Everybody loves Photoshop: it makes our models thinner, our new cars shinier and, on occasion, make the legs of a small child disappear.
This definitely makes me wish the song was as good as the video, but damn this is cute. An animated mixing board? Yes please!
The winners of the "Worst Parents Ever" award would definitely have to go to 16 year old Blake Peebles' mom and dad who gave him the go ahead to drop out of high school and play Guitar Hero full time. As mom, Hunter Peebles, said: "We couldn't take the complaining anymore...He always told me that he thought school was a waste of time."
I was thinking about how I like the music to Magic Pen so much better than the Fantastic Contraption music and I wish I could just listen to that while I play. So I found the MP3 so I could do just that. Then I thought, maybe the people who read Webby D want to listen to it too! So you can download the mp3 here.
You can also check out more music by the same artist, Pit Bull Jones, on his (her? their?) myspace page.
If you liked Magic Pen (admit it, you did!) this game will similarly rock your adorable little socks (admit it, they are!) right off.
Like Magic Pen, Fantastic Contraption is a flash game where you create things in an attempt to get a ball into its goal. Instead of drawing though, you build machines with wheels and rods.
Report back and let me know what level you've reached!
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Sorry Web Diversions has been a little lackluster this week. I'm sick as a dog.
These. Are. So. Funny. Really, that sums it up.
I have to give credit where credit is due, so thanks to Mr. Diggles for posting this on his blog so I could steal it.
Reading? Why no sir, I'm hard at work on this Power Point, as you can see.
Read at Work let's you do just that, while appearing to be actually doing your job.
Something sacred was lost when the art of the mix traveled from tape to cd. Maybe it was the knowledge that someone spent 90 minutes or so sitting on the floor in front of their stereo, thinking of you instead of dragging and dropping some files in iTunes in 15 minutes. Maybe it's just the warm glow of analog. Either way, it just ain't the same. I still proffer (and prefer!) to make people mixtapes but now most people shrug and say they don't have a cassette player. So back to the laptop I go.
But maybe there's hope for the mixtape yet, if not as a popular music medium, than at least as a cult icon of bygone days. Besides the recent books Love is a Mixtape and Thurston Moore's Mix Tape: The Art of Cassette Culture some mixtape loving websites are starting to crop up.
First up is Cassette From My Ex, created by Found Magazine's Jason Bitner. It is filled with stories about (and track listings of) mixtapes people received from someone who loved them but doesn't now. The contributors are exciting (Claudia Gonson anyone?) and best of all you can listen to the mixtapes on the site.
Muxtape tries to bring the fun of the cassette to digital mixes. I don't know how successful it is on that front but it is a great site. Anyone can create a free account and then upload 12 songs to make your mix with. You can drag and drop the names of songs on your list around to change the order and then anyone, anywhere can listen to the mix on the Muxtape site.
Mixwit offers much the same service as Muxtape but with a different interface and a couple more goodies. Mixwit let's you add skins to your mixtape including using an image of your own. But where as Muxtape let's you upload songs from your own library, Mixwit requires you to select songs from a url, so yo uhave to host your songs online somewhere or use SeeqPod or SkreemR . Mixwit let's you share your mix on sites like Blogger and Facebook but doesn't give you a simple url to link to like Muxtape does.
So there you have it. The mixtape lives on, if only in our hearts. So go forth and mixaply!
