Devotion + repetition

Via monoscope:

70 year-old Buddhist monk Hua Chi has been praying in the same spot at his temple in Tongren, China for over 20 years. His footprints, which are up to 1.2 inches deep in some areas, are the result of performing his prayers up to 3000 times a day.

What climate change and video games have in common

The always-enlightening Clive Thompson recently called attention to an interesting neologism that links climate change to failing MMO games: solastalgia, defined by Thompson as “the homesickness one feels not when one moves away, but when one’s home environment vanishes before one’s eyes.” How disheartening that our world has given us an entirely new way to be sad.

“Solastalgia”: The sadness caused by environmental change

Solastalgia: My latest column for Wired

Teleportation, the last battle, and the Creator talks: How the world ends inside an online game

72nd to Canal

This is a plug for one of my favorite blog writers (and one of the first I discovered when taking my first tentative steps out into the big wide Web). I’ve been a fan of hipstomp (aka Rain Noe) for at least 6 years now and would strongly recommend his blogs (here and here). It’s beautifully crafted whip-smart writing, uproariously funny and unexpectedly heartbreaking. So I was delighted to discover “72nd and Canal,” a web sitcom written, directed, and starring Mr Noe himself. It was posted almost two years ago, so the likelihood of more episodes is small, but I’m holding out hope anyway.

PJ Bland’s

Chili’s created an entire, fully-functional website AND Twitter page for a pretend restaurant as part of their new marketing campaign, yet the Treasury couldn’t even manage to get FinancialStability.gov set up in time for Tim Geithner’s press conference announcing it. ::sad head shake::

Simpsons stamps!

I can’t wait for these.

via neatorama

Customer service in the age of Twitter

New technology + same old thinking = same old outcome with a buggy interface.

A passionate plea from Mark Hurst at Good Experience for the faster and flashier customer interaction to actually be better.

Be ribboned

Made from laminated leather, and almost certainly unwearable, these shoes by Marloes ten Bhömer give the delightful impression of ribbons wrapped around your feet.

via monoscope

Art quilts by Luke Haynes

These are amazing! I’m working on my first quilt right now (my great-grandmother started it, and I am finishing it). Definitely not the usual, rigidly geometric quilt patterns I’ve been seeing. Very inspiring!

via CRAFTzine

Dangle

What would you do if you found a rope hanging in the empty sky? (via neatorama)

more about “Dangle“, posted with vodpod

Tilt-Shift Mardi Gras by Keith Loutit

The whole time I was watching this, I couldn’t stop smiling. Enjoy!

Tilt-shift is a photographic technique that makes large scenes look like miniatures.