10 Commandments of Typography
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Movie Making Manua (Wikibooks)
Filmmaking is the process of making a film. The nature of the film determines the size and type of crew required during filmmaking. Many Hollywood adventure films employ a cast and crew of thousands and have complicated computer generated imagery (CGI), while a low-budget, independent film may be made with a skeleton crew, often paid very little. Filmmaking takes place all over the world using different technologies and techniques, and is produced in a variety of economic contexts that range from state-sponsored documentary in China to profit-oriented movie making within the American studio system.
Aaron Draplin Takes On a Logo Design Challenge on Vimeo
"Most logos aren't designed in fifteen minutes, but most designers aren't Aaron Draplin. Aaron's a Portland fixture by way of the Midwest, the owner of Draplin Design Co., and an advocate of "blue collar" design: design that works. Here he takes our logo design challenge, creating a dozen iterations of a logo for a fictional construction company. Not inspired? Just wait. Watch as he sketches, brings his ideas into Illustrator, and tests and tunes the different iterations. The logos Aaron creates prove design can elevate any company or brand. Along the way, he provides tips for freelancing, finding inspiration, and providing clients context for logos that won't just live in PDFs."
syamilmj/Aqua-Resizer
"This small script will allow you to resize & crop WordPress images uploaded via the media uploader on the fly. It relies on WP's native functions to resize the images, and checks if there is an already resized version of the image so that it won't be wasting your server's resources to regenerate the images."
Joan Didion on Keeping a Notebook | Brain Pickings
"As a lover — and keeper — of diaries and notebooks, I find myself returning again and again to the question of what compels us — what propels us — to record our impressions of the present moment in all their fragile subjectivity. From Joan Didion’s 1968 anthology Slouching Towards Bethlehem (public library) — the same volume that gave us her timeless meditation on self-respect — comes a wonderful essay titled “On Keeping a Notebook,” in which Didion considers precisely that. Though the essay was originally written nearly half a century ago, the insights at its heart apply to much of our modern record-keeping, from blogging to Twitter to Instagram. "
Content Views Pro - Display WordPress posts in amazing layout
"Display WordPress posts in amazing layouts without coding"
25 Awesome Shortcodes & Page Builder Plugins For WordPress - WPExplorer
"Oftentimes premium WordPress themes come with all sorts of shortcodes and builders built-in, but what if you ever decide to switch themes? Well, you’ll lose all the capabilities of your shortcodes unless you manually transfer over the code to your new theme. Better solution? Use a plugin! There are many great shortcode and page building plugins out there that are perfect for spicing up your site without the risk of having to re-do everything when you switch themes. Below you’ll find a good mix of free & premium shortcode and page-building options, so be sure to take a look at each one! "
Missing Maps
"Putting the World's Vulnerable People on the Map" Each year, disasters around the world kill nearly 100,000 and affect or displace 200 million people. Many of the places where these disasters occur are literally 'missing' from any map and first responders lack the information to make valuable decisions regarding relief efforts. Missing Maps is an open, collaborative project in which you can help to map areas where humanitarian organisations are trying to meet the needs of vulnerable people.
audio.js
"audio.js is a drop-in javascript library that allows HTML5’s
flickr downloadr - Batch download your flickr photos!
"A cross-platform desktop application for Windows, Mac and Linux to download (all or selected) photos from your photostream in their original size along with their description, title and tags."
Density Design | Visualizing Twitter
"In the framework of our researches, we are focusing on twitter visualization. This social platform indeed offers several opportunities for data visualization: social ties analysis, links between geography and themes/languages, real-time visualization of a particular topic (like a conference), or again to analyse a past topic and its “storyfication”. "
The 1Password Emergency Kit: Version 3.0 — Productivityist
"The 1Password Emergency Kit V3.0 is now a fillable PDF that looks and functions a lot better, and includes even more information that will come in handy if any sort of emergency arises. For those of you haven't read about The 1Password Emergency Kit before, here's a quote from the original post explaining why I created it: "Imagine if something was to happen to you. Something that would keep you from accessing stuff on your computer that has passwords associated with it. It’s not a pleasant thing to think about, but we’d be foolhardy not to. I mean, we all keep an updated will, and most other pertinent documents are kept in a fire safe or safe deposit box so that your next of kin can move through anything tragic that may befall you with as little resistance as possible. But now that we spend so much time online – whether with online banking, email or earning a living – that having a failsafe in place isn’t just a good idea anymore. It’s mandatory. That’s why I came up with The 1Password Emergency Kit.""
Explore – Clothes … are storytelling tools – literally,...
"A discovery engine for meaningful knowledge, fueled by cross-disciplinary curiosity. A Brain Pickings project edited by Maria Popova in partnership with Noodle. Twitter: @explorer Art & Design Science & Technology Culture & Society History & Literature Creativity & Innovation Media & Communication Thought & Opinion About Art & Design Culture & Society Thought & Opinion Clothes … are storytelling tools – literally, through stains and tears and smells, but also just through the experiences that we have as we’re walking through the world. Our clothing winds up being a trigger for these memories. A Design Matters conversation with Emily Spivack, author of the wonderful Worn Stories – a collection of wearable emotional memories from John Hodgman, Marina Abramovic, Piper Kerman, Pat Mahoney, Debbie Millman, Paola Antonelli, Kenneth Goldsmith, Meghan O’Rourke, Rosanne Cash, and more."
Write About
We believe that writing should be fun and sharing should be easy, so we built a social publishing platform for classrooms. Write About is a tool we want for our own students Focus on the writing process and quality content Easy student account set-up and management Simple interface and navigation
Cowterspace | PLYRO
"Cowterspace is my first animated short. The story is about a cow that wants to break out of its boring and depressing every-day-life and dreams of reaching the stars."
The Pedagogy of Blogging on Vimeo
"In this presentation on the Pedagogy of Blogging, Professor Christopher P. Long of the Pennsylvania State University outlines the ways blogging can be used to cultivate a dynamic community of learning in the classroom. The video is based upon years of experience using blogging in the classroom and it outlines a model by which students are empowered to reflect on the course content in writing in ways that cultivate community."
Bill Fink's Time and Matter Photography | Oddity Central - Collecting Oddities
"Artist and photographer Bill Fink is the creator of ‘Time and Matter Photography’, an amazing art form that involves producing photograph-like images out of virtually any material or matter. So instead of conventional materials like silver halide or inkjet, the 60-year-old artist uses hair, human ashes, soil and anything else you can think of to painstakingly create photo-like images. Some of Bill’s most notable works include a portrait called ‘My Eye’ – made entirely from his own hair, ‘Flowers’ – made entirely from the pollen of those flowers, ‘Quaker Oats’ – a picture made with Quaker Oats, and the image of a man named Bob, made using his ashes. These pictures look just like vintage photographs; nothing betrays the unique technique used to produce them."
WordPress › Post By Email « WordPress Plugins
"Create new posts on your WordPress blog by sending email to a specific email address."
Create WordPress Posts by Email with Postie - Postie Plugin
"Postie allows you to create a post by simply sending an email. Create and edit your email in whatever email program you use. Click send and within a few minutes you have a new post! Postie has been downloaded 254,452 times, 7,542 in the last 30 days."
Charted
"Beautiful, automatic charts"
Solvonauts : The Open Search Engine
We’re working towards creating an open source open educational resource repository any one can install and run. The goal is that people anywhere can curate and maintain a list of open resources and then share them with the world, allowing different communities and organisations to be express how they want to use open content. We’ve aimed to take the spirit of openness in this sense, and try to extend it to everything we do.
Display the Full TinyMCE Editor In WordPress - WPMU DEV
"The WordPress visual editor was given a decent trim in version 3.9. It now has just 14 buttons, or 26 when the kitchen sink is enabled. It looks great (I love minimalism) but sometimes less isn’t always more. Sometimes more is more. Really, I just want more. So I set out to enable all of the buttons available in the visual editor. In today’s Weekend WordPress Project, I’ll show you how to display more than the basic 14 buttons and also how to permanently show the buttons in the kitchen sink."
How To Have Paragraph Commenting Just Like Medium - WPMU DEV
"Paragraph commenting, or annotations is not exactly new. Readers have been scribbling in the margins of books, magazines and uni assignments for years. The online world has been slow to adopt this approach which is perhaps why Medium caused a stir and no shortage of admiring looks when it went the annotation route. Well, admire forlornly no more because I’m going to show you how to add paragraph commenting to your WordPress site."
On HTML5 and the Group That Rules the Web
You might have read that, on October 28th, W3C officially recommended HTML5. And you might know that this has something to do with apps and the Web. The question is: Does this concern you? The answer, at least for citizens of the Internet, is yes: it is worth understanding both what HTML5 is and who controls the W3C. And it is worth knowing a little bit about the mysterious, conflict-driven cultural process whereby HTML5 became a “recommendation.” Billions of humans will use the Web over the next decade, yet not many of those people are in a position to define what is “the Web” and what isn’t. The W3C is in that position. So who is in this cabal? What is it up to? Who writes the checks?
:: cPanel Email Forwarder Creator :: Free PHP Scripts
"Create email forwarders on cPanel based hosting. No need to login to cPanel. Provide cPanel login and password once, and use this script each time you need to create email forwarder."
The Creativity Post
The Creativity Post is a non-profit web platform committed to sharing the very best content on creativity, in all of its forms: from scientific discovery to philosophical debate, from entrepreneurial ventures to educational reform, from artistic expression to technological innovation – in short, to all the varieties of the human experience that creativity brings to life.
Course in a Box "Create a Learning Community that Lasts"
Online courses often feel large, intimidating and anonymous. It's hard to feel invested in multiple choice quizzes, textbook chapters and hum-drum Q & A forums where you don't know anyone. In a stellar learning experience, you'd know who was in the room and feel super-comfy. You'd make projects together and find help when you get stuck. You'd want to send people thank-you cards and chicken soup. We know designing a creative, participatory community can be tricky. We're here to help you craft assignments that rule, build an audience and support you along the way. You'll even learn a few technical skills in the process. Don't worry, 1s and 0s wash off pretty easily."
Textualizer
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" Our REwriting and REading community is open to all. The idea is ultimately to create a choose-your-own-adventure version of Pride and Prejudice, where the readers can choose which re-imagined version of the novel they want to read, and writers can turn the story in any direction they want. "
Old School Game Hacking as Inspiration. | Ryan Seslow
"This first series of work brings together elements of super mario world, megaman 2, and my own computer monitor head figures. This process will continue to slowly bring in more of my own content to reinvent and relearn about itself. I find this to be a fun way to start. This seems obvious to me as the artist, but I am interested in feedback from the viewer as well. These pieces are light, fun, and colorful. It is my intention to evoke memories and inspire others with this body of work. So what happens next? Well, this blog post will expand, and expand. Im working with the presentation idea of where these pieces will be shown. Im not thinking 100% of traditional gallery spaces, but more along the lines of displacing the works in areas where you would least expect to see them. Of course I am not going to give this away completely right now so stay tuned. I view this post as an ongoing thread that I will continue to add the new works to."