP has turned out. Very excited to share it with the world soon.. just gotta get those exterior sleeves printed and it will be ready.

In the meantime, check out the first track from the album. It's a Pop-Trash-Party time.

It's missing a little bit of functionality but this ToneDen Soundcloud player is pretty slick. It's always nice to have a secondary option for displaying your media - particularly when the primary means isn't all that flexible. Don't get me wrong, I love a Soundcloud embed but a JS powered, skin customizable option is always good to have in the back pocket.

Anyone checked out Squire yet? It appears to be a Plex-esque frontend for viewing videos but, my hope is, that it's a bit leaner. Unsurprisingly, the screenshots look very well done but I'd love to know if anyone's used it and how the performance worked out.

holy moly this song is great. thank you @subinev

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the partnership is weird but 320kpbs as default stream is awesome

Remember when I told you about Weird Fears? The forthcoming EP from Mount Sharp? Well, the first track, Crazy Eyes is now available for your consumption. Stream it, Download it, Tell a friend.

I've been fully immersed in this Capping Chernobyl piece for the past two days. Tons of images, videos, diagrams and writeups on the Chernobyl disaster and how the encompassing "sarcophagus" is being built to contain the decaying plant. Fascinating is one word for it.

I've been a fan of The Revival Hour for some time (DM Stith with John Mark Lapham) but this video for Fire Season off of their new Clusterchord EP really takes things up a notch. The visuals are compiled from the Hungarian film Feherlofia and could not be a better fit to the song.

Sometimes art is a funny thing. Artist Austin Kleon regularly creates and posts Newspaper Blackout poetry. They are compelling and insightful in their subtraction of newspaper articles. He once pontificated on his Twitter how great it would be if the New York Times made an interactive Blackout poem.

And lo and behold, the New York Times has launched an interactive piece Searching for Poetry in Prose that does exactly that. It takes NYT articles and you selectively choose which words should emerge from being blacked out. It's a nice piece and, moreso, it's an awesome example of the world coming full circle on a great idea.

I've no idea if the film itself will be engaging but the latest from Richard Linklater, Boyhood, is an impressive undertaking. Twelve years ago, Linklater cast a young boy for the main role of the film and has been filming him ever since as he grows up. From first-grade to adulthood - all the same actor. That fact alone makes it a worthwhile viewing.

via Kottke.

Our Town: Nashville is an ongoing art project put on by Isle of Printing that gathers members of a communities, gives them the tools to create a self-portrait with rudimentary shapes and then each print is laser cut into a woodblock and made into a print. Check this handy process illustration to get the exact low down. There's a great Nashville Public Radio piece on how it all started and why it exists.

After you're familiar with the concept, dive headfirst into the actual portrait collections. There are some phenomenal interpretations to be seen.

I repeat, French Rockin Boogie

the writeup makes me really wanna preview this

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I'm spending my weekend moving apartments - a whole two blocks from where I'm currently located. Nothing like packing all your belongings into boxes, moving two blocks and unpacking said boxes. Exciting times!

• Europe in 8-Bits - the opening titles to this film are pitch perfect. The life, death and rebirth of the Gameboy. I would watch an entire film of this.
• Street Fighter II (Church Edition) - no words. Entertainment perfection.
• Piggy Wants Salad - I hate to admit it but that pig won my heart. Look at that little face!
• Mount Sharp - Serious Business - if you haven't watched it yet, dive into this episode of BTR with Mount Sharp.
• Abner Jay - I'm So Depressed - I saw James Wallace cover this the other week and I've been obsessively listening to it ever since. If you know nothing of Abner Jay (as I did not), look him up.
• Every Thin Lizzy Guitar Solo 1971 - 1983 - I listened to this entire hour fifteen and loved every single second of it.

Have a great weekend!

I wish I were in Austin, TX this weekend to catch the Mike Mitchell opening at Mondo Gallery featuring all of these, quite incredible, Marvel exhibition. The realistic pieces are great (the subtle GIF presentation is a nice touch) but the adorable pieces should not be ignored either.

An exercise tackling the likes of Redesigning Wikipedia can easily be overwrought. However, George Kvasnikov and Julian Krenz did a great job with this one. It's not perfect (why are the summaries buried under a click!?) but it is nicer.

Though it does beg the question, does some of Wikipedia's strength lie in its outdated design? For whatever reason, doesn't a less contemporary design exudes the sense that the information within Wikipedia is more reliable?