Write a wise saying and your name will live forever.
- Anonymous
First off check out two of the best blogs out there right now.
Mark Fossen at Focused Totality and Jim Roeg at Double Articulation
You can't go wrong with either one of them.
Excellent new site at cidoc.net
A new magazine and an interesting new content destination for designers interested in branding and corporate identity. cidoc.net brings you an archive of corporate identity documentation, corporate design manuals, styleguides and also logo- und manual-reviews, etc. Find the freshes news about corporate and brand identities. We hope you like it and find here useful information for your daily work.
Best New Commercial of the Year? I don't know about that, but it sure is fun.
The History of Photoshop
I jumped on with 3.0 I think.
Deep/Young Ethereal Radio- Fresh mixes as caprice dictates and bandwidth allows.
A Variety of Metro Logos
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Graffiti Analysis makes visible the unseen movements of graffiti writers in the creation of a tag. Motion tracking, computer vision technology and a custom C++ application are used to record and analyze a graffiti writer’s pen movement over time.
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Minority Report Style computer interfaces
WFMU is a cool new station I listen to over the net. My favorite is still KEXP.org, but this comes close.
Logo R.I.P. - A Commemoration of Dead Logotypes
Remember when you used to make rubberband guns? Well these are rubberband guns taken to the next level.
Make Blog is a very cool technology blog that I recently discovered.
The Spidron is a planar figure consisting of two alternating sequences of isosceles triangles which, once it is folded along the edges, exhibits extraordinary spatial properties.The Spidron can be used to construct various space-filling polyhedra and reliefs, while its deformations render it suitable for the construction of finely adjustable dynamic structures.
Yeah that was gibberish to me too, but go look anyway.
Hilarious Star Wars English Subtitles from a bootleg DVD in China.
This game took up hours of my time when I first found it.
Ripple is an open-source framework, whose primary objective is to make Flash content searchable by search engines.
An angry girlfriend beats her boyfriend with his own prosthetic leg. Damn that's harsh.
Movies that look good to me:
The Chumscrubber
Thumbsucker
Walk the Line
Everything is Illuminated
Domino
Aeon Flux
Like those name generators that pop up everywhere on the net? Now you can find them in one place.
Windows Vista viruses are already out there and the operating system isn't even public yet. Yeah, this looks good.
Add Flash to your powerpoint presentations easily. I could have used this about two years ago. Now? Not so much.
Google News Adds RSS Feeds
Awesome! Codestyle conducted a survey to discover what the most common fonts on a user's system were. This helps a lot though the results are almost common sense.
The man behind President Bush's speeches is finally revealed.
Correct moronic Microsoft HTML with the demoroniser. Once again I could have used this about two years ago.
Ethics in digital manipulation.
Sewing machine illustrations.
The Camera Is the Film—Rethinking Digital Photography
A colorchart made from Flickr photos.
Common recently teamed with MK12 to produce this stunning video.
A new bingo variation has surfaced. Hipster Bingo!
Microsoft believes that the iPod will face much stronger competition than it has done in the past as new products from rival companies are released in the run up to Christmas.
You know why the Ipod is on top? It's not the product it's the marketing. There are better mp3 players out there with more features for less money, they just don't market well. People are buying the name, not the player.
Remember that guy that was making furniture out of Fed Ex boxes? He recieved a cease and desist order from Fed Ex. Damn the Man!!
Check out Paul Anka's new album where he covers songs like Black Hole Sun, Everybody Hurts, and Smells Like Teen Spirit all in a crooner style. Black Hole Sun is my favorite. After you listen to the songs jump over to NPR to read more about him. I love me some NPR.
Since 2001 Dinosaur Adventure Land has been a place where families can come to learn about God's Creation through science and the bible.
Demystifying VoIP from C-Net.
More transparent monitor screens. I used to do this in my old office.
Normal Natural has some very interesting and very gestural illustrations.
Robocat! That's awesome. Wait till it tries to run up against the furniture.
Flash Player 8 is out.
Speakeasy releases a "bumper edition" of Elk's Run to get everyone caught up.
Matt Wagner's Batman project sounds interesting. Why does everything have to be a "Year One" story though?
Here's the Identity Crisis #2 cover. I'm not too impressed. I like Perez's cover to #1 though.
July 2005 Sales Charts
Anyone else participating in the Fantasy Comic Book League at Metti-publisher? I'm in the Comicsters if anyone is interested.
Here's my line-up for now:
SEAN PHILLIPS (A) Cover Artist
J.H. WILLIAMS III (A) Cover Artist
STUART IMMONEN (A) Monthly Artist
MIKE MCKONE (A) Monthly Artist
ED BRUBAKER (W) Monthly Writer
WARREN ELLIS (W) Monthly Writer
STEVE DILLON (A) Special Artist
RYAN SOOK (A) Special Artist
KURT BUSIEK (W) Special Writer
KEITH GIFFEN (W) Special Writer
PAUL JENKINS (W) Bench
DAN SLOTT (W) Bench
JOE MADUREIRA (A) Bench
MIKE WIERINGO (A) Bench
PETE WOODS (A) Bench
The only person I got that I'm not a huge fan of is Joe Mad. The rest of my line-up were personal picks.
I hit the next button on blogger a couple of times and found And This Quiet Refrain. So far I like what I see.
If I ever get around to writing the summaries I'll be participating in Spoilt!.
Doom is back at the Hurting. Tim examines the Life of Reily as well.
I've been told on several occasions I need to pick up Bumperboy Loses His Marbles!!
The State of The Blogosphere
Dave Lartigue talks Geekonomics
Bugpowder needs about 30 logos. See if you can help out this fine blog if you have any graphics skills. It'll give you a chance to show off too.
First off check out two of the best blogs out there right now.
Mark Fossen at Focused Totality and Jim Roeg at Double Articulation
You can't go wrong with either one of them.
Excellent new site at cidoc.net
A new magazine and an interesting new content destination for designers interested in branding and corporate identity. cidoc.net brings you an archive of corporate identity documentation, corporate design manuals, styleguides and also logo- und manual-reviews, etc. Find the freshes news about corporate and brand identities. We hope you like it and find here useful information for your daily work.
Best New Commercial of the Year? I don't know about that, but it sure is fun.
The History of Photoshop
I jumped on with 3.0 I think.
Deep/Young Ethereal Radio- Fresh mixes as caprice dictates and bandwidth allows.
A Variety of Metro Logos
>Graffiti Analysis makes visible the unseen movements of graffiti writers in the creation of a tag. Motion tracking, computer vision technology and a custom C++ application are used to record and analyze a graffiti writer’s pen movement over time.
>Minority Report Style computer interfaces
WFMU is a cool new station I listen to over the net. My favorite is still KEXP.org, but this comes close.
Logo R.I.P. - A Commemoration of Dead Logotypes
Remember when you used to make rubberband guns? Well these are rubberband guns taken to the next level.
Make Blog is a very cool technology blog that I recently discovered.
The Spidron is a planar figure consisting of two alternating sequences of isosceles triangles which, once it is folded along the edges, exhibits extraordinary spatial properties.The Spidron can be used to construct various space-filling polyhedra and reliefs, while its deformations render it suitable for the construction of finely adjustable dynamic structures.
Yeah that was gibberish to me too, but go look anyway.
Hilarious Star Wars English Subtitles from a bootleg DVD in China.
This game took up hours of my time when I first found it.
Ripple is an open-source framework, whose primary objective is to make Flash content searchable by search engines.
An angry girlfriend beats her boyfriend with his own prosthetic leg. Damn that's harsh.
Movies that look good to me:
The Chumscrubber
Thumbsucker
Walk the Line
Everything is Illuminated
Domino
Aeon Flux
Like those name generators that pop up everywhere on the net? Now you can find them in one place.
Windows Vista viruses are already out there and the operating system isn't even public yet. Yeah, this looks good.
Add Flash to your powerpoint presentations easily. I could have used this about two years ago. Now? Not so much.
Google News Adds RSS Feeds
Awesome! Codestyle conducted a survey to discover what the most common fonts on a user's system were. This helps a lot though the results are almost common sense.
The man behind President Bush's speeches is finally revealed.
Correct moronic Microsoft HTML with the demoroniser. Once again I could have used this about two years ago.
Ethics in digital manipulation.
“A good retoucher can basically make the person in the picture look better, enhance the way they look,” says Betts, who was also a former top fashion editor at Vogue. “They can do anything. They can open eyes wider, make them brighter, change the shape, contour the face a lot.”
As a practiced Photoshop professional, I would say this is essentially a gross understatement. While the statement : “They can do anything” is true, the explanation falls far short. By anything, it should be understood to mean quite literally - ANYTHING. The only limits are imagination, time & budget.
Sewing machine illustrations.
The Camera Is the Film—Rethinking Digital Photography
The point is that each camera has characteristics that are as individual as brands of film had. This leads me to believe that most photographers, whether pros or hobbyists, will eventually have numerous cameras, not the one lone Nikon with the lens collection.
A colorchart made from Flickr photos.
Common recently teamed with MK12 to produce this stunning video.
A new bingo variation has surfaced. Hipster Bingo!
Microsoft believes that the iPod will face much stronger competition than it has done in the past as new products from rival companies are released in the run up to Christmas.
You know why the Ipod is on top? It's not the product it's the marketing. There are better mp3 players out there with more features for less money, they just don't market well. People are buying the name, not the player.
Remember that guy that was making furniture out of Fed Ex boxes? He recieved a cease and desist order from Fed Ex. Damn the Man!!
Check out Paul Anka's new album where he covers songs like Black Hole Sun, Everybody Hurts, and Smells Like Teen Spirit all in a crooner style. Black Hole Sun is my favorite. After you listen to the songs jump over to NPR to read more about him. I love me some NPR.
Since 2001 Dinosaur Adventure Land has been a place where families can come to learn about God's Creation through science and the bible.
Demystifying VoIP from C-Net.
More transparent monitor screens. I used to do this in my old office.
Normal Natural has some very interesting and very gestural illustrations.
Robocat! That's awesome. Wait till it tries to run up against the furniture.
Flash Player 8 is out.
Speakeasy releases a "bumper edition" of Elk's Run to get everyone caught up.
Matt Wagner's Batman project sounds interesting. Why does everything have to be a "Year One" story though?
Here's the Identity Crisis #2 cover. I'm not too impressed. I like Perez's cover to #1 though.
July 2005 Sales Charts
Anyone else participating in the Fantasy Comic Book League at Metti-publisher? I'm in the Comicsters if anyone is interested.
Here's my line-up for now:
SEAN PHILLIPS (A) Cover Artist
J.H. WILLIAMS III (A) Cover Artist
STUART IMMONEN (A) Monthly Artist
MIKE MCKONE (A) Monthly Artist
ED BRUBAKER (W) Monthly Writer
WARREN ELLIS (W) Monthly Writer
STEVE DILLON (A) Special Artist
RYAN SOOK (A) Special Artist
KURT BUSIEK (W) Special Writer
KEITH GIFFEN (W) Special Writer
PAUL JENKINS (W) Bench
DAN SLOTT (W) Bench
JOE MADUREIRA (A) Bench
MIKE WIERINGO (A) Bench
PETE WOODS (A) Bench
The only person I got that I'm not a huge fan of is Joe Mad. The rest of my line-up were personal picks.
I hit the next button on blogger a couple of times and found And This Quiet Refrain. So far I like what I see.
If I ever get around to writing the summaries I'll be participating in Spoilt!.
Doom is back at the Hurting. Tim examines the Life of Reily as well.
I've been told on several occasions I need to pick up Bumperboy Loses His Marbles!!
The State of The Blogosphere
Dave Lartigue talks Geekonomics
Bugpowder needs about 30 logos. See if you can help out this fine blog if you have any graphics skills. It'll give you a chance to show off too.
