I’ve dissected Obama’s self-read autobiography into thousands of very short phrases, usually one to ten words or so, and have used these snippets to tell a completely different story from the original. I’ve then set the story to music. The story is called Son Of Strelka, Son Of God. Broadly speaking, it tells the story of an ugly dog-faced demigod who recreates the world after it is destroyed. It's about thirty minutes long, and lies in some weird grey area between audiobook and electronic music.

Lavatory and Lavender can never be friends

One of my good friends Patrick Hoelck taught me a good habit: Reducing your outcome to a single sentence.

Elizabeth Gilbert muses on the impossible things we expect from artists and geniuses -- and shares the radical idea that, instead of the rare person "being" a genius, all of us "have" a genius.

One reason to collect power tools in the shed

Inspired single take Music Video by Michael Gondry, via artofthetitle.com

Obtaining latitude/longitude (aka reverse geocoding) and even neighbourhood shapes from the thousands of geotagged photos on flickr. Crowdsourced usefulness for the geotagging set.

there's a new form of graffiti in town, and it's extremely pleasant.

something to remind you of your visit