Awesome poster from the forever-in-development Where the Wild Things Are movie. Simple. Awesome. For some reason it reminds me of McDonald’s though…but be their sketchy, DIY style they keep trying to go for to remind about how they’re so young, hip, and urban.
Really neat concept involving a magazine “puzzle.” One thing I really enjoyed was that the puzzle shapes weren’t just arbitrarily placed throughout the magazine, but actually impacted the compositions of which they were graphical elements.
Got clued in from @johnweiss who apparently has been doing work on a new app called Twendz. Twendz is a new internet-based app that mines Twitter for data and uses it in an engaging and dynamic way. [Also can I quickly point out that I think it's hilarious that the is.gd that John received for the link was http://is.gd/n0ob ?]
So what exactly is Twendz? According to their site:
Twendz is a glimpse into what’s on people’s minds and their emotional reaction. Mining Twitter conversations alerts you to brewing trends, conversation topics and points of view. twendz uses a keyword-based approach to score tweets. Meaningful words in each tweet are compared against a “dictionary” of thousands of words that are associated with positive or negative sentiment; each word receives a score that, when combined with the other scored words, allows twendz to make an educated guess at the overall tone of a tweet. After twendz scores a handful of tweets matching certain criteria, it extracts key terms, assigns a tone rating to each of those, and assembles them in a word cloud.
Anyhow, check it out, mess around with it, leave some thoughts in the comments.
Neat little design from Cam of SquidSpot. Not only is it aesthetically awesome, but I can see this legitimately helping out with type selection quite a bit. Well done. (Although: uh oh, drop shadow alert.)
Link to the BIG VERSION. Suitable for desktop backgrounds, and embracing.
Presenting the next version of SketchUp. Ok no, not really. Still a cool short though. I’m actually pretty amazed at the quality short films people are able to pull off these days.
Awesome post up at Naldz Graphics containing links to sixty+ concrete textures. Appreciate them. Use them. Love them.
It’s no secret that Evan Rowe and I make liberal use of instantrimshot.com almost daily. Now a group of new friends has entered the fold, including but not limited to: sad trombone, instant crickets, and bombombombomwoooo.
Neat post up on Smashing Mag about redesigning Craig’s List for usability. Quite an interesting read. Hit the jump for my thoughts and a revealing screenshot. Read the rest of this entry »
Interesting article up over at pcpro.co.uk about the future OF THE INTERNET ITSELF. Author Tom Arah makes the case that Dreamweaver is dying and being replaced by CMS’s (Drupal, Wordpress,etc.). No longer should web masters focus on making static sites when they have systems with such perks as commenting or RSS feeds built in. He argues that Web 2.0 isn’t an empty slogan, it’s actually changed the way things are done on the web.
I can definitely see where Arah is coming from, but I think he’s a little off base. While I think he makes a good point, I feel that Dreamweaver may not be dying (he notes that he was careful not to say it was dead), but is probably transforming. I could potentially see Adobe launch a CMS and evolve Dreamweaver into a WSYWG editor that more closely integrates with the Creative Suite for the visuals and their CMS for the rest.
Thoughts?
My brother and I were at Borders, poking around in the religion section before seeing a movie. I happened across the C.S. Lewis book Words to Live By and thought to myself, “Ok…I know I’ve seen that somewhere else.” Then I darted off to the big Twilight table Borders had set up (complete with Forbidden Fruits — Twilight-branded candy hearts) and grabbed a copy so we could snap this picture. I’m kind of embarassed at my visual memory. Moral of the story: check your book cover against every other book cover ever made or someday a blogger will laugh at you.
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