December 20th, 2010
I just stumbled upon this animation at Vimeo and fell in love with it. This little treasure was animated by Ryan Woodward with music by The Weepies. The minute I started watching I knew I had to post it to my blog. I also knew I had to hop over to iTunes and buy the album. Hope you like it!
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December 15th, 2010
Today I’m featuring the fantastic designs of Thai artist Skan Srisuwan (aka Fiduciose). A graduate of Silpakorn University, Skan is mostly known for blending human forms and machines into intricate, metallic creations. Skan co-founded and is currently Creative Director at Studio Hive where he focuses on providing clients with comics production, concepts, illustrations, I.P. creation, as well as developing internal projects. His style is certainly distinctive and not one you’ll easily mistake. Enjoy!
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December 7th, 2010
Back in May, Google introduced their Font API and Font Directory. The API currently serves over 17 million requests a day to users across the globe. Roughly 400,000 unique websites use the Google Font API. Last week Google added more fonts to the directory bringing the font count up to 34 not including variants and character ranges. The fonts in the directory are all released under open source licenses so you can use them on any non-commercial or commercial project. Applying one of these fonts to your website is easy – just add a stylesheet link to your web page, then use the font in a CSS font-family property. When Google receives a request for a web font, they detect the browser and device and serve the font file format that works best. This ensures the most consistent results across browsers and devices.
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November 19th, 2010
I stumbled upon the matte painting collection of Alex Golovchenko this week. He’s done some truly fantastic work. Alex is currently Senior Designer at Inter TV Channel, the Ukrainian national broadcaster. Matte Painting is another one of those amazing skill sets I would love to develop some day if I wasn’t so busy writing sub-par PHP code. Golovchenko’s work is vividly imaginative and his use of color and lighting is delightful. Enjoy!
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November 16th, 2010
My grandfather didn’t live long enough to see the advent of the internet and even if he had, I doubt he would have cared for it much. He didn’t even like having a TV. He was a stone mason and loved to work with his hands, but he was also very creative, innovative, and an entrepreneur. He patented a new type of plaster he called “durostone” and started his own plastering company. As a kid, I loved to visit the house he built because it was unique in many ways. He created a steer skull design with huge horns in plaster over the garage door and the posts in the basement were plastered to look like tree trunks. Before his plastering career, he served in the Army. He also enjoyed sketching and doodling. My dad helped me track down a couple scans. So for the first time ever on the internet, enjoy some sketches by my grandpa Charlie!
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November 8th, 2010
I’m about to lower the quality of the content on my site by posting some photos of my own. I took these back in September 2008 on a tour of Israel. I didn’t really do anything fancy here. I took each shot by hand, moving the camera a bit each time and then merged them when I got back with Photoshop. They still need to be touched up but for the most part, I think they came out alright. I’ve scaled them down quite a bit from the originals to make them easier to view in a browser.
Looking east over Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives
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November 1st, 2010
I find myself quickly becoming an expert at discovering really cool stuff months or even years after everyone else. In fact, I suppose that is what this blog is about more than anything really. It’s just a rehash of cool stuff other people have discovered. But hey, it’s all new to me and I think it’s cool so the world has to see more of it. Anyhow, today’s cool stuff is the photography of Dave Hill. Hill’s use of professional photography techniques and stunning photo effects and photo manipulation makes his work immediately recognizable. His photos have a dark-gritty-surreal look to them that many photographers and designers have tried to imitate. And imitation is the sincerest form of flattery next to getting a blog posted about you on my site. So congratulations Dave! Also, he loves to tell stories. See if you can follow the story from these first eleven photos. I believe I’ve got them in the correct order. You may have to fill in some gaps with your imagination.
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