Those damn pigeons
October 19, 2012 § Leave a comment
Print by the lovely Etsy shop OliverandLyvia via istanbul loves Athens (Athens loves Istanbul back)
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10 more ways to visualize lyrics
October 12, 2012 § Leave a comment
Our first post on illustrated lyrics is one of our most popular ones, ever. It seems you share our obsession, hurrah! It is due time, then, to share some more visualizations that struck us as interesting and funny. Some interior design there, too. Again this list contains songs we love for the most part. So, for your viewing pleasure, here come 10 more ways to visualize lyrics:
1. The literal interpretation
Set fire to the rain by Adele (source)
2. The eye-chart
3 little birds by Bob Marley (source)
3. The equation
Every day is like Sunday by Morrissey (source)
4. The upholstered armchair
Perfect day by Lou Reed (source)
5. The stencil
Maps by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs (source)
6. The cross-stitch
Please, please, please let me get what I want by The Smiths (source)
7. The street-sign
Stop! In the name of love by Diana Ross & the Supremes (source)
8. The word-match
Mambo no 5 by Lou Vega (source)
9. The staircase
Hello, I love you by The Doors (source)
10. The door-sign
Push it by Salt-n-Pepa (source)
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A girl with colitis goes by…
March 29, 2012 § 4 Comments
In the early days of the web, Am I Right was one of the funniest sites there was: a database of misheard lyrics. The misunderstanding of the psychedelic Beatles lyrics “A girl with kaleidoscope eyes” with the absurdist “A girl with colitis goes by” is still one of the funniest things I’ve ever heard.
And now there is a wonderful infograph by direct lyrics, to summarize the most common mistakes. Wasn’t it about time?
By the way, Am I Right has also published a collection of misheard lyrics in Hold Me Closer, Tony Danza: And Other Misheard Lyrics.
See the full infograph after the jump.
Weapons of mass distraction
March 27, 2012 § Leave a comment
Never le’ go…
March 15, 2012 § 1 Comment
Get it?
From the witty Heng Swee Lim and her Etsy shop, ILOVEDOODLE.
via buymodernbaby
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Follow @itsasmallwebHelp the semicolon not to become extinct
June 1, 2011 § 1 Comment
Out of all the punctuation marks the semicolon is my favorite; semicolon is the shit. And here’s how to use it:
by the Oatmeal’s grammar series
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Follow @itsasmallwebMidcentury furniture growing old
May 30, 2011 § Leave a comment
Read it elsewhere
April 20, 2011 § Leave a comment
Check them out:
- A dramatic reading of Gwyneth Paltrow’s cookbook, complete with a beret and (e)spanish accent (video) – kottke
- Is the cupcake dead? – Johnson Banks
- John Lennon’s bitter letter to Linda McCartney – flavorwire]
- Do you know how much power your appliances use? (interactive infograph) – GE visualization
- The evolution of web design – mashable
- He’s an actor, he’s a writer, he’s a musician: download Hugh Laurie’s new blues track for free – pop culture brain
- What if Barbie was real-size – msnbc
- The latest tumblr to take the world by storm – hipster animals
- If logos were honest – buzzfeed
10 + 1 ways to visualize lyrics
April 18, 2011 § 5 Comments
Really good songs have usually really good lyrics. And good lyrics stay with you. When we were at school we doodled them on our books and carved them into the desks. What do the digital natives do? Here are the best ideas (and, incidentally, really good songs for the most part) we found around the web:
1. Pick a photo, apply a vintage effect and write the lyrics in helvetica
Paris by the Friendly Fires (the Aeroplane version featuring Au Revoir Simone kicks major ass, too)
(visual first seen at letlooselove, our title inspired by this)
2. Make a flowchart*
Should I Stay or Should I Go by The Clash
(visual first seen at Urlesque)
*but be careful not to be trapped on an infinite loop
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What do the oos in google mean?
April 13, 2011 § 2 Comments
(You gotta) fight for your right (to party) 2011
April 8, 2011 § 1 Comment
It was the mid 80’s (when parentheses in title songs were the coolest thing ever) and this was the absolute party anthem. Fight for your right by the Beastie Boys gets a remake that’s so full of celebrity cameos (including, to name a few, Seth Rogen, John C. Reilly, Jack Black, Ted Danson, Will Ferrell, and Susan Srandon), you will lose count. Cool, fun, nostalgic. Enjoy.
The video is part of the promotional effort for their new album Hot Sauce Committee Pt. 2.
via Thought Catalog
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Know your Middle East
April 1, 2011 § Leave a comment
I’m Michael Jordan and I rock because I run to Afghanistan. Coolest geography heuristic ever.
via HolyKaw
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The joke is on Helvetica
April 1, 2011 § 2 Comments
Go to Google. Type “helvetica”. Click Search. The results appear in Comic Sans. Hilarious.
(I am guessing this is just for today, duh!)
via buzzfeed
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Angry Birds do Libya
March 30, 2011 § 1 Comment
Disclaimer: I am annoyed by anything that becomes hugely popular and Angry Birds is no exception. However this video is good.
A mash-up of Angry Birds and the Three Little Pigs, it is the digital natives’ guide to the uprising in Maghreb, in escalating levels from Tunisia’s Jasmine Revolution, to Egypt and to the last level in Libya. With guest starring roles by the Twitter and the American Eagle Angry Birds.
Peanuts: the existentialist edition
March 29, 2011 § Leave a comment
Whoever is behind 3eanuts had a brilliant idea. First came the observation: “Charles Schulz’s Peanuts comics often conceal the existential despair of their world with a closing joke at the characters’ expense”. Then the execution: just omit the last panel of the comic strip and sink in a bleak, black and white world, filled with…
…desperation…
…loneliness…
…doubt…
A true existentialist masterpiece.
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Tweets say the darnest things
March 28, 2011 § 1 Comment
It’s true. Among tons of trivialities there are some truly witty tweets. Twaggies is a blog that selects and illustrates some of these tweets. 
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It started with the occasional profile update and now you are hooked: social media addiction
March 28, 2011 § 1 Comment
Well we already know that social media can be very addictive. But can you recognize the signs of addiction? Do you need a social media detox?
See if you recognize yourself in any of the symptoms after the jump.
The Wire, the Victorian novel
March 26, 2011 § 3 Comments
In season 5 episode of The Wire – the season focusing on the Media and in particular on the Baltimore Sun – old-school senior editor Gus Haynes worries about the reporting work of junior writer Scott Templeton and its lack of journalistic evidence (in fact, we, the audience, are aware that his writings are pure fiction). He’s overruled though by the chief editor who, ironically, loves the “Dickensian aspect” of Templeton’s articles. This mock mention, The Wire creator David Simon has admitted, was used as a reply to all critics who compared his work to Dickens’ – a comparison he felt was flattering but falling badly on him.
Well, new historic evidence has come up!
In fact, The Wire was a serialized novel of Dickens’ contemporary Horatio Bucklesby Ogden and illustrated by Baxter “Bubz” Black. An overlooked Victorian masterpiece, The Wire failed to grasp the attention of the reading masses but was praised by literary scholars. In fact, Dickens’ later works, like Bleak House and A Tale of Two Cities, seem to have been influenced by The Wire. 
Or so says a thoroughly enjoyable faux literary journal article for The Hooded Utilitarian by Sean Michael Robinson and Joy Delyria. An appropriate homage to the Wire, the article is written with impressive attention to detail, including the amazing illustrations above. It’s high point? The analysis of Omar Little as a gothic hero.
I loved it, and I was reminded of how much I loved The Wire, too.
via Gawker
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Darth Vader is omnipresent
March 19, 2011 § 1 Comment
May the force be with us, indeed.
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