test yourself: right vs left brain

Like most people, I’ve completed a lot of tests in my lifetime.

Unfortunately, I’ve failed almost all of them.

Well here is one NOBODY can fail! 

It’s a simple test to see whether you are predominantly right or left brained, with some simple yet intuitive feedback included in the results.

Believe me, there are thousands of these out there but this is one of the few I’ve seen that isn’t trying to sell you anything except a Canadian education, or just help you learn more about your problem solving process. Subsequently, it’s a great way to learn about the kind of roles you may be best suited to.

Click here to check it out.

And just for the record, I got an A+

Let us know how you go!

conchords fly on the simpsons

You know you’ve arrived when you get a call from Matt Groening.Congratulations, Flight of the Conchords.

found via @_condo

It’s Wednesday. Enjoy this awesome dance.

sell yourself, creatively

Dear {Creative/Managing Director} of {Well Respected Ad Agency},

I would like a job with you.

I have made a video to show you how creative I am.

Please watch.

Well played, Steve Engstrom.

The Works agency in Sydney gave him a job for his efforts.

via Mumbrella

laser etched skateboards

 

Check em out @ Hydro 74

colours of the web

Whether you’re a graphic designer or just can’t brush your teeth with anything from the warmer side of the spectrum, we all have an opinion on colour.

A cool infographic from ColourLovers featuring some of the most powerful companies in the world and the colours they choose to attract our attention.

found via @AaronRutley

We are 18 months away from taking people into space.

This is the news that I’ve been waiting for.

 

Dear old Richard Branson is at it again and I for one couldn’t be happier. Speaking at a conference in KL he’s announced that the SpaceShip Two will be ready in 18 months to ferry paying passengers to the ‘brink’ of space. Once there they can view the Earth through porthole windows and unbuckle their seatbelts to float around in zero gravity.

 

My intended space travel outfit:

 

Branson doesn’t stop there (and with a billion dollar fortune behind him, why would he?) “We are looking at hotels in space. We love the moon”  

 

Richard – I too love the moon. Please take me with you.

 

Unrelated image of an awesome space hotel:

Now I just need to find a spare $200,000 to pay for my ticket.

 

 

keeping print ads relevant

via @ChasLicc

Pizza just got a little more awesome.

the future of books

the perfect five

Beautifully designed and maintained, The Perfect Five bills itself as ‘A Music Blog For People Who Don’t Have Time For Music Blogs’

Translation: Five excellent tracks handpicked every week and placed in some very clever categories for you to enjoy and even download.

One perfect highfive for it’s creator Sophie Hirst. 

Read more about the way she does her thang at another one of our favourite blogs, Way Cool Jnr

every journey begins with a kilogram

via stutube

Grand Taxonomy of Rap Names

From Pop Chart Lab comes this comprehensive chart chronicling Rap names past and present:

Be sure to click through here to see a full size version – I love the ‘Audacious misspellings’, ‘Improper use of K’ and ‘Misspelled adjectives’.

if superheroes were hipsters

More from Geekologie
via @Wired

Things that make you go YEA

 

 

Hello Monday.

Sometimes I like to pretend you're not here…and reminisce. Remember the good times at University?

 

Small things made you go YEA.

 

Maybe Monday is the day to go back to Uni and get your meme Masters at The Rocketboom Institute for Internet Studies.

Learn all about the Internets and BE RELEVANT, YO!

http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/f-ck-yea

the future of credit

These guys just won both First Prize AND the People’s Choice Award at DEMO in Silicon Valley.

It’s not hard to see why.

the social network: interactive trailer

This is probably my eightieth post about this film, with (inevitably) more to come ahead of it’s release in a few weeks.

But come on… How many film trailers allow you to click for more information as they play?

http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/thesocialnetwork/itrailer/media/snmain.swf

via @Mashable

some f*cking good advice

and

Apologies for the profanity… But it’s pretty good advice.

Get more help from a random Creative Direction Generator at Good Fucking Design Advice Dot Com

Books on parade…

Let’s be clear on something, I love books and libraries.

That said, today’s discovery of this seriously beautiful library desk, made from books and found at Recyclart makes me very happy.

This awesome bit of design can be found in the Faculty for Architecture at the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands. A fire in the existing building resulted in a full refurbishment of the space, and in my mind they’ve certainly made something incredibly good out of a bad situation.

how to build a beach

via Randall’s Face

Slanting phenomena

How are you slanting today?

 

 

 

 

Full body slant?

 

 

 

 

or just a keyboard slant?

 

 

Could this be the next winky face?

Have people been slanting you in emails?

Does a slant face make you LOL?

Considered going public with your love of slant?

WTF AM I TALKING ABOUT?

 

 

 

let’s all make polish film posters

Something Awful Dot Com asked their Forum Members to design some movie posters, no biggie.

But in keeping with their weekly Photoshop Phriday projects, they were asked to design them Polish-style. Sure sure… Hey yeah cool bra, Why not?

Here are some of our favourites.

View the rest here

via @BoingBoing

dickheads are cool

via @ChasLicc

i’m dating myself

ewwwwwww

via MCF

more @ I’m Dating Myself

Boar riding Rodeo Monkey triggers Cuteness Overload in Japan

I couldn’t make that headline up if I tried.

From Japan Probe ‘A baby monkey has taken to riding a young boar at a Fukuchiyama Zoo in Kyoto prefecture. Since then, TV news cameras spread images of “Rodeo” cuteness around Japan, drawing huge crowds to the zoo. On a normal Sunday, the zoo gets about 300 visitors. Last Sunday, about 1,700 people visited the zoo. Some people traveled for hours to get there.’

 A lot of those people had video cameras and Youtube accounts:

Awesomely, one person who couldn’t make it to the zoo decided to make a tribute video with their dog instead:

Apparently Miwa the monkey is orphaned and the boar is its surrogate mother. Miwa also likes to sleep in the lap of the lady at the ticket counter when not riding the boar (I want that job).

In tragi-comedic ESL writing, the website goes on to explain that this happy pairing will not last: ‘Both the monkey and the wild boar are growing up fast. The rodeos will only continue until the monkey grows out of the stage at which he feels it needs to cling to a parent – or – until the boar will no longer tolerate the presence of a monkey on his back. This super cute situation will probably last for only several months to a year.’

Japan WIN.

nz rugby world cup: one year to go

For the sports minded, another World Cup (of any kind) is usually an exciting prospect. But for those of us living in the Southern Hemisphere, events of this proportion hold an even greater significance.

The last time New Zealand hosted a World Cup (along with Australia) was also the very first World Cup, in 1987.
Incidentally, they also won it.

Can they do it again on home soil in twelve months?

Dunno, but this video is pretty cool anyway.
Onya NZ!

wtf twitter

More worrying signs that Twitter is not ready or simply unable to scale up for it’s reported 300,000+ new users per day.
I’m also pretty stressed out by this obvious animal cruelty.

Ace drawing though!

brendan fevola: how does it feel

Women hate him and men want to kick his arse.Now it looks like he’s finally been given his marching orders over yet another embarrassing moment for the human species.

Reading an article on Fev’s latest misdemeanour was made even more amusing by the accidental placement of this advertisement for income protection.

absolut lemondrop

Ali Larter + Absolut Vodka = Sexy times

via Michelle Tripp

vintage tokyo subway posters

Translation: Hitler needs more ballspace. Move over

 Translation: Snot bubbles are the mating signal for small blue christmas elves.

Check out the rest at Pink Tentacle