Today, as I got frustrated by my sluggish progress at a motion graphics job in which I was tasked with the most agonizingly long and boring copy, I found myself stacking effects on top of effects, just generating shit at random. Somehow I found this image pleasing, and it reminded me this aimless and purposeless exploration is something I do miss from my earlier years of doing stuff with computers.

So here’s a resolution: to set aside a few minutes every day for random purposeless.

Digital Rights Management is such a killjoy — xkcd: Sharing.

A set of unexplainable old photos. Be warned some are somewhat disturbing, while others are just weird and others yet seem the old times’ idea of dark humour. My favourite is #43, which has a sailor grooming a hunting trophy, but lest it upsets readers feeling strongly about the rights of long deceased animals, here’s a brass band bolted on a locomotive. Neato

Belgian artist Patrick Guns says No to Contemporary Art. Inky

This photo by Luigi Ghirri (Modena, 1972) is the very synthetic definition of the kind of Photograph I Like. So there. Pedro Quintas

Devour by Christopher Jonassen. A series of planets found in frying pans. Neato

Mathieu Grac’s Boyz and Girlz du net: a.k.a. behind the scenes of the typical Facebook profile picture. Fubiz

Arnold Odermatt is a famous Swiss photographer who was also a policeman. All the photos in this gallery are pretty exceptional.

This photograph by Annick Gérardin (to whom I was unable to google a link) is pure reblogging gold. I’d wager they are watching two guys yelling at each ofther after a fender bender. Does anyone care to start the ‘cat and dog looking at things’ meme? Pedro Quintas