Kim Rugg

Kim Rugg from Cool Hunting on Vimeo.

Lead Pencil Studio

"Borrowing the effectiveness of billboards to redirect attention away from the landscape… this permanently open aperture between nations works to frame nothing more than a clear view of the changing atmospheric conditions beyond." 

vintage laboratory photos from LIFE magazine

Ways of Seeing

SolarBeat

A flash music maker that uses the relative length of the year of each planet in the solar system to time the notes. I just love their choices for each note, especially how satisfying it is when, after you've gotten so charmed with it, a new planet makes its first orbit. It's worth waiting for Pluto's year.

Terry Cavanaugh

Terry Cavanaugh is a game creator. He has about ten cross-platform freeware or shareware games on his site.

VVVVVV is based on a single concept/control scheme, in the vein of the best old games: you move left to right and the spacebar moves you from the floor to the ceiling (and vice versa). I love games that reveal their spatial logic to you through your own experimentation (rather than tutorials of their systems), where they introduce one mechanic that you master intuitively, and then increase the complexity incrementally in these abstract ways. I've embedded a flash version of it below. You can download a standalone version of the same two levels below for free at thelettervsixtim.es

Judith, on the other hand, is unlike any other 'game' I've played. This is a piece of art; this man is a video game artist. Essentially you are able to move in a 3D environment and you have to figure out how to make the story progress, which takes about 15 minutes to finish. It's really creepy but not really gory; certainly not survival-horror-action. Free download for Mac and Windows.

Hello, I'm Robot!

Illustrations by E. Benyaminson for Hello, I'm Robot! by Stanislav Zigunenko (Russia, 1989).

BUZZ

From Boing Boing:

"In 1990, MTV aired a groundbreaking TV documentary series called Buzz. Created and directed by Mark Pellington (Mothman Prophecies, Pearl Jam's "Jeremy" video), Jon Klein, and Mark Neale in partnership with MTV Europe, Buzz was a fantastic experiment in non-linearity and cut-up that drew heavily from -- and presented -- avant-garde art, underground cinema, early cyberpunk, industrial culture, appropriation/sampling, and postmodern literature." 

A lesson is learned but the damage is irreversible

Tiny, Almost Manageable

One of the best webcomics I've ever seen. They've been on hiatus for years now, which is a fucking travesty. Every piece is like an epic mural with an entire world inside of it. It's written by Dale Beran and drawn by David Hellman. It's not a contiguous story, which I like because it manages to envelop you without episode-to-episode suspense (a technique this comic cheapens by comparison) in every single piece, though some of the characters are recurring, mostly the creators as themselves in the comic. They don't make any references to their own comics or to anything, really—they tell you everything in every comic. It's so good.

Some of my favorites:

No, I'm Sorry
Now We Are Poor Again!
Bluerazz Sourpower Snackattackpacks
At Last, I Am in Heaven!

There's a certain point after the first couple where they hit a stride and EVERY SINGLE comic is pure gold.