May 5, 2020
Desktop Meadow
— pay-what-you-like Windows utility lets you grow gardens on windows and receive kind notes delivered by birds (via) #
Tim Bray quits Amazon for firing whistleblowers
— "a lack of vision about the human costs of the relentless growth and accumulation of wealth and power" #
Animal Talking
— an adorable talk show "filmed" in Animal Crossing by screenwriter Gary Whitta (via) #
A Parks and Recreation Special
— very clever reunion working within the constraints of remote production (via) #
Consistent Video Depth Estimation
— new algorithm for generating high-quality depth maps from video, but way too slow for real-time use for now #
The Songs of 1984
— Hood Internet resumed their weekly mashups, jamming 50 songs from a single year into one three-minute song (via) #
Shift Shift Forward
— Glitch launched a podcast about their creative community; the second episode features a segment by the excellent Jenn Schiffer #
Space Songs, a YouTube concert from the National Air & Space Museum
— songs about space with performances by Ben Gibbard, Grace Potter, Sting, Dan Deacon, John Roderick, and more #
ICANN rejects sale of .ORG to private equity firm
— ridiculous that it ever got as close as it did #
OpenAI trained an AI to generate music, with singing, in the style of various artists and genres
— this is absolutely unreal, check out the featured samples and then explore all 7k samples #
This Is Not A Conspiracy Theory
— Kirby Ferguson's episodic documentary series, produced over eight years, is complete #
A History of Subversive Remix Video before YouTube
— interesting 2012 survey of pre-2005 video mashups from Pop Culture Detective's Jonathan McIntosh #
Citizen DJ
— Brian Foo's work-in-progress app to remix public domain audio from The Library of Congress (via) #
Got Your Back
— attractive collection of virtual backdrops from designers, illustrators, animators, and more (via) #
World’s biggest film festivals unite for 10-day streaming event
— curated by Cannes, Sundance, Tribeca, and many more, with all content streamed free on YouTube from May 29-June 7 (via) #
Alasdair Beckett-King’s Interactive Murder Mystery WHODIDIT?
— a very silly, very funny game played entirely on Twitter #
Josh Gad reunites the cast of The Goonies in quarantine
— including Richard Donner, Chris Columbus, Steven Spielberg, and Cyndi Lauper #
Spying on the Scammers
— next-level exposé of tech support scammers with complete access to CCTV and internal systems, eventually ending in arrests (via) #
AR Face Doodle
— doodle directly on your face with the help of Tensorflow.js, FaceMesh, and Three.js #
Severed Spots
— MSCHF cut up a $30k Damian Hirst painting, sold each piece for $480 each, auctioned the empty canvas, and pocketed at least $138k
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#KutimanComeTogether
— dream collaborations from the creator of YouTube mashup albums ThruYOU and Off Grid (via) #
Wolfman Museum of Art
— strong '90s hypermedia vibes from this point-and-click art museum in space #
Jay-Z raps Hamlet
— from Vocal Synthesis, a YouTube channel dedicated to audio deepfakes like Sinatra singing ABBA #
If We Were Allowed to Visit
— first-person 3D environment composed entirely of ASCII text and poems (via) #
Due to COVID-19
— project to collect temporary signage around the world related to the pandemic (via) #
Drive and Listen
— simulate car trips in cities around the world with street noise and radio (via) #
Porcupine Racetrack 2020
— The State reunites in quarantine to recreate their classic over-the-top musical number #
12.3M people watched Travis Scott’s psychedelic Fortnite event
— more like a 10-minute massively-multiplayer music video than a concert, there are three more encores if you want to experience it yourself #
Pink Floyd’s Live at Pompeii
— on YouTube for 24 hours only, the 1972 concert documentary filmed with no audience, studio-level live recordings, and an unreal setting #
Do Not Draw A Penis
— Moniker built a unique dataset for this absurdist project; some NSFW language #
The Infinite Monkey Theorem Experiment
— The Pudding is randomly generating popular melodies from Für Elise to Sweet Caroline (via) #
Retro Japan Recreated In Animal Crossing: New Horizons
— there's so much creativity coming from that community #
This Website Will Self-Destruct
— if 24 hours pass without new activity, the entire database of over 24,000 anonymous messages will delete itself (via) #
How the Memories 256 byte MS-DOS demo works
— I linked to this tiny megademo a week ago, and even after reading this, I'm still amazed #
How We Reopen
— mathemusician Vi Hart is working with a bipartisan group of experts working on a pandemic response plan #
We Are Living in a Failed State
— the coronavirus revealed what was already broken in America, exposing and exploiting its underlying conditions (via) #
Simone Giertz made a proud parent machine
— voiced by Adam Savage; don't miss the very sweet moment with her real parents at the end #