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Recording the writing on the wall
2007-10-04 16:00:00
Documenting dynamically, Graffiti Archaeology is a site that traces street art over time."The core of the project is a timelapse collage, made of photos of graffiti taken at the same location by many different photographers over a span of several years. Most of the photos were taken in San Francisco, New York, and Los Angeles over a timespan from the late 1990's to the present."The site is currently welcoming submissions and has also set up a Flickr group for more 'fiti viewing fun. [via]Previously: The Subconscious Art of Graffiti Removaltags technorati : archaeology graffiti graffitiarchaeology subconsciousartofgraffitiremoval
More About: Writing , Recording , Wall , The wall

Data gets physical
2007-10-04 12:00:00
Everyone loves doing data. Now in life-size, you can truly carry out your lust for line graphs. EMF Displacement (pictured left) is a 10'x12' sculpture of the electromagnetic field generated by a FPL substation. Other projects that construct everything from flight paths to GPS drawings can be seen here. Sadly, there's no glory holes in these graphs.[via]tags technorati : data electromagnetic emf gps sculpture
More About: Technology , Physical , Data , Sculpture

GM dresses employees in drag, fails to hire females
2007-10-02 15:00:00
Dressed up in drag, GM a couple months ago gave into an unusual team building experience. Mary Spies, a vehicle line director took her male team out to "learn" about what women "have to go through":""We dressed him in a garbage bag to simulate a tight skirt. We gave him rubber gloves with press on nails, a purse, a baby, and a baby stroller and some chores like loading groceries." With all female handicaps in place, the men were then required to go through what women do routinely every day."A bit shocked that there isn't more negative publicity about this, here's a heap of criticism. Firstly, "female handicaps" can't quite be seen as anything but an offensive phrase. The entire article tries to spin that this exercise at GM was to make their vehicles less male focused. By the article stating that babies and purses are "female handicaps", that alone already makes GM that much more discreditable. However, the most irritating idea in the entire scheme is the fact that GM comes off a...
More About: Hire , Advertising , Female , Employees , Driving

When advertising attacks
2007-10-02 13:30:00
Advertising gets violent with a recent accident. The blogosphere had a hayday with headlines about the giant RAZR that crashed into a Mercedes . From "RAZR 2 Makes a Big Impact in Russia " to "Using Phone While Driving Kills You Big Time", we can only wait until the phone/driving jokes quiet down. Motorola may be setting the pace for future marketing with this kind of coverage. Don't be surprised to see massive PSPs crashing into planes as advertisements try to aggressively take back electronic product banning.tags technorati : cellphone driving mercedes motorola psp razr razr2 russia
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Skipped over Sunday
2007-10-01 03:00:00
[A weekly link post of skipped over (and slightly stale) sights and stories]? World's smallest Pacman game? Nintendo Duck Hunt sweater? Transformer handheld gaming? Star Wars geeks on parade? USB calculator pillowtags technorati : calculator duckhunt geeksonparade nintendo pacman pillow starwars sweater transformers usb
More About: Technology , Gaming , Usb , Transformers

Sight for the week's end
2007-09-30 02:30:00
Conversational clock.tags technorati : clock conversation time
More About: Design , Time , Sight , Conversation

Line art for geek lust
2007-09-28 11:00:00
The latest geek lust line art on Xkcd explores the silly but true tales of the interweb. The webcomic covers "romance, sarcasm, math, and language", the perfect four topics for guilty geek pleasure. As the illustration depicts, IRC back channels are no place for vulnerable nerd babes. Best to always have a raygun ready at bedside just in case some fanboy tracks down more than your IP. Previously, Doctorow posted other gems from the comic collection.tags technorati : backchannel comic doctorow interweb irc lineart webcomic xkcd
More About: Technology , Geek , Lust , Line

Psycho-ray's name over-promises, gets hopes up
2007-09-27 13:00:00
Devastatingly disappointing, the Psycho -ray doesn't help clean up the trolls and crazies. While having a raygun aimed at negative anonymous/pseudo-name commenters or Haight Street paranoid potheads might be nice, this device delivers something entirely different. The sensory-focused gadget is able to tell when the climate in your car is not ideal and actively make changes towards comfort. In addition, the Psyhco-ray purifies the air with a carbon filtration system and electrostatic dust collector. The device remains in concept form, so hopefully they'll give it a more appropriate moniker so as not to get our hopes up so easily.tags technorati : car climate device gadget gizmo psycho-ray psychoray purify raygun sensory
More About: Technology , Hopes , Climate , Gadget

Halo 3 whores itself out
2007-09-26 16:00:00
La la la Halo 3 la la la hot chick la la la. Apparently Shake Well Before Use's presence at the pre-launch party in San Francisco wasn't enough estrogen to satiate the surging hormones around Halo 3 . We'll save you the Halo 3 babble to cut to the chase: Suicide Girls + Master Chief = Geekgasm.tags technorati : geekgasm halo3 suicidegirls
More About: Gaming , Photography , Whores

PETA takes on Playboy
2007-09-26 02:00:00
Always delightful, Dita von Teese poses for PETA. It seems as though PETA aims to be the new Playboy these days, as attractive naked women are their solution to any situation. Dolled up in thigh highs and heels, Teese teaches the importance of animal birth control in the 50's-esque photo. The burlesque beauty is far from the first to grace the gaze of the "naked for a cause" PETA porn. Pam Anderson, Naomi Campbell, Cindy Crawford, Christy Turlington, and most recently Alicia Silverstone have all stripped for PETA's SLR. Surely, there's no shortage of women who will use a good cause as an excuse to bare all of their beauty with class.tags technorati : aliciasilverstone animalbirthcontrol christyturlington cindycrawford ditavonteese naked naomicampbell pamanderson peta porn
More About: Photography , Advertising , Peta

Virgin Mobile takes advantage of virgin
2007-09-24 14:08:00
Virgin Mobile attempts to take innocence away from a fellow (we're guessing) virgin. An American family is suing the ironically named company for unauthorized use of their teen daughter's photo in an ad campaign."The family of Alison Chang claim that Virgin Mobile (or its advertising agency) took a copy of a photo which had been uploaded to the photo sharing website, Flickr - edited it and reused it in their poster campaigns.The photo had apparently been released by the photographer - who is Alison's youth counselor - under the Creative Commons copyright policy which permits reuse, subject to attribution to the photographer - which was included in the Virgin Mobile adverts. However, Australian codes also require a model release form to be signed where a persons image is being used in an advert, and the family say that they never gave such a permission."Adrants reminds us that this is SO 3 months ago.[img via]tags technorati : australia flickr teen virgin virginmobile
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Sight for the week's end
2007-09-23 23:01:00
Boothbabes take a more honest approach to marketing.tags technorati : boothbabe finger gaming
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Japanese plead guilty in robot-fighting case
2007-09-21 13:00:00
Disgusting what people will do to innocent robots these days. The recent Robo-One bipedal robot competition in Japan played host to a round of robot-fighting. The geeks over at Crave gush, "In it, a Hawaiian-shirt-clad chicken robot lays the smackdown on a more traditional robot. Enjoy. It's hard not to. Nothing of this ilk would happen during lunchtime of our ongoing battle of the nonviolent robots." Perhaps Vick should've taken the robot-fighting route. At least then, the robot could've fought back with laser beams or something.tags technorati : chickenrobot japan japanese robot robots robotfighting vick
More About: Technology , Robot , Robots , Japanese

Facebook is for fatties
2007-09-21 12:00:00
Facebook caters to students looking for secret sources of fattening food apparently. After a recent ban on junk food at a school, kids are using Facebook as a black market operation for selling the "stuff". The students then make transfers between lockers. Perhaps the smell of sugar in class is a more welcome scent than pot, but there's sure to be just as many heads on desks once they start coming down. Before you know it, they'll be trading in popping their Class C Junior Mints for snorting Class A Pixy Stix![img via]
More About: Technology , Facebook

Runway robots in disguise
2007-09-21 11:00:00
As if straight out of Stargate , the latest trend in fashion is transforming. This Spring/Summer 2007 collection actively alters on its own. Hussein Chalayan, the British/Turkish designer responsible for the fad, is no stranger to this kind of style. Earlier, Chalayan created the descriptively named Convertible Skirt/Table. Unfortunately, the clothing doesn't make any cool Transformers sounds as it changes. But, as an anonymous SWBU reader points out, "any dress that dynamically shortens is a good thing".[via]tags technorati : dress dresses husseinchalayan robots runway stargate transformers transforming
More About: Fashion , Robots , Runway

Sight for the week's end
2007-09-17 09:00:00
Hugh Macleod of Gapingvoid was lovely as always this past week in London and dedicated a cartoon to Shake Well Before Use! Tomorrow's agenda for Shake Well Before Use: TechCrunch40. More to come!tags technorati : cartoon gapingvoid hughmacleod london porn shakewellbeforeuse techcrunch20 techcrunch40
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Hunting robbits
2007-09-13 12:00:00
Mobile and multiplying, rabbits and robots have merged together. Created a couple years ago, Robbits is an interactive exploration between humans and robobunnies:"The project aims to explore emotional qualities of interactive objects by inviting a human audience to interact play with »electronic creatures«. Robbits works as an installation consisting of a community self- and location-aware mobile robots.Robbits is a comment to the phenomenon of »humanization« of electronic products. It refers to people?s tendency to project their idea of »life« or »personality« onto complex and thus mysterious electronic or digital devices, when they seem to carry out, what is perceived as »intelligent behavior«."[via]tags technorati : bunnies electronic human mobile rabbits robbits robots
More About: Technology , Mobile , Robots , Human , Interactive

Over-pixelated underpants
2007-09-10 13:00:00
Clothesline Display, a project that recently popped up in Austria, uses both a delightful and yet delicate technique to create large lines of text. With 250 boxer shorts used to "type" out the text, it's not surprising that it felt a bit breezy between some legs. The wind reportedly over-pixelated the underpants more at times, but was an overall success. The brains behind the boxers showcased the sight between two buildings at Ars Electronica. Shake Well Before Use was not in attendance to Ars Electronica, however, did just buy tickets for the follow-up conference, called Arse Elektronika (if the spelling didn't tip you off, it's about sex and technology) in San Francisco.tags technorati : arseelektronika arselectronica austria boxers sanfrancisco sf text textual
More About: Design , Technology , Text , Pixela

Installation creates environmental interaction
2007-09-07 17:00:00
Taking and giving information from surrounding ecosystems, an installation creates awareness among users of their immediate environment. Called HouseSwarming, the "environment-sensing device" was created for an Art Center presentation. Designed by Jenna Didier, Oliver Hess and Marcos Lutyens, their site for the display explains how it works:"During the day, the ?swarm? of green ambiguous forms, both biomorphic and geometric, accentuates the South Campus?s main entry. At twilight, the swarm comes to life, telling visitors and passersby about the current air quality around the building. Electronic sensors perceive air contaminants ? such as tobacco, benzene, carbon monoxide, even perfume ? and separately inform the outside and inside swarms, which sets off signals. These signals are interpreted as changes to the natural rhythm that the network has established based on the number and distribution of nodes connected to the cable net. Flashing cells on the exterior faÁade indicate air qu...
More About: Technology , Environment , Environmental , Interactive , Iron

Geeks create group for recreating R2-D2s
2007-09-06 12:00:00
Dedicated to designing droids, Astromech is a club for creating personal life-sized R2-D2 replicas. From bolts to LEDs, the nerds are there to help you in your time of need. With 5,000 members, the group encourages socializing through BBQs and Star Wars conventions. In desperate nerd-need of your own life-sized R2-D2? The founder of Astromech states that it can run you anywhere between $500 to $40k depending on your droid desires. As an alternative, we're sure that a Rubik's Cube-solving robot made out of Legos may cost you a little less, and still preserve your l33t-ness.tags technorati : astromech bbq convention droid geeks nerds r2-d2 robot starwars
More About: Technology , Robot , Geeks , Convention , Group

Cute overload: cleavage and cupcakes
2007-09-05 12:00:00
Combining two tasty favorites in a medium bowl to let others beat off to with approximately 50 strokes, Cleavage Cupcakes are cleverly cute. Unfortunately not meant for baking, the bust-enhancers come in a couple more varieties. Low Beams for a little nip of coverage and Takeouts for a tad more. Notcot states that they "do NOT front posts based on how much cleavage or cupcakeness they have", but we do! Disappointed that these push-ups didn't pop out of a pan? A quick Flickr search may satiate those in need of peach-colored pastries.tags technorati : baking cleavage cupcakes lowbeams nippies pasties pushups takeouts
More About: Cute , Culinary , Pasties , Cute Overload

Trash your trolls
2007-08-31 21:30:00
Mashable recently posted a Wordpress plugin that needs far more coverage than it's getting. The Douchebag Plugin allows for you to visually tag your commenting trolls with an official douchebag icon. Certainly the Gawker and Weblogs, Inc. networks could make good use of this. Even better, would be a community-generated douchebag icon, when specific commenters are consistently complained about. Unfortunately, Shake Well Before Use operates off of Movable Type, but there's always other ways of publicly calling out dbags.tags technorati : dbags douchebag gawker plugin weblogsinc wordpress
More About: Blogging , Trolls

Trends sans trousers
2007-08-31 12:00:00
What you wear around the house is soon becoming haute couture. Victoria Beckham supposedly likes skipping around with little to no air-drag. The sexy leg-shaved star is creating a trend of not wearing pants on the red carpet. Even if trend doesn't catch on, that's far beside the point. Actually, most would hope it doesn't catch on, so as to avoid a similar tube-to-muffin top fallout effect fashion trends often have years down the line.tags technorati : muffintop nopants redcarpet trend tubetop victoriabeckham
More About: Fashion , Trends , Trousers , Trend

LED Zygote illuminates interaction
2007-08-30 12:00:00
Pressure-sensitive and ready to play, an interactive ball responds to crowd participation. Called the Zygote, these inflated spheres contain LEDs that react to touch. Each time the ball is played with, the graphics change, creating a "shared experience". While watching a massive ball change colors across a crowd may only keep the attention span of the heavily induced, there seems to be potential in how the object stays connected:"Each ball also can act as both an input and an output device by being networked to a central computer. This allows for more complex interaction, as the crowd can modify the graphics on a screen, make the balls light up in unison, or even affect the music."[via]tags technorati : crowd input led output party pressure rave sphere zygote
More About: Party , Sphere , Interactive , Rave , Nate

There's no sex in the champagne room, unless it's for advertising
2007-08-28 00:00:00
Trendhunter rounds up the "16 Brands of Drinks Using Sex to Make You Thirsty". From Pimp Juice to Monster Energy, to a you've-got-to-be-joking energy drink called Who's Your Daddy?, the list covers off on quite a few. The 16 sex-obsessed still leave out a few notables, though. Most recently, Heineken's "Draughtkeg" commercial left a misogynistic taste in some viewers' mouths, while others creamed their pants over a cyborg-like, beer-dispensing, techno-dancing, short-shorts-wearing woman.AdAge jokes, "The perfect woman: a mute nymphomaniac whose father owns a brewery." However, AdAge adds that the joke "manages to [not] trivialize the essence of femininity quite as egregiously as Heineken. And why don't they?Because they don't portray a woman's uterus as a beer keg."tags technorati : cyborg draughtkeg energydrink heineken misogynistic monsterenergy robot sexsells
More About: Culture , Robot , Advertising , Champagne , Room

Sieg heil to shock advertising
2007-08-27 21:31:00
In so obviously a shot at shock advertising, a New Zealand pizza chain successfully crossed the line. Named Hell, the chain stated that they did not set out to offend anyone with their sieg heil to pizza, despite large community complaints."We thought that people would be able to see a funny side to a guy doing a 'sieg heil' salute with a piece of pizza in his hand," stated Kirk MacGibbon of Cinderella advertising agency.Apparently, this wasn't the first controversial ad from Hell, as they had mailed out condoms a year prior to promote their "Lust " pizza. After 685 complaints, you'd think they'd stop their Crispin-Porter-wannabe antics.tags technorati : hell hitler jewish lust newzealand pizza shock siegheil
More About: Jewish , Advertising , Shock , Pizza

Make your orgasms organic
2007-08-27 14:00:00
You like everything organic, so why not your orgasms? An eco-friendly oil- and water-based lubricant loves the health benefits of helping you make love. Yes believes a lubricant can change the world by creating sexual well-being and smiles. Appropriately, the personal lubricant is also Vegetarian Society approved for accidental swallowing. Made from pure food quality ingredients, Yes specifically doesn't take away from the smell or taste of your own skin.[via]tags technorati : eco-friendly environment lubricant organic orgasm sexual vegetarian yes
More About: Environment , Organic , Make , Sexual

Lingerie shop keeps fannies un-Photoshopped
2007-08-27 12:00:00
Bras and panties are often made to look pretty by someone slaving over a hot desktop for hours on end. Based out of Portland, a lingerie boutique refuses to Photoshop . Presenting their wearables and women in unedited allure, Lille Boutique takes a diamond in the rough approach to displaying products. In addition to their untouched techniques, they sell each of their store items online. Goes to show, a little unmufflered marketing can go a long way in the sale of unmentionables.tags technorati : boutique bras lilleboutique lingerie panties photoshop underwear unedited unmentionables
More About: Fashion , Advertising , Lingerie , Shop

Skipped over Sunday
2007-08-27 08:14:00
[A weekly link post of skipped over (and slightly stale) sights and stories]? Phones modified with floating ultrasonic transmitters for fish-finding services.? Apple blocks MySpace from store computers, even the emo kids don't care.? Ringtones go analog.? Solar-powered interweb access for the entire neighborhood.? Concept phone doubles as a yo-yo.tags technorati : apple concept fishing mobile myspace ringtones solar-powered ultrasonic yo-yo
More About: Technology , Mobile , Fishing , Myspace , Sunday

Sight for the week's end
2007-08-27 01:28:00
Passive Aggressive Notes tags technorati : neighbor note passiveaggressive rem
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