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How a Microsoft Employee Became Japan’s iPhone Porn King

nath — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 11:08:51 +0000

Eugene Lin was a typical Microsoft employee until the iPhone came out. When he heard how much money some developers were making, then Eugene decided to try his hand at iPhone app development.

It was a bumpy road of app rejection, but it eventually lead to him developing one of the top purchased apps in Japan, or in his words becoming an iPhone “Japanese porn king.”

The most recent application he developed is called Peekaboo, and as of this writing is ranked #10 of the Top Paid apps in Japan’s App Store.

Watch the video of his quick presentation (6 minutes) on the path he took to reach success in the App Store, especially in Japan.

Voodoo People made with Ableton Live

nath — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 17:21:22 +0000

Like the Prodigy? Remember Voodoo People? You’ll see it in a completely different light now.

(thanks to @codepo8 for the link)

Bring on the cyborgs

nath — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:28:05 +0000

Impressive, yet fear inducing footage of a robot arm/hand that can accurately grasp objects in 3D space, at incredible speeds.

All they need to do it team up with Boston Dynamic’s “Big Dog” and we’re not far from the rise of the robots.

Cassetteboy vs Nick Griffin

nath — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:20:52 +0000

I love Cassetteboy – ever since listening to a dodgy copy of “the Parker Tapes” (oddly ironic, considering his content entirely consists of the mutilated corpses of other peoples work), I’ve been hooked. “Cassetteboy vs Jamie Oliver” has to be one of my favourites, as does the “Bloody Apprentice” which he released earlier in the year.

This time, he’s gone and done over Nick Griffin. In record time too, considering the original content was only aired ~12 hours ago.

Epic.

Dead Fly Art

nath — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 09:33:52 +0000

Exactly as it says…

For more of this excellent series, visit the full site here

Vivaldi awesomeness on the Accordion

nath — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 09:17:04 +0000

This guy is way too talented to be doing this in what looks like an old folks home. (Complete with ribbon of balloons).

Link via @codinghorror

PhotoSketch allows rough sketches to be turned into montages

nath — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 13:15:29 +0000

According to the authors, this software can take any rough sketch, with the shape of each element labeled with its name, find images corresponding to each drawn element, judge which are a better match to the shapes, and then seamlessly merge it all into one single image.

More information here: http://gizmodo.com/5374890/this-is-a-photoshop-and-it-blew-my-mind

Link via @paullomax

Every time you torrent a film…

nath — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 10:05:38 +0000

Reblogged from SimonDoggett

Hot Violin Girls play System of a Down

nath — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 09:18:12 +0000

Now I’m scared to talk to them for two reasons. Because they’re hot, and because they’re waaaayy more talented than me.

Also pretty cool, although not as hot, would be Adam DeGraff playing Sweet Child ‘o Mine on violin. Talented chap. (Adam courtesy of @lescochrane)

Liu Bolin… The Invisible Man.

nath — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 14:54:34 +0000

This guy paints himself… no trick photography. no photoshop. he just paints himself.

I can’t even imagine how long it takes him to do this. The last photo is unreal – it took me a good few seconds to figure out where he was.

Full photoset here