ARTEFACTO A PLACE WHERE TO START – By Adrian Palacios

One app at a time

I couldn't stop laughing when I saw the Iphone advert parody in Adam Thinks. Have a look at his other parodies, just a genius.

There really is an app for almost anything, even when there shouldn't be.

What the f**k!

I don't share my impressions about the Californian Governor, Mr Arnold, but Patatas Traigo is a big fan of him, and managed to survive to his Twitter blog and found this two WTF pictures of his office.

The Conan sword

Terminator

I know they were real.

If you happened to know Hakuna Matata you will definitely recognise the following picture:

I saw it on Digg

Google Insight

What happens when almost 70% of the words searches in the planet is done using the same text box, what happens if we are able to store all that information, the information about what the 70% the searches is about, and what happens if you make that information public. Today the power of changing  is not any more in the ability of accessing the information gathered 100 years ago, is in the way you are able to use it.

Google Insight lets you see how many searches have been made on specific words throughout a time line. Information is beautiful has very interesting results.

Image: David McCandless.

Lost in translation

I always say to Yael that I feel like I'll never have a English soul, meaning that my soul will never speak English, I can buy bread in English, dream in English, think in English, and forget that I though in English, and think that I was thinking in Spanish, I can even make love in English, if that can be translated. But I never will have a English soul, I will never embed the language, enjoy it, feel it and play with it as I do with Spanish. There are things that cannot be translated, and that it will take too long to learn in another language, I'll have to live be again, to have a boy brain again, it is something that globalisation will never achieve, at least while I'm standing on my feet.

This little project plays with what is lost every time you translate something, and keeps translating a sentence from English to Japanese backwards and forwards until there is static result, what they interestingly call equilibrium.

Find Equilibrium

I saw it on Boing Boing

In for a penny, in for a pound

As usual we see these things out of context, and that maybe the reason they are so funny.

Quantum

Quantum physics, on its way of explaining the rules of the small, says that there is a probability, incredibly small, of the particles in our body not interacting with a external object and making us able to go through it, as it weren't there. Today we know that this is no more that a text book example to introduce this theory, and that actually things work in a very different way. Nevertheless this engineering student from Pakistan tried once more.

Supernatural (not the album)

We have already seen it, but it is worth it to remember it from time to time. In fact, here in UK, some legal process is being reactivated about regulating the use of Photoshop for treating models images. We have reached a point where make is part of the character of some people, and when we see those without it, is like somebody that usually wears glasses is not wearing them.

Anyway, here goes a gallery from Peter Lindbergh where all them look awesome, but with no make up.

Rice Krispies

I saw it on Boing Boing via Drew Carey

Inspiration

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