Posts Tagged comics sort of
WATCH: David McCandless Talk the Beauty of Data Visualization. “Data is the New Soil”
Posted by mistergroonk in Art, Comics, Intertube Madness, Just Freaking Neat, Marketing on September 17, 2010
Here we present to you a delightful TED talk featuring journalist/programmer Davd McCandless.
When David McCandless began speaking of combing the language of the eye with the language of the mind the obvious connection came to us.
“It’s two languages working together at the same time.”
This is something comics readers have known forever. It’s no accident that data visualization works as a simple, yet complex, way to get useful information across efficiently.
Below the jump, some info-graphics featured in the TED Talk that stirred our curiosity.
NMANews Asks if Sarah Palin will Run for US President in 2012, Hilarity Ensues
Posted by mistergroonk in LOL, USA, Video, World on July 26, 2010
These video pieces we’ve all come to know and love from NMA News are a hoot. They’re like crudely drawn computer animated video comics to our eye.
The following gives the rundown on ex-governor of Wasilla, Sarah Palin, wanting to run in the 2012 election. We don’t understand one blessed word that’s going on in this video and yet we understand every damn thing that’s going on.
DINO DETRITUS: Dinosaurs & Robots, In Flagrante Delicto
Posted by mistergroonk in Dinosaurs, LOL, Robots, Versus on February 24, 2009
Oh, the things we’ve seen. The horrors we’ve endured for you, gentle reader. We’ve suffered and plotted to bring you only the best of the best Dino Detritus. The need to track obscene and subtle uses of dinosaurs in our society comes at a high cost and we shall gladly pay.
Now the only problem we have is deciding which offense to saurian kind gets to go first. Found last week in the trenches of Friend Feed and Twitter, we bring you Dinsosaurs Fucking Robots. The accused defend their actions:
\A showcase where artists and comedians can come together and make pictures of… dinosaurs fucking robots… with inspirational phrases.\


