It’ll Be Better

Stream Francis and the Lights' new album from a pioneering HTML5 site

The world’s first HTML5 embeddable album, Francis and the Lights’ It’ll Be Better site simplifies the music listening process for Apple’s new less Flash-friendly digital world. Developed by Muxtape founder Justin Ouellette, he created it specifically to play on the iPad and new iPhone 4, which otherwise can’t stream most music because of the operating system’s lack of Flash support. And, with this new site …

RAL 5015

Balloon-enabled HD views, cultural parking lot bonanzas, scientific swearing, and more in our weekly link list

French multimedia artist Xavier Veilhan’s work often focuses on transportation and movement, like in his recent RAL 5015 sculpture. He created the fully functional blue motorboat in collaboration with Frauscher shipyard.

Xyxx

Balloon-enabled HD views, cultural parking lot bonanzas, scientific swearing, and more in our weekly link list

A “visual conversation between two iPhones and two lovers,” the Tumblr Xyxx anonymously documents the relationship between a female (xx) and male (xy) couple through beautiful images which are, surprisingly (though probably not without an app or two), all taken on iPhones.