September 2008
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“I had no way of knowing No Heroics would come to TV while The Dark Knight was...”
– Drew Pearce talks to Underwire about the fortuitous timing of his new six-part superhero comedy series.
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jQuery Background Animations →
Jonathan Snook simplifies Dave Shea’s recent CSS Sprites article with cleaner markup and a lot less code. Gold.
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LetterCult →
New web site dedicated to custom letter design, from Ray Frenden and Brian Jaramillo. (via John Gruber)
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Watch“Suddenly” by director/animator Magnus Engsfors:
“It was shot with one Canon EOS 5D and a single external ProFoto flash while I was hanging in two ropes stretched across the scene. Then some heavy masking and retouch in Photoshop before the layers [were] lined up in After Effects to add camera movement and particles and such things.”
(via Tim Dawson)
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“Thank you to everyone who made Muxtape the incredible place it was in its first...”
– Muxtape creator Justin Ouellette explains where he’s been for the last six months. The site is relaunching as a service exclusively for bands.
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Chock Lock →
Guffaw. Follow Craig Hockenberry on Twitter for the full story.
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Watch“Ark” by Grzegorz Jonkajtys and Marcin Kobylecki. Wow.
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“Sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”
– From Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. (via Mascarah)
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“The only issue that would stop a person from shooting a TV pilot solely with...”
– Photographer Vincent Laforet quoted by Gizmodo, following hands-on testing of Canon’s new 5D DSLR. (via Scott Hansen)
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WatchOktapodi by graduating animation students at Gobelins l’école de l’image. More at the official site. (via Michael Lopp)
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Typetweets →
Displays the hundred most recent Twitter statuses containing typographic terms.
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“When Chris sighed and put both hands over his face, I knew it was trouble. I...”
– Wired creative director Scott Dadich has an early layout idea for the Kaufman article rejected by his editor-in-chief. He’s documenting the process from idea to page in expanded form on the Society of Publication Designers site.
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Part one of Wired’s two-and-a-half-hour...
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Copy Paste Character →
Quick reference site for copying common glyphs. (Danny Garcia)
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“I’m a PC” campaign made with Macs →
Neven Mrgan:
Of course it was. Check out this excellent idea from MacRumors user kaioslider:
I think I can see the next Apple commercial. PC sitting down in front of an iMac making his new “I’m a PC” commercial.
On a sidenote, congratulations to Neven who’s joining the talented team at Panic.
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WatchThe trailer for Charlie Kaufman’s directorial debut, Synecdoche, New York. I’m aching to see this.
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ca·pri·cious
adjective Characterized by or subject to whim; impulsive and unpredictable.
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Haven’t we seen this election before? →
The BBC’s Janette Ballard on how TV’s The West Wing has already pitted a charismatic, non-white Democrat against a maverick, experienced Republican.
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WatchDigital Kitchen’s opening titles for Alan Ball’s new HBO show True Blood. (via Idents)
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“The NDA is a mere annoyance, but a ‘you can’t compete against Apple’ policy is...”
– John Gruber is rightly flabbergasted by Apple’s rejection of Podcaster from the App Store because it duplicates functionality available in the desktop version of iTunes.
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Fontcase →
I’ve been having issues of late with what seems to be the best font management tool for Mac OS, Linotype’s FontExplorer X. Suitcase scared me off some time ago, so this teaser site for a new tool called Fontcase has me interested. If it will keep my fonts activated (a task FontExplorer has trouble with) and allow me to sync activation settings to other Macs, I’m sold. (via...
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“If we write a specification that is ignored, we’re just fiction writers.”
– From Justin James’s fascinating interview with Ian Hickson, the editor of the HTML5 specification. (via John Gruber)
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“That’s why Apple has standard UI widgets, so idiots like me don’t spend several...”
– Dan Moren on the similarities between the Finder’s slideshow icon and iTunes 8’s hide sidebar icon. The new iTunes widget for removing the Genius sidebar is the natural progression of the hide artwork widget that’s been in that app’s footer for the last several versions, but...
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“There’s nothing wrong with fucking shit up every single day. But you have to...”
– Merlin Mann on getting better.
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FancyZoom meet jQuery →
Steve Smith ports John Nunemaker’s recent Prototype rewrite of FancyZoom to jQuery. A nice antidote to the plethora of lightbox-style image zoomers.
