This is semi-exciting. These guys have what on first look looks to be a fairly usable photo-editing application that runs on the server side. This sort of thing is what they used to say the future of computing was, and this is what Gizmo Richards says the future of computing IS, but I think they’re both (all) wrong, though it would be neat-o-peachy keen to see more of this type of stuff if it is (a) free and (b) good.

My take on fauxto (FOE-toe) is that it’s probably at the level of something like Photoshop 2.0 or so. Layers, some filters, but not the crazy stuff that goes on nowadays with PS that most people don’t in fact need. Seems to me to be better than most of the photo-editing freeware I’ve seen around and they seem to be working feverishly to improve it.

What the future of computing IS, if you care, is peer-to-peer distributed file storage/sharing and probably also peer-to-peer distributed processing too. Also, robots that get sick of doing housework and begin instead destroying everything.

“Shampoo for my real friends — real poo for my sham friends!”

Apparently you are supposed to capitalize ‘internet’ but that seems ridiculous to me. Anyhow, I saw something good on it. I think I saw this a long time ago but I also just saw a link to it today on PCL LinkDump. It’s a marvel and I recommend you look at it NOW. Unless you are too busy.

Uhh… wow. This is apropos to some photos Paul has been posting on Flickr of his old mix tapes (frinst this’n). This site has, quite simply, high-quality photos of a wide variety of brands and types of analog cassette tapes. The photo illustrating this post is of a tape that holds particular nostalgic value for me, I think I had about 50 of these at some point so all my tapes of a certain era were these BASF ones.

Online PDF archive of PhotoStatic magazine, one of my favorites of the heady days of 1980s xerox/mailart culture. Content varied from the school of stick-a-baby’s-head-on-a-washing-machine collage to John R’s dreamy multiple exposures of distorted typography.

Just discovered these Paper Rad guys on the old youtube. Delightful eyef***ery of a psychodelick bent. Rainbows, skulls, unicorns, stars, video bricolage.

First thing I seen was this video for Lightning Bolt’s ‘13 Monsters’. Oh my. Watch it and then watch it again.

Paper Rad’s DVD trailer is also good.

I bet there is other stuff good by them that you would like to see that I would like to tell you about, and I’ll update this post with that. Also it would make this post look nicer to have some full-color illustrations. We’ll see. Maybe later.