Anyone know where the last month went? If so please let me know. So much to share… so little time. Well, lets start with this, a simple and cool little app that can change your Ipod into either an ice cream truck, race car, or old man in a boat (My favourite!)
Makego from Chris O’Shea on Vimeo.
When Moyers’ show, The Journal, stopped a year or so ago, it was a very sad day. He is like a Grandfather that has all the answers. And when he doesn’t, he knows where to go and who to ask to find them. He makes all the issues understandable, and boils them down with common sense questions. Like Jon Stewart, but without the tongue and cheek. Together, you get a double dose of reality in today’s crazy media circus.
Here is a great discussion with Jacob Hacker & Paul Pierson on Engineered Inequality.
Moyers & Company 101: On Winner Take All Politics from BillMoyers.com on Vimeo.
I thought it would be interesting to look back in time with this extraordinary collection of color photographs taken between 1909 and 1912. In those years, photographer Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii (1863-1944) undertook a photographic survey of the Russian Empire with the support of Tsar Nicholas II. He used a specialized camera to capture three black and white images in fairly quick succession, using red, green and blue filters, allowing them to later be recombined and projected with filtered lanterns to show near true color images. The high quality of the images, combined with the bright colors, make it difficult for viewers to believe that they are looking 100 years back in time…
My house is 100 years old exactly, which would put it the same age as this collection.
See the whole collection via The Boston Globe online, bostom.com.
Fotoshop by Adobé, A Satirical Look at the Beauty Industry - via Laughing Squid.
The First episode:
KEA Heights is an comedic melodrama web series of soap operas that is filmed covertly inside the IKEA store in Burbank, California. Brilliant!
The secrets of the language of stamps. For all those who are in the situation of Hero and Leander, and similarly to them can only exchange secret signs about the feelings of their hearts, here we publish the secrets of the language of stamps. If the stamp stands upright in the upper right corner of the card or envelope, it means: I wish your friendship. Top right, across: Do you love me? Top right, upside down: Don’t write me any more. Top right, thwart: Write me immediately. Top right, upright [once more again???]: Your love makes me happy. Top left, across: My heart belongs to someone else. Top left, upright: I love you. Bottom left, across: Leave me alone in my grief. In line with the name: Accept my love. Same place, across: I wish to see you. Same place, upside down: I love someone else. – We hope that besides the inventor of the “new language” there would be other persons too who would eventually use it.
Now, there could be many reasons for is. Here are two I can think of:
1. Fox really has it out for the Democrats and showing anything positive from the Obama Administration is a no no.
2. The graphic designers are complete idiots.
While I’d like to believe this is an honest mistake, clear and continuous evidence shows the opposite. We are talking about a news organization whose mantra is so honed, so controlled. Speaking as a graphic designer, I have never in my career built a graph without some type of software, especially where the data increments are in the decimals. And no software I’d use would create such a skewed result such as this.
Here is a more accurate version of the graph:
I can picture the Conversation:
Designer: “Here are the graphs you requested according to the data you sent me.”
Director: “Hmm, yeah, can’t have that. Policy. Make the last dip in the graph as subtle as possible… like… this.” (draws straight horizontal line)
Designer: “Really?, um… ok”
…shows new graph…
Director: “Perfect!”
Fox News: Fair and Balanced
It began at the Jersey Shore in 1998, where my niece Jessica often filled my sketchbook with doodles. While I stared at them, I wondered if color, texture and shading could be applied for a 3D effect. As a painter, I made cartoons look three dimensional every day for the likes of Marvel and DC comics, so why couldn’t I apply those same techniques to a kid’s drawing? That was it… no research, no years of toil, just the curiosity of seeing Jessica’s drawings come to life.
This is incredible to me because my own son loves doodling and drawing. I envy his complete freedom of creativity because his only critic, really, is himself!
It’s like the secret warehouse from Indiana Jones! To be fair, I’m sure there are a lot of non-publication type items. Amazon seems to carry a mess of different products these days. I just couldn’t imagine inventory time.
