An outstanding photoblog documenting life at the trails, photograped by James Brooks. Via

This is the best web campaign ever.

The lineup for It’s Nice That Issue #4 includes interviews with Nick Knight, Neville Brody, Miranda July, Trokia, RBG6, Noma Bar and Bompas & Parr, features by Sara De Bondt, Adam Buxton, Adrian Shaughnessy, Jez Burrows, Mike Lemanski, Peter Nencini and Micah Lidberg as well as work from the likes of Michael Landy, Rui Teneiro, Peter Grundy and more.

Every order placed before September 30th will receive a free screenprint by James Jarvis, commissioned especially for the issue.

Lukas Mathis in Nobody reads your dialog boxes. Great article on website usability. Via

Nerdcore deluxe: Jason McDonald, a fan of Robert Kirkman’s Walking Dead comic books has mapped out major events from the series. Markers illustrate exactly where all the action goes down.

Thanks Modeselektor.

Kreuzberg’s finest are back online.

By The Qualities of Light. In this composition, Miguel played each instrument live individually in his parent’s home in Topanga Canyon, California.

The story about the founders of Facebook. Directed by David Fincher, so there is hope that this movie doesn’t turn out to be a total disaster.

Desillusion Magazine is all about surf & skate and the arts and culture that surrounds it with tons of video-gems you might have missed out so far. Like they say on the website: Your daily dose of “Fuck Yeah!”. So true. Via

By The Qualities Of Light, a new website highlighting the lives of inspiring people and organizations within the Los Angeles area.

New Orleans’ Hip Hop Artists – all combined on one well designed website. It’s always nice too see when music, photography and design are all perfectly executed and bound together in one project.

I like the Google Maps implementation in this.

A nicely done Add-On to the recently released Sang Bleu Issue 5

… after getting an estimate for the work.

The high-profile line-up for issue #3 includes seven interviews of Milton Glaser, Sir Paul Smith, Tom Dixon, Keith Schofield, Tom Gauld and Maisie Broadhead. Further articles include Geoff McFetridge, Ken Garland, Johan Lofgren, Keetra Dean Dixon, Dan Germain and Michael Marriott.

The publication also acts as an archive for the most interesting work posted on itsnicethat.com from the last six months. All pre-orders received before midnight on March 31st will receive an exclusive, large-scale screen print from illustrator Parra.

You can pre-oder now at the It’s Nice That Shop for £10.

You should play a round or two of Browser Pong by Stewdio. Via

For the movie lovers.

Berlin based illustrator and graphic designer Lily Lin just relaunched her website.

David Thorne just made my day. For free.

Alloy and steel – Trust nothing else.

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Dave Walker should be on Twitter.

Once again. Everything done right. Thanks arte! See Totoise, Andrew Bird and many more live in concert.

Following the success of the first sold-out printed publication, It’s Nice That are pleased to announce that Issue #2 will be released on Thursday October 1st. Inside the publication you’ll find 128 pages documenting the best of the work featured on the site in the past six months in more depth, alongside a series of interviews and features. If you didn’t get the chance to see Issue #1, take a look here.

Danish photographer Kim Høltermand has a slick website with inspiring photography. Via

The Sputnik Observatory is a collaboration with New York based Sputnik, Inc., an organization that documents contemporary culture through intimate video interviews with hundreds of leading thinkers in the arts, sciences and technology, covering a wide range of topics. Via

While Google is great for plenty of stuff, Wolfram Alpha uses built-in models to compute answers to fact-based questions, basically making it an enormous calculator. Endowed with over 10 trillion pieces of data and 50,000+ algorithms encompassing vast areas of human knowledge (science, math, etc), the initial focus is on quantitative information, meaning it can do everything from graph up complicated calculus equations, to pump out historical sports statistics, to map the duration/magnitude of the next total eclipse. The search acknowledges it’s currently limited to hard facts, so don’t bother asking anything subjective.

On June 1st David Lynch will launch his documentary series Interview Project, a 20.000 mile roadtrip around the United Sates over 70 days featuring 121 short profiles of different people from all walks of life.

Fmylife is a collection of everyday anecdotes likely to happen to anyone exclusively written by its users sharing those little things that screw with your day.

One in 8 Million is a collection of New York city characters and their passions and problems, relationships and routines, vocations and obsessions. The simple concept of using impressive black and white photos and the rich voice of the subject create the striking stories.

All new for March: Lodownmagazine.com relaunch and issue #65 ahead.

The individual who brought you shesaiddestroy.org is back with This Wasteland: Hilarious. Evil. And in German. Most of it.

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From the website: “Skateistan is Afghanistan’s first dedicated skateboarding school. It engages the growing numbers of urbanised youth through skateboarding and provides new opportunities in cross-cultural interaction and education.” There is also a NY Times article about the whole story.

The National film Board of Canada (NFB) has opened up its vault with more than 700 films, clips and trailers. From entertaining shorts and cartoons to documentaries – they’re all there for free, with more being added every week.

The Sundance Film Festival will put Ten Short Films online. For free. Via