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It is, I believe, rather gnarly. Yo.

BP exec by Mike Mitchell

A well timed portrait by the talented Sir Mitchell.

Tom Hine - Contextual-face, Bristol

Ekosystem, via Wooster Collective

Painful to think how long this took if you take the printing process into account as well as the filming. Via Adii Rock Star.

Many of the shots have much higher res copies available on Flickr, so be sure to click through.

80 HDR Photographs of Tokyo en at Geekiz.com (via Gruber)

An algorithm was used to calculate the colors in pictures uploaded to Flickr. The resulting diagram highlights the prevalent colors across the seasons. Pretty.

Flickr Flow (via Kottke)

This video by Takuya Hosogane is like a hundred Winamp Visualizations (remember them?) crammed into one 100 second video. Amazing.

More of the same at hsgn.tk

Don Hertzfeldt is a genius, and this has been proven time and time again to be fact. I just found this new (to me at least) video by him, The Animation Show. There is an awesome robot battle at the end and the 3d sequence sure beats Avatar.

I’ve seen plenty of innovative animation before, but nothing quite like this. Drawings on paper are usually restricted to the paper they start on, but this video is very mobile.

Everyone with a ZX Spectrum had Horace Goes Skiing. That’s fact, surely? I did. The protagonist, Horace, was in a number of games and should be instantly recognizable to those who spent far too much of their childhoods loading games from tape. For a while now he’s been springing up round Sheffield. I’m going to leave any argument about the rights and wrongs of graffiti aside (primarily because it’s boring) but he tends to pop up in easy to see, yet hard to access places. I snapped him here, behind the famous Roneys butchers.

Horace can be seen with a message and sometimes without one

The locals have already discussed his presence here, on the much-used Sheffield Forum. I’ll be keeping an eye out for more occurrences.

Through 2009 Vimeo has played 2nd fiddle to YouTube, but the quality always seems much higher. Here lies a breakdown of their favourite 25 videos.

My favourites include Reulf (which you can see here), where a range of colorful little cuboid creatures take over a black and white Paris, and Born that Way. It has shotguns. Forever’s Not So Long has a great (very original) take on the end of the world.

Vimeo’s 25 favorite videos of 2009

Also: happy new year, as this is my 1st blog of  2010 x

1960 by Mark Weaver

Graphic artist Mark Weavers’ flickr stream is heavily dosed with win. Some of this work I think may be influenced by the Footfall series of science fiction books. Regardless, it’s great work.

Via the Kitsune Noir wallpaper project.

Named after British and American soldier who died in Helman province, Afghanistan, this weird halo-like effect has been spotted around the rotor-blades of military helicopters. It is a result of static electricity that occurs when the CH-47s fly though dust storms.

View combat journo Michael Yon’s page for more great photographs.

This is NSFW due to lots of things going in and out of peoples bottoms. It is however awesome pixel-work which takes us back to the era of SNES and Sega Genesis. Pretty much the most controversial comment on truckers since that Jeremy Clarkson ‘joke’. The clever people on reddit remind me of Paul Robertson, the twisted genius who did Pirate Baby’s Cabana Battle Street Fight.

Via pretty much about everyone on my twitter stream.