Harmony is a new drawing tool, a HTML5/Canvas experiment with great potential. It provides some unique brush styles, and can produce some great-looking charcoal pencil style sketches, among other things. Better to try it out than explain it in words.

Creator Mr. Doob (Richard Cabello) explains how he used Canvas to make it darker the more you draw over it:

The whole thing is quite modular so I can keep adding more brush styles whenever I get inspired. During the process I found out that, for some reason (apparently lack of hardware acceleration), Firefox and Opera do not support context.globalCompositeOperation = ‘darker’. This was on the HTML5 spec before but got removed. Just so you know what I’m talking about, this is like the “multiply” blending in Photoshop. Webkit does support it tho. I hope they put it back on the specs and all browsers support it.

You can also save images using data URI encoding.

As it works on webkit, he made sure it worked on the mobile Android and iPhone browsers. No multi-touch as yet, but the touch UI still makes a nice input mechanism.

(Thanks FND)

As Sean Bonner tweeted over the weekend, this may well be the best 17 seconds of your life.

Well clearly it appears I do after recognising nearly all of the top 100 greatest hits of YouTube cleverly packed into 4 Minutes:

Which one puts the biggest smile on your face?

Marilyn sez, “Urban Camouflage: imaginative use of military ghillie suit where you look like a tree, local vegetation etc. Funny videos! Another guy disguised to look lie a pile of boxes that has tumbled from shelves in the warehouse area. When he starts to shuffle away it’s funny!” Shown here: “person disguised as pile of colored paper at Ikea, next to display of same.”

URBAN CAMOUFLAGE

(Thanks, Marilyn!)

The fun almost stops when some lady in the kitchen gets uppity, but luckily enough the sushi chefs put it back on track and back to its owner. Is a sushi place the only place with a conveyer belt? I can’t think of any other restaurant type that does this. I would like to see more, though.

If you’re looking for a more surreal trip around a sushi belt, here you go. [Boing Boing]

Amid at Cartoon Brew says: “London-based animator Michael Schlingmann (previously on Cartoon Brew) created this funny 20-second animated pun. The animation is perfect.” (Thanks, Brandon!)

Bonnie sez, “Everyone has at least one friend who has seen parts of the Star Wars original trilogy but can’t quite tell you every plot point in order. Joe Nicolosi recorded his friend Amanda as she retells the story from the tiny amount she’s seen with hilarious results.”

Star Wars: Retold (by someone who hasn’t seen it)

(Thanks, Bonnie!)

You can find a whole collection of historical tweets over at historicaltweets.com. Most of them are hilarious. I loved the Elvis tweet “so comfortable, you’ll think you died and gone to heaven.” and the Benjamin Franklin’s “It’s all about the me’s, baby“. What would Jesus have Tweeted? It’s there!

Can you think of other historical figures and what they would have tweeted?

A digital design shop in Australia, Boffswana, shows off a neat parlor trick in the video above. It places a 3D Flash character made with Papervision into a regular Webcam video using nothing more than a paper printout. (Update: Oh, and you can print it out yourself and add the character to your own video).

Eat your heart out, George Lucas.

(Hat tip to Cory O’Brien).

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