Stop Motion Goodness
A charmingly (?) old skool looking web page full of a great assortment of high-speed photos.
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SpokePOV Animations
I posted about SpokePOV a while ago , and now some really sweet spoke animations have been posted. My fave is Mario jumping over the mushroom. [via EyeBeam ReBlog]
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The Politically Incorrect Alphabet
Better Together has a great set of alphabet cards that are just not quite right. Here’s what the site has to say:
I’ve spent a fair time of late sitting on undersized chairs admiring the alphabet charts on classroom walls. Typically ‘A’ will stand for Apple, ‘B’ for Ball. It occurred to me that ‘I’ for Indian, one I remember from my childhood, has been replaced as it is no longer politically correct to refer to native/first/indigenous Americans as Indians. Lacking any tact or decency, I therefore determined to create an alphabet using only subjects that, while they might have been unremarked a few decades ago, are now outside acceptable usage. But only just.
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Helvetica Documentary
You either love Helvetica, hate Helvetica, or use typefaces like Comic Sans or Sand *goosebumps* If you are in either the loving or hating camps, then you may be interested in a feature length documentary about the pervasive typeface slated for release in 2007. Here is what the director Gary Hustwit had to say:
Why make a film about a typeface, let alone a feature documentary film about Helvetica? Because it’s all around us. You’ve probably already seen Helvetica several times today. It might have told you which subway platform you needed, or tried to sell you investment services or vacation getaways in the ads in your morning paper … How did a typeface drawn by a little-known Swiss designer in 1957 become one of the most popular ways for us to communicate our words fifty years later?
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Vintage Wallpaper
I’m totally diggin’ these vintage wallpaper patterns from the ’50s, ’60s and ’70s. There certainly seems to be a rise in popularity of old, rustic, handmade things in the last couple years - I’m sure if someone mass produced superb wallpapers like these they’d sell like hotcakes. It’d be a perfect match for some of the stuff on sale right now at stores like Urban Outfitters.
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Brand Spankin’ New Teapot!
Yarrrr! Thar she blows! Shiver mi timbers! I’m not entirely sure what pirate-speak has to do with the latest news about this blog, but it sure is fun to say out loud! Down to business - I’ve finally gotten around to bailing Blogger *shudder* and GoDaddy *stick finger down throat* and am now running at full sail, sporting a skull n crossbones, and ready to plunder and burn. Well, maybe not, but at the very least Wordpress and Site5 will behave much better and will also allow for all sorts of fun stuff like categories, tags, searching, and more. I’m still ironing our a few kinkis, so please bear with me. Now man that rigging! We set sail tonight!
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