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Ah, the weekly distraction. Who doesn't love it?

• MUTE - an absolutely adorable animated short film focused on a gruesome discovery. All of the slicing techniques are perfect.
• Miss Ping - part of the Tumba Ping Pong Show - miraculous feats of ping pong undertakings. Being fake isn't really the point, being entertaining is.
• White Lion Cub Roar - sorry, this is adorable and your heart should melt hearing it. Or at least chuckle.
• Potty Talk - technology allows parents to spy on their kids and share their bathroom musings with the world. We should all be appreciative.
• Lion King 3D - I may have seen this before but so what?! It's still hysterical.
• Jungle - Platoon - I love to end a playlist on a good dance video and I don't think it gets much better than this. Such `tude, such perfect execution.

Plenty more here. Have a great weekend!

It's that time of year again. Halloween decorations are going up, temperatures are dropping and I'm pleased to report that I'm pretty much constantly playing Curse Walk from Shaboi once again. The likes of Rapsylvania `88, Gozer's Boombox and Undead Headcheck will be played ad nauseam for the remainder of the month.

It's also on Spotify if you prefer that. Whatever it takes to soak in this season's best classic!

For a moment, try to imagine the strangest collaborative promotional combination of company and artist. Maybe this? Or this? Or anything emerging from here? Possibly! But the strangest I've encountered as of late is Happy Socks and David LaChapelle in their #HappySocksDLC campaign. The teaser video is pretty outrageous. Obviously that's the point but what a bizarre combo. I'm looking forward to the absurdity that reveals itself in early November.

IDEO's Spark Camera is, at its core, an iPhone app with a clever interface for grouping moments. I've no doubt I will try it out and enjoy it. What I really like about it is their intro video that shows the software in use via a non-existent, futuristic, translucent panel - the iPad of the future. Aside from being visually engaging, it's a nice way for them to say this isn't an iOS specific app, it's a new standard for capturing. Well played.

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I mentioned it last week but I've still got plenty to say about the upcoming Codaphonic release. The cover art for Oh Radio! was done by Elizabeth Williams - a Nashville resident and one helluva talented artist. Her messiest work is among my favorite but there's a lot of varying styles throughout, all worth having a peek at. Dive in!

I don't think it's surprising to anyone that Flex Box is going to be one of the next best things to happen to developing on the Internet but sometimes it's nice to have some real world examples of just exactly why that's the case. Have a look at Philip Walton's Solved By Flexbox writeup to see some primo examples of the goodness we have to look forward to once it's fully supported.

via dbox.

The writeup on Sergio Albiac's generative portraiture project Stardust is a bit heady:

Life is finite. Creativity isn't. An artist has the potential to create infinite artworks but only some of them will see the light due to the constraint of time. What if we use technology to outsource the creation of art so more of these potential artworks are finally created? Modelling artistic decisions into software would provide a generative assistant that could even survive an artist in the creation of meaningful works of visual art. This project is a first experiment around this concept.

We'll ignore the fact that it's somewhat untrue and just enjoy the portraits it creates - particularly when it is of your friends.

This new Birdcloud video for Ice Balls is a great representation of the complete absurdity that the band embodies. Their third EP, Effortless, is every bit as crass and line crossing as the previous two but no less entertaining. It's a bit dumb and a bit sleazy but it's also intentional and, therefore, great.

I'm loving this intro video and site for the, new to me, cloud based site building application Siteleaf (from the folks that brought you Symbolset and Dropmark). I love their implementation of flat design and easy drag-n-drop tools. Entirely inspiring from my point of view.

Did you see Gravity yet? I'm no fan of spoilers so I won't speak to any of the specifics of plot but, holy moly, get yourself to the theater ASAP if you haven't seen it yet. I'll even go as far as to say that seeing it in 3D feels entirely necessary - not a sentiment I often apply to any film. Usually it's a gimmick but, here, it's part of the whole.

really loved the last record, looking forward to this January release.

How did I not know about the Giphy Hot 100 until just now? I feel like I was missing something in my life without even realizing it. Good times await you.

God bless you Steve Niebauer for sharing the adorable greatness that is Cat Mayhem. My day is 300% brighter.

I tentatively read through this great article on Spike Jonze and his new movie, Her. Spoilers for a Spike Jonze movie make me apprehensive to look into anything beyond the very superficial but it was great to hear about his process and how this particular film came to be.

The Wes Anderson Collection book from Abrams and Matt Zoller Seitz looks to be a rather in-depth look at Anderson himself, his completed films and his process. The content itself looks great but the site on its own is crazy entertaining. I definitely sat and watched it for awhile making sure to catch all the various animation references.