under construction

A great collection of those awful old school under construction animated gifs.

Superman Comic Saves Family From Foreclosure

A family facing foreclosure found the collateral they needed right in their own basement, with the discovery of an Action Comics #1. The comic book was found when the family began to pack up their home due to a bank's foreclosure proceedings. The comic book will go on display this weekend at the Comic-Con in San Diego, where it is predicted to get over $250,000.

Addictive Fonts

Addictive Fonts is blog dedicated on finding free awesome fonts which you can use commercially.

How to shoot a fancy stop motion commercial on the cheap-ish

Have you seen the recent viral ad from Levi’s of a guy walking across America wearing Levi jeans? Pretty simple, but pretty cool.

100 Free Photoshop Actions (And How to Make Your Own)

Photoshop actions can be extremely useful timesavers when you find yourself performing the same steps over and over on an image. They’re also an excellent way for photographers to quickly and easily pass on their favorite techniques to others.

Mila's Daydreams

Adele in Helsinki has a maternity leave hobby. While her baby is taking her nap, she tries to imagine her dream and capture it.

Html5 Color cycling

Color cycling is a technology often used in 8-bit video games during the 90's to achieve interesting visual effects by cycling (shifting) the color palette. Back then video cards could only render 256 colors at a time, so a palette of selected colors was used. But the programmer could change this palette at will, and all the onscreen colors would instantly change to match. It was fast, and took virtually no memory. Thus began the era of color cycling. See it in html5 here.

Last Roll of Kodachrome Processed

What do you know about Dwayne’s Photo Service of Parsons, Kansas? It is the place where the very last roll of the Kodachrome was processed.

CSS3 Ads Versus Flash Ads

Sencha thought they would have some fun and dive directly into some CSS3 capabilities. In particular, they thought they would see if they can really duplicate popular Flash ads in HTML5.

A Camera That Decides the Best Pic to Take

German designer Andrew Kupresanin has designed Nadia, a little black camera dressed like a Goth Flip that contains an "aesthetics inference engine," which assesses the artistic quality of a potential shot.

fontfonter.com

FontFonter uses custom CSS and other techniques to temporarily replace a site’s font styles with Web FontFonts.

MacPaint and QuickDraw Source Code

The Apple Macintosh combined brilliant design in hardware and in software. The drawing program MacPaint, which was released with the computer in January of 1984, was an example of that brilliance both in what it did, and in how it was implemented.

Lagoa Multiphysics

Lagoa Multiphysics is a highly customizable particle physics framework that allows artist control over high friction granular materials, incomprehensible fluids, elastic structures, plastic deformations and more.

The Longest Photographic Exposures in History

The German photography artist Michael Wesely has created even longer exposures using a self-built pinhole camera. He captured the light of his object for up to 3 years.

Your Portfolio on LinkedIn

For over a year, Behance has been working with the LinkedIn folks to develop a special application within LinkedIn that allows ANY creative professional to showcase their multi-media portfolio.

iPhone 4 explained

If you would like a clear and concise explanation of the story of the iphone 4- this sums it up.

5 Web Files That Will Improve Your Website

sixrevisions covers robots.txt, favicon.ico, sitemap.xml, dublin.rdf and opensearch.xml. Their purposes range from helping search engines index your site accurately, to acting as usability and interoperability aids.

The Wiimote Whiteboard

Johnny Lee, a human computer interaction expert, transforms the Wii Remote into a low-cost digital whiteboard. If you have a Wii Remote, a projector, a laptop, and a homemade infrared pen, you can do the same without having to know a thing about computer programming!

How To Choose The Perfect Lens for Your First DLSR

If you're serious about getting into photography, you'll want to pick up at least one decent lens on top of your new SLR kit.

Kyle Lambert

Kyle is a UK based artist who specialises in painting, illustration, animation and 3D motion graphics. He has some great brushes paintings done with an ipad.

Jewel at undercover karaoke

This is pretty funny. Jewel dresses up as a business woman from a frozen food convention and goes to a Karaoke bar to sing her own song. Well done funnyordie.

GE's WattStation Electric Vehicle Charger Streets in 2011

GE has brought in fuseproject's Yves Behar to design its upcoming WattStation, a sleek EV charger for city streets that can juice vehicles in just four to eight hours.

Art Made From Common Trash

Take a look at these 40 terrific works of art made from common trash and be prepared to start looking at your garbage in a whole new way.

Google App Inventor

App Inventor is a new tool in Google Labs that makes it easy for anyone—programmers and non-programmers, professionals and students—to create mobile applications for Android-powered devices.

World Cup

For some therapy, make a dinner called paul.

Jeff Turley

Great work by artist and concept illustrator Jeff Turley.

coopertype.org

Starting in the fall of 2010, the Continuing Education Department of The Cooper Union, in conjunction with the Type Directors Club, offers a Certificate Program in Typeface Design at their New York City campus.

Foursquare Launches Location Layers

IFC announced a new campaign this morning with leading location-based social network Foursquare that will allow you to see the location as the Independent Film Channel sees it.

deniszilber.com

Denis Zilber is an illustrator, and design artist from Tel Aviv. Via designyoutrust

How Twitter can Make you a Better Photographer

Naturalist, photographer, and computer scientist Steve Berardi from PhotoNaturalist explains how Twitter can make you a better photographer and provides a short list of photographers to follow.

10 Teachers Who Changed The World

There isn’t a person among us who hasn’t had their lives touched by a particular teacher. Teachers inspire us and help us realize our full potential.

Google’s Font API

Google recently debuted a new web service called the Font API. Google’s Font API provides developers a means by which they may quickly and painlessly add custom fonts to their website. David Walsh takes a quick look at the ways by which the Google Font API can be used.

Meet Interface

Meet Interface, the ultimate mockup & prototyping tool that runs right on your iPhone. With Interface you can create & preview mockup screens for your iPhone project using native iOS controls.

Daniel Sprick

Some amazing portraits by Daniel Sprick.

AT-AT Day Afternoon

A short video by Patrick Boivi entitled 'AT-AT Day Afternoon'. It's a one-minute documentary showing a typical day in the life of a pet AT-AT

ABCD's of Cooking

The ABCD's of Cooking (ABCD = American Born Confused Desi). Chitra's cooking, like ABCD, is a hodgepodge of sorts - all vegetarian, a lot of South and North Indian, other influences from the US and around the world and recipes I've collected along the way. yummmmmmm.