Archive for the my del.icio.us tag
- YouTube - Micah P Hinson - Beneath the Rose
amazing video. subtle and beautiful. great song too. [via seamouse]
- kuler | Adobe Labs
probably like the best color sequencing app ever? if you need to pick a series of colors for a theme or something, this thing is BOSS. The downloadable AIR app version isn’t so cool, but its got the coolest icon ever.
- 80 Beautiful Typefaces | Smashing Magazine
great list of classic typefaces. when helvetica you wanna stray from helvetica, this is a good list of stand-ins. (but why would you ever do such a thing?)
- Oh No He Didn't! | Amy Stein's blog
"At least I don't plaster on the makeup like a trollop, you cunt." - McCain to his wife Cindy. Imagine if Obama had said this at any point in his life, in front of a reporter. At some point we have to collectively, publicly admit that there is a double standard with which the press treats McCain and Obama. McCain is a dirty old grinch yet the press never mentions this fact and despite repeated, consistent out bursts, press just shrug it off. What happens if an elected president (the oldest ever & in war time) starts to develop dementia?
- Creative Minds Press Self-Publishing FAQ
brilliant FAQ on starting your own publishing house.
- Graph Paper Press Wordpress Themes
great blueprint css / yaml based wordpress themes. very classy.
- DestroyFlickr | Adobe Air-based app for viewing Flickr
the dark grey background and the full screen view are killer. It's a bit disorientating at first, but I gotta say, over the half-hour it took to learn how to use this thing, I viewed exponentially more photos than I could with Flickr's site. total score!
- I Can't See You, I Can't See You
TPM on the wesley clark's statements about McCain on Sunday. i just can't believe how republicans can continually shape the national debate in their own terms. and rather than calling bullshit, obama throws another one of his supporters under the bus.
- Final Attigo | ANP Quarterly blog
the newest new shit in turntablism. amazing stuff. touch screen manipulation of sound on the fly. including visual scratching. this system makes Final Scratch obsolete, me thinks.
- Super Colossal | Ledger
super nice, new b+w theme for mint. wow. i like. but maybe it'd be nice in reverse as well? [via daring fireball]
- Flexible Layouts: Challenge For The Future | How-To | Smashing Magazine
wicked awesome article on creating nice flexible layouts. don't sleep on the graph that says that 1024×768 peaked in 2006 and is now being eclipsed by bigger monitors. woo hoo!!! i wish flickr had an image size in between 500 and 1024.
- AMY & PINK | Charlottenburg WordPress Theme
very classy wordpress theme
- A list of predictions about the unthinkable future by Kevin…
wow, this is very in tune with my own thoughts on my art. as i grow older, i find myself curating much more than actually producing art, all the while educating myself in all different facets of art making. i'd love to curate art shows.
- natasjafourie _ photography
if you're gonna have big flash sites for your photo portfolio, you would do well to have one as well put together as Natasja's. amazing, slick, moody site. big gorgeous yummy fashiony photography. NSFW. i like. i like. [via iwanna's tweet]
- An Honor That Bush Is Unlikely to Embrace - NYTimes.com
"a group going by the regal-sounding name of the Presidential Memorial Commission of San Francisco is planning to ask voters here to change the name of a prize-winning water treatment plant on the shoreline to the George W. Bush Sewage Plant." - awesome
- Luke Magee | The Necessity Of Self Imposed Deadlines
Luke has excellant advice for those of us that work for ourselves on staying focused, agile and quick. I'm definitely having a little trouble crashing through some of the mental roadblocks i'm encountering along the way. Luke's advice is nice, sweet kick
- Nau, Outdoor Eco Clothier, Lives to Ride Another Day : TreeHugger
Nau rises from the dead. Sissyfish called it.
- Barack Obama on Offshore Oil Drilling | JdubSingles
man, this guy is so freakin' on-point i can't believe it.
- blackies june 6, 2008 | JdubSingles
great longboard video with nice tip action and legwork. perfect for stoking up for the next small days. so graceful. i love it.
- Hivelogic | The Enkoder Form
secure, spam free way for posting your email address on a website
- The Long Now Blog | The Million Dollar Long Bet
“Over a ten-year period commencing on January 1, 2008, and ending on December 31, 2017, the S & P 500 will outperform a portfolio of funds of hedge funds, when performance is measured on a basis net of fees, costs and expenses.” - Warren Buffett [via kottke]
- New paper: fast food doesn't make you fat. When eating…
i'm calling bull. fast food does make you fat. it's intensely over processed. full of corn syrup, fat, chemicals etc… the only way that fast food could have the same caloric content as home cooked food, is if you cook crap at home as well.
- Revamped Graphic Equalizer
hot the tail of Blu's Motu animation that's been storming the net the past coupla weeks is this pleasantly creative graphic equalizer stop-motion timelapse video made by Marcelo Costa. very cool. can't wait til Kanye gets in on the stop motion phenomenon.
- Office Freak Out
i agree this can't be real. but when he throws the monitor at the girl, she really looks hurt.
- GONZ!
the rebel rouser clothing line GONZ! has a great blog, but no rss feed. do people still actually visit websites anymore? how last year is that?
- YOU WON'T FIND IT HERE
minimal blog from photographer mike piscitelli. i love the "indonesian bro fest" surf trip photos. great stuff.
- Golf We Can Believe In
awesome.
- Threadless: "the customer is the company"
Threadless makes $30 million in sales a year with 30% profit margin. You know a ton of great illustrators and designers, how come none of them submit their stuff to Threadless? is $2000 a good price for a design? i don’t know, but 30% profit margin seems a bit high for people who make their money selling other people’s submitted designs. again, i could be wrong, i’m just trying to work this out in my noggin.
- Digital Edition - Foammagazine.com
why does Foam's new digital issue have the same user-interface design, color and graphics as Surfline's interactive features? (rhetorical question)
- Spectra Visual Newsreader | msnbc.com
MSNBC launches a pretty interesting new webapp for news headline reading. very beautiful design style and very News 2.0, but has some major usability bugs and i can't see anyone using this on a regular basis unless they have a second monitor to waste. but a new experiment none-the-less. kudos to whoever designed/programmed it and kuods to whoever sold MSNBC on doing it.
- The REAL John McCain: Less Jobs, More Wars.
user generated content makes for a new kind of political relations nightmare.
- KN | Photos from Geoff McFetridge’s Bury Me in the Sand
more photos from Geoff's show at Mollusk SF, taken by his partner at Solitary Arts. these are great and heavy on the pieces’ details and process of hanging the show.
- FWA Theater
a new flash based video site. huge, gorgeous flash videos served up blazingly fast by akamai. you tube better get their shit together before sites like this one start stealing marquee market share.
- California Ruling on Same-Sex Marriage Fuels a Battle, Rather Than Ending It - New York Times
the 2nd paragraph in this article really soured me. why is some douchenozzle from florida funding a “let’s discriminate against the gays” act in California? if you wanna argue for states’ rights, fine, let’s have states’ rights. there ought to be a law that says that out-of-state groups can’t create or fund ballot initiatives that seek to monkey with a state’s constitution
- California Supreme Court overturns gay marriage ban
waxy has a point: "systemic discrimination of same-sex couples is unconstitutional, period"
- Things younger than Republican Presidential candidate (oh, and did I forget to mention war hero?) John McCain
"AM I BEING ?AGE-IST?? MAYBE. BUT MAYBE NOT. THE WORLD IS A PRETTY COMPLICATED PLACE RIGHT NOW AND I?M THINKING THAT IT?S NOT SUCH A GREAT TIME TO ELECT OUR OLDEST PRESIDENT EVER. SO SUE ME."
- Robert Rauschenberg on process, change, boredom, and more
great post on recently deceased master artist Robert Rauschenberg. with a destinctively 37 signals slant.
- NYPH08 | New York Photo Awards winners
Amy Stein wins for Best Photography Book. woo hoo. go Amy!
- Lux: multi-touch for OS X
interesting interface giving macs similar functionality as the iphone ipod touch. although on a vertical wall, i think my arms might get tired. but it does give you a good idea of where we might be in 5-10 years computer wise.
- Daring Fireball | Political Capital
"Saudi Arabia Friday rebuffed President Bush?s request to immediately pump more oil to lower record prices, saying it does not see enough demand to increase production." check out the post for the kicker. GeeDub is such a putz.
- Breaking: Spakovsky Withdraws as FEC Nominee
boo *fucking* hoo. this guy is literally a flesh and blood ventriloquist dummy, with Karl Rove's hand stuck up his backside.
- The day there was no news
this is brilliant and subtle
- Today's Most Influential Design - The Design 100 - TIME
"Great design is no longer reserved solely for museum-worthy products, as multitasking designers turn their attention to everything from books to artisanal food, and from lighting to transportation"
- Too Hard a Ball
Right-Wing Radio yakker crashes and burns like the Hindenburg while trying to talk about appeasement … Holy Crap! keep diggin', jerk face.
- PSDtuts | Create a 60?s Psychedelic Style Concert Poster
great tutorial. these guys are killing it with the awesome photoshop tutorials. not as funny as "you suck at photoshop" but amazing in their own right.
- Video: Rubies, "I Feel Electric"
awesome song and video from Rubies, sonic sisters in the circle of awesomenss with Leslie Feist and Danielle Rubi. don't sleep!
- TED | Talks | Mark Bittman: What's wrong with what we eat (video)
awesome talk about how the western diet is totally unsustainable and dangerous to the planet. 10,000,000 cows, chickens, lambs and pigs born, raised, and killed every year. the take away? start eating more vegetables.
- Sergey Danyushevskiy :: Travel & Photography
wickedly good travel photography. really gorgeous stuff. [via cpluv]
- FontStruct | Build, Share, Download Fonts
Holy crapola! FontStruct is absolutely amazing! not only can you share and download fonts for free, but you can build your own with their fancy web app. pretty f'ing cool. now why isn't there a desktop app that makes the process of designing fonts this simple, effective and FUN. Mac OS X programmers: i’m looking in your direction
- Schitz Popinov
2008 award for best name for a music blog. I gotta get that on a tshirt.
- Second McCain aide quits over ties to Burmese Junta lobbying
We're talking about lobbying on behalf of mass murdering war criminals here. The real question media outlets should be asking is when did McCain find out and how long has his campaign known about this. These are people that could have gone on to run our government (as the case with the 2nd guy - aides usually end up in the administration).
- Video: Gnarls Barkley - Going On
the video for Gnarls Barkley's Going On is bananasly good. and random as hell.
- Peggy Noonan's article from WSJ on Obama's missing 2nd act
actually a pretty good read. she says a lot of interesting things. the Obama 2nd act thing is *very* dead-on. He does need it. but then she brings up the whole Obama is an elitist thing, which is classic wingnut talking points.
- More Obama: Obama Campaign Launches "Vote For Change" Voter Registration Drive
Uber-wingnut Peggy Noonan declared that Obama would need a "second act" to keep his story going. Well, never one to disappoint, Obama unveils his second act. and this one is gonna be *huge*. I can hear Rove and Spakovsky drafting up their talking points.
- surfblog1000: Hot Photo #1
amazing longboard photo by surf photog master Grannis. now this is the kind of photo that keeps me inspired. i love surf blogs for this very idea, showing the awesome.
- YouTube - Apple Mac Music Video
mac nerd rejoice. this is the single best music video i've seen all year. toad awesomers.
- YouTube - Sad Kermit - Needle in the Hay
Kermit the Frog doing Elliott Smith's Needle in the Hay. amazing.
- Elizabeth Warren | The Coming Collapse of the Middle Class
Harvard Law School professor Elizabeth Warren speaks at UC Berkeley. America's crashing credit economy is directly responsible for the continued rise in bankruptcy among the middle-class. Reality: You probably know more people who will file for bankruptcy than for divorce (although they may not tell you they are/have filed for bankruptcy). Big picture? We’re basically talking about the end of capitalism here. no joke.
- Vote for Change | National Voter Registration & Mobilization Drive
Obama is launching a gigantic voter registration drive to protect low income and black voters from White House designed voter suppression laws masquerading as a Voter Rights Bill. Go Obama!
- Banksy Unmasked? | Gawker
great article claiming Banksy is really UK stencil artist Nick Walker. I don't know if it's true, but a good read.
- Under Construction Redux | All Forces
Instead of throwing up some dumb "we'll be right back" message, when you're updating your site, Melvin has designed a very user-friendly version with social networking links, flickr photos, latest tweets and last.fm covers.
- Kottke's "When Obama wins,"
awesome twitter mashup. my personal favorite: "When Obama wins, God will literally bless America"
- Chile's Dirty, Beautiful Thunderstorm.
Chile's Chaitén volcano erupting into a thunderstorm. amazing. best pictures of thunderstorms *ever*.
- Mexico?s Disgusting Response to Shark Attack
San Fran native Adrian ruiz was killed by a shark, surfing Troncones last week and in response the Mexican Navy has been trawling for sharks, killing anything that gets in their way. Horrible news.
- Wild Coast / Costa Salvaje
WiLDCOAST protects and preserves coastal ecosystems and wildlife in the Californias and Latin America by building grassroots support, conducting media campaigns and establishing protected areas.
- Mårten Lange | The Sea
Raul Gutierrez points us to the hypnotic horizontal sea photos of Mårten Lange. This series has more than a passing resemblance to my latest surfing-themed photos. amazing series, i’d love to see these huge.
- Farewell Books
awesome cheaply constructed photography books. very cool idea.
- Sam Flores doing a piece in La Condesa, Mexico City
great photos of Sam Flores mural in process. amazing. taken yesterday.
- Neutra-Designed Strathmore Apartment condo for sale
LA peoples, listen up, one of the legendary Nuetra Strathmore Apertments is for sale. $795,000. hefty price tag, but come on, it’s a Nuetra! Architecturally significant houses aren’t recession proof, but when the market goes up, it’ll go up more. good investment.
- The Temas Blog
"Musings about the Evolution of Consumer, Environmental & Health Policy in Latin America & the Caribbean". awesome english language blog on what's going on south of the US border. a great informational resource and very dialed-in.
- Bio-Baby | Environment-Friendly Mexican Diapers? | The Temas Blog
Interesting look at Bio-Baby diapers, made from organic cotton and polylactic acid (a biodegradable polymer). the diapers are made by 100% mexican owned Mabesa. we don't have any kids yet, but we're already trying to figure out what to do about diapers.
- YouTube - Iron Man After Credits
Iron Man was awesome. Robert Downey Junior was excellent. nearly perfect super hero movie, if not the GOAT. even Marcia really liked it. 2 thumbs up. don't bother to stay through the credits for the end scene, catch it on you tube.
- Dwell Design Leaders Film Series | Chip Kidd
Chip Kidd is bananas. amazing designer, amazing apartment. interesting interview.
- Op's new "Open Road" summer marketing program is craptastic.
c-list celebs in badly designed, cheaply made, slightly surf themed gear, make em drive a vw combi, do a pyramid in the sand and run around tackling each other and sell it at walmart. ok. would someone please shoot the person responsible for this?
