Smokescreen

Smokescreen - iPad demo #1 from Chris @ RevShockAds on Vimeo.

Simon Willison’s Weblog:

Smokescreen demo: a Flash player in JavaScript. Chris Smoak’s Smokescreen, “a Flash player written in JavaScript”, is an incredible piece of work. It runs entirely in the browser, reads in SWF binaries, unzips them (in native JS), extracts images and embedded audio and turns them in to base64 encoded data:uris, then stitches the vector graphics back together as animated SVG. Open up the Chrome Web Inspector while the demo is running and you can see the SVG changing in real time. Smokescreen even implements its own ActionScript bytecode interpreter. It’s stated intention is to allow Flash banner ads to execute on the iPad and iPhone, but there are plenty of other interesting applications (such as news site infographics). The company behind it have announced plans to open source it in the near future. My one concern is performance—the library is 175 KB and over 8,000 lines of JavaScript which might cause problems on low powered mobile devices.

Memorial For the Victims of Organized Religions

“Memorial For the Victims of Organized Religions”, Wolfgang Tillmans, 2006

Het scheve meisje

Utopische nostalgie van Schuiten (Volkskrant)

Picabia – Balance

Francis Picabia (Wikipedia)

HRP-4C

National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology

Omnia vanitas

Antropofagie

Solomon Islander - 21 years of age - sentenced to be shot by Captain Davis (of HMS Royalist) for killing a trader and eating him. 1892. (Via Oceania Ethographica)

Ruvén Afanador | Mil Besos

Exposición Mil Besos, Ruvén Afanador (YouTube)
Ruven Afanador Exhibition: Mil Besos (Fahey/Klein Gallery)

Halve smart?

According to the Huichol tradition, when a woman had her first child the husband squatted in the rafters of the house, or in the branches of a tree, directly above her, with ropes attached to his scrotum. As she went into labor pain, the wife pulled vigorously on the ropes, so that her husband shared in the painful, but ultimately joyous, experience of childbirth. (Berrin 1978: 162)

(bron: Fort Lewis College > Peyote & Pregnancy)

Робот

I the quiet, young, purposeful girl.

Onderwerp: Hello
Afzender: Darnell Staley <auc@iema.state.il.us>

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love!

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iema.state.il.us → Illinois Emergency Management Agency.

Eerder verstuurd door 'Evgeniya' (stolistul75@yahoo.com, zelfde tekst, andere foto), 'Marieta' (margev@BonBon.net, idem), 'Goharik' (anzhak@gmail.com, idem), enz. De eerste meldingen dateren al van meer dan een jaar geleden.

Wellcome Library: "Ayurvedic man"

A Body of Knowledge: The Wellcome Ayurvedic Anatomical Man And His Sanskrit Context (pdf)

This isn't happiness™

Vervloekt! (2)

Opnieuw eigenaardige symbolen aangetroffen in het Arnhemse Spijkerkwartier, nu in de Dijkstraat. Zie hier voor de eerste melding (augustus 2009).

MM door BS

Marilyn Monroe gefotografeerd door Bert Stern (1962)