Two great reviews about Hitchhiker's: Can Hitchhiker's survive Hollywood? (via Incoming Signals) and "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" on Salon.

Posted by Bibi at 05:45 PM in Cinema, Review ||

Fifty Million Firefox Downloads

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Nostalgia Nudes lots of pictures of nudes from the XIX and beginning of XX century. One of the most controversial issues in Victorian art, the representation of the nude figure occasioned continuing debate over whether it was associated with High Culture or constituted an assault on public morality.... I don't post images of nudes here but this collection is very cool and I love old photos. The pictures are divide by subject and I suggest to you take a look on the semi nudes and tinted categories. BTW, almost all the images are NSFW. And if you like cats look this one. (via TackyTimes Weblog)

PS.: if you don't know the TackyTimes take a look on this interesting and cool blog. There are many great links there.

Update: if the link for Nostalgia Nudes doesn't work, try this one.

Posted by Bibi at 04:52 PM in Photography, Photography, Vintage | Comments (2) ||

Bryan Berg - Cardstacker. He makes amazing creations of architecture with cards. His latest record-holding structure in the category is over twenty-five feet tall. You can buy some decks of cards on his site but an advice: Buying and using these cards may not make you a professional cardstacker like Berg. Cardstacking is like many other pursuits which take talent, practice, patience, and perseverance. I'm sure that this isn't for me.

Posted by Bibi at 04:20 PM in Curious things ||

No Candy: illustrations, graphics, paintings and fashion by Fawn Gehweiler. Her very pink works are cute and dark.

Fawn's signature characters combine the influence of abandoned theme parks, English eccentrics and garden parties, the kind of dreamy nostalgia that only little girls of the 70's can create, vintage childrens books, and a long-standing obsession with otherworldly beauties such as Shelley Duvall, Twiggy, Pippi Longstocking, Vera Chytilova's Daisies, and the wispy Parisiennes of Igor Pantuhoff paintings.
Imagine a swan boat ride to a storybook castle through a candy colored mushroom world inhabited by heavy lashed Biba girls and rock and roll elf boys and you're halfway there.

Posted by Bibi at 04:00 PM in Fashion, Illustration ||

Saelee Oh - illustration. She has a nice work with cute and cheerful images.

Posted by Bibi at 08:39 AM in Illustration ||

The Flickr user jlacpo made me feel very envious of his photosets with groovy rock and roll bands form the 70s and 80s: B-52's, Boomtown Rats, Jethro Tull, Ramones, Genesis with Peter Gabriel, Blondie, Aerosmith, Tom Petty, David Bowie, Elvis Costello, Kiss, BB King, Frank Zappa, The Who and more. Lots of some pictures. From all the cool bands there I just saw show of 5 of them in the 90s. The Peter Gabriel/Genesis set is my favourite: his show here in Brazil was fantastic, I love his solo work, on Genesis and he rocks! BTW, this is a post about photography: the photos are very nice. (via FlickrBlog)

Posted by Bibi at 08:15 AM in Music, Photography, Photography | Comments (1) ||

The Hype Machine: archive of blog audio.

The Hype Machine is an experiment that gathers songs posted on MP3 blogs and presents them in an easy to consume manner.

It lets you easily listen to the new stuff that has been posted today by a great variety of bloggers - discover and fall in love with something new!

Posted by Bibi at 07:37 AM in Audio, Blogs, Music ||

Jean-Honoré Fragonard museum-villa has some works of Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Antonin Fragonard, Alexandre Evariste Fragonard, Marguerite Gerard and Théophile Fragonard. With a lively touch which is more suggestive than indicative, Jean-Honoré Fragonard captures the fleeting moment, the storm's whirlwind of clouds, exuberant foliage, the liveliness of a gesture, or a fabric's graceful fold. To see more of his works visit this, this and this link.

Posted by Bibi at 07:25 AM in Painting ||

Site offers legal film downloads: A UK website is to offer the internet's first legal film download service.

Wippit, which already sells music downloads, has announced plans to provide movies that users will be able to keep, from this summer onwards.

Posted by Bibi at 04:06 AM in Cinema, Internet, News ||

International Perfume Museum present many interesting informations about perfumes: the raw materials, leading techniques, the perfume creation, the history and the history of perfume advertisement.

Posted by Bibi at 03:37 AM in Culture, History | Comments (1) ||

I want to see the movie!!! Ok, until then I can have fun with this video: Vote Beeblebrox for president.

Zaphod Beeblebrox, he's the guy you want to vote for. When you get into that voting room put an X next to his name. Zaphod Beeblebrox for President, putting bridges between the stars...

BTW, the Salon has an article about Douglas Adams fans and the movie: Lost in space.

Posted by Bibi at 02:57 AM in Cinema, Fun, Fun, Music, Video ||

International Dance Day (World Dance Day) has been celebrated on April 29 through promotion by the International Dance Council (CID), an umbrella organization within UNESCO for all kinds of dance. So do your part: get up for that chair and go dance like no one is watching! And if you need of some inspiration try the tags dance and dancing on Flickr.

Posted by Bibi at 02:15 AM in Events ||

Mark, from Exclamation Mark, made birthday on April 26. If you don't know his blog you don't know how many cool stuff you can see there: pulp, horror, movies, culture and curious links - he always have some amusing link.

An yesterday was Miriam's birthday. Her blog, scribblingwoman, is one of those fabulous blogs that I discovered last year. It's interesting, intelligent, pleasant to read, and she posts some very funny links too.

Check those two neat blogs, or all of my blog list. BTW, Happy Birthday Mark, Happy Birthday Miriam!

PS.: my birthday is coming (May 9) and as usual I'm with bad mood. Beware of Bibi.

Posted by Bibi at 01:25 AM in Blogs | Comments (5) ||

H.G. Wells - Biography and Works. You can read many (or all?) of his works online. This reminds me that I have to read The War of the Worlds before to see the film . (via Plep)

Posted by Bibi at 05:31 PM in Literature ||

The Dark Room: a very cool site that makes an analyse about Films Noir through a singe image. It's an interesting way to explain the characteristics of Film Noir, but unhappyly some links are under construction. (via Life In The Present)

Posted by Bibi at 05:15 PM in Cinema ||

I'm not happy... I have to wait until June 6th to see The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy but the movie opens today across the UK. BTW, on that BBC page you can find some more links with information about the Douglas Adams book and the movie version, like the review.

Posted by Bibi at 09:04 AM in Cinema ||

Guess-the-google: funny Flash guess game but I could have a better score if the game was in Portuguese.

After creating Montage-a-google, several people wrote to me suggesting I make a game based on the same technology. Montage-a-google is a simple web app that uses Google's image search to generate a large gridded montage of images based on keywords (search terms) entered by the user. Guess-the-google reverses this process by picking the keywords for you, the player must then guess what keyword made up the image - it's surprisingly addictive.

Posted by Bibi at 08:28 AM in Games, Google ||

The Genographic Project - Human Migration, Population Genetics, Maps, DNA.

The National Geographic Society, IBM, geneticist Spencer Wells, and the Waitt Family Foundation have launched the Genographic Project, a five-year effort to understand the human journey - where we came from and how we got to where we live today. This unprecedented effort will map humanity's genetic journey through the ages. [...] The Genographic Project has three core components: field research; public participation and awareness Campaign, and genographic legacy project.

Posted by Bibi at 07:57 AM in Science, Science ||

Pictures of abandoned amusement parks in Japan (Tsuga?) and Berlin. Some very nice shots. (via we make money not art)

Posted by Bibi at 07:39 AM in Photography, Photography | Comments (2) ||