From the monthly archives:

October 2008

Binary Boo!

10.31.2008

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Video Confessional Jams: Episode 67

10.29.2008

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Head Tracking for Desktop VR Displays using the Wii Remote

10.27.2008

Nuttily awesome. A demo by Johnny Chung Lee from the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University.
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Vive and one of many neighborhood peacocks

10.27.2008

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On the side of the house, Vive uncharacteristically reluctant to school a peacock on that whole “pride cometh before the fall” thing.

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Desiderata

10.26.2008

Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible, without surrender, be on good terms with all persons. Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even to the dull and the ignorant; they too have their story. • Avoid loud [...]

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Art in the eye of a needle

10.26.2008

Willard Wigan, a micro sculptor, uses a microscope to create his work. Insane.
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Video Confessional Jams: Episode 66

10.25.2008

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Dakota Fanning and Glenn Close: their scene in Nine Lives

10.25.2008

For some reason I was just thinking about this short piece, so I poked around YouTube and found it. It’s from the 2005 film Nine Lives, which is a collection of nine ten-minute films about nine different women. I remember enjoying the film and its short stories, and being absolutely floored by this one. And [...]

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The power of color in direct marketing

10.24.2008

→ The Direct Creative Blog discusses three key points to consider when making color choices for marketing materials.

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Top Ten Uniquely ’80s Foods

10.24.2008

Via the serious eats community, a list of ten iconic ’80s foods and some corresponding commercials. Ah, the inconvenience of stabbing your straw through both sides of a Capri Sun at recess.
Off the top of my head, I’d also like to throw out Alba 77, Donutz cereal, and the Taco Light. For more ’80s flashbacks [...]

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Home Depot flair

10.23.2008

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Video Confessional Jams: Episode 65

10.22.2008

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Reno Room Scary

10.21.2008

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Beyond Flash

10.20.2008

At a recent Flash conference, Jonathan Harris offered some constructive criticism with regards to the Flash medium as a form of expression. He’s completely hit the nail on the head, quite literally verbalizing the thoughts that have been going through my brain in recent years as I’ve found the majority of Flash content, while mechanically [...]

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Inspired Reading

10.19.2008

Via gdnss.com, a group of artists each submitted their answer to the following question:

(Could you) please recommend a book that you have found particularly inspiring or meaningful to your development as a creative person?
The one restriction: Please no books on graphic design.
=check out the list and subsequent discussion=

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Complification

10.18.2008

“An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.”
– Charles Bukowski

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