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Lifting a Dreamer (2002)
If that sketch looks familiar, that’s because it’s the original sketch by Yiying Lu that later became the all-too-familiar Twitter Fail Whale:
This piece that would eventually become the Twitter ‘Fail Whale’ was originally called ‘Lifting a Dreamer’, and was a personal work – a visual greeting to my friends overseas. In 2002, I had moved to Australia for my foundation year of study in International Design and Media at the University of New South Wales, and I kept in touch with a lot of friends that I grew up with in Shanghai – mostly over mail and MSN.
‘Lifting a Dreamer’ originally featured an Elephant, drawn with pencil! I wanted to create a visual greeting – a visual ‘comfort’ for my friends back home for all the events that I was missing! I also included this image on my website’s homepage, and I would use MSN to send it to friends and family when I could not attend their birthdays and graduations and parties. Basically, I had this giant wish that is so heavy (the elephant), and the birds represented my free spirit and good wishes.
Read more about Yiying and her new wall art collections by LTL Prints: Link – via Laughing Squid
Katie Cook has been featured here before with her cute renditions of Star Wars sketch cards, but she ‘s still making more!
Link -via Super Punch
I don’t know who created these little comics using dead flies, as the source site is not in English. Some are very funny! Link -via Unique Daily
Update: Some of the comics have dialog in Swedish. Lexi has provided a translation in the comments here at Neatorama. -Thanks, Lexi!
PhotoSketch: Internet Image Montage from tao chen on Vimeo.
Designed by a team at the National University of Singapore, PhotoSketch is the latest and greatest in image creation systems. The full description of how it works can be found here, but the basic process is this:
Draw a basic object, name it and repeat this for any other objects you want in your picture, then name the background. PhotoSketch then searches the Internet for images that match the descriptions given, and after a bit of sorting out, you have all the elements necessary for seamless stitching. The possibilities seem endless. Check out the video!
This is getting so much buzz, the link is down as of 10/06/2009 1945 hrs EST.
What happens when you take an ordinary piece of fruit and start to doodle on it? Banana Art! “Bananastein” shown here is just one of many examples.
From the Upcoming 
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According to Wikipedia a Palindrome is: a word, phrase, number or other sequence of units that can be read the same way in either direction…
Or, in this case a palindromic video where Dan and naD filmed themselves speaking normally and backwards and doing activities such as eating cake or having a drink forwards and backwards. Totally bizarre and trippy!
More info on palindromes here – Link
