Aaron Durand’s Streaking Trains. I used to love taking this kind of photos (exhibit A, B), but it quickly started to feel old and gimnicky. Perhaps a new, systematic approach is in order, as I feel this might be the kind of thing where one good photo is just meh, but fifty good photos make an awesome project. It’s been a while, after all, and those dusty lenses aren’t going to clean themselves.

The Art of Google Books curates interesting scanning glitches.

Here’s my first attempt at databending (here’s the original image). Using a text editor to fiddle with JPEG files might be a nice way to actively procrastinate. I like the drastic results.

Sanna Dullaway does some incredibly realistic color restorations of old photographs. (via Neatorama)

Wondermark is all about lost cats this week. Keep’em coming!

The Geocities-izer will theme any website like a Geocities-hosted crapfest, which is why I found it appropriate to present the above image of my GC-ized website as a 16-color GIF. I think the transformation lacks a centered text layout, as well as a few animated buttons and Java hitcounters. But the garish colors: perfect.

There’s a recurrent theme in my inbox as another semester is near the end. (And yes, I do use that wooden desk Gmail theme. Let a man keep his kitschy customizations.)

Agreed. I try hard to circunvent this sad fact of life by wanting to do things that can still be considered productive — something I call ‘active procrastination’. Sadly, I’m often unsuccessful.