We launched paintthatshitgold.com today to coincide with the release of Atmosphere's new album, "When Life Give You Lemons, You Paint That Shit Gold".

The site allows you capture and tag your favorite corners of the web (or your least favorite, if you're the glass half empty type) all while listening to songs from the album. Check it out, you'll find an audio player with a legit equalizer (finally!), and a realtime web capture utility.

My sad attempt to be a graffiti artist is pictured above. I'm pretty sure that you folks will be able to do better.

To make the web capture stuff work, we had to build a little internet rendering farm to tap into the pipes and process all those juicy slices of interweb that people are sending in. I've literally got one of fifteen or so machines sitting on my desk right now that's sole purpose in life is to load up web pages and screen capture them for Atmosphere fans. How cool is that?

Linkses:

• Paint That Shit Gold
• Grab the album here - if you dig the music on the site, which you will
• Atmosphere's Myspace page

This interactive cloth physics simulation may just trick you into learning.  I never knew a piece of cloth could be so much fun.  Link.

Rock it out with hand bells and play Handbell Hero.  Choose between "Jingle Bells", "Rudolph the Red-Nose Reindeer", and "Frosty the Snowman", and see if you're good enough to join the VML Handbell Choir.

Previously:
The Tale of the Fourteen Christmas Ringers
Flute Hero

The Frost family was blessed with a son every winter.  On the arrival of their seventh son, they began a tradition of purchasing a bell and ringing it to display their joy.  After the birth of the 14th son, the eldest sons were fed up and murdered their parents with the very bells that were used to symbolize the joyous births.

The Frost boys were feared so much that a bounty hunter named Nick Claus was hired by the locals to have all 14 boys captured, tortured and killed. 

Even though the Frost boys and dead and gone their eerie spirits still live on through this interactive website in which you can listen to them play four different Christmas tunes or record your very own Christmas tune, which you can send to a friend.  Nothing says 'Merry Christmas' more than a bunch a dead guys ringing bells.

Link [via MeFi]

Last year, OfficeMax created the very fun Elf Yourself site where you could upload a picture of yourself and send off e-cards to friends of family of you dancing around like a silly elf. They've updated their site and now you can upload up to four faces. 

If you are feeling more 'humbug' than 'ho ho ho', OfficeMax has created another site, Scrooge Yourself, which is more suited for those who are grumps during the holiday season. 

Now there are two sites for your naughty and nice sides.


Update:
Also check out the Holiday Qee Maker!

HEMA put together a fun, visual product page that is worth a look.  Check it out. 

[via meshly]

Build Your Wild Self is a fun interactive website put together by the Bronx Zoo and Deutsch New York where kids mix and match animal parts onto avatars they create of themselves.  [via The Presurfer]

Previously:
Create your own Simpsons character,  South Park Create-a-Character, Mr. Men & Little Miss, Become an M&M

Programmers Kasper Neilson and Ole Iverson from Denmark have developed interactive learning floors called "Wisdom Wells".  Not meant to replace ordinary classroom teaching, Wisdom Wells not only encourages individual learning, but also collaborative learning where the students can learn from each other.  [link]

Monoface is a fun interactive site where you mix-match facial features to create a single person.  There is a possibility of 759,375 different faces. 

How does it work?  Just click the mouth, nose, head and each eye in order to choose with specific features you like the most.

(The image to your left is made up of Troy's head and shoulders, Heather's mouth, Heather's nose, Chris's left eye, and Troy's right eye.)

[via meshly]

Previously:
South Park Create-a-Character, Become an M&M, OfficeMax's Elf Yourself, Mr. Men & Little Miss

Electroland's latest project is EnterActive which is located on 11th and Flower in Los Angeles.  (Now I have no idea where that is in Los Angeles, but I thought I'd mention it in case our L.A. 'Cadre guests want to check it out.)

This project consists of a luminous field of LED lights embedded into the entry walkway that respond to the presence of visitors; a massive display of lights on the building face that mirror the patterns of the entry; and video displays in the lobby and entry areas.

While you're at it, check out their other proejcts as well -- very cool stuff.

[via delicious]