Posts tagged with cool websites
March 24, 2010 | Cool Websites | by Zolton 
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What would you be prepared to do for $5? I mean, really? Would you sell your first born, dance with a stranger? Yeah? Well, now you can prove it. The Fiverr site is ‘the place for people to share things they’re willing to do for $5′. Err, five dollar Skype clarinet lesson, anyone?
March 6, 2010 | New Events | by Zolton |
The idea behind Blippy is to use the public blackboard that is the burgeoning social media environment to monitor what your friends, and their friends, are spending their hard-earned money on. The Twitter-based platform encourages its members to upload their credit card details so that their online purchases are displayed in real time for all the world — or at least a voyeuristic few — to see.
February 20, 2010 | Cool Websites | by Zolton |
Got a spare five minutes to kill? Check out the Museum of Modern Celebrity Tweets. Every Tuesday, talented artist Odessa Begay creates a visual representation of a celebrity’s 140-character message, unless, in his words, ‘my hands fall off and my computer explodes’. Simple, really. Read more
February 19, 2010 | Cool Websites | by Zolton |
The clever folk at Code Organ made a sythesizer that turns webpages into music. Just enter a URL and listen to the sweet, sweet sounds your site produces.
February 10, 2010 | Cool Websites | by Zac |
The Melbourne-based Michi Girl daily email is pretty much one of a kind: a beautiful daily email offering a single, quirky fashion find that you can get on your body right now. The service is hand selected by Michi and offers fashion for those in Sydney, Melbourne or a World list, for everywhere else.
October 5, 2009 | Cool Websites | by Gerry Mak |
No First Date is a blog documenting the correspondence generated by a fake profile of a sexy girl on a dating site. One has to wonder how these dudes don’t see through the prank, but their credulity sure is entertaining.
October 1, 2009 | Cool Websites | by The Uncool Hunter |
Bizarre Argentine Record Covers is a blog that compiles just that, stating that ‘this blog shows and shares those albums that are considered bizarre for many reasons: because of their music, the performers, or the artwork. Those albums we will never understand how it is that someone bought them’. Of course, there are outstanding albums, from retro actors such as Rodolfo Bebán, to the legacy of Johny Tolengo, or the rhythms of the Argentine Rick Wakeman, known as Walter and his Organ. Read more
May 17, 2009 | Cool Websites | by Gerry Mak |
Just when you thought the Internet’s most played-out meme was dead, a new variation on it keeps it going for one more web cycle. Russian LOL cats are actually freaking hilarious, lampooning ridiculously outdated Cold War stereotypes of our Ruskie comrades.
March 25, 2009 | Cool Websites | by Gerry Mak |
Net Disaster is a fun little web toy that lets you unleash whatever terror on your favorite, unsuspecting website, be it worms, meteors, dinosaurs, or a spray of bullets.
January 29, 2009 | Cool Websites | by Francis Andrews |
Activists from all walks of life — architects, artists, children, students, skaters, and more — are documented on the Tools for Actions website, aiming to show us how, whether deliberate or not, the tiniest or the biggest project driven by the quietest or loudest voice can trigger radical change in today’s urban centres. It’s an inspiring blog, particularly for those feeling disempowered. Read more
January 27, 2009 | New Eco | by Casper Johansson |
There’s some fun, environmentally friendly toys and cards on the Hoopla website, a new gift company based out of Cambridge, Massachusetts. They get most of their goodies produced in New England and always use recycled and reusable materials. We asked co-founder Hannah Lavon to tell us about the philosophy behind the business: ‘Our mission is simply to enjoy the fun-ner things in life. We make products that you just can’t help but laugh at — and with. We strive to make even the grumpiest old grump show us those teeth. Or at least those gums. Or dentures. Dentures are definitely funner. Lots of fizzing water glasses and they double as castanets. Light bulb! We feel a new product line coming on …’
January 22, 2009 | Cool Websites | by Francis Andrews |
They say he’s the best orator of our time. He delivers his message with an eloquence difficult to find in these days of jumbled political spiel. So if you suffered a mild twinge of jealousy at Obama’s inauguration on Tuesday, cast away your tied tongue and get to work on a new skill by creating your very own inauguration speech.
January 20, 2009 | Cool Websites | by Kira Heuer |
I’ve been reading this book called A Whole New Mind by Daniel Pink. It’s of the mindset that the right-brained thinkers are finally getting the respect they deserve and might even be the way of our future. We have an abundance of choice thanks to the left brain peeps, who have so graciously granted us a life of prosperity as the standard of living has risen steadily decade after decade. Yet, the paradox is that although being liberated by prosperity, somehow we are still not fulfilled by it. He puts it nicely when saying, ‘The most striking feature of contemporary culture is the unslaked craving for transcendence’. He claims creativity, story-telling and design will help us to find an emotional pull to fulfillment. And I must agree. We have too many choices these days and it takes an extra bit of magic to sell me that next little purchase of delight. A website by the name of Uncommon Goods seems to have an understanding of this concept, in the process bringing a little smile to my daily need for transcendence.
January 14, 2009 | Cool Websites | by Gerry Mak |
Ladies of Louisville, your prayers have been answered: vampire-loving, weightlifting, video-gaming local George Kistner is volunteering his services to satisfy your needs. The generous young man has started a website, cleverly done in early-90s HTML style (hilariously crude animated gifs and all), where you can apply to have him utilize his linguistic skills to ‘increase your immune system’.
January 8, 2009 | Cool Websites | by Francis Andrews |
A new website has just sprung up, offering a platform for rising independent filmmakers to network and exhibit their work. Material on Indieroad is reviewed and chosen by a panel of professionals, and visitors can stream and download direct from the site for a small fee – one third of the profits will go straight to the filmmaker. From January 15, they’ll be partnering with the Slamdance Film Festival to provide an online portal to the films showcased there.
While I am as impressed as anyone with an artist’s ability to render accurate and lifelike human figures, I’m more often compelled aesthetically by looser and more stylized images such as Camilla Engman’s. The wide-set eyes, bulbous bodies, and skewed proportions of the people and animals in Engman’s paintings lend them a certain expressiveness and melancholy. Read more
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The Hatton hotel epitomises Melbourne cool. Those who value design, location, and luxury will find The Hatton the perfect Melbourne base. Read more
Dirty Style Photo is a raw and intimate photo blog from Paris, France that feature amazing new photography and interviews with cutting edge photographers from around the world.
Every now and then you encounter a band whose sound cannot be confined to CD, Vinyl or a MySpace Music Player; a sound so incredible that it must be experienced first hand, in the flesh, where it can do some well-deserved damage to your eardrums. Sydney’s Dead Farmers are one of these bands. Read more
ALAS is a sleepwear label from two clever lasses Betony and Kelly. Mindful of our precious environment their philosohy is rather zen and based on sustainability. Their gorgeous pajamas are 100 percent organic cotton and are fair trade accredited, too. Read more
We have a Contribute Section through which you can post onto LAEM under your name about your favourite pop culture discoveries. So help spread the good word about those talented peeps doing talented things. They win. You win. We win!
On this Virgin Mary HaloTech watch, the dial is a modern version of the nineteenth century art form of lithophanes, carved porcelain sheets that, when lit, deliver astoundingly detailed images. When the pusher is activated, the dial springs to life in 3D. The watch features a light-up dial, LED light, and afterglo effect. Read more
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