Thursday, October 27, 2011

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.

Wednesday, October 26, 2011

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.

Monday, October 24, 2011

UrtheCast

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

Friday, October 21, 2011

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.

Thursday, October 20, 2011

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.

Tuesday, October 11, 2011

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.

Monday, October 10, 2011

Wednesday, October 5, 2011

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.

Tuesday, October 4, 2011

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.