Why can’t I tear my eyes away from this clock? UUUGH
I know I’m a bit behind the curve on this one, but my brother just brought this site to my attention. It’s a 24-hour clock that’s interrupted every 5 seconds with a little random dance segment. I can’t tear my eyes away for a billion reasons…I like the videography, the technical aspect of the Flash site (geeky I know), the cheezy campy dancing, and the ever so irritating yet catchy elevator music. The videos change by the seasons too.
I gotta stop staring at this clock! (via: Uniqlock)
Interesting exercise I found today called “Maxing Out Your Triangle”. I liked the neat little triangle charts that helped to communicate the concept in a very simplified fashion. I think it holds a good portion of truth…looking back at all the jobs I’ve had over time, I’ve certainly had at least one out of these 3 motivations for sticking to the job — love, growth, or cash.
I don’t think I’ve ever been in a situation where I was given so much cash that I’d be willing to put up with a job I hated. But I certainly know some people who ARE in this situation. I guess to each his own. I guess I’d rather suffer through all this risk and uncertainty in my own career I love, rather then waste my life away doing something I hated.
Certainly I’d love to have all 3. How would my triangle look now with my own business? Not too shabby, it’s not a completely filled triangle yet, but I’ll be working on it:
I wandered onto a site today with an artist that does some fantastic street art and random sketchwork. I’ve always loved artwork that shows all the nitty gritty pencil marks and sketchwork left over by the artist. (via: Zenvironments)
Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
Let’s see…what am I thankful for this year? Hmm:
I’m thankful my ear hasn’t fallen off and half my face paralyzed due to this recent surgery.
I’m thankful this is the final year I have to be embarrassed about our political leader in DC. I hope.
I’m thankful I have about 2 months of uninterrupted nighttime sleep before the little one comes along.
I’m thankful there are those of you with enough curiosity to actually read my random thoughts.
So I was talking online with my brother the other day about art prints for my wall. He sends me a few links to this artist James Jean. He’s got some prints for sale, but what I’d love to have is the one above. I want a HUUUGE one for my office wall!
It’s been a while since I did any personal reflection on my business experience. I’m not sure if you guys know this, but I started this blog just right around the time I decided to start Lowe Studio in the first place over 3 years ago. Kind of a way to document what I’m going through so I can look back. Whodathunk I’d actually keep this up?
Here’s a little but of humor to cheer you all up. I know it did for me.
A week back my brother in Australia forwards me a copy of an email transcript made by a friend of his co-worker. Basically he owed money and tried paying with the spider drawing above. I thought it was pretty funny but since it involved personal email I thought it better not to pass on.
Today he tells me it’s gone viral and now an Australian newschannel has picked up the incident. So it’s all fair to post!
Interesting concept taking the emoticon concepts into new areas in both function and form. On this board it acts as a keypad you can use to insert emoticons into your messages. But then you can pull out these round smiley guys and insert them into wearable jewelry. Kinda geeky but I can see this being a fun holiday item for the young teen obsessed with IMing. Cute little smiley characters too… I bet it would get lost so easily though. (via: Bajca)
Sometimes it amazes me how creative some people are. OR I’m often amazed at how they find the time for things like this. Either way, these automaton metal elephants are way cool. (via: BookofJoe)
A client suggested I do a personal class on HDR work on his photography. I think that might be fun. For those that don’t know what HDR is, it stands for “High Dynamic Range” — photography speak for what is essentially taking multiple shots of the same image in different exposures and then combining them into one shot.
The result is you get an image that should look closer to what your eyes really saw when you took the photograph (you don’t get skies that look all white and blown out, nor do you get subjects that are all shadowy and dark)
There are people that argue back and forth about whether that’s considered “photography” at all. I don’t think it’s necessary a bad thing though…it’s just another creative method out there among many. I’ve goofed around with it enough to know how to do it…I think it’d be fun to actually try to set up a HDR bootcamp and actually get some real results one day.
Toxel’s got some good examples of what you can do with HDR. Some of them might be too fake looking but overall they’re fun to look at. (via: Toxel.com)
OK this is rather cool…a bit of a giant leap in interface design akin to the fancy computers they showed in the movies like Minority Report or Matrix.
Who knows, maybe in the near future we’ll be doing all our Photoshop designs using these giant hand gestures. It’ll be like I can work and get Wii-Fit type exercise at the same time!
This would do wonders for the adult entertainment industry…but they’d have to figure out one-hand gestures. Imagine the nausea. *snicker*
