Best places to learn online

With 2012 here, traditionally it is a time to make a new years resolutions. If your resolution is to learn something new, this is the post for you. As we all know, the internet is a tremendous resource to learn on your own. Here are some of the best places to educate yourself from the comfort of your own home.

 



The Khan Academy is a not-for-profit educational organization, created in 2006 by Bangladeshi American Academy educator Salman Khan, a graduate of MIT. With the goal of changing education for the better by providing a free world-class education to anyone anywhere.

Their library of around 2600 videos covers K-12 math, science topics such as biology, chemistry, and physics, and even reaches into the humanities with playlists on finance and history. Each video is a digestible chunk, approximately 10 minutes long. And it's free.

Khan Academy online
Khan Academy app
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The OpenCourseWare Consortium is a collaboration of higher education institutions and associated organizations from around the world creating a broad and deep body of open educational content using a shared model. The collaboration was first began by MIT.

You can search for free online courses from prestigious higher education institutions around the globe. Their search index currently contains 6,613 courses from 65 sources and 12 languages, including MIT, Johns Hopkins, and the University of Michigan.

The OpenCourseWare Consortium online 
Open Course Ware app
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Open Yale Courses provides lectures and other materials from selected Yale College courses to the public free of charge via the internet. The courses span the full range of liberal arts disciplines, including humanities, social sciences, and physical and biological sciences. Each course includes a full set of class lectures produced in high-quality video accompanied by such other course materials as syllabi, suggested readings, and problem sets. The lectures are available as downloadable videos, and an audio-only version is also offered. In addition, searchable transcripts of each lecture are provided.

Open Yale Courses online

 

 



The Stack Exchange Network, is a group of websites featuring questions and answers. There are 76 question and answer sites on diverse topics from software programming to cooking to photography and gaming. It bills itself as an expert knowledge exchange. While it isn't really a teaching site, it is one of the best places to get an answer from knowledgeable users. Stack exchange uses a social network method to sort through answers. After someone asks a question, members of the community propose answers. Others vote on those answers. Very quickly, the answers with the most votes rise to the top. You don’t have to read through a lot of discussion to find the best answer.

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StudyBlue is your online home to store lecture notes and make free online flashcards. With StudyBlue, all of your flashcards, lecture notes, and class summaries are accessible whenever and wherever you choose to study – so study online and on your phone for effective, productive learning. Free. In addition to making your own flashcards, there is a growing list of flash cards already provided for you on a wide range of topics.

StudyBlue online
Follow Studyblue on twitter
Studyblue mobile apps

 



In addition to the aforementioned list of online resources you can also find books for free online. Project Gutenberg offers over 36,000 free ebooks to download to your PC, Kindle, Android, iOS or other portable device. Choose between ePub, Kindle, HTML and simple text formats.

 

Here is a list of addition resources and universities that provide education online via reddit (mhertel). We hope this can satisfy your thirst for knowledge and put you on the path to enlightenment through knowledge.

 

• University of Reddit with corresponding subreddit


• MIT Lectures


• Carnegie Mellon


• Johns Hopkins


• Tufts


• Rice - Connexions


• Utah State


• Berkeley


• Berkeley Part 2


• Berkeley Part 3 (videos)


• Stanford


• Stanford Part 2 (videos)


• Harvard


• University of Sydney


• University of Virginia


• Stanford


• Yale


• Yale Part 2 (videos)


• University of Chicago


• University of New South Wales


• Open Course Ware Finder


• Open Course Ware Consortium


• University of the People


• P2P University

 

Other General Sites:

• OpenStudy


• Wikiversity


• Youtube Edu


• 100 Best Intro Courses


• Khan Academy


• Open Culture


• TED


• Cosmo Learning


• Knol


• Academic Earth


• Free Video Lectures


• More Video Lectures


• Directory of Open Access Journals


• Learners TV


• IncrediCampus


• LectureFox


• Freelance-Teacher


• National Programme on Tech Enhanced Learning


• Study Blue


• WikiHow


• How Stuff Works


• Wonder How To


• Better Explained


• TeachMate


• Learning Schedule Tracker - Smart.fm


• Mixergy
  

Top 10 outbound blog links

Looking back at the year that was 2011, here is a list of the top 10 Outbound Traffic according to our google analytics.

1. sevenbyfive.net 30 Stunning Photos taken with an Apple iPhone

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2. bongcheon-dong ghost, Very scary web comic.



 

3. The Big Picture. Sever weather in the US. Deadly storms in the states of Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas and the Joplin twister



 

4. 50 Fantastically Clever Logos from designshack.co.uk

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5. Can You Pass Harvard's 1869 Entrance Exam?



 

6. A Father Who Creatively Captures His Kids

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7. 35 Examples of Digital Art and Photo Manipulation

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8. State Farm viral utility chaosinyourtown.com.



 

 

9. Dariusz Majgier, Street Portraits of Strangers



 

10. 30 Outstanding Tutorials for Photo Manipulation in Photoshop



 

Thats its for now, see you all in 2012. Have a happy and safe New Years.

History of times square new years

Check out this infographic from citypass to find out how the party in Times Square got started and also the changes that have happened over the years. Via holykaw

Websites to Boost Your Designer Profile

Steven Snell at freelanceswitch gives us a roundup of sites that provide excellent opportunities for designers to show-off their work and send visitors back to their own portfolio site.

Philippe Ramette

Paris-based artist and photographer Philippe Ramette.

14 Of The Year's Best Ideas In Interface Design

Belinda Lanks shows us the 14 best ideas in interface design for 2011.

Top Games on Facebook in 2011

Facebook pulled together a list of the games on Facebook that were most popular in 2011.

HTML5 and CSS3 Advent 2011

Every day in december 2011 digitpaint.nl has posted a new cool HTML5 and CSS3 technique.

Agency holiday cards 2011

It's that time of year again. Now is when advertising agencies put out creative and fun holiday cards. An agency holiday card is way to say thanks to clients and also promote the agency. Sometimes its a simple html email, a youtube video, or it can be an all out production, sometimes they can get pretty wild. Here is a roundup of a few that we've seen. Comment or email us if you have any others to add to the list.

 

G2 lets you send a Haiku to humbugs via twitter and tumblr, to brighten the hoiday season.



 

TBWA London has a 24 day advent calendar, where they are giving 24 artist the change to share 24 wishes for 2012 in a bid to create the UK's biggest ever advent calender.



 

TBWA Chiat Day / NYC holiday gif giver, where you can send someone an animated gif that keeps on giffing.



 

Every 40 tweets to @designkitchen and they will set off the Holi-Cray-Matic™ in this conference room. Users can watch designkitchen conference room in real time.



 

Organic ugly sweater card. Lets just focus on the sweaters. A little strange and slightly NSFW.



 

Deck The Screens(@DeckTheScreens) is a fun little holiday app from the folks at Deeplocal. It lets you string holiday lights between all of your screens.



 

Washington state based agency, 14four interactive, has a holdiay card will turn your facebook or instagram photos into a custom holiday card- and they'll print and ship your cards to you for free.



 

Wundreman NY has a great youtube video of its staff putting together a moving holiday message. Time flies when you're getting ready for the Holidays. See how it flew by for the folks at Wunderman.



 

Zurich based webguerillas has a fun utility for the holidays, choir it yourself, the worlds first interactive choir.



 

This holiday season, Digitas is crowdsourcing for karma. Pick and click on the Digitas charity that resonates with you, and they'll make a donation on your behalf



 

 

Kaplan Thaler Group would like you to join them in making a wish for the world and they'll match it with a donation.



 

 

And finally... Merry Freakin' Xmas from Mutado!

Are Phones About To Wipe Out The Digital Camera Industry?

simplyzesty ask the question, Are Phones About To Wipe Out The Digital Camera Industry?

crazyleafdesign 2011 inspirational sites

crazyleafdesign.com published the yearly roundup on the most amazing websites of the year.

Animation and Visual Effects: The 9 Best Ads of 2011

adweek presents Stash magazine nine favorite commercials of the year.

morgueFile christmas photos

Tis the season and here at morguefile.com we compiled a few of our favorite holiday images we found in the free photo archive. A great way to kick start your creativity if you plan on sending out a holiday email, or maybe just get you a little more into the holiday spirit.

 



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A Brief History of Santa

How the modern Santa Claus came to be? You can pretty much blame Northern Europe, where the winter weather is cold and dark and depressing. Colin Grey explains how.

7 Things Highly Productive People Do

inc.com interviews an expert in keeping people on task, here are his tips for staying productive.

Mugeda, Cloud Based HTML5 Animation Platform

Mugeda is a cloud based HTML5 animation platform, where you can create, share, and publish organic HTML5 animation contents, all in your browser, without any download or installation.

Updated blog!

We were on a little hiatus after some server troubles. Everything should be back on track and we have an updated blog. Expect more original content in the future, as well as the articles we relink on a regular basis in the categories bytes

Support St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital with AOL and about.me

The holidays are a time for giving. So there is no better time than now to use your about.me page to support St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. And AOL will donate $1 for every page created or updated to support St. Jude through December 31st (up to 10,000 pages).

Facebook announces “Subscribe” button for publishers

In order to compete more directly with Twitter, Facebook is launching a method for users to subscribe to an author’s updates at the site that published the author’s article.

girldevelopit.com

Code lessons for women. Find a chapter near you.

Kids Smoking

Titled “The beauty of an ugly addiction”, photographer Frieke Janssens confronts viewers with questions about the general smoking ban introduced in Belgium some months ago.

Top 6 Trends In HTML5 In 2011

Readwriteweb takes a look at the top trends for html5 in 2011.

A List Of Startups Goldman Sachs Thinks Will Most Likely IPO

Very very quietly investment bank and securities firm Goldman Sachs held its “Private Internet Company Conference” this week in Las Vegas.

The Golden Age of Design in Startups

Joshua Porter explores the idea that we’re entering a golden age of Design.

thephotosociety.org

thephotosociety.org is a group of contributing photographers for National Geographic Magazine, committed to telling the world’s stories through pictures.

USB drive digital camera

A USB drive that is also a digital camera? Talk about James Bond spy style! These palm-sized cameras by Japanese toy camera maker, Power Shovel, are USB powered and can take both video and photos, written directly to the USB flash drive. Insert a MicroSD card (up to 16GB) for expanded storage and use it as a regular USB storage drive as well.

Little Printer

Little Printer lives in your home, bringing you news, puzzles and gossip from friends. Use your smartphone to set up subscriptions and Little Printer will gather them together to create a timely, beautiful mini-newspaper.

The most shared articles of 2011 on facebook

Facebook looked back at 2011 to find out the most popular articles on its platform. Here’s the “top 40 shared articles in English” list that Facebook just made public:

Your Photo Data Is Safe…Underwater?

Markus Thompson, found a camera at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean, just off the coast of British Colubmia. He salvaged the camera, poked around a little bit (determining that the camera had been dropped into the water in August 2010), recovered the data off the card and, using Google+, found the owner.

ACOPAL's finalist

The Beijing World Art Museum - ACOPAL's Inaugural Exhibition in China is scheduled to open September 2012 at the World Art Museum in Beijing. See the finalist here. There is some amazing work from the best realist painters in the world, definitely worth checking out.

Curiosity Rover

Mars Science Laboratory Mission Animation

new york shots

Shots captured with disposable cameras left in new york's lovely parks.

John Tyler Christopher

John Tyler Christopher is an illustrator from Seattle, Wa., currently based out of Atlanta, Ga. A member of Studio Revolver, his work has appeared on the covers of Witchblade, as a designer for Star Wars Miniatures, and in the pages of Dungeon & Dragons, a variety of White Wolf publications & Mutants and Masterminds. He enjoys spending time with his wife and daughter, painting, playing his ps3 and waxing intellectually about the shear awesomeness of the Gorn.

Movember

During November each year, Movember is responsible for the sprouting of moustaches on thousands of men’s faces, in the US and around the world. With their Mo’s, these men raise vital funds and awareness for men’s health, specifically prostate cancer and other cancers that affect men.

Clever ad campaign for TheShelterPetProject

The Shelter Pet Project is a public service ad campaign focused on spreading the word that pets in shelters are wonderful and lovable, and encouraging potential adopters to consider the shelter as the first place to find a new best friend.

The Man Who Invented Email

V.A. Shiva Ayyadurai holds the first copyright for “EMAIL”—a system he began building in 1978 at just 14 years of age. It was modeled after the communication system being used at the University of Medicine and Dentistry in Newark, New Jersey. His task: replicate the University’s traditional mail system electronically.

Sapient Nitro Idea Engineer's Music video.

This is the most epic self promotion video- ever!

15 YouTube Tricks

If you can sit through it, some good ideas if you are looking for examples of viral utilities on youtube.

Midnight Sun | Iceland

Midnight Sun: A natural phenomenon occurring in the summer months north of the Arctic Circle and south of the Antarctic Circle where the sun never fully sets and remains visible 24 hours a day.

viktor skurko

viktor skurko is a pirate, a scoundrel and a lover of watercolors.

Catvertising

To stay on top of the ever-changing advertising landscape, john st. has opened the world's first cat video division. With production, filming and seeding all in-house. Ask yourself, what can cat videos do for your business?

theforeignview.com

Announcing the foreign view. theforeignview.com not only offers pictures of the new york city’s imaginary, but also custom tours designed to suit your interests and capture your experience in New York up close.

newsblur.com

Newsblur is visual feed reading with intelligence. Hand-crafted by @samuelclay in New York City.

LG Optimus Hyper Facade in Berlin

Very cool LG Hyper Facade event in Berlin, thanks liz.

From the desk of Chad Silver

From the Desk of Chad Silver, Screen Printing & Vinyl Graphics, represents the work/art/projects created by Chad Silver & his constellation of collaborators & associates

videoliberty.org

Free as in beer videos! videoliberty.org is a database of open-licensed video content. Find or publish open-licensed video clips now!

Honda Unveils All-new ASIMO with Significant Advancements

It can run at 9kph and hop on one or both legs, and more.

Lenses and perspective, or distortion on a face for beauty.

Stephen Eastwood ask the question, Why do you use long lenses and what's the advantage or disadvantage for it? Its worth checking out the images he posted for comparisons.

9 websites that tell you the possibilities of CSS3

With the introduction of new CSS3 features few years back, it enables designers to save more time and resources while creating wonderful effects without using either images or Javascript.

Bullet time

Surf gear company Rip Curl and Time-Slice Films, the visual effects house behind the "bullet time" visuals first seen in The Matrix, have partnered up to take digital camera arrays where they've never gone before: In the water to capture surfers in action.

Lisa Marie Bové

Lisa Marie Bové is a visual artist living in Buffalo, NY. Although she is primarily a photographer, she enjoys the exploration of other mediums.

An asteroid the size of an aircraft carrier will pass by Earth on November 8

NASA scientists will be tracking asteroid 2005 YU55 with antennas of the agency's Deep Space Network at Goldstone, Calif., as the space rock safely flies past Earth slightly closer than the moon's orbit on Nov. 8. Scientists are treating the flyby of the 1,300-foot-wide (400-meter) asteroid as a science target of opportunity – allowing instruments on "spacecraft Earth" to scan it during the close pass.

Banana!

Banana! via Tristan Bethe

A Year in New York

Living in New York Andrew Clancy would grab his Canon 7D, or S95, and shoot footage of what was going on around him. It seemed like a never ending project and you could stay filming life in New York for a long time. Eventually he put the camera down and started to edit. Here’s the end result.

A Sister’s Eulogy for Steve Jobs

Mona Simpson is a novelist and a professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles. She delivered this eulogy for her brother, Steve Jobs, on Oct. 16 at his memorial service at the Memorial Church of Stanford University.

Nikon DSLRs for Just $2

Amazon is selling the Photive ML-L3 Wireless Shutter Release Remote for Nikon DSLRs for just $2 with free shipping.

khanacademy.org

Learn almost anything for free. With a library of over 2,600 videos covering everything from arithmetic to physics, finance, and history and 224 practice exercises, we're on a mission to help you learn what you want, when you want, at your own pace.

Mt. Rainier casts a big shadow on Seattle's sunrise

It only happens when the sun rises farther to the south as we head toward the winter solstice and has to be in the exact position to where Rainier blocks the first rays of morning light.

Kim Keever

Kim Keever's large-scale photographs are created by meticulously constructing miniature topographies in a 200-gallon tank, which is then filled with water. These dioramas of fictitious environments are brought to life with colored lights and the dispersal of pigment, producing ephemeral atmospheres that he must quickly capture with his large-format camera.

An Inside Look at Grey’s NYC Headquarters

In this episode of “Cubes,” they tour the New York headquarters of Grey, one of the oldest ad agencies in the world. Located just off Manhattan’s Madison Square Park, the office features a huge rooftop terrace, “Mad Men”-era furniture, and a bed that doubles as a meeting room.

Happy Diwali!

Diwali popularly known as the "festival of lights," is one of the most important festivals of the year for Hindus and is celebrated in families by performing traditional activities together in their homes. Get out your sparklers!

cupcakeipsum

Tired of how boring lorem ipsum got? How about using auto-generated text that will actually
make people love your project even more?

joshuamiddleton.com

Joshua Middleton has worked for every major comic book publisher, as well as book publishers and movie studios as a cover artist, character designer, conceptual artist, and art director.

Saturday Night Live, Steve Jobs

Funny stuff, Saturday Night Live spoof of Charlie Rose on Steve Jobs.

Michelangelo of pumpkin carving

Ray Villafane is the Michelangelo of pumpkin carving.

50 Fantastic Examples Of Landscape Photography

acrisdesign has a nice roundup of 50 Fantastic Examples Of Landscape Photography.

UrtheCast

UrtheCast is launching the world's first ever high definition, streaming video platform of planet Earth.

www.lytro.com

The very first light fields were captured at Stanford University over 15 years ago. The most advanced light field research required a roomful of cameras tethered to a supercomputer. Today, Lytro completes the job of taking light fields out of the research lab and making them available for everyone, in the form of the world’s first Lytro Light Field Camera.

Uproxx's top twenty 5 second films

Another post of Uproxx's top twenty 5 second films.

1987 Sitcom Knew Gadhafi Would Be Killed In 2011

This is pretty crazy, The show, Second Chances staring a young Mathew Perry predicted Gadhafi would be killed in 2011.

Auction Preview: Sotheby's

If you are in NY, early next month Sotheby's 19th Century European Art Auction, will be taking place. And its free.

Stuff Siri Said

Screenshot of apple's iphone humble personal assistant's wittiest moments.

blog is back

Back from a short trip to Positano and will resume blog post. For fun have a look at this video of the road to Ravello. Its even more fun on a bus.

tilt shift photography roundup

great collection of tilt shift photography from instantshift.com

Responsive Web Designs

Responsive web design are designs that change with the browser window dimensions, designm.ag has a roundup of amazing responsive web designs and tutorials.

avengers

The avengers trailer is out.

KERNTYPE a kerning game

I freakin love this game!

5 Ways to Shoot your Dog

Dog lifestyle photographer, David Reyes has some tips I find particularly useful when photographing the best friends in our lives.

10 Tips for Shooting your first Wedding

Daphne Chan takes us through her ten tips for your first wedding shoot.

Steve Jobs 1955-2011

The life of Steve Jobs.

Clever Outdoor Advertising

Some of these innovative outdoor ads are just so bizarre that it would be better for you to see them for yourself. youthedesigner.com collected 44 outdoor advertising samples that will surely amuse and enlighten you.

Mark Zuckerberg And Facebook Wouldn’t Exist If Not For The Dutch

Produced by the Dutch National Maritime Museum it basically draws the conclusion that the Dutch are more or less behind the creation of not only Mark Zuckerberg but also of Facebook itself.

chaosinyourtown.com

State Farm app: Type in your address, watch an alien destroy your house. chaosinyourtown.com

Old-School Instagram Filters

1000memories set out to hack the formula to recreate the look of the analog Instagram filters using the technology that inspired them in the first place—vintage cameras and film.

Curves and Levels in Photoshop

An advanced image-editing tutorial By Diane Miller. Learn good practices for adjusting images and the advantage of working in 16 bits.

Adobe to buy phonegap

Nitobi enters into acquisition agreement with adobe.

21 Examples of Delightful Natural Lights Photography

You will inspire to these outstanding and delightful natural photographers.

9 Principles of Logo Design

Quick basic, yet vital tips to know about what makes an attractive logo design.

Perhaps, perhaps... perhaps

A little slow for news for me today, I will just leave this for you.

The Dead Sea Scrolls Online

The Dead Sea Scrolls, which include the oldest known biblical manuscripts in existence, have been digitized and are now accessible online.

Time-Lapse Strolls Through the Streets of Famous Cities

Photographer Jesse Kopp visits famous cities around the world and creates time-lapse videos out of photos taken while walking from landmark to landmark. It’s an awesome way to get a feel of what each city is like.

Madmen pitching facebook

If you’re a fan of AMC’s “Mad Men,” you’ll find this video of Don Draper pitching the new Facebook timeline brilliant. ( TLDR: the madmen kodak scene with facebook timeline on screen)

Apple to Announce New iPhone

After months of speculation about timing, shape and sizes, Apple sent out media invites Tuesday for a special event on Apple’s campus next week. It is rumored the new iphone will have an 8 megapixel camera.

Creating the flash diffuser

Making your own flash diffuser, creating a $60 device for $1.05.

The Social Reader, from Washington Post

The Social Reader, from Washington Post. This is a web-based app that sits entirely in Facebook. Now you can see what your friends are reading (and they can see what you are reading).

iphone app Simple Transfer

Simple Transfer is the easiest way of transferring your Photos and Videos to computer and other iOS devices via WiFi. No need for cable, iTunes or extra softwares.

paulrobertlloyd.com

Paul Robert Lloyd: A really slick responsive layout paulrobertlloyd.com

drawastickman.com

Very creative amusing viral utility from hitcents, www.drawastickman.com

disassemble zoom lens

A water-damaged zoom lens disassemble.

Articles to Help Freelance Designers Find More Work

A plethora of information from designm.ag featuring more than 40 articles on various topics that can help freelancers to find more work and achieve a more stable and significant income.

Art Out Loud 7

Top fantastic illustrators will demonstrate their skills and techniques in an open forum. Saturday, September 24, 2011 1-5pm at society of illustrators. Featuring artists: Julie Bell, Rick Berry, Donato Giancola, Greg Manchess and Boris Vallejo.

The Face We Make

An interesting art project by Dexter Miranda, the face we make, random street portraits.

Top Free Patterns Websites

designfloat presents you a bunch of cool Top 20 Free Patterns to Download Websites that offers patterns of various kinds.

How much to charge as a photographer

Mark Wallace answers the question, "How much should I charge?" one of the most common questions for emerging professional photographers.

google.com/flights

Ready for takeoff? Choose a destination to get started. Google flight search.

lucong

Painter Lu Cong was born in Shanghai, in February 1978. When he is not making art, Cong enjoys eating sweets, tormenting his cats, and badly playing nerdy movie themes on the piano.

Shutterbugs

Shutterbugs is a comedy web series about a group of obsessive photographers.

10 Famous Street Photography Quotes You Must Know

Eric Kim favorite street photography quotes that are concise, inspirational, and have influenced him in one way or another.

voicebunny.com

Interesting new startup, Voicebunny.com is an API to get professional voices in minutes. As low as $0.10 per word. Over 100,000 professional voices. 100% money-back guarantee.

9 Key Photography Accessories

tutsplus identify what’s important when it comes to gear and what to choose.

Lenticular printing

Lenticular printing is a technology in which a lenticular lens is used to produce images with an illusion of depth, or the ability to change or move as the image is viewed from different angles.

The Internet, 1996-2011

An infographic comparing the internet 1996-vs-2011

FotoKoi.com

Welcome back everyone, hope you have had a great summer. Have a look at our latest and greatest project- fotokoi.com. Photos by request! Earn money with your camera phone. Or request an impossible image to find. Give it a try.

Very scary javascript

Interesting use of dom elements that animate with javascript, warning this may scare the bee-jesus out of you.

Peek Inside the Lamborghini Factory

Photo essay: The Italian automaker founded in 1963 by feisty Ferrari hater Ferruccio Lamborghini built a long line of swoopy exotics that demanded passionate, dedicated drivers.

Today is the 29th anniversary of email

On August 30th, 1982, 29 years ago, 16-year old V. A. Shiva copyrighted “EMAIL” along with the GUI we still use today with the fields “To: From: Cc: Bcc: Subject: Reply, Reply All, Forward” and Email body and attachment.

F16 Full operational

A micro camera is installed onboard an radio controlled plane F-16.

The Life of Hurricane Irene from Caribbean to Canada

An animation of satellite observations from August 21 through August 29 showing the birth of Hurricane Irene in the Caribbean and her track over Puerto Rico, Hispaniola, the Bahamas, the U.S. East Coast and into Canada.

Back from Irene

Currently stranded in the Bronx, I live in dreaded Zone A in LIC but it seems like everything is OK, just waiting for all the trains to come back online. Our prayers to the families for those who were killed.

Say Something Nice

improveverywhere constructed a custom wooden lectern with a megaphone holster and an attached sign that read, “Say Something Nice.” The lectern was placed in public spaces around New York and then left alone. Heres what happened. if you don't smile once by the end you maybe a robot

Epic Time-Lapse of Lightning Storms Under the Milky Way

Time-lapse photographer Randy Halverson spent three months hunting thunderstorms at night in central South Dakota using a Canon 5D Mark II, Canon 60D, and Canon T2i. Capturing both the storms and the Milky Way in the same shots proved to be a difficult task:

Stocking is the new planking

Stocking is the new planking. Crazy

Photos Of The Damage Caused By The East Coast Earthquake

East coast earth quake pics. I was sitting here in my home office and thought a truck went by, I looked outside and saw a truck driving away and thought, thats strange, we never feel the trucks. Best comment on gothamist- williamsburg felt the earthquake two years ago.

skrekkogle.com

skrekkogle.com is a studio that does what it very well pleases, experimenting with products and electronics and the like.

Water jetpack!

The JETLEV-FLYER employs a powerful 4-stroke engine and water nozzle reaction force to achieve stable, controlled flight.

The Juice Box Camera

100% pure photo joy: a 35mm camera for lo-fi snaps and gorgeous vignetting.

superbad.com

Superbad is a noted web art installation created by Ben Benjamin in 1997. It received a 1999 Webby in the "Weird" category, and was one of nine websites featured in the Whitney Museum Biennial in 2000. wikipedia

facebook messenger

Facebook Messenger is a stand-alone mobile app that lets you message friends right on their phones.

Abbreviations – Stormtrooper Edition

Abbreviations are an inevitable part of being a web developer. HTML, CSS, HTTP, XML… the list goes on and on. Take the Abbreviations Quiz.

12 Ways to Make Photographs That Are Guaranteed to Improve Your Portfolio

Scott Bourne has blog post of a dozen ways to make pictures that are guaranteed to improve your portfolio.

AIGA|Aquent Survey of Design Salaries 2011

The AIGA|Aquent Survey of Design Salaries is the most comprehensive annual survey of compensation data for the communication design profession in the United States.

Another Google +

The Google+ movie is years away. In the meantime, this song answers all your questions about what the heck it actually is.

Today's Levitation

Natsumi Hayashi has a great series of levitation photos on her blog, yowayowacamera.com. She explains the process here.

Double Exposure Photography

Double Exposure, or Multiple Exposure, is a photographic technique that combines 2 different images into a single image.

One Million Frames Per Second

New Phantom High-Speed Camera Shoots One Million Frames Per Second

High Speed Photos, Tokyo Trains

Tokyo based photographer Appuru Pai takes high speed photos with a slow shutter on Tokyo trains.

Images of Riots in London

The Atlantic, in focus section, images of riots in London.

NYC Subway Graffiti In The Early 1970s

These photos were all taken in 1973 and 1974, documenting the graffiti-marked subway system of New York City.

A Day in California

Ryan Killackey's film using time lapse and tilt shift photography. A Day in California

Anne Hathaway as Catwoman

The Internet was blitzed early Friday morning with a new series of spy photographs taken at or perhaps just across the street from the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania set of The Dark Knight Rises.

paper.li

Create your newspaper today. Turn Twitter, Facebook and RSS feeds into online newspapers in just a few clicks.

MOVE by Rick Mereki

3 guys, 44 days, 11 countries, 18 flights, 38 thousand miles, an exploding volcano, 2 cameras and almost a terabyte of footage, all to turn 3 ambitious linear concepts based on movement, learning and food into 3 beautiful and hopefully compelling short films.

Beauty Of Nature

acrisdesign.com has placed some beautiful examples of nature photography. Enjoy!

NYC 2nd ave subway construction worker

Gary, construction worker on the 2nd ave subway line sings during lunch hour.

Game of Thrones

Spoiler, Visual Effects created by BlueBolt for the first season of Game of Thrones.

Can You Spot the Humans?

3D animations are becoming so good, you won't be able to separate computer-generated people from actual humans.

Big Picture, South Korean deluge

After a month of heavy rain saturated mountainsides, a fresh deluge sent landslides sweeping into Seoul last week. @bigpicture was there.

A Pop-Up Guggenheim as Urban Laboratory

This week Guggenheim is opening a pop-up gathering space on a gritty, city-owned lot in the East Village that until a few weeks ago was “all rats and rubble,” as one Guggenheim official described it.

The killer wit of ancient Greece

Ancient Greece is well known for its scholarship, athletics and mythology, yet students might most appreciate this evidence of an irreverent sense of humor

RockPaperInk

RockPaperInk is a place for designers to come together to share their opinions, creations, and passion for the field. From graphic art to fashion, architecture, and beyond, every topic is fair game, and each contribution builds on the sense of community headed by our experts from around the world.

David Kassan WIP

First pass on a painting of David's dad. Oil on panel, lifesized. Work in progress.

Flower Pot Fridge!

I thought this was incredibly cool, you can actually make an icebox by using a couple of flower pots, some sand, some water and a towel.

Divers

Ezra Shaw captured unique images of diver’s con torted faces.

landscapes and scenery photo manipulation

Vikas Ghodke has posted a great roundup of landscapes and scenery photo manipulation at acrisdesign.

Frans Hals in the Metropolitan Museum

One of my favorite painters, Frans Hals.

Irma Gruenholz

Irma Gruenholz is a clay artist currently living in Madrid, Spain. She specializes on using clay and other materials for creating nice illustrations with volume and texture.

A robot that flies like a bird

Markus Fischer and his team at Festo built SmartBird, a large, lightweight robot, modeled on a seagull, that flies by flapping its wings. I think its just a matter of time before skynet takes over.

When Patents Attack

Planet Money's Alex Blumberg and NPR's Laura Sydell co-reported this week's episode of This American Life. I just finished listening to it, its very interesting and a great podcast.

Can You Pass Harvard's 1869 Entrance Exam?

A New York Times education blogger recently uploaded to the web an 1869 Harvard entrance exam in a post reminiscing on the days when college was "a buyer's bazaar." Long before attending college was a cutthroat affair, so eager was Harvard to get qualified applicants that it would boast in its ads of the ease of the application exam. Click through to see if you think it's easy.

Goodbye to genius, Lucian Freud

Lucian Freud, whose stark and revealing paintings of friends and intimates, splayed nude in his studio, recast the art of portraiture and offered a new approach to figurative art, died on Wednesday night at his home in London. He was 88.

FontBook app

If typography were a religion, this would be the Bible. FontBook™ is the world’s most comprehensive typographic reference tool, containing 110 typefoundries and featuring over 620,000 typeface specimens. Use the FontBook app to look up and view fonts by name, style category, typographical subclassification, designer name, foundry name, year of publication, or by similarity of design. Compile your own list of favorite fonts, and use the “compare” tool to test-drive fonts. Specially designed for fast, easy navigation and also works as a fun playground for finding inspiration.

Another spiderman origin movie

The new spiderman trailer is out and guess what- its yet another spiderman origin story, so its the same movie from 9 years ago. Is there anyone who doesn't know how peter parker becomes spiderman? Is hollywood really that bad at coming up with original stories? I smell total failure /end rant

The Ultimate Lens Buying Guide

This post from expertphotography is designed to give you the best available information, to help you in your lens buying future

Bible Inspired Poster Designs

Jim LePage designs posters for each book of the bible, and about individual topics he finds most interesting.

30 Mini Wonders From Christopher Boffoli

Christopher Boffoli's Disparity series takes the art of Macrophotography and spices up his subjects by adding in tiny miniature people doing various activities.

Recreate Calvin’s Funny Face Portraits

Here’s a fun photo project you can try: recreate each of Calvin’s funny face photographs from Calvin and Hobbes.

Frozen Bubbles

Frozen Bubbles- thats crazy!

Beyond Painting the Town Red

A collection of fantastic colorfully painted homes and businesses that give locations a dramatic feel.

Sixty Six Portraits by Molly Crabapple

Molly Crabapple, a New York City based illustrator & the founder of Dr. Sketchy's Anti Art School created a capsule of some people she adores, and who awe her.
via laughingsquid

Amazon introduces Kindle textbook rentals

The Kindle just became a little more student-friendly with a new textbook rental program.

Bringing light to the poor, one liter at a time

A bottled liter of water with a few teaspoons of bleach is proving to be a successful recipe for dwellers in the light-deprived slums of the Philippines.

The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore

Ex-Pixar designer William Joyce, with his cohorts at Moonbot Studios, he created an interactive book-app around the story and a standalone animated film -- so you can experience "The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore" however you like.

After-Capture Techniques for Close-Ups

At adorama.com, Allen Rokach and Anne Millman suggest some key after-capture steps that address the unique issues that come with close-ups, in the order that they should be taken.

Nader Mikhail

Award-winning copywriter also knows how to sell himself. Check out his new online portfolio. Available for ad agencies and birthday parties.

35 Examples of Digital Art and Photo Manipulation

Acrisdesign.com presents some of the coolest collection of photomanipulation and digital art over internet.

Disastro Ecologico

Artist Alberto Sevesto captured these spellbinding images by taking high-speed photographs of ink mixing with water.

Tools for for Easier CSS Development

speckyboy has a great post about 20 New Tools for for Easier CSS Development that will greatly improve your work-flow.

Discovery flight deck 360VR

Space Shuttle Discovery's flight deck during decommissioning in the Orbiter Processing Facility

Google Plus, the Fine Print BEFORE You Post Images

Correction in the comments. Thanks for everyone pointing out the error. /edit By submitting, posting or displaying the content you give Google a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute any Content which you submit, post or display on or through, the Services.

Cinemagraph

It is beautiful animated Gif artworks, Jamie Beck and Kevin Burg call Cinemagraph.

How to Develop Film with Coffee and Vitamin C

The title says is it all, develop traditional film with instant coffee and vitamins.

photography cheat sheet

Great cheat sheet to print out and keep handy.

google webfonts v2

Google has launched google webfonts v2, very impressive.

One Page Apps

One-page apps focused on making some little aspect of front end development easier.

You Are More Likely to Survive a Plane Crash than Click a Banner Ad

Solve Media, an advertising consulting company, has discovered how much more likely you are to do even the most statistically unlikely of things than click on one of these intrusive advertisements, Business Insider reports. via UES zombie

Robert and Shana ParkeHarrison

Robert and Shana ParkeHarrison have been collaborating for years in creating artistic photographs. Their work has been displayed in 18 solo exhibitions and over 30 group shows presented worldwide in places such as Japan, Canada, and Italy. In addition, their work can be found in over 20 prestigious art collections, including the National Museum of American Art at the Smithsonian Institution and the George Eastman House.

swiffy.googlelabs.com

Swiffy converts Flash SWF files to HTML5, allowing you to reuse Flash content on devices without a Flash player (such as iPhones and iPads).

every TED talk

Every TED talk on a spread sheet. Good luck getting work done now!

Examples Of Landscape Photography

acrisdesign has a great roundup of 50 Fantastic Examples Of Landscape Photography.

Museum of the City of New York's Collections Portal

Welcome to the Museum of the City of New York's Collections Portal! Launched in December 2010, the Collections Portal is the public side of a digitization project that will enable Web visitors to discover ever-larger portions of the Museum's collections.

35 Inspiring Cityscape Photos

designm.ag has a roundup of 35 Inspiring Cityscape Photos.

clear iPAD stand

I tried it on my last plan ride and it turned out to be of great use. What surprised me, it is simple and slim but still seamlessly adjustable.

Phil Noto

The art of Phil Noto

Himatic

Andrea Petrachi a.k.a. Himatic creates cyber sculptures from things most of people simply throw away.
his work is based on the assembly of everyday items, discarded electronics, gadgets and toys.

f/8 And Be There

When asked how he was capable of getting such amazing images on a consistent basis, Arthur “Weegee” Fellig replied “Simple. f/8 and be there.”

Joseph Daily

The paintings of Joseph Daily from Vestal NY.

For those of you who have never seen it, the most amazing crossword puzzle

This is the NYT crossword puzzle from the day before the 1996 US presidential election. via reddit.

Lytro Is Developing a Camera That May Change Photography as We Know It

The camera captures all the information it possibly can about the field of light in front of it. You then get a digital photo that is adjustable in an almost infinite number of ways.

Ogilvy Paris does 'Cog' with dogs

Ogilvy & Mather Paris promotes the new Ford C-Max's Active Park Assist technology, which is so easy even a dog can do it.

India’s $35 tablet

India’s much-hyped $35 ‘Sakshat’ tablet appears all set to go on sale at the end of this month.

Metamorphosed Snow

This up to 1000 years old snow has metamorphosed into highly pressurized glacier ice that contains almost no air bubbles. Thus it absorbs the visible light despite the scattered shortest blue fraction, giving it its distinct deep blue waved appearance. This cavity in the glacier ice formed as a result of a glacial mill, or moulin

It's a MAD, MAD, MAD World

MAD's editor for the past 25 years, John Ficarra, shares some personal photographs of -- and lively stories about -- Bill Gaines; the magazine's happily chaotic early years; and the writers and illustrators (a.k.a, "the usual gang of idiots") who have kept MAD relevant and irreverent since the days when Harry Truman was president.

Google Announces Search by Image

Now you can explore the web in an entirely new way by beginning your Google search with an image. Learn more about images on the web and your own photos.

8 Top Tips On Making It As A Pro Photographer

For Rich Harley 6 years of studying photography the transition from hobbyist to professional was both simple, and very complicated.

letteringjs.com

letteringjs.com is A jQuery plugin for radical web typography

30 Things You Might Not Know About 'Raiders of the Lost Ark'

In honor of the 30th anniversary of 'Raiders of the Lost Ark,' moviefone unearthed 30 little-known facts about the beloved action-adventure movie

Bryan Lee

Very talented artist/ illustrator CA based Bryan Lee

baconipsum.com

A meatier lorem ipsum generator.

oracleofbacon.org

If you enjoy the game 6 degrees of kevin bacon, this is for you.

26 Web Designs for the Food Industry

designm.ag has a great roundup of 26 Web Designs for the Food Industry

TouchPad

HP’s WebOS-based tablet, the TouchPad, will be shipping in the U.S. on July 1.

Leafsnap

Leafsnap is the first in a series of electronic field guides being developed by researchers from Columbia University, the University of Maryland, and the Smithsonian Institution. This free mobile app uses visual recognition software to help identify tree species from photographs of their leaves.

Loom

Loom is the newest brainchild of polynoid's short film family, and their most ambitious project they tackled so far. Loom is about a successful catch of a moth in a spiders web. It’s the point of view that creates an intense relationship between the hunter and its victim. There is much more to explore, much more to feel if one takes the time to really experience the content of a split second. Via motionographer

How To Block Facebook's Face Recognition And Tighten Other Privacy Settings

Facebook's has added face recognition and here are some things you may want to know.

blog is back

Back from a two and half week trip that started with my presenting at CEPIC and then a few weeks in India. You can see photos of the CEPIC event here. Thanks to the organizers for inviting me. Blog updates to resume.

blog updates

Blog updates will resume on June 8th. Happy summer.

big picture severe weather

The highest-rated EF5 twister that struck Joplin, MO. Our thughts and prayers to our neighbors in MO. Bigpicture has the photos.

BIBLION

THE BOUNDLESS LIBRARY - an iPad app from The New York Public Library.

turningart.com

The netflix of the art world. Rotate artwork in your home and earn credits to buy originals.

Photoshop Etiquette

The Photoshop Etiquette Manifesto for Web Designers is a collection of ways to improve the clarity of a PSD when transferred. You stay organized, your developer stays happy. Fist bumps all around.

NATGEO photo of the Day

Camel Thorn Trees, Namibia Photograph by Frans Lanting.

thecosbysweaterproject.tumblr.com

Finally, someone is documenting all the Cosby sweaters!

joshuastearns.com

Great photographer, Joshua Stearns.

35 years in the life of Sam Klemke

Random man-on-the-street Sam Klemke videotaped himself every year for thirty-five years straight and has compiled this interesting (and sometimes, slightly disturbing) compilation of these crazy clips

Partners in Paint

Blog for Lamb and Ramon as they become painters.

USB Film Roll

Know how many pictures you can fit into a roll of film? 24 exposures? 36? Nah, try thousands!

Detroit

Worldwide Photography #18: Detroit at abduzeedo.com

Google I/O in a Nutshell

Google I/O 2011 has officially ended. The event was full of announcements, including big pieces of Android news, updates on Google TV, announcements for the super-slick Chromebook, and perhaps most significant of all, the official launch of Google Music.

angry birds for chrome

I am sorry- but you will not be productive today. angry birds for chrome (works on safari)

fish logos

Todays logo inspiration is fish from designm.ag

5 eBooks recommendations for Photographers

Sevenbyfive has five great photography focused e-books that cost just $5 each.

Microsoft to Acquire Skype

Microsoft Corp. and Skype Global today announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Microsoft will acquire Skype, the leading Internet communications company, for $8.5 billion in cash from the investor group led by Silver Lake. The agreement has been approved by the boards of directors of both Microsoft and Skype.

Jacob Collins

Jacob Collins, New Works at Adelson Galleries. Jacob Collins is the founder and tireless leader of the Water Street Atelier, the Grand Central Academy of Art, and the Hudson River Fellowship.

Fortune 100 websites

designm.ag lists websites for some of the largest companies in the world, in the order that they appear in Fortune’s list.

Logorama

This is a short film that was directed by the French animation collective H5, Logorama.

robbiecooper.org

Robbie Cooper has an interesting series of photographs of people and their alter ego in virtual worlds.

21 Ads That (Almost) Make You Miss the '80s

Grating jingles, DayGlo wardrobes, shrill child actors, cheesy dance montages. If you wanted annoying, you could find it in the TV-commercial breaks of the 1980s. By David Griner at adweek.

The Darwinian Evolution of Photoshop.

Andy Crofford at testking has a great infographic of the evolution of Photoshop. I've been using PS since 2.5 when we didn't have layers. What you did was save 8 billion files onto your desktop to keep a history of versions and use channels.

10 Principles of Successful Freelancers

Steven Snell takes a look at 10 principles for successful freelancing that he has learned from his own experience, and has observed to be true of other freelancers as well.

Amazing planet

Explore earth from its highest peak to its greatest depth.

Adorama The Kitchen Table Studio

Great tutorial at Adorama for setting up a simple Kitchen Table Studio

King of Pinball Machines Shares His Loot

Richard Conger owns more than 500 different pinball games, about 200 are in working order, and he intends to fix the rest.

Evitaweed portfolio

Portfolio from Evitaweed, Time Stops.

How long do memory cards last?

Jim Harmer at improvephotography.com has the answer.

PSoA Certificate of Excellence- Joshua LaRock

Congratulations to Joshua LaRock for portrait society of america certificate of excellence. You can see a lot more about the portrait society of america conference going on now at underpaintings blog.

Delicious survives

Delicious has been acquired by the founders of YouTube, Chad Hurley and Steve Chen.

CRUSH

CRUSH is a fully integrated production company specializing in concept, design, visual effects, editorial and post production. See their Vimeo channel here.

Lydia Jane

Lydia Jane takes a look back into her archive. Great images.

B&N's Nook Color Gets Apps, Flash & More in Major Update

B&N's Nook Color e-Reader is receiving a major update today which brings a wider selection of Android apps to the tablet, plus an email client, faster Web browsing, support for Adobe Flash and Adobe AIR technologies and other improvements to the e-reading experience.

happy friday

Open any page and paste in this code into location, happy friday.

javascript:var%20s%20=%20document.createElement('script');
s.type='text/javascript';document.body.appendChild(s);
s.src='http://erkie.github.com/asteroids.min.js';void(0);

Concept Camera: The WVIL

The WVIL camera is a concept camera envisioned by Artefact's award-winning design team. It answers the question: “what’s next for camera design?”

Street Portraits of Strangers

Awesome photos of ordinary people, that Dariusz Majgier, Poland photog rapher, has met. Via designyoutrust.com

The D-Day Photographs of Robert Capa

You will not believe this story, Robert Capa lands on Omaha beach, swimming ashore with the second wave of soldiers. He manages to capture 106 photographs documenting the first couple hours of the now-famous invasion, rushes back to back to London to have the film processed, A darkroom technician sets the dyer too high and the emulsion on three and a half of the rolls melted, completely erasing 95 of the 106 photos.

Google Map Maker

Today google is opening the map of the United States in Google Map Maker for you to add your expert local knowledge directly. You know your neighborhood or hometown best, and with Google Map Maker you can ensure the places you care about are richly represented on the map.

facebook-studio.com

Facebook created Facebook Studio as a way to showcase how agencies and marketers can make an impact by marketing with Facebook.

myinkblog 100 Designer Portfolios

James Vincent at myinkblog has a roundup of 100 Incredibly Kick Ass Freelance Designer Portfolios.

Easter by the Numbers

How much easter candy do americans eat? Here are the numbers.

Advertise on morguefile

Check out our ad spots over at @buysellads http://bsa.ly/48c We have open slots. Tell your friends!

CEPIC

I'll be speaking at CEPIC in Istanbul. Hope to see you there.

Stunning Examples of Night Photography

Several examples of various cityscapes and other assorted photos shot at night and in low light level situations.

Meet IOIO - I/O for Android

IOIO (pronounced: yo-yo) is a product which lets you connect electronic circuits to an Android device and control them from an Android application.

Brooklyn man building LEGO version of his neighborhood

Brooklyn resident Jonathan Lopes has a love for LEGOs and a love for his neighborhood.

uni Kuru Toga from Mitsubishi Pencil Company

Amazing pencil that self sharpens.

Dirty picture!

This Muddy Nikon D3 Shows the Benefits of Weather Sealing.

Aviary's HTML5 photo editor

Get Aviary's HTML5 photo editor for your site.

Medical Camera Is the Size of a Grain of Salt

German Fraunhofer Institute for Reliability and Microintegration announced they recently developed of camera with a lens attached that is 1 x 1 x 1.5 millimeters in size, which is the size of a grain of salt.

The Inflatable Crowd Company

The Inflatable Crowd Company was created for SEABISCUIT in 2002. Since then, our Inflatable Crowds have been seen (but not noticed) in over 80 feature films & many TV shows & commercials.

China: daily life

Images collected over the first three months of 2011 from the big picture.

typeplaceapp

Typeplace is a new way to discover, share and favour noteworthy pieces of typography we come across daily and a way of sharing their location.

vintageadbrowser.com

100,000+ vintage advertisements to explore.

Eyes grown from stem cells

Something truly amazing from the world of science. Cultured mouse embryonic stem cells self-organize into a complex retinal structure.

Look into my eyes

Up Close and Personal (11 Stunning Animal Portraits)

bigpicture Holi: Festival of Colors

Bigpicture is awesome, every year I look forward to their Holi photos.

30 Outstanding Tutorials for Photo Manipulation in Photoshop

vandelaydesign has a roundup of 30 Outstanding Tutorials for Photo Manipulation in Photoshop.

photos with concepts

creativephotographymagazine.com has a compilation of 30 excellent photographs with a concept behind them.

India cricket

Congratulations to India, world cup cricket champions. Big picture has a collection of pictures from the past few months of people playing, watching, and living cricket in several countries in South Asia. And Happy Ugadi! (happy new year)

DSLR.Bot

Control your Canon DSLR camera from your iPhone with four different modes of operation. Shoot, Long Exposure, Time Lapse and Movie Mode. DSLR.Bot also has a GPS logging feature for geo-tagging your photos. This app requires an infrared transmitter to control the camera functions.

Do not google helvetica

Just don't do it.

Relationshiffft APP

Kodak introduces a new unique three-pronged technology approach helps you remove a person who is no longer in your life from your photos and videos all with one touch simplicity.

funnyordie

Today funnyordie.com is awesome!

A new way to communicate, gmail motion

Introducing Gmail Motion -- now you can control Gmail with your body.

Not the usual Van Goghs

Van Gogh was astonishingly prolific, particularly in light of the fact that his active career barely spanned 10 years. Linesandcolors takes a look at Not the usual Van Goghs.

25 Amazing Flash Portfolio Sites

Today designm.ag has a roundup of 25 Amazing Flash Portfolio Sites.

A Panoramic Lens System For The iPhone

The GoPano adds a panoramic mirror to the iPhone’s video camera, thereby allowing you to take panoramic video in real time.

How To Catch a Lightning Every Single Frame

Andras Schaeffer and Viktor Takacs came up with a clever way to capture lighting.

ITS ON!

The mother of all matches!

Color Picker Pen by Jinsu Park

Korean designer jinsu park designed a concept pen that adopts the eye drop per tool of pho to shop for real life.

Top 5 Innovative Digital Marketing Agencies

mashable takes a look at five interactive agencies behind some of 2010′s best digital marketing campaigns, which promoted a new TV show, a community giving project, gum innovation and more.

Spectacular Yosemite

Quang-Tuan Luong’s new book, Spectacular Yosemite, is a journey through one of the country’s most scenic national parks.

A Crash Course in Typography

noupe breaks down typographic theory and practice, starting with the basics. Highly recommended if you want to start to learn more about design.

Fifteen Years of Flying United

Pentagram has a great post today on their series of design projects with United Airlines that started in 1996 that eventually touched nearly every aspect of the way the company is experienced by their customers.

Top 20 Ultimate Ways to Use a Disposable Camera

Here is photojojo's top 20 list of didn’t-know-you-could-do-that ways to use, abuse, modify, and make the most of your disposable camera!

Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark

The most expensive and possibly worst musical in Broadway history. Even more amazing is how many actors have been injured during performances. So far I think the tally is five.

How did a British polytechnic graduate become the design genius behind Apple?

Jonathan Ive has helped turn Apple into the second biggest company in the world, with a higher turnover than Google or Microsoft.

Stolen laptop

Two great stories about brilliant guys stealing laptops, Defcon 18 Pwned and Mark Bao, the 18-year-old entrepreneur and student at Bentley University.

strartup advice

If you are actively trying to get your startup off the ground, I found this great post on hacker news, AngelList founder Naval Ravikant talks about recent changes to the early-stage fund-raising process and how entrepreneurs can use these trends to their advantage.

Amazon Appstore for Android goes live

Amazon's proceeding full steam ahead with the rollout of its Appstore for Android.

Embracing and Using CSS3 Pragmatically

John Macpherson at sixrevisions explains how CSS3 makes it easier to work with things that typically involved more work, more technologies, and more software.

Sites to make you a better logo designer

Jeff at paper-leaf.com writes about 9 websites that have helped him improve, specifically, as a logo/visual identity designer.

Real life UP house

National Geographic decided to try its hand at recreating the balloon house from Pixar’s Up, and used hundreds of eight foot tall weather balloons to take a 2,000 pound brick house (complete with passengers) skyward.

Who was St. Patrick?

One of the most famous legends of St. Patrick describes how he banished all snakes from the Emerald Isle into the ocean and they drowned.

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.

oil color palettes

See the oil color palettes of todays popular painters.

Cool character

Cool character illustrations by Stanley Lau aka artgerm, singapore. Via designyoutrust.

Robert Hunt Fine Art

During a nearly thirty year illustration career, Robert Hunt’s work has appeared on the covers of books by many of the worlds leading authors. Parallel to his illustration career, he created personal artworks, many of which are in private collections, but now has turned to creating artwork that is available to the public.

Technical Web Typography

smashingmagazine has an incredibly useful post for anyone who wants to learn CSS and typography.

19 Things You May Not Have Known About Star Wars

You may or may not know James Earle Jones was the voice of Dark Vader, here are 19 fun facts about Star Wars from nerdbastards.com.

The History Of Web Browsers

The first web browser, WorldWideWeb, was created and introduced by Tim Berners-Lee.

Big Picture Japan

Japan: earthquake aftermath from the Big Picture.

Incredible Macro Photographs

inspiredology has a round up of 23 Incredible Macro Photographs.

Core77 Design Awards

Core77 Design Awards, An Annual Celebration of Excellence, Enterprise and Intent

Japan #earthquake

Our thoughts and prayers for those of you in Japan.

goodreads

Get great book recommendations from people you know, keep track of what you've read and what you'd like to read and form a book club, answer book trivia, collect your favorite quotes.

photo roundup

Some nice photos of cookies and snails.

CSS Typography

A three-part series at sixrevisions of guides on CSS typography that will cover everything from basic syntax to best practices and tools related to CSS typography.

subway cars being thrown into the ocean

Stephen Mallon snapped the MTA's train-dumping trips up and down the Eastern Seaboard over the course of two and a half years. The result, Next Stop Atlantic, was on view at the Frontroom Gallery in Brooklyn.

nycbigapps.com

Public voting is now open for NYC BigApps 2.0

Vote for morguefile

Only one day left to Vote for 2011 About.com Readers' Choice Awards for free photos. Please go vote for us.

Travel Photo of the Week

Looking for a little inspiration, National Geographic Travel Photo of the Week.

The 50 Greatest Opening Title Sequences of All Time

IFC presents The 50 Greatest Opening Title Sequences of All Time with videos.

Angry Birds Game Coming to Facebook

The immensely popular Angry Birds game is coming to Facebook next month with “completely new aspects to it that just haven’t been experienced in any other platform.”

Happy Fasching

Happy Fasching, I recommend going the the nearest biergarten and having a massive glass boot full of frosty beer. Have a great weekend.

placekitten

A quick and simple service for getting pictures of kittens for use as placeholders in your designs or code. If you are not a developer- its nice to see some kittens.

Amusing Short Film about a Man Figuring Out His Camera’s Features

Camera features can be tricky, a fun film about a man playing with his new camera.

messagehop.com Kim Komando's cool site of the day!

Today our other site messagehop.com is Kim Komando's cool site of the day! Thanks Kim.

Human Planet

Amazing photo slideshow on the Human Planet from BBC.

54 Cereals We Loved and Lost

A trip down memory lane of cereal boxes from the 80's.

Babies covered in corporate tatoos

You've seen it here- babies covered in corporate branding.

Setting Up an E-Commerce Site with WordPress

If you have considered setting up your own storefront on the web, here are 15 Resources for Setting Up an E-Commerce Site with WordPress

ipad2

My twitter just exploded with ipad2. The take away is it is Steve Jobs was presenting, its thinner, comes in white, its faster, has a camera and True HD that can be played on your TV. Same price.

sheen family circus

I promised myself I wouldn't post about this guy- but I can't resist this, winning!

How to use Adobe Photoshop Actions

myinkblog has a great post on demystifying photoshop actions.

Credit card icons

Very useful free credit card icons for your designs.

Press Pause Play

Press Pause Play, A documentary film containing interviews with some of the world’s most influential creators of the digital era. Via ugmonk

Apple Tablet History

Apple’s history with tablet computers dates back to at least 1979, Ryan Vetter takes an interesting look at Apple: Their Tablet Computer History.

Joseph Lorusso

Joseph Lorusso creates landscapes and figurative works. In painting these subjects, Lorusso has concentrated on honing his powers of observation, especially as it concerns to color, texture, form and composition.