I like the lo-tech animation with paper-cuts.

I drew this during a game of Pictionary. The clue was “Three Point Line”. My opponent drew a basketball hoop and, well, a three point line. We lost that round.

http://www.3ptline.com/

Illustrator: I can’t really demonstrate this here but when I turn on that piece of shit “Application Frame” (only turning it on because I know it will be shit so I can moan about it here) but when I rollover the title bar to go and drag it my mouse turns into a resize cursor in order to do that FUCKING 8 CORNER RESIZING BULLSHIT THAT HAS ABSOLUTELY NO PLACE IN MY OPERATING SYSTEM WHAT SO EVER AND JUST BECAUSE SOME CUNT AT ADOBE LOVES IT I HAVE TO PUT UP WITH THAT SHIT but it changes into the resize cursor ANYWHERE on the fucking title bar so its impossible to move the pissing window about.

FUCKING GARBAGE ADOBE, stop this stupid 8 corner resizing shit right now! Stop rewriting the OS rules you bag of dicks

http://adobegripes.tumblr.com/

TinEye a reverse image search engine. You can submit an image to TinEye to find out where it came from, how it is being used, if modified versions of the image exist, or to find higher resolution versions.

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Happy Chinese New Year!

http://www.colorsandthekids.com/

Mapping seems to float between two poles—symbolism and realism, or abstraction and dimensionality—as the attempt is made to either (with increasing accuracy) simulate a landscape or environment, or interpret it as a sign or composite of signs. At first glance, the former could be considered the predominant direction—technology leading the way in the gradual displacement of the latter. However, not only are both vectors alive and well: realism has been an ongoing pursuit in mapping as long as symbolism, and symbolism is equally seeing a new resurgence due to technological developments.

http://www.formfollowsbehavior.com/

http://www.projectno8.com/

Microsoft Excel is a program designed to track and compute information, but here I am using Excel as a drawing tool. These drawings are a part of a series that I executed on an irregular daily basis for 16 months. Each drawing is in a new ‘worksheet,’ which is automatically set up as a grid. The drawings were made by changing cell preferences for background color, fill pattern, and border styles and from time to time inserting ‘comment’ boxes and letters or words. Other manifestations of these drawings are 58 Days Worth of Drawing Exercises in Microsoft Excel as Rendered for Web and Animated Daily Excel Drawings (2005, ongoing). The book was published by Various Projects, in New York and is for sale at their shop, Project No. 8.

more great work at http://www.danielleaubert.com/index.html

GigaPan: http://gigapan.org/

After 23 years of brain-aided communication, the much-admired, much copied studio, The Designers Republic closed for business on Tuesday. But, as its founder Ian Anderson tells CR, it will rise again

All week, rumours have been flying around the internet that DR had gone out of business. CR can confirm that it is true. On Tuesday this week, the business was closed with nine staff being made redundant. According to its founder, Ian Anderson, the studio became insolvent due to a combination of factors: “We’d lost a couple of clients, didn’t win a couple of pitches, got a tax bill which should have been sorted out and wasn’t and a major client who didn’t pay the money they owed us – in themselves any of those things would have been fine but when they come all at once there’s not much you can do.”

more at http://www.creativereview.co.uk/crblog/the-designers-republic-is-dead-long-live-the-designers-republic/

my friend Filip from Seeking launched a new portfolio website. check it out.
http://kleremark.com/

Photosynth is a Microsoft technology that creates 3D spaces from anyone’s 2D photos. Hundreds of thousands of synths are viewable on photosynth.com, including the best inauguration synths.

Complacency has set in in Latin American football. Arrogance in their ability overtook the neccessity to train. It is time to remind the future stars of tomorrow, that skill alone is not enough. It is time to remind them of the grit and dedication that’s needed to make it to the top. This is their Final Wake Up Call.

Wieden+Kennedy launches 2 new Coke spots introducing the new ‘Open Happiness’ campaign.

http://krop.com/danabrams/

My friend from Seeking made this. It’s really funny!

-第44代アメリカ合衆国大統領 バラク・オバマ-
史上初のアフリカ系アメリカ人大統領、バラク・オバマ第44代アメリカ合衆国大統領が12インチアクションフィギュアで驚きの立体化。
こういった商品が出る事自体驚きだったのですが、海外の方ではこういった政治家フィギュアも珍しく無いようですね。

2008年アメリカ大統領選挙仕様となっており、衣装や付属品などもその時をイメージした物が付属。
衣装自体は専用スーツになっていますが、どうも素体と若干寸法が合っていない部分もあり、“ビシッと着こなす”とまではいきません。
しかし目玉（?）となる頭部のクオリティが凄い事になっているので、ある程度の事は目を瞑れてしまいます。
オバマヘッドはどこからどう見てもオバマ・・・もしくはノッチです。
塗装のクオリティも高く、肌の質感などの細かい部分までしっかりと再現されています。
衣装は全て取り外し可能。　内側の固定には実際にボタンやベルトなどを使用しています。

http://gamu-toys.info/sonota/sw/obama/obama.html

Kristin Kreuk is Chun-Li wtf
http://www.streetfighter.com/movie/

Commentary by Michael LewisDec. 10 (Bloomberg) — Recently I received a letter from a young employee of a well-known financial firm, who asked that I not mention his full name, his employer or anything else that might give him away. Though a bit short on self-pity and self- dramatization, this letter was otherwise a fine example of a sort I’ve received often these past few months.

Shortly prior to Obama’s inauguration the official White House website was updated with a new layout and new features. Already seen has been the new administration implement Change.gov which was widely met with satisfaction amongst users. With its launch it brought a new type of interconnectedness between government and citizen.

The new Whitehouse.gov resembles Change.gov in that it holds a wealth of various information and displays it in an easily accessible format. It takes the place of Change.gov and will be the new platform in which the Obama administration hopes to provide further involvement of citizens and government.

The site contains information on the plans for several initiatives and topic, as well as information regarding American politics in general. It is a welcome change to the White House main page, in both functionality and appearance.

via http://www.neowin.net/news/main/09/01/20/the-new-whitehousegov

http://www.tomthinks.com/teacher.html

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