This is a great way of profiling an album. Can’t wait to get my hands on it.

During the great British snow-dump of 2009 I built myself a sledge out of wooden palette that I found in a skip. During the build I documented the process and wrote an instruction guide that I posted in Instructables. As it turns out almost one year on, with snow blanketing the whole country the instructions are still a hit, and have even been featured by the site and listed on their homepage.

For anyone interested in building their own sledge, the instructions are here:

How to make a sledge out of wooden palette – More DIY How To Projects

For me 2009 has been a great year for music, thanks to the likes of Passion Pit, The XX, Discovery and all of the record labels able to bring them to market. 2010 is also hotting up to be a great year. Here is a selection of the bands that I’m most exicited about.

Delphic

Delphic – Doubt from Modular People on Vimeo.

Everything Everything

The Drums

Thanks to the BBC’s Sound of 2010 for pointing these bands out

This is the quite possibly one of the most exciting albums of the last decade (for me)!

The Blakroc project brings together the brilliant Black Keys and the music mogul Damond Dash, who enlist the likes of Mos Def, Pharoahe Monch and Q-Tip to create blues / hip-hop crossover album.

I’ve gotta get my hands on this.

Via Clash Music

I have recently been reading about the life of Hadian and whilst fascinating, I have often wondered what the man himself would think if he were to read the literature about him 2000 years after his death. Would he be impressed with the closeness to fact, or be in hysterics over the inaccuracies pieced together from various scrolls?

This video sums my thought up:

Imagine that; Oxford Dons in Beatology.

Via DNS

United Snakes from United Visual Artists on Vimeo.

Awesome new video for Massive Attack by the talented digital artists at UVA. The video was designed using custom 3D software developed by UVA (presumably with OpenFrameworks), which allowed the creation of spontaneous, organic forms, simply by “sketching” the outlines.

I would love to see the production process in action.

It’s also the first Massive Attack tune that I’ve liked in quite a while.

Via Sell Sell

Social platforms have revolutionised the may that we communicate in ways that were unimaginable as recently as 15 years ago. This infographic presents when each of big sites were established and how many users they have.

It’s a few months out of date, as Facebook is now up to the 350,000,000 mark and Twitter is steeply climbing, but it gets across the point

Via Focus

Finally; someone has built an iPhone app that can control a toy car.

Via Dom O’Brien