I’d have loved for this post to be the introduction of our latest iPhone application. An application that introduces a new default optional home screen. A screen that doesn’t require you to scan for red dots with numbers inside of them. Instead it would display information and notifications of things that are new and relevant to you. We’ll all have to keep dreaming for the time being. Unless you’re willing to jailbreak your phone it simply isn’t possible to develop and implement this type of hostile UI takeover using the iPhone SDK.

http://www.teehanlax.com/blog/?p=1893

The twitter-based Word of the Day competition that helps clever people look clever and helps the rest of us learn new words.

http://artwiculate.com/

Economy getting you down? Puma gives you an upside to the downturn.

Puma and Droga5 give you a bright side to slipping stock prices with the Puma Index. The app is a genuine stock market ticker that measures the rising and falling market by the amount of exposed flesh on some good looking folks. The more values drop, the more clothes come off.

Ólafur Arnalds - Ljósið (Official Music Video) from Erased Tapes on Vimeo.

Software used: Adobe After Effects
Plugin used: Trapcode Particular v2. and Trapcode SoundKeys

A little bit of expressions used, turbulence and spherical field tweakings.

PieLab– the vision of 14 young Project M designers, is transforming from pop-up experimental pie shop to permanent downtown eatery in Greensboro, Alabama. This expansion will elevate our level of engagement among the residents of Greensboro and the surrounding area of Hale County. The new space will be equipped with a full service kitchen, a community-focused design studio, as well as classroom space which will be used to train local youth through the Youth Build program.

Project M, founded by John Bielenberg in Belfast, Maine, is a group of designers, writers, and photographers brought together from around the world to challenge the conventions of design, and think wrong about how their talents can be used for the greater good.

Greensboro is most often recognized for its location in Hale County, one of the poorest in America, and for the architecture projects designed and built by the Rural Studio at Auburn University. At PieLab we hope to bring out the heart of Hale County by uncovering the ideas, stories, aspirations and talents of this underserved community. We also hope that through fostering conversation between neighbors at PieLab, we can provide a neutral and open forum for members of the community to expose and discuss some of the deep-rooted issues that still segregate this rural southern town.

Now that it has been cleaned and gutted, we’re ready to build out our new space on Main Street. Though we’ve been very resourceful, salvaging much of our materials from thrift stores and scrap piles, there are many items that we still need.

In an effort to acquire these items, we’re asking you to Invest in Pie by making a monetary donation in the amount of your choosing. All proceeds raised will be used to cover the costs of opening and operating the new shop. At PieLab, we believe that a united community is an empowered community, and when people feel empowered good things start to happen. Take part in a good thing.
Project location: Greensboro, AL

 http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/795396878/pielab

toxiclibs is an independent, open source library collection for computational design tasks with Java & Processing. After 2.5 years of continuous development & refactoring, the collection consists of >14k lines of code, 124+ classes, 18 packages bundled into 7 libraries. The classes are purposefully kept fairly generic in order to maximize re-use in different contexts ranging from generative visuals, data visualization to digital fabrication, use as teaching tool and more.

Following a public call for participation, this showreel is meant to provide a short overview of projects & experiments done by current users of the libraries.

More information & downloads: toxiclibs.org

toxiclibs showreel from postspectacular on Vimeo.

http://edge.neocha.com/brands-agencies-companies/converse/converse-new-campaign/

Ji Lee is the founder of the reknowned ‘Bubble Project’, which started 6 years ago. Borne from frustration at corporate advertising agencies, Lee printed and applied 50,000 renegade speech bubbles to street advertisements in New York and other cities around the world. Passersby would then fill the bubbles with musings and Lee would photograph the results and post them on the Bubble Project website.

Lee has since worked for Saatchi & Saatchi, followed by Droga5, where he headed the creative campaign for the launch of the New Museum and Tap Project.
Presently, working as a creative director at Google Creative Lab, Lee’s job is to promote many Google products and Google brand to the world. Lee continues to work as an independent artist, designer, illustrator and teacher. Lee likes to maintain the delicate balance between professional and personal projects, which he believes compliment each other.

Lee is the author of two books, Talk Back: The Bubble Project and Univers Revolved: a 3-Dimensional Alphabet. His work has appeared in The New York Times, Newsweek, ABC World News, The Guardian and Wired Magazine among others.

Ji Lee was born in Korea, raised in Brazil, and currently lives and works in New York.

Pleaseenjoy.com

TIME AND PLACE

Thursday 24 September 2009
6:30–8:00PM
Bumble and bumble, 3rd floor auditorium
415 West 13th Street Between Ninth Avenue & Washington St.

6:30–7:00PM Check-in
7:00–8:00PM Presentation

http://www.aigany.org/events/details/09ST/

Kafka’s A Country Doctor is one of my favorite works — fevered dream as quixotic text. Every semester I hand it to bewildered students for them to typographically interpret. This animation by Koji Yamamura of the story is pretty wonderful.

via Professor Madad http://howtoimplode.com/?p=321

SOUTH KOREA : High school students cheering for their soccer teams.
The most amazing thing is that they do this with their CLOTHES (not holding up cards). they have a jacket that is one color on the back, one on the front, and that they can open or close to show a third color shirt on the inside.

Red One, Canon 5D Mk II, and Panasonic Lumix GH1 Footage Comparison from Birns and Sawyer on Vimeo.

via Jackie

found this on QBN….http://www.qbn.com/topics/579601/

on Jan 19, 2009:

whitewolf

So hypothetically I know this kid who is an entry-level designer.

This guy interviewed for a graphic design position that included: photo studio work, print, illustration/logo, some web comps etc. He got the job offer and accepted. Three weeks into the job, he was given a web project. He was to take a pre-designed comp and develop/build the website. Keep in mind that in the interview process this kid explicitly expressed that all he had was a basic knowledge of web technology (flash animation, html, xhtml, basic css, tables etc) This person tackled the project the best that they knew how and upon completion was question of their ability.

A meeting was then held with the CEO and creative director: Bottom line, we need someone who can do web, and only web, either get up to par or get out. So, this person then consulted many a tutorial and fellow web personnel in the company. Now this person is up to par with company demands. They can build with css, div tags etc.

It has been three months since the meeting and this person has yet to see another non-web job. This person is thankful for the crash course and learning a bit of web development, but is creatively stifled.

So…

Should this person:

A) Stick with this company for one year, learning as much as they can and reaching the 1 year agency experience mark for the resume. Then apply elsewhere for a more fitting position.

or

B) Leave at the 8 month mark, and cash in on the opportunity to live in Southern Sudan/ Northern Uganda and work with a dear friend’s humanitarian non-profit. Basically riding around in land rovers helping build schools and medical centers for refugees. This would be a total of 3 months and then this person would return to the states and start the job hunt over again.

So, is getting a full year under their belt at a place that they do not trust help them more? Or should this person cut the agency experience short by pursing a passion and going on the ultimate adventure?

Fire away.

————–

9 months later, he returns from Sudan/Uganda with this video:

Teaser 2 from WHY THE WOODS on Vimeo.

http://whythewoods.com

I’m so glad he made the right decision.

It was on that date, four weeks after a gathering in Chicago called the General Time Convention, that Standard Railroad Time was created, in a commercial co-optation of the clock whose echoes can be felt today, high above Park Avenue in Manhattan, on the sixth floor of Grand Central Terminal. There, at the top of two ladders and tucked away behind the terminal’s operations center, is a cramped brick room that contains the greasy innards of a hundred-year-old clock with a stained-glass dial, the largest of Grand Central’s noteworthy timepieces.

“The New York Central Railroad knew it couldn’t run the system back then without time zones,” said Dan Brucker, a spokesman for Metro-North Railroad. “So they petitioned Congress.” And eventually, with the passage of the Standard Time Act in 1918, the railroads’ time zones were essentially enacted into law.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/17/nyregion/17rooms.html?_r=1&hp

http://kanyelicio.us/http://dreams.neonspice.net/

http://mrdoob.com/lab/av/saville/

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A post apocalyptic fantasy nightmare in which humanity’s legacy is threatened. Takes place in a parallel universe, where a race of oppressed rag dolls fights for survival.

Today, it’s my birthday. I’m a pastry chef by profession. Not only did my family buy a cake from my bakery, I had to make it myself and inscribe it with ‘Happy Birthday Dad’. The worst part is, they asked money from me to pay for it. FML

http://www.wktokyo.jp/blog/?p=2035
http://www.playface.jp/

Many people are creating projects based on free Google tools, APIs, and Google brand as inspiration at large. Goollery is an online gallery dedicated to collect, archive and showcase some of the most creative, fun and innovative Google-related projects from people around the world.

Goollery is an independent project by Ji Lee, Jeanelle Mak, Francisco Hui, Karishma Sheth, Scott Suiter, and Andrew Bonventre. Goollery is not a Google website.