Matthew Buchanan: Archive

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Sep 29th

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“Gatekeeper” covered by Kings of...

Sep 29th

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Sep 29th

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Vitamin String Quartet cover MGMT’s...

Sep 28th

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Sep 27th

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Sep 26th

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Sep 26th

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Saman Keshavarz directs this visually arresting if bleak video for Cinnamon Chasers’ “Luv Deluxe”. It’s shot in the first-person, like that famous Prodigy video, using a face-mounted Canon 5D2.

Sep 26th

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“The CPM has done more to stunt innovation and drag down quality products than...”

– Whiskey Media CEO Shelby Bonnie makes a plea to kill off the outdated practice of paying for online ad impressions. He doesn’t offer a replacement, rather a starting point for a method of measurement that works better for individual campaigns. (via Che Tamahori)

Sep 26th

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Sep 24th

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Sep 24th

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Sep 24th

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“Plus, every day for lunch we ride ponies to a secret place in Midtown that...”

– Tumblr is hiring, and their lunchtimes are delicious and magical.

Sep 22nd

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Sep 22nd

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Sep 22nd

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Sep 22nd

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A short pencil test of The Jungle Book’s Mowgli character, drawn by animator Milt Kahl. Jamaal Bradley is collecting more of the same at his blog, the Pencil Test Depot. (via Drawn!)

Sep 22nd

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Sep 22nd

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“Be passionate about what you do. If you’re not passionate about design, or...”

– Noah Stokes writing about The State of the Web Design Profession. (via Darren Wood)

Sep 22nd

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Sep 21st

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Sep 20th

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Sep 19th

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Sep 19th

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Sep 16th

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Cargo Theme for Tumblr →

Jarred Bishop has released Cargo, a Tumblr theme inspired by Cargo Collective’s stripped-back portfolio interfaces. Its in-page jQuery navigation is hot.

Sep 15th

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SpriteMe →

A very clever bookmarklet by Steve Souders that examines the background images on a page and automatically generates CSS sprites (and recomputes all background positions!) based on how the images are used in the page, and grouping by size. The interface displays a running tally of the number of HTTP requests saved as well as the reduction in filesize. My only (very minor) complaint is the manual...

Sep 15th

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“Birdhouse is a wonderful ‘notepad for Twitter’, but I’ve included it in this...”

– John Gruber writing about his iPhone home screen at First & 20.

Sep 14th

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Sean Pecknold’s fantastic video for Grizzly Bear’s “While You Wait for the Others”, inspired by Jan Švankmajer, Hospital Brut, 60s magazines and Tintin books. (via Motionographer)

Sep 14th

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Sep 14th

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Nice kaleidoscopic video for Sola Rosa’s “Humanised” from the album Get It Together, directed by Tim van Dammen (no relation).

Sep 14th

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Typeface designer Jonathan Hoefler and co-chair...

Sep 12th

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Sep 12th

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Sep 12th

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Sep 10th

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Sep 10th

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Sep 10th

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Sep 10th

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“There’s not a drop of Flash on this [page], from the rotating banners to the...”

– Judson Collier dissects the markup loaded by iTunes, which uses an embedded Webkit browser to render its entire Music Store, right down to the animated audio players. While the approach isn’t new, many of the CSS tricks are. (via Todd Dominey)

Sep 10th

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