plus nine. neo now.

Hi there. We're moving.

Well, actually, we're just moving plus nine from this host to our own server. As of now, please check out www.thewavingcat.com. This will be our new home, and our new name.

Nothing much changes, but twoday's recent down-times and some other technical limitations just make it a better choice for us to move on. During the next couple of days, there may be some loose odds and ends - please don't let them put you off. In a few days, the site will be all new and shiny. :)

This site will stay online for awhile. (Partly due to some export/import issues, partly because we've grown fond of it.) But there won't be any new content on this server, as all the new stuff goes directly to our new site: www.thewavingcat.com. (Apropos stickyness of messages, huh?)

Sorry for any inconveniences. You know how it is. We hope to see you soon on the new site!

(I am excited! Yeah!)

AnomalousNYC: Saints of the Lower East Side

Street Art, Berlin 2006.

Larry Knox was commissioned to produce a cover for a reprint of HG Wells's War of the Worlds, on the cheap.


"The squid was purchased one dreary March Saturday morning in a seafood market located in the Chinatown district of Philadelphia", reads the description.

Larry put the whole photo sequence on his website. (Also, there's a beautiful step-by-step on how to turn yourself into Frankenstein.) There should definitively be more websites like that! Thanks, Larry!

[via Boing Boing]

Spiegel DesignKlicks has this weird futuristic quasi-3D interface. (You scroll/fly through a three-dimensional space where all the info and photos are spread out.) Fascinating, but quite odd, too: The images just fly by, and it's really hard to actually stop at one to have a look...

The site itself is quite cool, as it's clearly very experimental. Maybe a bit too much so: DesignKlicks is primarily a design & photography site, but it also tries to tackle a few other big issues/feats at the same time:

• The 3D interface mentioned above, which is a mix between a tag cloud and some hyper-hyper-whatever interface.
• A community site featuring votes, rankings and other 2.0-ish stuff.
• A bit of a personality, bloggish site featuring artists and experts.

I hope they don't lose it, as the overall thing looks quite cool and clearly has the potential to be remembered as the ambitious project that it really is. It'd be fun talking to the people behind it, actually, to see if they really know what they're on to...

[file under interface, visualization, InformationArchitecture]

Lawrence Yung's Gundam Expo 2005 Flickr Set

Name that film! #2

Essen-Kray, 1984


Ausstellung eines Gardinengeschäfts, Duisburg, 1984


Mitteilung in einem Schaufenster, Essen-Frohnhausen, 1988

Reinhard Krause: Die 80er. Einkaufen im Ruhrgebiet.

[via (i thik) he was a journalist]

Cellar.org has great pictures of a fire-extinguisher system in an airport hangar going awry. Or too well, that is. When the foam just wouldn't stop flowing after 15 secs, it just got a little out of control. Like, two storeys out of control...

[via Boing Boing]

Depending on how you cut the film, I was mostly happy; I was mostly sad; I made good choices; I made bad choices. Regardless, I've got to clean the bathroom, and my neighbor is going to help me wash the last of the dishes.

FTrain is really quite a beautiful weblog, by Harper's Paul Ford. (Also, who's into that kinda stuff, check out the site structure. I found it quite captivating.)