Thinking in vain...

15,552,000 seconds (6 months). The image was captured by photographer Justin Quinnell, on a pin-hole camera made from an empty drinks can with a 0.25mm aperture and a single sheet of photographic paper.

As it turns out, the Obama administration put $13.4 billion of the aid money as “working capital” in an escrow account when the company was in bankruptcy. The company is using this escrow money–government money–to pay back the government loan…

Sean McAlinden, chief economist at the Ann Arbor-based Center for Automotive Research, points out that the company has applied to the Department of Energy for $10 billion in low (5%) interest loan to retool its plants to meet the government’s tougher new CAFÉ (Corporate Average Fuel Economy) standards. However, giving GM more taxpayer money on top of the existing bailout would have been a political disaster for the Obama administration and a PR debacle for the company. Paying back the small bailout loan makes the new–and bigger–DOE loan much more feasible.

In short, GM is using government money to pay back government money to get more government money. And at a 2% lower interest rate at that. This is a nifty scheme to refinance GM’s government debt–not pay it back!

GM boasts that, because it is doing so well, it is paying the $6.7 billion five years ahead of schedule since it was not due until 2015. So will there be an accelerated payback of the rest of the $49.6 billion investment? No. That goal has been pushed back, as it turns out.

OK, so this is amazing. Pencil... sure, but a plain, old Bic pen?



via More Intelligent Life.

I love these.

I've got so little to do after being so busy for so many weeks, I don't know what to do with myself.

And Lost is a rerun. :p

This has been going around though... I heart charts.

You've probably seen this. But this is pretty much the only one I've LOLed at...

I love this commercial. That woman is me. I would totally use that camera for that EXACT reason. And now I want one. :p

Brilliant! Via AgencySpy

I miss shooting with 120 film. Only because I have no place to develop it anymore. Digital may be quicker, but it's not as fun.

So I LOVE this student packaging design for Ilford that is being spotlighted on The Dieline.

See more at thedieline.com.

p.s. Speaking of photography, I'm in image searching hell. :p

My boss just sent this around. Your Welcome.

A little early, but it is Good Friday and I hid shiny eggs filled with candy in the office.



Via Mashable.

Excellent.

Am I officially old when I thought that those kids seemed a little young to be doing some of those dance moves?

Also agreeing with commenters from the Mashable article that this isn't *really* a flash mob...

I'm making Peanut Butter Button Cookies.

You mean to tell me that the Mother would NEVER have shared that her son started walking? Let's be honest here.

I completely lost track of time! This little thing was 3 years old on March 7th. While I'm sure some of you are glad I no longer post 5 – 6 times a day, we need to revive this thing.

inspire me now

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CREEPY! I don't care if they are beat-boxing.

AgencySpy

Some Wednesday morning creepy courtesy of Ben.

Adobe Photoshop Cook from Lait Noir on Vimeo.

Touch of Light
By Jure Kravanja

Website: Prosti Spisi

Via Smash&Peas

via the amazing why advertising sucks.

Via flowingdata.com.

Excellent. I think we need to make a flip book movie. Suggestions for theme welcome. :D

via Geekologie.

More here.

This is one of the most amazing and powerful things I've ever seen.

The ability to dip would be kind of awesome.

The ketchup packet has been around for more than 40 years, and complaints about it for nearly as long: too messy, too small, too hard to open. Now ketchup giant H.J. Heinz Co. is unveiling the first major packaging change to the to-go condiment.

The new design has a base that's more like a cup for dipping and also a tear-off end for squeezing, plus it holds three times as much ketchup than a traditional packet.

PAPPELTALKS from vizage on Vimeo.

Another of these possibly alien types, the Flatwoods Monster appears to be someone's hellish vision of a nun, mixed with alien effects budget of the final season of the original Star Treck. Standing 10 feet high, with bulging eyes, a heart shaped red face, and in a pleated green skirt, the Flatwoods Monster terrorized a group of preteens, who couldn't decide if it had short stubby claw arms or not, when later asked. It reportedly made a shrill hissing noise, and glided around. You know what else has a shrill hiss, heart shaped face, glides, and could easily be misconstrued by terrified 12 year olds? A barn owl. Oh, hey there Occam, how're you doing, and how's your razor?

Click for bigger, via graphicriver

found on gizmodo

“I would prepare my students for the inevitable…the small projects that take time away from the major projects. For example, after assigning a two week project, I would sporadically assign ‘Client Emergencies’ like that ad that needs to be designed, approved and printed by ‘tomorrow’. That’s something that I wasn’t prepared for when I got my first design job.”
Andrea Williams

World's Oldest Camera on Auction

The internet never ceases to amaze me. Someone out there decided to photoshop Tom Selleck and sandwiches into photos of waterfalls.

My coworkers know me so well. ;)



See the actual website here. Also, in random celebrity-like websites, my boss just sent me this – www.niccageaseveryone.blogspot.com

Does it get any better? No. :p



Via adgoodness

via FFFFound

Skip ahead to about the 1:00 mark. Cool and creepy at the same time. However all I could think about was how much I bet their backs hurt now. :p



From The Joe

I also want an iPhone... but I guess I'm getting ahead of myself.




Here via Twitter

I've already written 1.4.09 four times. I'm sure it'll get better.

A webcam in Szentgotthárd, Hungary captured this curious bird looking into the camera. The webcam is set to shoot only one frame in every minute, so what are the chances?

When I was little my grandparents still had the same TV they bought back in 1954. Or it looked like it to me. (That really was when they got there first TV.) But with a farm littered with old forts made by my uncles, you didn't really need it... only thing I ever remember on it was baseball (courtesy of my grandfather) and watching The Bride of Frankenstein with my great-grandmother.

The other thing to do? Look through the hundreds of National Geographics that one of my uncles had collected over the years. I loved to look at the pictures. Figures. So, yeah, I think I might get this... I think this is brilliant.

National Geographic is selling a hard drive with 120 years worth of magazines. I think $200 is worth it considering all the photographs you can look through.

National Geographic via Gizmodo

Maybe. The sister and I liked it.

This ones at our office. And I can hear it creaking now.

Best part? 3:18...



Via Twitter

I have a love/hate relationship with creepy dolls. I'm always waiting for their heads to move and then kill me in my sleep, but I'm fascinated with them too.

Love video, thanks shaun! The animation is fantastic and the story is right up my alley. :)

Alma from Rodrigo Blaas on Vimeo.

Via Inspire me, now!

More at College Humor via Geekologie

Love the snow. :) We'll see how everything looks in the morning. More pictures then. :)

For the Tom Selleck / facial hair / mustache lover on your Christmas list.




And only $144 in US currency. :p

Thanks Prostituted Thoughts!

Via FFFFound

I wish I had the skills and the patience to do this. :) The visuals, music and sound design required 972 edits over 17 video layers.




Via BrandFreak

Good to know that when the zombies come for us that the aliens *may* save us.



Via Geekologie

I LOVE this. And I love how he says pilates.



(Via Twitter)

I don't know where this came from, I just know my mother loves to say it.

TB or not TB?
That is the congestion.

Consumption be done about it?
Of cough, of cough.

But not for a lung, lung time.

Question:

Why does everyone have to sing silly versions of Christmas carols in commercials?

Via Gizmodo

I kind of love Lady GaGa. Don't judge. I do. And I love typography. There – best thing ever.



LYRICS:

I lay it out like they do in magazines
check out this typeface it's like smoking nicotine (I love it)
using Adobe's not the same without a Mac
if it was lead it would be lined up on a track

oh,oh,oh,oh, ohhhh, ohh-oh-e-ohh-oh-oh
I'll mock it up, show you what I got
oh,oh,oh,oh, ohhhh, ohh-oh-e-ohh-oh-oh
I'll mock it up, show you what I got

You'll read my,
You'll read my,
You can read my Neutra Face
(Even if it's bold italic)
You'll read my,
You'll read my,
You can read my Neutra Face
(Even if it's bold italic)

N-n-n-neutra face, n-n-n-neutra face
nah nah nah nah
N-n-n-neutra face, n-n-n-neutra face
nah nah nah nah

Thought about Futura but the em space was to wide
even when condensed, no, i'll use another type
Gill sans the G is wack when it's in lower case
Avante gard you make me hard but helvetica you're played (played)

oh,oh,oh,oh, ohhhh, ohh-oh-e-ohh-oh-oh
I'll mock it up, show you what I got
oh,oh,oh,oh, ohhhh, ohh-oh-e-ohh-oh-oh
I'll mock it up, show you what I got

You'll read my,
You'll read my,
You can read my Neutra Face
(Even if it's bold italic)
You'll read my,
You'll read my,
You can read my Neutra Face
(Even if it's bold italic)

N-n-n-neutra face, n-n-n-neutra face
nah nah nah nah
N-n-n-neutra face, n-n-n-neutra face
nah nah nah nah

I won't tell you that you're modern
post- or nouveau
cause I'm hype'n with my type'n
I'm not freehandin', texting, letterpressin' or skywriting
like a finger on a keyboard
break a nail before I cross you
see my references, reference this
check this font cause it's sans serif

You'll read my,
You'll read my,
You can read my Neutra Face
(Even if it's bold italic)
You'll read my,
You'll read my,
You can read my Neutra Face
(Even if it's bold italic)

I know this is old, but I LOVE this.

Blogging is hard. And there's only like 4 hours of daylight anymore. I'll be better soon.

"I don't think it's 'Kraken,' anyways. Always heard it said 'kray-kin'."

"What? With a long A? Na-na-na-na-no-no no, 'kroh-ken''s how it's pronounced in the original Scandinavian, and 'Kraken''s closer to that."

"Well we ain't original Scandinavians, are we? 'Kray-kin.'"

"It's a mythological creature. I can calls it what I wants"

Berlin Block Tetris from Sergej Hein on Vimeo.

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Yes... I know this is all fake, don't care... I can't WAIT to see it. :D

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Facebook Facelift - Home & Profiles from wearetol on Vimeo.

If it's in my head, I'm sharing. :p

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