JAMS. Enjoy.

Another week, another playlist! Let's get to it.

• The Most Well Trained Cats Ever? - they're certainly, undeniably, calm. Use this for your zen breathing exercises.
• Thanks F**kwit - excellent bit of NSFW sidewalk road rage.
• The First Honest Cable Company - videos about how terrible cable companies are feel pretty tired on the whole but these guys get into the Oligopoly angle of things and, for that, I applaud them. Beware some NSFW language here as well.
• An Ode to Movie Mainframes - I want a supercut of all supercuts regarding terrible computer usage. Imagine an hour of Mainframes and This blended together.
• Guy Fieri Comes to Williamsburg - I love how angry people are at first and then, as they hear more details, they come around to the idea.
• Jurassic Park: Really Clever Girl - so dumb but still perfectly amusing.

Have a great weekend! Enjoy this little guy.

I can only imagine that there's about a million blogs out there dedicated to compiling images from different eras of time but I've been particularly enjoying The Nifty Fifties. The content is nice balance of celebrity imagery, random photography and advertisements.

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Matt Molloy creates some gorgeous daytime timelapse collages. You can see a great deal of them compiled into one gallery right here and then read about the actual process here. It's unfortunate that it's not an "in camera" trick but the end results are compelling regardless, no denying that!

via Kate.

Artists vs Artists is a website setup to promote the band Ghost Beach under the veil of a Piracy Discussion. If you think Piracy is overtly harmful, tweet #ArtistsAgainstPiracy. If you think Piracy has a place, tweet #ArtistsForPiracy. It's a pretty transparent tactic but there's some interesting discussion to come of it - particularly those For Piracy. Lots of intelligent observations from both sides. Worth having a look.

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Remember when I mentioned that Hotpipes would be releasing their record Dust via yk records? Still true. And every Wednesday there will be new content to remind of you that fact. Yesterday the band released this teaser video which I have watched approximately 53 times already because it's perfectly weird and exciting for the actual album. More next week but, for now, just keep replaying that teaser.

Rachel gave me the heads up on this Riitta Ikonen and Karoline Hjorth collaborative photo project - Eyes as Big as Plates. The portraits are inspired by Norweigan folklore and are, essentially, pictures of old folk wearing various bits of vegetation out in the wild. What more can you say? The factual description should be more than enough to pique your interest to see the whole set.

If you have a spare 24 minutes, check out this VICE documentary on 3D Printed Guns and Cody R Wilson; the man at the forefront of open sourced gun designs. His company, Defense Distributed, has open source weapon plans available for anyone to download and print. As much as I patently disagree with the idea of printing your own firearm in your home, I think the point he's making is worth thinking about - specifically the rampant abuse of 3D printing and how it truly affects our thinking on subjects like copyright or gun control.

Maybe I'm just getting old but I really think the future is sounding more and more terrifying. Heads up via Keegan.

Jonathan steered me over to Eat Cinema. Drink Coffee. Live Forever. - a movie tumblog filled with inspirational images, designs and entrancing gifs. It's a good source when you're needing a bit of a kick in the pants for some ideas. Variety is the spice of life and there's plenty of it here.

absolutely hate their name but kinda love the boy / girl vocal team. thanks @falfa

Kate posted this fascinating, and lengthy, article proposing Thirty-Five Arguments Against Google Glass. As you can imagine, it pretty much covers all the concerns you can think of - privacy being at the top of the list.

I suggest reading the top five or ten right now and not just tossing them into your favorite Read Later app - as this is a subject worth thinking on all day. For me, the biggest question is - can you even stop a technology like this from becoming commonplace? Imagine you had these same privacy concerns with cellphones / smartphones, what would you possibly do to stop them from proliferating? The marketing behind them will surely defeat any underlying concerns about creating a Surveillance Police State, right? Fascinating topic.

It may sound obvious but it's always good to familiarize yourself with Best Practices in certain realms of design so you aren't creating a learning curve for your users. App Tutorial is a tumblog that documents the OnBoarding process of a load of popular apps; enabling you to quickly see the common conventions among them that users are accustomed to. I'm a fan of the TapBots and Pocket process - though you can certainly see plenty of similarities between them.

R. Stevie Moore is one of those artists that people will be discovering over and over again for as long as recorded music is available and marveling that they'd never heard of him. Basically, he's an overly prolific creator that found the perfect niche with home-recording. He's put out more than 400 self-released cassettes and is considered a "lo-fi legend" in some circles. He has a rich history and a deep discography - which is exactly the problem.

Over the past month or so I've been trying to familiarize myself with his offerings and found that it's daunting to know where to begin. So, I'm offering you three entry points that I found worthwhile and maybe you will too.

• RSM Reforms The Beatles - everyone likes Beatles songs, right? This is familiar territory with a new aesthetic.
• Flash Pasteurized - a "Greatest Hits" compilation of sorts but the songs have been sped up without raising the pitch. It's an excellent variety of styles and the tempo keeps you interested.
• Instrumentality / Aviation - some interesting environmental instrumental music to fill your day.

Maybe if we all take this on together, we can hear it all.

I love Drafthouse Films. Not just because VHX has a relationship with them but because you can tell everyone that works there loves movies. And by that I mean, they are entrenched in the culture of B movies, alternate posters and obscure titles entirely. So, it should be no surprise that they collectively run a Tumblog called Birth. Movies. Death. that is a repository of incredible images and film references. This Polish poster for Bertrand Tavernier's Death Watch is a good example of the kind of material to be encountered. Just another reason to love Drafthouse.

Daniel steered me towards Webflow the other day to check out their live, in-browser website designer. Typically I shy away from such tools but this thing is robust and really well made. Technically, the product isn't live yet but you can try it out on their playground and see how they're handling inline editing, responsive breakpoints and more. I'm not sure, in the long run, that it will be a useful tool for me but I'm really impressed and intrigued by what these folks are up to.