Blow My Mindsday: August 8, 2012

Each Wednesday, I post some of my favorite can’t-miss links, images, and otherwise mindblowing goodies from across the web.

Vijay Pandurangan created this amazing data visualization of the general color trends of movie posters since 1914? The project began with an observation that recent film posters tend towards dark blue, and it turns out, he was right. “It is true that movie posters are much more blue, and much less orange than they used to be…[and]This does appear to be a steady trend since 1915.”

Read on to find out more about Vijay’s results

Incredible kite-inspired colorful sculptures floating in the wind by German-Czech photographic duo René & Radka 

You Choose Wrong is a collection of the unfortunate endings from Choose Your Own Adventure novels

Currencies of the World Map

Engrain tactile wooden keyboard. I’ll take three.