Monthly Archives: August 2008

Vicky Cristina Barcelona

By admin | Published: August 31, 2008

Saw Vicky Cristina Barcelona yesterday (we were there during filming!). Great. Loved its personality-type reductionism and the ever-nagging choice between boring predictability or the fickle whimsy of following desire. Evidently Allen wrote a “diary” of sorts during filming and its quite funny. Check it out: MARCH 5 Met with Javier Bardem and Penélope Cruz. She’s [...]

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Gustav is Coming

By admin | Published: August 31, 2008

Check out MSNBC’s hurricane tracker built by Stamen.

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Lushpad

By admin | Published: August 30, 2008

Lushpad is a unique online marketplace and resource that is intended to provide a service that has been missing from the collecting community since Modern design crossed the threshold from everyday to vintage a few years ago. Authentic originals, licensed originals and unlicensed lookalikes all vie for our attention. Lushpad hopes to clear through the [...]

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More Insight Into the Palin Decision

By admin | Published: August 30, 2008

(via Crooks and Liars) It seems to have been one or all of three: 1) a vain attempt to convince Hillary supporters that the should think with their vaginas in the same way men like McCain think with their penises, 2) to shore up McCain’s standing with the abortion/hangin’/guns loving and science/polar bear cub hating base, 3) [...]

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On The Leading Edge, or Falling Down?

By admin | Published: August 28, 2008

Audi just developed an iPhone App promoting the new A4. Its top-scrolling driving game they claim they brought the game to market in 2 weeks from concept to completion. It shows. The experience feels cheap and runs counter to the actual driving experience of an Audi A4, which is amazing (disclaimer: I LOVE Audi/VW and [...]

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Mozilla Ubiquity

By admin | Published: August 28, 2008

I saw this on piecemaker. It’s fresh. the thing that I love most about it is that they’re thinking along the lines of making the browser the central control-point for web 2.0 functionality. Moving into the cloud… I love it. Now MzLabs has to bring this to mobile computing with precise location-specific data and we’re [...]

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Great Daily Show Billboard

By admin | Published: August 27, 2008

…for the Republican Convention. The billboard is located outside the Minneapolis-St. Paul Airport:

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Slate Looks at Data Visualization

By admin | Published: August 27, 2008

This art form is making inroads at universities and on the Web, and it has gained currency in tech and design circles. It has inspired some press and a handful of shows, and has featured in minor ways in museum exhibitions, in particular the Museum of Modern Art’s “Design and the Elastic Mind” show earlier [...]

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Eduardo Recife Still Killing It

By admin | Published: August 26, 2008

Eduardo Recife is back with another installment of Misprinted Type. Once again his rich, textural work is engrossing and draws you into his world. Love it. If you haven’t already downloaded his Photoshop Brushes and Vector Packs, please do so (under “Goodies”) – they’re a must-have for any digital artist.