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100 Ideas That Changed Graphic Design | Brain Pickings
Design history books abound, but they tend to be organized by chronology and focused on concrete -isms. From publisher Laurence King, who brought us the epic Saul Bass monograph, and the prolific design writer Steven Heller with design critic Veronique Vienne comes 100 Ideas that Changed Graphic Design — a thoughtfully curated inventory of abstract concepts that defined and shaped the art and craft of graphic design, each illustrated with exemplary images and historical context. From concepts like manifestos (#25), pictograms (#45), propaganda (#22), found typography (#38), and the Dieter-Rams-coined philosophy that “less is more” (#73) to favorite creators like Alex Steinweiss, Noma Bar, Saul Bass, Paula Scher, and Stefan Sagmeister, the sum of these carefully constructed parts amounts to an astute lens not only on what design is and does, but also on what it should be and do.
Typography | Off Book | PBS - YouTube
Type is everywhere. Every print publication, website, movie, advertisement and public message involves the creation or selection of a fitting typeface. Online, a rich and artistic typographical culture exists, where typefaces are created and graphic design seeps in to every image. In episode 2 of Off Book, typeface designers Jonathan Hoefler and Tobias Frere-Jones outline the importance of selecting the right font to convey a particular feeling. Graphic designer Paula Scher talks about building identity in messaging, while Eddie Opara uses texture to create reaction. Infographic designers Julia Vakser and Deroy Peraza map complicated data sets into digestible imagery, mixing color, graphics and type
Annotated Filmography of Charlie Chaplin | MetaFilter
Director and/or star of many of the greatest films ever made including The Great Dictator (2:05:16) [Globe scene and the eternally goosebump providing Final speech], The Immigrant (20:01), The Gold Rush (1:11:49), City Lights (1:22:40), Modern Times (1:27:01), and Monsieur Verdoux (1:59:03), Charlie Chaplin's movies have entered the public domain in most countries. Below the fold is an annotated list of all 82 of his official short and feature films in chronological order, as well as several more, with links to where you can watch them; it's not like you had work to do right?
Authentic Audience
We often see some amazing things happen with our students in Parkland School Division and it seem that the more we tend to give our students an audience, the more these meaningful "moments" seem to happen for not only our students, but for our staff as well. Here is one of those events.
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How to Be a Good Commenter – Whatever
One of the things I’m proud of here at Whatever is that the comment threads are usually actually worth reading, which is not always something you get with a site that has as many readers as this one does. Some of this is down to my moderation of the site, and my frequent malleting of trolls/idiots/assbags, but much of it is also down the generally high standard of commenter here. I do a lot less malleting than I might have to, because the people who frequent here do a fine job at being good commenters. And I hear you say: Why, I would like to be a good commenter too! Not just here, but in other places where commenting occurs online! Well, of course you do. You’re a fine upstanding human being, not some feculent jackass with a keyboard, an internet connection and a blistering sense of personal inferiority that is indistinguishable from common sociopathy. So for you, I have ten questions to ask yourself before you press the “post comment” button. Yes, ten is a lot. No one said being a g
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Photographing Buildings [Composition Tips]
I am a firm believer, at least with photography, that what you get back is directly related to the effort you put in. As with all activities, it’s certainly not linear and I am the first to admit that you can tip the scale in your favor to achieve some great architectural images armed with only a few basic techniques.
All Briefs Should Now Be in Comic-Book Form - Lowering the Bar
It was filed by Bob Kohn, an attorney and licensing expert who is opposing a planned settlement in the DOJ's e-book pricing case. He sought permission to file a 55-page amicus brief in the case, and the judge said he could file but had to cut it down to five pages. How do you squeeze 55 pages into five? Comic strip. Kohn got one of his daughter's friends to illustrate the amicus strip based on a script he wrote. The resulting brief complies with the rules, pretty much, because it has the standard caption and a table of authorities and the right-size margins, etc. I guess you could argue the font is not strictly according to the rules, but who cares? Would you rather have 55 pages in exactly the right font or five pages of this? Obviously. ?log=out
My dog: the paradox - The Oatmeal
Italian alien film tries to ape Orson Welles radio play in web marketing | World news | The Guardian
If anything can be said to have "gone viral" in the pre-digital age, then it was Orson Welles's 1938 radio adaptation of The War of the Worlds. Telling HG Wells's story of an alien invasion by means of realistic news bulletins, Welles created genuine panic. But what would happen if the same stunt were pulled using the awesome, scare-spreading capabilities of the internet? More than 430,000 people have clicked on a YouTube clip purporting to be from an Italian news bulletin reporting the imminent arrival of extraterrestrials.
Radio Glossary
Radio broadcasting terms defined through an easy to understand glossary including those for AM, FM, HD, SIRIUS XM Satellite Radio, Internet Streaming, and Podcasting.
Voice-Over Session with John Ericsson in Making a Radio Show Promo (Movie Trailer Style) - YouTube
For voice-over services like radio imaging, radio/tv commercials, movie trailers, narrations, A/V presentations, company profiles, etc., e-mail me at johnericsson99@yahoo.com or message me on my personal Facebook account "Voice-Over Guy John Ericsson"
How Random are Online Social Interactions? : Scientific Reports : Nature Publishing Group
The massive amounts of data that social media generates has facilitated the study of online human behavior on a scale unimaginable a few years ago. At the same time, the much discussed apparent randomness with which people interact online makes it appear as if these studies cannot reveal predictive social behaviors that could be used for developing better platforms and services. We use two large social databases to measure the mutual information entropy that both individual and group actions generate as they evolve over time. We show that user's interaction sequences have strong deterministic components, in contrast with existing assumptions and models. In addition, we show that individual interactions are more predictable when users act on their own rather than when attending group activities.
If Movies Had Crappy Fonts… - DesignTAXI.com
Could terrible fonts ruin the entire movie experience?—that is the question humor site Jest ponders in a video where they recreated the opening sequences of movies such as Star Wars, The Dark Knight Rises and James Bond—replacing the movie’s original fonts with wrong and out of placed fonts instead. Would you still watch these movies if they had terrible fonts?
ACMI Generator
Welcome to the Storyboard Generator. You can choose a script and create a storyboard. Try building your own storyboard using background location photographs. Once done, you can save and share your storyboard video with friends. Remember to register with Generator first if you would like to save your storyboard.
O. Henry on the Secrets of Writing Short Stories: Rare Audio Recording | Open Culture
For his 150th birthday we bring you what is said to be a rare recording of O. Henry’s voice. Although the date and authenticity are an open question, the recording was apparently made on an Edison cylinder sometime between 1905 and the writer’s death in 1910. It was included in the vinyl record The Golden Age of Opera: Great Personalities, 1888-1940.
TEDxPhoenix - Kelli Anderson - Disruptive Wonder for a Change - YouTube
Kelli Anderson is an artist, designer, and tinkerer who enjoys the challenge of seeking out hidden possibility in the physical and digital world. From interactive paper to layered, experimental websites, everything begins and ends in Kelli's Brooklyn studio which houses a 1919 letterpress and an assortment of other benevolent contraptions. Kelli believes that the world is full of order that doesn't necessarily deserve our respect, and in her TEDxPhoenix 11.11.11 TEDxTalk, Kelli inspires us to change the world around us by rejecting normal order, messing things up, and causing millions of teeny-tiny disruptions to whatever is sitting in front of you.
Tarantino // From Below on Vimeo
Shots looking up at characters in the films of Quentin Tarantino.
The Shining - Zooms on Vimeo
A synchronized collage of every zoom in Stanley Kubrick's 1980 horror masterpiece, The Shining.
jQuery Fundamentals :: A guide to the basics of jQuery
jQuery Fundamentals is designed to get you comfortable working through common problems you'll be called upon to solve using jQuery. To get the most out of this site, you'll want to read the content and try the various interactive examples. Each chapter will cover a concept and give you a chance to try example code related to the concept. We highly recommend using this site with the Chrome browser or another browser that supports modern JavaScript features and includes good developer tools.
The Wire Re-Imagined as a Classic Video Role-Playing Game | Open Culture
The above video from CollegeHumor, a site that knows its audience, transposes the socially critical, borderline-nihilistic action of The Wire into the pixel-intensive, usually morally simplistic form of a console role-playing game from the late eighties or early nineties. This will make a certain overlap in the cultural Venn diagram quite excited indeed, and no doubt provide a source of strange fascination to the rest.
Keith Moon, Drummer of The Who, Passes Out at 1973 Concert; 19-Year-Old Fan Takes Over | Open Culture
In November 1973, Scot Halpin, a 19-year-old kid, scalped tickets to The Who concert in San Francisco, California. Little did he know that he’d wind up playing drums for the band that night — that his name would end up etched in the annals of rock ‘n’ roll.
Goodnight Keith Moon
Soundaboard: The Who - Tales From The Who (1973)
One of the best and most known unofficial The Who recordings, it has been spread in diverse flavors and even has its review on Allmusic. It was in Philadelphia like the previous share, but this time at The Spectrum, on December 4, 1973.
SteveStreza.com » So I Made A Mashup, And Then…
I put this up on the Internet, tweeted a link, and waited for feedback. I wasn't expecting much to happen; my wildest expectations were that it might get 10,000 views and maybe a link on Reddit's mashups community. Barely even a splash. I had no delusions of grandeur about its value; I just wanted to play with some ideas, get a little experience, and pull this splinter out of my mind. I was wrong. Very, very wrong. Once you put something on the Internet, you lose any control over what happens to it. Within an hour, my mashup had gotten posted to Buzzfeed where it quickly started to gain traction. Within 12 hours, it had grown to 8,000 views like it was nothing. Within 24 hours, that number shot past my crazy hopeful dream to 16,000. It hit Mashable and The Daily What. That number grew to 34,000. 44,000. 88,000. Blogs and news sites started posting it as their viral video of the day. Know Your Meme picked it up. Radio stations around the world started playing it. 104,000. 122,000. Th
O RLY? The GIF is 25 Years Old? | MetaFilter
The Graphics Interchange Format is 25 years old. Originally released by CompuServe to replace RLE - a file format which was limited to black and white only, the GIF (which you're probably pronouncing incorrectly) evolved over the next 25 years - first gaining color, then better color, then the ability to repeat itself, and finally an adoring audience willing to take GIFs to the next level.
Cache Rules Everything Around Me on Vimeo
Compilation of classic web animated GIFs set to music by Girl Talk.
Happy 25th Birthday, GIF - IGN
25 years ago today the Graphics Interchange Format was released, and the world has never been the same again. The GIF was originally released by CompuServe to replace RLE - a file format which was limited to black and white only. But the GIF evolved over the next 25 years - first gaining color, then better color, then the ability to repeat itself, and finally an adoring audience willing to take GIFs to the next level.
Main Page | Musopen
There ought to be but one large art warehouse in the world, to which the artist could carry his art-works and from which he could carry away whatever he needed... - Beethoven Musopen is that warehouse Set music FREE Musopen (www.musopen.org) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit focused on improving access and exposure to music by creating free resources and educational materials. We provide recordings, sheet music, and textbooks to the public for free, without copyright restrictions. Put simply, our mission is to set music free.