September 2007
FLOTspotting : Seok won Hong
From the Coroflot portfolio of : Seok won Hong
Featured Project : BRIX
Seok won Hong’s BRIX multimedia phone concept aims to bring not only people together, but more importantly, their handsets as well…literally. The 1:2 ratio makes it easy to combine a number of BRIX units to create a much larger screen for all to watch and enjoy. This works out especially awesome for...
August 2007
How Do I Secure An IP, While Leaving Options Open?
Tiger4 writes “Let’s say I have a photograph, or a television script, or have finally perfected the water-to-gasoline conversion process, or some other piece of non-software but copywritable or patentable IP. I know I want it secured in my name, on this date, in a provable and verifiable way. But being an Open Source, free-to-the world sort of person, I’m willing to share my...
How To Make Cardboard Furniture!
How To Make Cardboard Furniture!Inexpensive yet durable is this cardboard furniture & above all its eco-friendly too. Despite cardboards apparent flimsiness, it can be made to support the weight of a person. So what’s that stopping you from making it from discarded cardboard boxes? Lets get started & make something useful & stylish. Table In a few simple steps Carol Duvall makes...
Steelcase addresses Furnitosis
Carpel tunnel? Psh. That’s for sissies. Steelcase addresses the more serious and widespread epidemic known as Furnitosis: “A condition born from ill-fitting, unsightly office furniture. Symptoms include curvature of the spine hunching, fatigue, dementia, disillusionment, headache, shame, sagging and unplanned guttural noises.” Symptoms include Waffle Butt (not to be confused...
DIY - The Plaster Spatula Lighting Stand
One of the challenging lighting setups that I have encountered deals with setting up a lighting environment in small spaces. Spaces like working dens, children rooms and offices. Those places are sometimes dark and not well lit. The solution for this problem is simple - use flashes. One or two hot shoe flashes can easily give you the light you need. For creativity sake, you would like to take...
Free Blog Themes - Design Disease - Professional... →
nuff said - free themes from Greg’s designer
Chase Jarvis Behind the Scenes
So, what’s it really like to go out on a shoot with Chase Jarvis? Oh, just the usual: Throwing stuff at his models, driving around without seatbelts, fun with dead animal parts and tracking the elusive, uh, “weeping willow.” Sort of. That said, this one showed me more about the guy’s lighting technique than any of the others. I like the car-to-car Lumy thing.Contents...
SB-24: Monster Garage Edition
I had a chance to talk to Vadim V. during a lunch break at one of the Seattle seminars. And he showed me his way-cool, bare-bulb-modified SB-24 flash. As if I wasn’t drooling enough waiting for lunch already. He has thrown a photo of it up on Flickr, and you are gonna drool too when you start thinking about what you could do with this. (An early mentor of mine, John Falk, knew a guy who...
Engadget's Ryan Block Againt Popover Ads
Engadget’s editor Ryan Block writes an open letter asking fellow bloggers to stop using IntelliTXT popover ads: “With all due respect to you, friends, fucking stop it. Seriously, stop supporting these shysters that advertise by generating fake links and popovers on your content.”
Chips, Glass and Light: Assembling an Inexpensive...
As a newspaper photojournalist, my gear considerations were based on reliability, speed (both motor and lens) durability and image quality. My bodies were top of the line. My glass was fast, heavy, prime and expensive. I had both a daily working bag and a pool room full of specialized gear. For the first time in twenty years, I have been buying a bag full of camera gear out of my own pocket. And...
Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories - Make a Camera... →
nice diy p&s case
ConceptShare: Online Design Collaboration Made...
We’ve all been there: a typical task web-developers permanently have to deal with: how to communicate with clients in an effective and convenient way? How to make sure that the best compromise between designers’ professional decisions and clients’ personal interests is indeed found? The more organized and convenient you handle the communication issue, the more conflicts and additional work you...
NEC Display Solutions 20WMGX2-BK Black-Silver... →
monitor that Ken bought - seems decent
DIY: A Beginner's Guide to Soldering
Whether it’s for computer repair or gadget modification, soldering is an invaluable skill to have, and you can learn to solder with Instructables’ introductory guide. We post many tutorials that require at least rudimentary soldering skills, and if you’ve never even touched a soldering iron, this guide is a great place to start. Chock-full of high resolution images and...
Urban Photography Taken To Extremes
Many people say their photography is urban and gritty, but you might have to reassess after looking at these fantastic images … There is more info about Michael Cook in this interview.
Aluminum Craft
Aluminum CraftHere are these really amazing crafts using aluminum cans & the best part is that each of these sculptures helps the environment by recycling these cans into a beautiful work of art. Source Other Posts: Fantastic Pencil Sculptures Cute Pictures Of Babies Swimming Related Posts: Coke Can Tuxedo
9 Things You Better Didn't Know!
9 Things You Better Didn’t Know!After seeing these images you may feel the same as we felt: we were better off not knowing these details. Which means no more fast food, no more shaking hands, no public swimming pools & a need for gloves & a breathing mask. Source Other Posts: Interesting Piece Of Furniture How To Make A Fake Glass A.K.A. Sugar Glass Ad Of The Very First...
45 Excellent Blog Designs
Designing a blog is easy. Whatever engine you are using and whatever style you prefer, you’ll always find a number of templates you can apply to your weblog in seconds. No styling is necessary, no playing with colors is needed and no mind jogging about content presentation is required. However, not every weblog should look like a typical blog. After all, not every blogger wants his or her site to...
JTS
A photography professor recently asked me how I was able to find time for this blog. The reason, I speculated, was that I wasn’t a photography professor. Teaching seems to draw from the same well as blogging. And after two weeks at the San Francisco Art Institute, my well is just about dry.Please bear with me. It might take a couple of months to recover. Nevertheless, I promised to grade one last...
RapidoMap: slick geocoding for free
Filed under: iLife, Odds and ends, FreewareWe’ve previously covered quite a few different applications to geocode your photos. Geocoding or geotagging is the process of adding location information (latitude and longitude) to the EXIF metadata of your photos, so you can see where they were taken. RapidoMap is one of the newest of these tools and looks to have a couple of particularly nice...
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Friday Fun: Make Music Online with JamStudio
Create music online using guitar, drum, bass and piano loops à la GarageBand with JamStudio. Each instrument comes with an impressive collection of loops, and you can build your song—adding instruments and loops—in (almost) any way you want, then save the results. JamStudio isn’t for the professional musician by any means, but if you’ve ever wanted to toy around with music and loops...
On the Beach: We Are Saved Edition
Time to check in with our friends in the Hamptons, or as we like to call it, God’s country…
1) Distressed housing: Diane Saatchi of Corcoran’s East Hampton office predicts a 20% decline in the prices of homes for the merely rich. The superrich, it seems, are safe for now. 2) Inevitable trends in marketing: That shiny new Lexus in your neighbor’s driveway is called the...
Tempo wireless trash can
Cagnina Design has recently developed a unique external hard drive for Intech called Tempo. As files are deleted, they are automatically copied to the mini-trash can-shaped device, providing an extra safety net should the user accidentally delete important files. As the 250 GB of space is used up, embedded LEDs light Tempo’s exterior surface from the bottom up, as if it were...
20+ Free And Fresh Icon Sets
User-friendly icon sets are always nice to look at and useful to have ready to hand. Since effective designers guide their users’ attention using visuals, icons can (and probably should) be used in almost every project you are or will be working on. Whether for an illustration, sketch, site or weblog - used moderately, icons can point users’ attention to the key-aspects of an article or specific...
Ding 3000's S-XL Cake will hook you up, or not
If equally cut cake pieces work your last nerve, Ding 3000’s got your back. The new S-XL Cake pan mold gives you a sweet selection of slice sizes to choose from. The only drawback is when you’ve arrived to gather dessert a bit too late and only a M is left when you had hoped for an XL. Oh well….
Public Speaking: Perfect Your Presentations
Productivity guy Merlin Mann gives a behind-the-scenes look at how he put together the Inbox Zero presentation he gave at Google a few weeks back (video included above to jog your memory, and here are the slides.) MM’s a fan and reader of the Beyond Bullet Points book we’ve recommended, as well as some other great presentation resources and teachers. Worth checking out if...
Find Out What Your Kids Will Look Like, It’s Just...
Recently in the forum…
First Digital Camera?
Photography at home
How do you organize your digital photos?
Photo Scavenger Hunt
Late night host Conan O’Brien has been combining celeb snaps to produce hypothetical images of their offspring for years.
Finally finally finally, we can do it with our own photos right at home — pictures of you and Dr McDreamy, you and your girl, or you and...
American Photo and Apple team up to find the next...
Filed under: Odds and ends, AppleI am sure there are more than a few photographers out there reading TUAW (Mac users are a creative lot), so this is for you. American Photo is looking for the next great photographer by scouring the web for amateur photographers to feature in a special upcoming edition of their magazine. Apple has created a special plugin for Aperture which lets you submit your...
Annie does (Red)
I belatedly caught the July issue of Vanity Fair in the waiting room at the dentist yesterday. The theme of the issue was the (red) campaign, which seeks to benefit people in Africa by donating a portion of (red)-designated items to various causes. Photographer Annie Leibowitz traversed the globe with her cameras, lights and red background paper, photographing a human telegraph of world leaders
Built NY's Wine Ratchet Magnum
Mechanics and handypersons will perform at the peak of their element when using Builty NY’s Wine Ratchet Magnum to pop open a crisp Reisling during these last days of summer. (They most likely bought some wrenchware!) Gadgety gizmos feel like medieval torture machines while simple corkscrews often leave you with half of a stuck cork or bits in the bottle. If you’ve got $99.99 to...
Beauty beheld in brutalism | The Japan Times... →
industrial photography - cool stuff
Failed Disks with the Data ONTAP Simulator
Last year I wrote about using the Network Appliance Data ONTAP Simulator on ESX Server, and in the comments to that article a number of people indicated that they’d been having problems with adding disks to the Simulator. The disks they added would show up as failed, and therefore couldn’t be added to any aggregates or volumes. Readers Sdodson and Jacek provided workarounds in their comments here...
(X)HTML/CSS Coding-Services
You don’t have to do everything by yourself. If you are running out of time or simply aren’t that enthusiastic about the coding process, you might be willing to consider special “coding services” to get your job done in time. Particularly since there are dozens of such services, the price is usually quite reasonable and worth the time you save, headaches you avoid and further projects you can keep...
Industrial structures photographs
As ID’ers we’re tasked with mating the industrial with the beautiful. But photographer Tetsu Ishii finds a non-design-based relationship between the two things in his starkly gorgeous photographs of industrial superstructures; click here for an article explaining his work. via japan times …
Innovative advertising display: suspension of...
It’s not new, but it’s cool: Check out how Adidas managed to cut through the clutter of Tokyo with this arresting ten-story high billboard. …
Cool Bus
Cool Bus This bus was specially painted with an ad for “Built for the kill” television program of National Geographic Channel. Here the artists have shown their talent beautifully by using the doors of the bus. When the person enters & the doors are closed, it looks as if the shark has opened its mouth & the chap is secured in its tummy. Source Other Posts: Html Code Used for...
Embedding MyMaps into a Blog or Webpage Direct
This is now the third post on ‘How to Embed Google MyMaps into a blog’ and finally it has been integrated direct into the Google MyMaps service. Once you have created your MyMap simply click on the ‘Link to this page’ option and the code is available to cut and paste into a website or blog: Once your code is inserted your MyMaps will appear directly in a blog post - as...
Best Life Magazine: Health & Fitness: Seven... →
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Finally networking my new house extra
Filed under: misc hacks My new house is taking far more time to get into shape than I ever imagined. I’ve finally gotten most of the network and coax drops in place, and I wanted to show off my new mini-rack. Behind the door up top, my home theater gear is hiding. Below, my switch, patch panel, firewall and cable modem are happily humming along. [Benjamin] send in a quick post on messing...
Real Optical Illusion
Real Optical Illusion You need to give it a try & rest be assured you will be amazed. Just click on the image or here to proceed to the illusion. Source Related Posts: Matchbox Illusion Visual Illusions Anamorphic Illusion Of Cardiff Bay
George Aye pops the question ID style
If you’re gonna do it, this is how you do it! 3D modeling, laser-cutting, a gallery opening, deception, the works… thanks simon! …
Creativity Spark From Masters Of Graphic Design
Creative thinking is an essential part of design workflow. Whatever sketch you are working on, at some point you find yourself in the situation where you simply need some fresh ideas to find your path around the creativity block. Going away may help. Listening to the music may help. But particularly the works of the famous graphic artists may help. In fact, studying them very closely, you can not...
Paramount and DreamWorks Animation Each Declare...
Paramount and DreamWorks Animation Each Declare Exclusive Support for HD DVD — Movies Distributed by Paramount Home Entertainment Including Paramount — Pictures, DreamWorks Animation SKG, DreamWorks Pictures, Paramount Vantage, — Nickelodeon Movies and MTV Films to be Released Exclusively in HD DVD
Source: Viacom
Link: http://www.viacom.com/NEWS/NewsText.aspx?RID=1042073 Techmeme...
wpSEO: More SEO for Wordpress
Wordpress is simple, minimalistic and yet extremely powerful. However, being easy-to-use, the engine has also some huge disadvantages - e.g. “naked” Wordpress is very inefficient when it comes to SEO (Search Engine Optimization). Reason: there is simply too much to tweak, too many plugins to use and too many details to take care of. Title, Meta-Description and Keywords determine the way your...
Google Directory - Squid > Log Analysis →
various parsers
monit →
monitoring local processes/files/dirs on a *nix box.
Tightening Squid's Tentacles →
nice squid overview - especially as a transparent proxy
JonDesign's (Javascript) SmoothGallery: Mootools... →
‘nother javascript gallery - so so