Andy Thompson is an entrepreneur, a designer and a mostly sane human being building incredibly awesome things on the internet. He calls Brooklyn home. Have a question? Ask away.Tumblr (3.0; @officiallyrad)http://www.officiallyrad.com/<iframe width="400" height="225" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/MejbOFk7H6c?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><p>As usual, the new OKGO video is awesome, but this time its also an awesome Chevy ad</p>http://www.officiallyrad.com/post/17135212254http://www.officiallyrad.com/post/17135212254Sun, 05 Feb 2012 22:23:46 -0500“Apple’s iPhone business alone is now bigger than Microsoft. Not Windows. Not Office. Microsoft. Think about that. The iPhone did not exist five years ago. And now it’s bigger than a company that, 15 years ago, was dragged into court and threatened with forcible break-up because it had amassed an unassailable and unthinkably profitable monopoly. The iPhone also appears to be considerably more profitable than Microsoft.”<br/><br/> - <em><p>Pretty amazing milestone. especially considering that Apple created an entirely new market that Microsoft is struggling to compete in. Sure makes Balmer’s <a href="http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2007/04/ballmer-says-iphone-has-no-chance-to-gain-significant-market-share.ars" target="_blank">remarks</a> in 2007  sound even more ridiculous.</p> <p><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/iphone-bigger-than-microsoft-2012-2" target="_blank">Apple’s iPhone Business Alone Is Now Bigger Than All Of Microsoft</a> </p> <p>(via <a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://jonathanmarcus.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">jonathanmarcus</a>)</p></em>http://www.officiallyrad.com/post/17044382401http://www.officiallyrad.com/post/17044382401Sat, 04 Feb 2012 14:30:33 -0500tech<object width="400" height="269"><param name="movie" value="http://www.liveleak.com/e/c66_1328115732" /><param name="wmode" value="transparent" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><embed src="http://www.liveleak.com/e/c66_1328115732" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" allowscriptaccess="always" width="400" height="269"></embed></object><br/><br/><p>Blowing up a mountain (in HD)</p>http://www.officiallyrad.com/post/16968051198http://www.officiallyrad.com/post/16968051198Fri, 03 Feb 2012 03:24:00 -0500<img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyp9hy9XZZ1qz6yoko1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyp9hy9XZZ1qz6yoko2_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyp9hy9XZZ1qz6yoko3_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyp9hy9XZZ1qz6yoko4_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><p><span class="Apple-style-span">In Hong Kong, people drive on the left side of the road.</span></p> <p><span class="Apple-style-span"> In mainland China, they drive on the right side.</span></p> <p><span class="Apple-style-span"><a href="http://www.archdaily.com/64354/pearl-river-necklace-nl-architects/" target="_blank">This is the solution.</a></span></p> <p><span class="Apple-style-span"><br/></span></p>http://www.officiallyrad.com/post/16853027212http://www.officiallyrad.com/post/16853027212Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:49:10 -0500architecture<iframe width="400" height="299" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/bOh3f2GfzcA?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><p>“I don’t have email, remember? I don’t know what you’re talking about.”</p>http://www.officiallyrad.com/post/16851645861http://www.officiallyrad.com/post/16851645861Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:08:52 -0500internetjobs<object width="400" height="237" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" id="ep"><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="wmode" value="transparent" /><param name="movie" value="http://i.cdn.turner.com/money/.element/apps/cvp/4.0/swf/cnn_money_384x216_embed.swf?context=embed&videoId=/video/smallbusiness/2011/09/09/sbiz_wtc_subway.cnnmoney" /><param name="bgcolor" value="#000000" /><embed src="http://i.cdn.turner.com/money/.element/apps/cvp/4.0/swf/cnn_money_384x216_embed.swf?context=embed&videoId=/video/smallbusiness/2011/09/09/sbiz_wtc_subway.cnnmoney" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" bgcolor="#000000" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="400" wmode="transparent" height="237"></embed></object><br/><br/><p>Subway sandwich store inside One World Trade Center.</p> <p>It’s raised up one floor every week, feeding the hundreds of steel workers building the structure</p>http://www.officiallyrad.com/post/16805902142http://www.officiallyrad.com/post/16805902142Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:06:00 -0500nyc<iframe width="400" height="225" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/dcDN409ZBv4?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><p>Flying People in New York City (by <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcDN409ZBv4&feature=player_embedded" target="_blank">ChronicleNYC</a>)</p> <p>via <a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://benjaminpalmer.tumblr.com/post/16774574527/flying-people-in-new-york-city-by-chroniclenyc" target="_blank">benjaminpalmer</a></p>http://www.officiallyrad.com/post/16787798119http://www.officiallyrad.com/post/16787798119Mon, 30 Jan 2012 19:14:34 -0500<iframe width="400" height="225" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/3OQWjsqW6Ts?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://cockenblog.tumblr.com/post/16590637071/happy-brand-new-britanick-video-day-the-kiss" target="_blank">cockenblog</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Happy Brand New Britanick Video Day! “The Kiss”</p> </blockquote>http://www.officiallyrad.com/post/16600538999http://www.officiallyrad.com/post/16600538999Fri, 27 Jan 2012 18:01:18 -0500<img src="http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyg381prUq1qz6yoko1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>WUT?</p>http://www.officiallyrad.com/post/16569173782http://www.officiallyrad.com/post/16569173782Fri, 27 Jan 2012 01:55:13 -0500<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyaie2FoWf1qz6yoko1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://www.officiallyrad.com/post/16398230371http://www.officiallyrad.com/post/16398230371Tue, 24 Jan 2012 01:37:14 -0500installation<iframe width="400" height="299" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/N1tTN-b5KHg?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><p>I’ve had this song stuck in my head all night, so you should too.</p> <p>Also, Peter Gabriel is a goddamn legend.</p>http://www.officiallyrad.com/post/16386403257http://www.officiallyrad.com/post/16386403257Mon, 23 Jan 2012 21:42:28 -0500sledgehammerpeter gabrielcatchy shit<iframe width="400" height="299" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/PslNmhjpolY?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://jstn.cc/post/16335567308" target="_blank">jstn</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>I was trying to find a <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoBSUbVabec" target="_blank">video</a> about a program called Flame and found this instead.</p> </blockquote> <p>Awesomely dangerous</p>http://www.officiallyrad.com/post/16366615530http://www.officiallyrad.com/post/16366615530Mon, 23 Jan 2012 16:38:19 -0500<img src="http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxznhrcRhK1qaxovpo1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxznhrcRhK1qaxovpo2_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxznhrcRhK1qaxovpo3_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><p>One of my favorite books ever when I was a kid</p> <p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://vizualize.tumblr.com/post/16056558555/beautiful-cross-section-illustrations-by-stephen" target="_blank">vizualize</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Beautiful cross section illustrations by <strong><a href="http://www.stephenbiesty.co.uk" target="_blank">Stephen Biesty</a></strong></p> </blockquote>http://www.officiallyrad.com/post/16070308602http://www.officiallyrad.com/post/16070308602Wed, 18 Jan 2012 14:00:06 -0500<img src="http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxzxouRKRx1qz6yoko1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p><span>Getting a story + photo in the <span><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/18/business/for-some-internet-start-ups-a-failure-is-just-the-beginning.html?_r=1&ref=business" target="_blank">New York Times</a></span> > depressingly blunt photo caption.</span></p>http://www.officiallyrad.com/post/16060380612http://www.officiallyrad.com/post/16060380612Wed, 18 Jan 2012 08:34:06 -0500lolinternet“George Lucas has decided to devote the rest of his life to what cineastes in the 1970s used to call personal films. They’ll be small in scope, esoteric in subject and screened mostly in art houses. They’ll be like the experimental movies Lucas made in the 1960s, around the time he was at U.S.C. film school, when he recorded clouds moving over the desert and made a movie based on an E. E. Cummings poem.”<br/><br/> - <em> <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/22/magazine/george-lucas-red-tails.html?pagewanted=all?src=tp" target="_blank">NYT</a> via <a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://blog.whiskyvangoghgo.com/" target="_blank">whiskyvangoghgo</a></em>http://www.officiallyrad.com/post/16022676417http://www.officiallyrad.com/post/16022676417Tue, 17 Jan 2012 16:31:35 -0500“<p>The sultan was so intent on eradicating coffee that he would disguise himself as a commoner and stalk the streets of Istanbul with a hundred-pound broadsword. Unfortunate coffee drinkers were decapitated as they sipped.</p> <p>Murad IV’s successor was more lenient. The punishment for a first offense was a light cudgeling. Caught with coffee a second time, the perpetrator was sewn into a leather bag and tossed in the river.</p> <p>But people still drank coffee. Even with the sultan at the front door with a sword and the executioner at the back door with a sewing kit, they still wanted their daily cup of joe. And that’s the history of coffee in a bean skin: Old habits die hard.</p>”<br/><br/> - <em><a href="http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2012/01/10/144988133/drink-coffee-off-with-your-head" target="_blank">Drink Coffee? Off With Your Head!</a> on NPR</em>http://www.officiallyrad.com/post/16015846693http://www.officiallyrad.com/post/16015846693Tue, 17 Jan 2012 14:04:43 -0500coffeejonesin'<iframe width="400" height="300" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/MvaEmPQnbWk?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><p>Bjork - Crystalline</p>http://www.officiallyrad.com/post/15995867343http://www.officiallyrad.com/post/15995867343Tue, 17 Jan 2012 00:37:14 -0500awesome breakdown<img src="http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxaqj33kmy1r7ux50o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://www.officiallyrad.com/post/15805017460http://www.officiallyrad.com/post/15805017460Fri, 13 Jan 2012 21:22:17 -0500<iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/26297793" width="400" height="300" frameborder="0"></iframe><br/><br/><p><a href="http://davehillphoto.com" target="_blank">Dave Hill</a>’s Adventure Series photo compositions deconstructed in 3d</p>http://www.officiallyrad.com/post/15612458298http://www.officiallyrad.com/post/15612458298Tue, 10 Jan 2012 03:06:00 -0500awesometotally shopped<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxjmc06qsq1qz6yoko1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxjmc06qsq1qz6yoko2_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxjmc06qsq1qz6yoko3_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxjmc06qsq1qz6yoko4_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxjmc06qsq1qz6yoko5_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><p><a href="http://www.scoutingny.com/?p=4765" target="_blank">Abandoned missile silo home in upstate NY</a></p>http://www.officiallyrad.com/post/15573082679http://www.officiallyrad.com/post/15573082679Mon, 09 Jan 2012 13:07:12 -0500want