GUI Galaxy

Audiotool is an ultra-badass web-based music creation tool. With a bevy of insane interface options, you can also open and remix other peoples’ arrangements, as well as follow other users social media-style.

Despite being a viral marketing draw, IE6 Funeral is a concept very near and dear to my heart. Aten Design Group in Denver is throwing a party …funeral …to bid a final farewell to the browser moronic web denizens still use in droves nearly 9 years after its release. If a portion of those users end up attending, I’ll be on hand solely to slap them.

The Code Organ site lets you input a url, and then via its self-described “complex algorithm”, turns the site’s source code into synth music. On 3 tries, GUIGalaxy.net first sounded like a trance porno soundtrack… then a 70′s-era dish soap commercial… then like a monkey was banging on a Casio keyboard with its forehead. Just as I had envisioned, when pondering this site’s possible conversion into music, so many, many times.

Ever wonder how an Avatar video game in the Atari era would’ve looked? Playing as a Na’vi on Pandora, living as Jake Sully in clunky polygon delight? No? Yea man, me neither. That’s preposterous. Anyway, Penney Design mocked up some clever video game box covers of how some modern films might’ve looked way back when.

Award-winning photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto‘s Lightning Fields project is an amazing display of the creations that (up to) 400,000 volts — through film to a metal table — can produce. Fuzzy leaves and tree-like fractal branching, for the most part.

What would books on your favorite social media addictions look like in days of yore? Hulk4598 – Retrofuturs illustration et web agency says just like this, actually. Very cleverly-designed, and available for purchase in poster-size.

The web-specific “Get a Mac” ads that have cropped up previously are clever in how the various components on a page interact with each other. A new ad making the rounds on sites like the New York Times and YouTube covers PC users who are switching to a Mac instead of upgrading their OS to Windows 7.

Today, Yahoo! closes their $3.56 billion acquisition from 1999, GeoCities.  The flagship company to deliver website creation tools to those without good taste any knowledge of html, has left us with its legacy of animated star field backgrounds, torches, and spinning skulls.  Admit it, you’re kind of nostalgic about those early days of the web.  Take a trip through websites past with this blinktacular tribute to GeoCities!  For those of you who feel abandoned by Yahoo!, Google steps up to the plate with Google Sites.  Before you begin, might I suggest you visit Gifs.net for some animated Under Construction graphic awesomeness!