May 2008
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Omer Saar - Passing Me By (Remix) My good friend...
Thomas Humery Photography →
Nice mix of portraiture and landscape.
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The Quest for Every Beard Type →
“I’ve been growing a beard every winter for some years now, and every spring, I try to see how many facial hair variations as I can check off from the chart of facial hair types.”
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How the stringent demands of a... →
“Why were we going to all this trouble when the scene could be easily photographed with the high-quality super-speed lenses available today with the addition of some fill light. He replied that he was not doing this just as a gimmick, but because he wanted to preserve the natural patina and feeling of these old castles at night as they actually were. The addition of any fill light would have...
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James Cameron on 3D →
“Watching a stereo movie is looking into an alternate reality through a window. It is intuitive to the film industry that this immersive quality is perfect for action, fantasy, and animation. What’s less obvious is that the enhanced sense of presence and realism works in all types of scenes, even intimate dramatic moments. ”
Monocle: Design Notes →
“If you’re interested in the honest craft of website work, almost deliberately old-fashioned ‘classical’ web design - and how to ally this with innovation in magazine publishing - the following should provide a decent account of several of the key decisions in this particular project.”
“The superior man is modest in his speech, but he exceeds in his actions.”
– Best fortune cookie ever.
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Cubescape →
“Ever wanted to create your own isometric pixel picture, but didn’t know what the word isometric meant? Well, now you can fulfil your wildest dreams with Cubescape!”
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As Mother's Day nears, Arkansas mom of 17 is... →
This sickens me on so many levels.
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I ate wild boar for dinner tonight. It was delicious.
Hall & Oates - I Can’t Go For That...
Processing.js →
“I’ve ported the Processing visualization language to JavaScript, using the Canvas element.” That’s damn impressive. My desires to learn Processing have not decreased.
http://ptrbkr.com →
This is where I am now, firmly planted on the no-vowel bandwagon.
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Franck Juery Photography →
Sweet Polaroids.
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“I’ll bet Hillary is secretly relieved that it’s almost over. So she...”
– Merlin Mann
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Abscessed
I’ve never been more routinely inconvenienced by an Apple product than I have been by the recessed headphone jack on the iPhone. To not be able to use a friends headphones when traveling, or to not be able to plug it in to a rental car stereo when it just happens to have line in and I go to the trouble of finding a Radioshack for a cable but said cable won’t fit because Apple disliked...
Went went, back back, to Cali Cali.
Just back from a weekend in Los Angeles. Covered a ton of ground; stayed in Long Beach, a wedding in Malibu, Gregory Crewdson opening in Beverly Hills, party in Echo Park, a little shopping in Santa Monica, crawling along Venice Beach, park concert in Griffith Park, and a Super Fun Slide in Agoura Hills. Lot’s of old friends, Tecate shotgunning, and car time (ok, maybe that part wasn’t...
