Do you feel lucky? Picksum Ipsum replaces your Web placeholder text with quotes from Hollywood legends
Web designers and developers of the world, listen up. Your clients don’t want jumbled Lorem Ipsum placeholder text – they want proper, meaningful sentences. Better still, they want the wise words from some of Hollywood’s finest.
This, at least, is according to the good folks behind Picksum Ipsum, a quirky Web app that offers up quotes from Morgan Freeman, Jim Carrey, Clint Eastwood and Michael Caine, instead of a meaningless malaise of text.
How it works
First up, pick your protagonist from the top of the page. It’s worth adding here there’s a little ‘Rumble’ feature that lets you put two of the actors up against each other.
Indicate how many paragraphs of text you want and whether you’d like the HTML
tags or not.
Then, you’re served up a page of text which you can simply copy/paste to your site. Here’s a sample of what Mr. Clint Eastwood has to say for himself, which seems to be very Dirty Harry-centric:
“This is my gun, Clyde! When a naked man’s chasing a woman through an alley with a butcher knife and a hard-on, I figure he’s not out collecting for the Red Cross. You want a guarantee, buy a toaster. Man’s gotta know his limitations. You see, in this world there’s two kinds of people, my friend: Those with loaded guns and those who dig. You dig. Here. Put that in your report!” AND “I may have found a way out of here. Well, do you have anything to say for yourself? This is the AK-47 assault rifle, the preferred weapon of your enemy; and it makes a distinctive sound when fired at you, so remember it. don’t p!ss down my back and tell me it’s raining. Ever notice how sometimes you come across somebody you shouldn’t have F**ked with? Well, I’m that guy. What you have to ask yourself is, do I feel lucky. Well do ya’ punk? Are you feeling lucky punk.”
Picksum Ipsum is the handiwork of Adam Collins and Sam Colledge, designers and developers at UK-based agency Creare.
“Myself and Sam were getting more and more frustrated at having to use boring lorem ipsum as filler text on our homepage designs” says Collins.” So we have put together a movie alternative to lorem ipsum. It’s a great little tool and I am sure Web designers will love it.”
There’s no shortage of Lorem Ipsum alternatives, including Slipsum which is a Samuel L. Jackson-focused version that uses shall we say ‘colorful’ language. We also recently covered Lorempixel, which dynamically generates placeholder images.
But for movie fans, Picksum Ipsum is a fun and free addition.
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Staples Is Now Selling 3D Printers
Do you guys have any Green Day? Really? Yeah, like the early Knitting Factory stuff. Not this Dookie garbage. Yeah, I liked them before they sold out. What about Neutral Milk Hotel? Is the new album any good? Yeah, I know, dude. What’s the Avery Island junk? Serious bummer after Aeroplane.
What else you got? Staples is selling Cube 3D Printers for $1,299? Seriously? That is total bull. I remember when I used to see 3D printers in like hackerspaces down in Alphabet City and now they sold out like that? Damn. People do anything for money.
I mean that’s totally stupid. Real fans are all totally into 3D printing but when you get it all corporate you lose so much cred, you know? Like how the Pixies sold out and like imploded. I know. Makerbot would never sell their stuff at Best Buy. Who’s going to buy one? Some stockbroker jerk in a suit? Those dudes are legit punk.
But man, I’m telling you: 3D printing is totally over. I saw the first Shapeways stuff come off the line back in 2007 when they played the Netherlands and I was totally there when the guys at Form Labs launched the Form:One on stage at CBGB. For these guys to totally sell out is absolute garbage. Man, what’s next? Is Oasis going to write a song about PLA? Is Staples going to sell 3D printers next to those big jugs of pretzels? So dumb.
Whatever. Put on “Dry the Rain.” Maybe we can move some of these CDs out of here to make room for our corporate shill BS 3D printer. Jeeze.
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Twitter and Comedy Central kick off 5-day #ComedyFest with Mel Brooks’ first tweet
Twitter and Comedy Central have kicked off a five-day experimental online comedy festival that will take place on Twitter and Vine, beginning first with a live-streamed event featuring Mel Brooks, the “2,000 Year Old Man,” as he signs up for a Twitter account with the help of Carl Reiner and Judd Apatow.
Brooks and Reiner made literal comedic history in the 1960s with their 2,000 Year Old Man sketches. Now they’re modernizing the gag by bringing Brooks onto Twitter. To watch the event, you can follow @MelBrooks’ tweets, hit up the live-stream, or watch from Comedy Central’s website.
This is my 1st tweet – watch me with @carlreiner & @juddapatow live at 5E/2P for #comedyfest P.S. Carl made me do it. new.livestream.com/comedyfest/mel…
— Mel Brooks (@MelBrooks) April 29, 2013
Announced last week, the festival, which is named #ComedyFest, runs from April 29 to May 3. It features 68 comedians, with a range of events including live-tweeting episodes, Q&A panels, drinking games, a roast and a Vine party. Comedy Central has the full schedule for the week, or you can read Twitter’s invitation post for the event.
Fresh off a huge ad deal with Starcom MediaVest Group, Twitter is forging ahead as a legitimate media company. This week’s partnership with Comedy Central is already a huge affirmation of the power of Twitter’s platform, though the kind of reception it gets will determine its success.
In many ways, comedians are an ideal use case for Twitter, assuming they can fit their jokes into 140 characters. With Comedy Central putting the full arsenal of Twitter’s technology: hashtag, Vines, and in-tweet streaming, to work this week, there’s a good chance that some of the platform’s 200 million active users will get a kick out of it.
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Nick Cave’s new Spotify app lets you generate playlists based on sex, blasphemy, murder, and more
Spotify’s first artist-specific apps went live last June, with Quincy Jones, Tiësto, Rancid and Disturbed jumping onboard in the first instance. Spotify apps are designed to help musicians categorise and curate specific tracks and playlists from Spotify’s catalog, offering users behind-the-scenes updates, photos and artwork, as well as charts and artist picks to help introduce them to new music.
A slew of artists have launched a Spotify app since, but the latest one, courtesy of Aussie songsmith Nick Cave, is worth checking out.
Nick Cave takes to Spotify
Timed to coincide with the launch of his latest album, Push the Sky Away (Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds’ fifteenth studio album), Nick sifted through his musical history and categorized each song individually for this app. So, rather than browsing by the usual filters, Cave’s Spotify app allows fans to explore 4 decades of music by themes such as Sex, Comic, Heart Break, Blasphemy, Confessional, Murder and Mayhem, Classic, Love, Spiritual and Super Dark.
The app covers Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Grinderman, The Birthday Party catalogues and other musical endeavors of his, including his soundtracks. Spin the wheel and you’ll end up with an emotion-based playlist, constructed by the great man himself.
It also features a selection of playlists hand-picked by artists and other famous fans, including Lou Reed, Flea, Shane McGowan, Jarvis Cocker, Cate Blanchett and others. More will be added through the year too.
Nick Cave worked with Manchester-based Web design agency Retrofuzz, and the team at Kobalt Label Services, to develop the app. Indeed, it’s interesting to see Spotify develop as a platform, and how artists and agencies are getting creative with what was once simply an “iTunes for streaming” music service.
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