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The Hot Newness

By Ed Fladung | December 3, 2009

www.edfladung.com

Hey, guess who finally has a new portfolio site?! me! www.edfladung.com.

After much toiling, hand-wringing, design, redesign, coding, nail biting and shear rote image processing I’ve finally managed to launch my proper portfolio site. I’m still kicking the tires, so if you see any visual inconsistencies or weird behaviors, hip me up on the burner. Getting the photography galleries together has been particularly time consuming, so instead of waiting even longer, I’ve decided to post the site and update the photo galleries as they become ready.

This site has been a long time in the making. Sometimes working on your own site is the hardest thing a graphic/web designer can do. I started putting together the underlying structure almost a year ago and through various false starts, several different look-and-feels and many various design/photography freelance gigs I finally put my head to the grindstone and knocked it out. And now that it’s done, I’m ready to redesign it! just kidding.

Thank you to all the peoples that have lent a hand, an eye, some code, or just some good comments or feedback to help me get this thing out the door. Very much appreciated.

I look forward to getting back to a semi-normal posting schedule on Quality Peoples. I know I’ve been neglecting yall, but a brother needs to make some cake, nawmean.

Enjoy!

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Bookmarks for August 27th

By Ed Fladung | August 27, 2009
  • IKEA goes with Verdana | Typophile
    the space-time continuum folds in on itself as IKEA switches from everyone's favorite typeface Futura to the ridiculously ugly made-for-small-text-on-monitors Verdana, in the name of style consistency across all countries including asia. Big mistake. This is like IKEA's version of "New Coke". stunningly dumb.
  • three frames
    my new favorite site [via @bigspaceship]
  • Art & Copy Film
    A documentary film about the truth in advertising. A film by Doug Pray, the Director of Surf Wise, Scratch and Hype!
  • YouTube – Tarantino's Top 20 Movies Since 1992
    interesting choices with explanation. Wong Kar- Wai's "In The Mood for Love" is not on the list. major oversight. I really like that "Unbreakable" is on it. I loved that movie and still do. incidentally, is it me or is Tarantino looking a bit like a hot tranny mess?
  • Good Hair ft. Chris Rock- Official Trailer
    now this is.a film i can get behind, hilarious.
  • Giant Waterslide Jump
    I know this is ridiculously old. my links are a bit stale from my trip up north yonder. but… reason 1023 for why the internet is better than tv: so that i can watch beautiful, priceless short clips like this without having to sit the drudgery of an hour long dumb home movie video show hosted by an unfunny stand-up comic and packed with commercials for environmentally insensitive products i don't need. watch the clip. hilarious, yet stunning in its accuracy.
  • Core CMS
    super easy to use content management system for photographers and designers "Core is a Content Management System (CMS) made with the designer in mind, someone who want to show off all their work with an easy updateable and customizable website without having to deal with databases, scripting and extensive php."
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Bookmarks for June 23rd

By Ed Fladung | June 23, 2009
  • SHANE LAVALETTE / JOURNAL
    Lavalette is a wicked photographer and independent publisher of a fine-art photography zine called Lay Flat. His blog is mostly about photography, fine art and self-publishing. a great resource and seriously inspirational.
  • YouTube – BooneOakley.com – Home Page
    BooneOakley, a relatively small new ad agency, doesn't have a website. they put their whole site on YouTube. the whole site is in video, scribbled with a dry, hilarious, well-written voice-over. awesome!
  • mañanarama: luz del mundo
    awesome post on the atrocious church architecture of scientology-esque Mexican corporatocratic religion called "Luz del Mundo" or "Light of the World".
  • Urban Outfitters LSTN
    Urban Outfitters has a pretty cool music download thingy happening on their site. it's called "LSTN" and each volume has over 20 free tracks packaged individually (versus dl'ing as a mix). Tons of great artists and there are 5 volumes already. time to find some new music…. Incidentally, why iz everyone hatin' on vowels?
  • beck :: "sunday morning" (velvet underground & nico cover)
    Beck is insane! He has a new feature on his site called "Record Club". Where he and musician friends of his including Devendra Barnhart record covers of classic songs. The records are to be very minimal in production and done in under a day from start to finish with little to no rehearsal. Awesome idea! The first song to come out of Record Club is Beck's cover of "Sunday Morning (Velvet Underground & Nico). and I gotta say it's probably my most favorite VU cover ever. Beck kills it.
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Bookmarks for June 15th

By Ed Fladung | June 15, 2009
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Bookmarks for June 14th

By Ed Fladung | June 14, 2009
  • Stop Smiling Magazine: VISUAL RESPONSE: GEOFF McFETRIDGE
    "We asked Geoff McFetridge — founder of the Los Angeles-based design studio Champion Graphics and a member of the Director’s Bureau — to offer his impressions on the differences between living in California and his native Calgary. Included here are several bonus questions that did not originally appear in Issue 36: Expatriate"
  • Daring Fireball: Simple Inbox Archiving Script for Apple Mail
    ok, You're using Apple's Mail app and you have 2 or 3 IMAP email addresses (dot mac, gmail, maybe your own domain) and your inbox is swamped with crap and you're having problems answering emails. This Apple Script created by John Gruber helps you stay organized. You just flag the messages that you know need to be responded to and once per day you run this script. It automatically moves all read inbox mail to archive folders, effectively cleaning up your inbox for you! awesome.
  • Jordy Smith's Rodeo Flip In The Mentawais
    pretty impressive
  • :: andy gilmore :: design ::
    damn! i'm loving this guy's design work. beautiful abstract geometric stuff. awesome.
  • Border Film Project
    Border Film Project is a collaborative art project giving disposable cameras to two groups on different sides of the border: undocumented migrants crossing the desert into the United States, and American Minutemen trying to stop them. To date, we have received 73 cameras — 38 from migrants and 35 from Minutemen — with nearly 2,000 pictures in total. The pictures show the human face of immigration, and they challenge us to question our stereotypes and to see through new and personal lenses.
  • How AT&T Should Handle the Twitter iPhone Price Backlash – Advertising Age – News
    if yer not in the know, Apple introduced a new iPhone 3G [s] this past monday. Of course, when Apple releases a new product millions of people all rush out to buy it. But when you have to buy it with a contract from AT&T things get dicey. When people started seeing the how much it was going to cost them to upgrade all hell broke loose on twitter. This article explains the bru-ha and why AT&T is not doing the right thing. My two cents: AT&T and most telcos are zombie corporations just like GM and Citibank. They don't exist to serve their customers, they exist to serve the interests of their shareholders. and that's it.
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Bookmarks for April 28th

By Ed Fladung | April 28, 2009
  • Where did this thing come from? The Swine. Influenza in Mexico City
    interesting read. conspiracy theory-laiden blog ramblings. if you're sick of the 24/7 news coverage that still manages to say nothing new.
  • jQuery for Designers – Tutorials and screencasts
    so you're a web designer (i.e. not really a programmer), you know your way around xhtml, css and can even hack your way through php enough to get your designs up and running in WordPress (i'm basically describing myself) but you javascript gives you the heebies. Well, this is the site for you (me). lots of good tutorials on integrating the jquery framework into your sites. Incidentally, I rarely see cool websites nowadays that aren't using some kind of jscript framework.
  • Kim Høltermand – Photography
    beautiful landscape and architecture photography. I'd love to see these printed large. and the flash-based site is minimal and awesome. great design/programming.
  • Should I Be Worried About Swine Flu?
    statistics don't lie
  • "Cuban Skateboard Crisis" a 2007 Documentary
    awesome docu on skateboarding in Cuba. if you're not on it already, Glen Friedman is killing it on his blog, go grab the rss. i know i sound like a broken record, but he is on it.
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Bookmarks for April 26th

By Ed Fladung | April 26, 2009
  • Look & Sea: A Little Experimentation Never Hurt Nobody
    and even more alaia-madness. these are some guys who are experimenting with various different forms of wooden finless shapes. some of the longest and thickest boards i've ever seen. beautiful rides in this video, it gets really good around the 10 minute mark, some beautiful alaia riding, some true bending of the plank.
  • Under the Sun Surf Film Blog: Alaia Sliding in Cardiff
    keeping on the alaia page, here's some recently past footage of Cyrus Sutton sliding on an alaia, from his blog, which for some reason hadn't made it into my rss folder. that's all changed now.
  • Look at this fucking hipster
    one of my current guilty pleasure websites. kinda takes what the cobra snake was doing and distills it even further. the captions are the clincher. down in mexico hipster fashion is 3 years behind (at least in my neck of el campo) and mostly limited to emo styles. so when i’m feeling a bit too far removed from the big city, I check on this blog. eggcelent.
  • Peter Funch – photographer
    great conceptual photography. Funch plays with the concept of time and the decisive moment in his work, among other themes. [via ncbeets's tweet]
  • How to Save Newspapers (Or, Why the NYT Should Acquire Twitter) – Umair Haque – HarvardBusiness.org
    great article and he's dead on. The New York Times is in a precarious position, either charge ahead full steam or die swimming, like the rest of its peers. The good thing about the NYT is that they are the most forward looking news rag and buying twitter isn't a long shot by any stretch. Very interesting.
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Bookmarks for April 25th

By Ed Fladung | April 25, 2009
  • How to: Make a Hand-Drawn Font | BittBox
    good little tutorial on getting your hand-drawn type into the computer. for all you hand-written script surf logotype peoples. hint hint.
  • Ryan Alaia Sequence | Nathan Oldfield
    how dope is this Alaia sequence? i haven't seen much Alaia sequences (film or video) so this is the first time I've seen what it takes to turn these finless wooden boards. You can see the wood flexing in his backside turn. amazing. I would love a 20×30 inch print of this sequence image from this post
  • MUJI
    Muji has some amazing products both residential and commercial (clothing, interior design, furniture, etc..). they seem to be all about dope, minimal user experience. beautiful stuff. and very playful. Marcia says the dresses look like extras from the compound on "Big Love".
  • Teehan+Lax UX Fund
    this is very interesting. these guys set up a fund of 50k and pick stocks whose companies excel at "user experience". Companies like Apple, Google, Nike and Jet Blue. I'm gonna plug these picks into google/finance and see what the charts say. Very interesting.
  • paul isakson: Hitting Reset
    "In this video, Emily Haines touches on one of the major themes felt around the world right now – a large cloud of uncertainty and doubt hangs over many people's heads. I know that on a personal level, I've never talked with so many people asking the "what do I want to do with my life" question before. People are questioning much of what they felt good about before. They are considering giving up on things they've been doing for years. They're not sure where to go or what to do next. They are searching for answers and help."
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Bookmarks for April 19th

By Ed Fladung | April 19, 2009
  • Chávez creates overnight bestseller with book gift to Obama
    "A 36-year-old historical tract attacking the imperialist exploitation of Latin America has become an improbable overnight bestseller after the Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez abruptly presented a copy to Barack Obama." – add Obama's moves to open relations with Cuba and I don't know how much more happier I could be about having Obama in office. This guy has a shopping list of wrongs (our country has done over the past 40 years) and he is righting every one of them. Obama is an inspirational dude. I know I've linked it before, but for a good primer on the subject of exploitation of Latin American read "Confessions of an Economic Hitman".
  • Voules Random
    great indie electronic mp3 blog. tons of great music here. try Wolfy vs. Projections. reminds of the old 'Moon Tribe' years, albeit my kind of electronic music stops at royksopp. if you can dance to it, i probably won't dig it. it took my 10 years to appreciate Daft Punk.
  • Shawn MORTENSEN ::: PHOTOGRAPHY
    amazing body of work by Mortensen who recently passed away at the age of 43 (?!). Mortensen seems to have been at the epicenter of several different underground art movements over his 20+ yrs shooting. His list of subjects is *deep*. more info over at SuperTouch
  • SuperTouch » FIRST LOOK: “McGEE, TEMPLETON, PETTIBON” AT CIRCLECULTURE GALLERY
    McGee, Templeton, Pettibon. curated by Aaron Rose. great photos from the Berlin show. put this show on the very long list of "things I'd do if i had endless loochie"
  • Legwork Studio
    ridiculously sweet website from a design shop in Denver. love the scaffolding content. For extra bonus, peep the "about" video, redonkulous. [via Eli's tweet]
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Bookmarks for April 5th

By Ed Fladung | April 5, 2009
  • Mexico Law Blog | mexican law and news for business and investors
    one of my new favorite blogs. an excellant peek into the powers that run Mexico and their relation to the US. english language blog.
  • but does it float
    "an ongoing visual conversation curated by Folkert and Atley." – amazing collection of photography. mostly architectural and landscape.
  • Kanye West sneakers for Nike and Louis Vuitton
    i could totally rock some kanye west louis vuitton sneakers. look at those things. that tongue in the back. perfect. relatedly: i want some air yeezies these things are like Nike Frankenstein sneaker boots very Back to the Future inspired. The nikes are slightly more affordable.
  • OSK DESIGN
    going on the complete opposite side of some of the links I've posted lately, this guy OSK is one some other shit. I love his aesthetic. gorgeous, artful stuff, and intentionally lo-tech. I'm really feeling his design sense.
  • Matt Reeves bites into 'Right One' – Variety
    the director of 'cloverfield' is going to remake "Let the Right One In" (a movie I loved). why do american directors remake near perfect foreign films, why not go remake Apocalypse Now or Scarface or something more challenging?
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Bookmarks for April 3rd

By Ed Fladung | April 3, 2009
  • designedmemory
    this guy makes intelligent, artful, creative, artistic and subtle flash-based websites. I am in awe. he made the "au revoir simone" site.
  • Au Revoir Simone.
    beautiful site for a great band. magical.
  • BILLY HARVEY MUSIC
    beautiful flash site for a musician. raw and rough on the outside, sweet and spicy on the inside
  • WHAT THE FUCK HAVE YOU DONE?: Jay Adams is out of jail and online…
    Glen E Friendman has a great post on Jay Adams (dogtown legend). Jay is out of jail and surfing the north shore. Friedman has posted a wide swath of good Jay photos. I love the shot of him and Tony Alva. I'd dig a blog post like this on each of the Z-Boys. This is like a respectful punk-rock version of "where are they now". Friedman would probably unceremoniously disembowel me if he ever read that last bit.
  • Lyndon Wade | Photographer
    great photography. amazing website.
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Bookmarks for March 20th

By Ed Fladung | March 20, 2009
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Bookmarks for March 16th

By Ed Fladung | March 16, 2009
  • The Charreada (Mexican Rodeo) « license to Still
    local vallarta homie, oregonian transplant and nasty lensmen Nate Cordova has some sick photos up on his newish photography blog from a three day charro rodeo event in Vallarta. Not your average shots. His compositions and skill in editing his picks is amazing. Peep the "fallen bull" one and just under it, the "pink hooves" one. whoa, nice photos! Go check Nate out and say hi.
  • NAVIS | PHOTOGRAPHY
    gorgeous photography. really nice color work and image treatment. these are actually all digital photos. awesome work!
  • Photo Editor's Corner | SurfingMagazine.com
    Interesting anti-canon rant from Surfing Mag Photo Editor Peter Taras: "I hate Canon. So much in fact that from time to time I write their help desk and just spat "f–k you, f–k you, I hope you guys rot in hell." And I’m generally a happy guy." – I generally agree with his viewpoint. I've had the mirror on my 5D come unglued twice. Each time it's costed me over $200 in shipping fees to repair and takes over a month.
  • Dana Goodyear
    really beautiful minimal website design for New Yorker Mag staff writer and poet. i'm really feeling the handmade approach here. handmade + minimal = super awesome.
  • Flickr and Getty Images Launch Their Flickr Stock Photography Collection | Thomas Hawk Digital Connection
    Thomas Hawk gets down to the nitty gritty with Flickr/Getty collection. good and bad.
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Bookmarks for March 10th

By Ed Fladung | March 10, 2009
  • The Creepy Driftwood Art of Mike Shine
    great work from old school sf artists and surfing rustabout Mike Shine. Check out his "surf shack" project. incredible. extra points for the scary-ass russian (?) soundtrack. more on the surf shack at Juztapoz
  • Complete Beginner’s Guide to Information Architecture | UX Booth
    "Information architecture is an often misunderstood job title. Are they Designers? Developers? Managers? All of the above? In this article we’ll discuss what information architecture is, why it’s related to usability, and what are the common tools/programs used in information architecture."
  • Lovely Charts | Flowcharts, Sitemaps, Organisation charts, Wireframes, Family trees, Network diagrams
    beautiful and dead simple web app for information design. so nice. i'm testing it now. I really like how the app basically cuts away all the finaggling crapola so you can concentrate on what's important. these guys learned a lot from apple's ilife apps.
  • FILE MAGAZINE
    a new dvd/print based magazine from the uk. i really like the design of the mag, but more so, i love the simplicity of their website. modern. minimal. nice
  • Desire Paths: Branding for Digital Lives | Mike Arauz
    Great presentation on how the process of branding your product is radically changing with the invention of social networks and the larger move of people spending more time online. Synopsis: brands need to find their passion in order to be abel to connect. Useful for anyone who has a brand or product they are trying to get people interested in. [via Big Spaceship]
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Bookmarks for March 3rd

By Ed Fladung | March 3, 2009
  • Definitive List
    "Greg Rutter's Definitive List of The 99 Things You Should Have Already Experienced On The Internet Unless You're a Loser or Old or Something" – prepare to lose some significant work time.
  • The Future of WordPress Themes 2009
    Ian stewart (creator of the Thematic, The WordPress Theme Framework) has a handful of important WP sphere people chime in on what's ahead for '09. Good answers all.
  • March of the Zapotec / Holland | Pitchfork
    excellent review and look into the recording and process behind Beirut's new ep. this is so right on.
  • Indexhibit
    very cool server side script for minimal no-fuss portfolio sites. kinda like "indexr". i love this flavor, i might just use it for my portfolio site, since I can't get around to designing/coding a proper site.
  • Naturally sweetened CocaCola: Made in Mexico, popular in U.S. | The News
    interesting article on Mexican Coke with sugar cane instead of high fructose corn syrup. I'm calling bullshit. The article says that some scientists don't think HFCS is bad for you and Coke says there is no perceivable difference between cane sugar and HFCS – Yeah and – we have always been at war with Eurasia.
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