var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www."); document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E")); var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker("UA-5651883-1"); pageTracker._trackPageview(); Tumblr (3.0; @jmcmichael)http://jmcmichael.com/<a href="http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0003e0">Obama Appoints Edward Tufte to Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board</a>: <p>Now the process by which the finance sector pulled off their historic scam will be documented in diagrams that are approachable, comprehensible, information dense, and gorgeous.</p>http://jmcmichael.com/post/434727089http://jmcmichael.com/post/434727089Mon, 08 Mar 2010 09:42:25 -0500politics<object width="400" height="336"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/EAtBki0PsC0&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/EAtBki0PsC0&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="336" allowFullScreen="true" wmode="transparent"></embed></object><br/><br/><p>Beaker deals with hecklers while performing Dust in the Wind</p>http://jmcmichael.com/post/381141078http://jmcmichael.com/post/381141078Tue, 09 Feb 2010 22:41:09 -0500funny<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kxi91lmDHV1qzq3cjo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><b><a title="Future Rock website"><i>Poster for Future Rock</i></a><i> + </i><a title="Prepschool Myspace"><i>Prepschool (Live PA)</i></a></b></p> <p>Some of these posters for events at 2720 Cherokee are amazing!</p>http://jmcmichael.com/post/377410354http://jmcmichael.com/post/377410354Sun, 07 Feb 2010 23:12:56 -0500designmusic<a href="http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20126911.300-our-world-may-be-a-giant-hologram.html?full=true">"If the GEO600 result is what I suspect it is, then we are all living in a giant cosmic hologram." - Craig Hogan, director of Fermi Lab</a>http://jmcmichael.com/post/374429351http://jmcmichael.com/post/374429351Sat, 06 Feb 2010 13:02:16 -0500sciencehigh weirdness<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kx9rxlUaRn1qzq3cjo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><b>Flying Squirrel:</b> “Wheeeeeeee!”<br/><b>Deer</b>: “Jesus! What the f*ck?!”</p> <p>From Field & Stream’s <a href="http://www.fieldandstream.com/photos/gallery/hunting/2009/09/trail-cam-bloopers-funny-and-unusual-trail-cam-photos-our-2008-trail-?photo=1">‘Trail Cam Bloopers’</a></p>http://jmcmichael.com/post/368802002http://jmcmichael.com/post/368802002Wed, 03 Feb 2010 09:22:32 -0500funny<a href="http://www.cenedella.com/stone/archives/2010/01/leonardo_da_vincis_resume.html">Leonardo da Vinci's Resumé</a>: <p><img src="http://www.cenedella.com/stone/assets_c/2010/01/LeonardoResumeLarge-thumb-520x649-44.jpg" width="500" height="600"/></p> <p><i>“Most Illustrious Lord, Having now sufficiently considered the specimens of all those who proclaim themselves skilled contrivers of instruments of war, and that the invention and operation of the said instruments are nothing different from those in common use: I shall endeavor, without prejudice to any one else, to explain myself to your Excellency, showing your Lordship my secret, and then offering them to your best pleasure and approbation to work with effect at opportune moments on all those things which, in part, shall be briefly noted below.”</i></p>http://jmcmichael.com/post/359802946http://jmcmichael.com/post/359802946Fri, 29 Jan 2010 11:23:00 -0500history<img src="http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kw4yb7uj5c1qzq3cjo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Artist Katinka Matson uses a CCD flatbed scanner to capture deep, vibrant images of flowers and other natural objects. She writes, “Without the distortion of the lens, highly detailed resolution is uniform throughout the image, regardless of the size of the printable media. The lighting effects from the sliding sensor beneath the object, coupled with overhead effects involving lighting and movement, result in a 3-D-like imaging of intense sharpness and detail. Images created by scanning direct-to-CCD cut away layers, and go to a deeper place in us than our ordinary seeing and vision.”</p>http://jmcmichael.com/post/330526609http://jmcmichael.com/post/330526609Tue, 12 Jan 2010 08:18:43 -0500photography<object width="400" height="336"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/8Db4avDn1mc&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/8Db4avDn1mc&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="336" allowFullScreen="true" wmode="transparent"></embed></object><br/><br/><p>The Adventures of Bucakroo Bonzai Across the 8th Dimension - one of the best movies to make it out of the 80s.</p>http://jmcmichael.com/post/315269611http://jmcmichael.com/post/315269611Sun, 03 Jan 2010 17:51:12 -0500moviesculture<a href="http://www.juancole.com/2010/01/top-ten-good-news-stories-from-muslim.html">"Top Ten Good News Stories from the Muslim World in 2009 that You Never Heard About" from Juan Cole</a>http://jmcmichael.com/post/311491379http://jmcmichael.com/post/311491379Fri, 01 Jan 2010 13:20:01 -0500politics<img src="http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kvg2olNvVk1qzq3cjo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Own your crazy.</p>http://jmcmichael.com/post/307196270http://jmcmichael.com/post/307196270Tue, 29 Dec 2009 21:53:08 -0500<img src="http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kuusvfh1cA1qz7gujo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Inflatable performance art sculpture.</p> <p><a href="http://heathropolis.tumblr.com/post/288991340/via-www-jimmykuehnle-com">heathropolis</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>via <a href="http://www.jimmykuehnle.com"><a href="http://www.jimmykuehnle.com">www.jimmykuehnle.com</a></a></p> </blockquote>http://jmcmichael.com/post/302888915http://jmcmichael.com/post/302888915Sun, 27 Dec 2009 11:15:03 -0500<object width="400" height="336"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/-hidvElQ0xE&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/-hidvElQ0xE&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="336" allowFullScreen="true" wmode="transparent"></embed></object><br/><br/><p>Ira Glass on Storytelling: Ira Glass describes the struggle from being crappy at something to being a master. A barrier to mastery that he describes is the long period of time when one’s ability to recognize good work makes it very easy to see that one’s own work isn’t all that good. His advice is to just push through that by producing tons of work on a schedule - for years.</p>http://jmcmichael.com/post/302858290http://jmcmichael.com/post/302858290Sun, 27 Dec 2009 10:43:05 -0500<img src="http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kuo4c5Rsqt1qzq3cjo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Myriahedral projections of the earth, from computer scientist Jack van Wijk “use algorithms to ‘unfold’ and cut into the Earth’s surface in a way that minimises distortion, and keeps the distracting effect of cutting into the map to a minimum.</p> <p>(via the always fascinating <a>BLDGBLOG</a>)</p>http://jmcmichael.com/post/283850388http://jmcmichael.com/post/283850388Mon, 14 Dec 2009 19:36:04 -0500information graphics<img src="http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kumdcqa3Sd1qzq3cjo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>photo by <a href="http://www.anetakowalczyk.com/index2.html">Aneta Kowalczyk</a></p>http://jmcmichael.com/post/282522507http://jmcmichael.com/post/282522507Sun, 13 Dec 2009 21:13:54 -0500photographyfashion<img src="http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kumcohFcsZ1qzq3cjo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Postcard sent in 1908.<br/><i>(from <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/shme/2753785472/">shme on flickr</a>)]</i></p>http://jmcmichael.com/post/282478131http://jmcmichael.com/post/282478131Sun, 13 Dec 2009 20:41:04 -0500ephemera<object width="400" height="336"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/pU02M2wjobs&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/pU02M2wjobs&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="336" allowFullScreen="true" wmode="transparent"></embed></object><br/><br/><p>Great song, video with cute little blobby backpacker guy.</p>http://jmcmichael.com/post/276928199http://jmcmichael.com/post/276928199Wed, 09 Dec 2009 21:33:55 -0500<object width="400" height="336"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/b5KV1Lf2NkY&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/b5KV1Lf2NkY&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="336" allowFullScreen="true" wmode="transparent"></embed></object><br/><br/><p>Beautiful song and video.</p>http://jmcmichael.com/post/276892565http://jmcmichael.com/post/276892565Wed, 09 Dec 2009 21:07:16 -0500music<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kucx9xmSKL1qz7gujo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://heathropolis.tumblr.com/post/275223624/20x200-print-information-28-camera-drawings">heathropolis</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><a href="http://www.20x200.com/art/2009/12/28-camera-drawings.html#medium">20x200 : Print Information : 28 Camera Drawings</a></p> </blockquote>http://jmcmichael.com/post/275481456http://jmcmichael.com/post/275481456Tue, 08 Dec 2009 21:41:56 -0500<embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://jmcmichael.com/swf/audio_player.swf?audio_file=http://www.tumblr.com/audio_file/275481096/tumblr_kud65fWhxu1qzq3cj&color=FFFFFF" height="27" width="207" quality="best"></embed><br/><br/><p><img height="300" width="300" src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51FP%2BydJyIL._SS500_.jpg"/></p> <p><b>“Out on the Highway” - <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kula_Shaker">Kula Shaker</a></b><br/>from the album <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Strange-Folk-Kula-Shaker/dp/B000VAQX1O/ref=ntt_mus_ep_dpi_lnk">Strangefolk</a></i></p>http://jmcmichael.com/post/275481096http://jmcmichael.com/post/275481096Tue, 08 Dec 2009 21:41:39 -0500music<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="300" data="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=7853947&server=vimeo.com&fullscreen=1&show_title=1&show_byline=0&show_portrait=0&color=00ADEF"><param name="quality" value="best" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="scale" value="showAll" /><param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=7853947&server=vimeo.com&fullscreen=1&show_title=1&show_byline=0&show_portrait=0&color=00ADEF" /><embed src="http://www.vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=7853947&server=www.vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=0&show_portrait=0&color=00ADEF&fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="400" height="300"></embed></object><br/><br/><p>Ambient time-lapse videos of the Alps, set to Beethoven</p>http://jmcmichael.com/post/267740571http://jmcmichael.com/post/267740571Thu, 03 Dec 2009 10:02:02 -0500video