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Arcade Improv: Humans Pretending to Be Videogames – Waxy.orgInstantly, Mike and Jerry understood, along with everyone in the audience born before 1978. Catherine Young & Family, Page OneA family working in the Tifton (Ga.) Cotton Mill. Mrs. A.J. Young works in mill and at home. Nell (oldest girl) alternates in mill with mother. Mammy (next …
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If It’s Hip, It’s Here: Airigami: The Fine Art of Balloon Sculpture by Larry Moss.Balloon sculptor Larry Moss has many installations, fashions, and designs crafted of colored latex balloons to his credit. Brian Wood – Comics + Graphic NovelsBrian Wood is a comic book writer, best known for his subversive DMZ, which explores the city …
Well, What’s the Matter? – The COMPLETE definitive Catwoman origin.For Bruce Wayne, it took seeing his parents murdered in front of him; Jonathan Crane, a lifetime of ridicule and pain; Harley Quinn, all-consuming obsessive love. All the best heroes and villains in every medium, from literature to film to comic books, have traceable motivations for …
Novices Orienteer, Experts Teleport – Boxes and Arrows: The design behind the designExpertise significantly impacts how we seek information online. Just as novice and expert photographers prefer different tools, so novices and experts behave differently when searching for information. Understanding these differences will help us design better search interfaces for both groups of users. The …
The 50 Things Every Graphic Design Student Should Know – Jamie Wieck – Design, IllustrationA condensed primer for students and graduates-to-be. Terraria – Coming soon!Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. The world is your canvas and the ground itself is your paint. Terraria is coming soon! YouTube – Creativity …
How Twitter Was FoundedHow Twitter's owners and top executives say Twitter was founded is different than how Twitter was actually founded. Mainly, the official version leaves out the role of a major cofounder. Some early Twitter investors also wonder if it also leaves out a scandal. The iPhone Tab Bar « SignificantPixelsOver the last couple of …
The SetupYou may have heard the name Christopher Butler in the news lately but certainly not for reasons that the 49-year-old Concord resident would want you to know about. I’ve been following Butler’s mysterious story since last August, when he invited me to write a Diablo feature about his business. It unexpectedly turned out to …
Design PrinciplesGathered by JEremy Keith from across the web.
March 2011 Update – Strategic PlanningEn nu hopen dat ze er écht iets aan doen: "Here’s what we think the Editor Trends Study tells us: Between 2005 and 2007, newbies started having real trouble successfully joining the Wikimedia community. Before 2005 in the English Wikipedia, nearly 40% of new editors would still be active a …
Jared Spool – Anatomy of a Design Decision on VimeoThe best designs come from not one, but hundreds of well-made decisions. The worst designs arise out of hundreds of poorly-made decisions. All that stands between you and a great design is the quality of your decisions. Where do they come from?For the last five years, …
Watch Star Trek Episodes Free Online – Watch Original Series, Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Voyager, EnterpriseWelcome to Watchtrek! We consider it our duty to provide every episode of Star Trek ever made totally free. It should be too good to be true. But it's not. Flickr: Lord Dane’s PhotostreamSerieus proper gemaakte lego-dinges. Awoert al …
Mwahaha. De Lenovo Thinkpad X300 weegt minder dan de Macbook Air, heeft een even groot scherm maar hogere resolutie (1440×900 in plaats van 1280×800), heeft wél een batterij die kan verwisseld worden, heeft wél een ethernetpoort, heeft drie in plaats van één USB-dink, én een DVD-drive. En GPS. Mwahaha. Aside: de X300 is een schoon …
Ik ben al sinds jaar en dag gefascineerd door kaarten. Atlassen. Schematische voorstellingen van de realiteit. Thuis hadden we zo één prachtige grote kaart van de verspreiding van de verschillende talen en groepen talen in de wereld, die heb ik denk ik grijs bekeken. En tijdens mijn eerste jaar humaniora heb ik denk ik zowat …
Helemaal toevallig kwam ik zonet bij een hele schatkamer invloeden uit mijn jeugd terecht. Ik was iets aan het zoeken over Cyrillus van Jeruzalem, en toen kwam ik op Augustinus terecht, en van daar bij Carthago, en van daar bij Flaubert’s Salammbô, en van daar kwam ik bij Philippe Druillet uit. Wij hadden thuis in …
Is dit echt het allerbeste dat grafisch design in Europa kan voortbrengen naar aanleiding van de 50ste verjaardag van het verdrag van Rome? Ik ga even voorbij aan dat ander stokpaard van mij—fecking logo’s in fecking jpg, daar is png voor gemaakt—maar naar de grond van de zaak: eeyurgh! “I almost not believe that I was …