Friday, January 19, 2007

Weekly finds.

After yesterdays tough question, I thought it was time for some light entertainment, fun (well sort of) sites and some cute videos. Enjoy!

Gimme Your Stuff Gimme Your Stuff, the cultural exchange blog where you can swap items of significance to your area with items from others around the world. It’s a conduit where international cuisine can change hands. A place where you can trade a newspaper from South Africa, or a CD from Finland. Interested? Just click the button for more info.
If I had some money to spare, I would join today.

The age project. Not that much to see or do here. They say it’s a website loosely built around the topics of aging and stages of life, but the main attraction is a game in which users try to guess the ages of other users. You can also upload one of your own photos if you want.

Futureme.org. A place where you can store emails which will be send to you in the future. It could be cool to receive a letter from yourself about where you thought you'd be a year or 2 or 20.

Love letters – an animated proposal.
I came across this cute video earlier this week and I thought that some of you might like it too. Here is the story behind it. Jeff produced this animation as a way of proposing to his girlfriend (now wife) Natasha. With a team he created more than four minutes of animation in just three months. When it was completed, he surprised Natasha by bringing her to the Parkway Movie Theater in Oakland, where they played the animation on the big screen in front of over 100 of their friends and family
The entire event was filmed for the TLC television show "A Perfect Proposal and they made a funny wedding invitation too, you can find that here

5 comments:

Andre Veloux said...

I thought that swap thing was great, and then I saw the video, truly amazing. You dig out some cool stuff Dak.

KJ's muse said...

Cute videos indeed. And no, I will NOT admit to tearing up a bit at the end. No, no I won't. :)

Phil said...

Haha, what an imaginative proposal! Superb, her was face was just a picture :] *reaches for a bucket*

I wonder if they could do that for a divorce? LOL :0)

Max said...

Futureme is a good idea. It would be even stranger to recieve and email from your self if you did not write one in the first place though.

Dakota said...

Thank you, Andre. Glad you like them :)

LOL, KJ’s Muse. Well, if you aren’t going to admit it …… :)

LOL, DoGGa. I’ll keep an eye on their page, who knows what might show up in a year, or 2, or 3, or 4………

Oh, that is a scary thought, Max. So glad I am not evil, or else I would be writing e-mails to …….hmmz…. your future you ;)