Timelapse video of the Perseid Meteor Shower and the galactic core of the Milky Way as seen from Joshua Tree National Park.
Shot by Henry Jun Wah Lee using a Canon 5D Mark II, EF 16-35mm L. at f/2.8, 6400 ISO with 20 second exposures.
Ben Bodien, who also masterminds a lot of the jQuery, HTML5, and CSS3 material for Authentic Jobs, explains what it took to make Tim Van Damme’s audio player design for The Box a reality.
Via Cameron Moll
This is probably the riskiest location we’ve been. Before we decided to take our chances and journey out to this iconic location, we took notice of all the stories we had heard of others trying their luck at getting in. There were rumors of a guard tentatively watching the perimeter and grounds. Other stories said that people were caught by workers or police. And it seemed to be a consistent critique. So we took a gamble and decided to go. Only, to our surprise, it was relatively easy to get in, completely vacant of any guards or watchmen, and we were pleasantly greeted by two other groups of young guys who were just exploring the park for fun. We stayed for a couple of hours and had a blast. It was an unusual feeling being in an entire rotting amusement park (almost) completely alone.
See the entire shoot by Brynne Chalmers on Flickr.
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I first spotted the experimental CSS3 buttons on Dribbble last week, and now the interactive designer, simurai, posted a demo of the buttons on his site. Overall the implementation is well done and all it needs is a few hacks to get it working on older browsers and IE. The buttons also feature Drew Wilson’s font-face icon set Pictos.
Online video creators, advertisers and producers have an unhealthy fascination with viral videos, and that obsession is dragging down the entire industry. Why? Because viral videos are, at their core, no better than a fluffernutter white-bread sandwich, delivering little or no value to anyone.
The 26 year-old serial entrepreneurs Spencer Fry—creator of Carbonmade—shares his thoughts on focusing on one idea at a time and fighting off entrepreneur A.D.D.
Thankfully, there is a cure for “Entrepreneur’s A.D.D.” and that’s to fall in love with a single idea, what I like to call an “I’m in Love Idea”. You’ll know it when it happens.
Over the summer I have been actively turning down client work in an effort to focus on my “I’m in Love Idea”. During this shift from running a consulting and service based digital studio to creating and selling digital goods I will be sharing my ideas and thoughts about the process—tag: shift.
Before concepts or ideas become trends patterns begin to emerge.
PATTERNS are how we capture and share some of the common insights we see bubbling up across projects, as well as out and about in the world. They are a foundation for intuition. A way to elevate insights to the level of cultural impact. And a way to tap into IDEO’s collective intelligence to do better work for our clients—even faster.
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Designed by Ben LaFond and Dan Black, the new Arcade Fire tour posters are fantastic. From the color pallet to the design details they managed to visually capture the sound of the new album—The Suburbs.
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Working with Nike, Buck directed and produced one 30 sec spot for TV and a plethora of other animated goodness that coated multiple screens in Times Square for the World Basketball Festival in NYC. Character design by Saiman Chow, sound design and music by John Black / CypherAudio.
Collection of 100+ 1970s Vintage desktop and pocket calculators.
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“The Bike Song” by Mark Ronson feat. Spank Rock & Kyle Falconer
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