Matthew Buchanan

At the risk of flogging a dead horse, I do like the flair shown...

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 23:31:00 +1300

At the risk of flogging a dead horse, I do like the flair shown here by Laz Marquez in his reimagining of Hitchcock film artwork, particularly The Birds. (via Alex Seder)

Fantastic. (via Peter Nidzgorski)

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 21:42:48 +1300

Fantastic. (via Peter Nidzgorski)

Love the result of Alex Cornell’s branding work for...

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:38:54 +1300

Love the result of Alex Cornell’s branding work for startup Plancast, “the hardest and most fulfilling project in [his] career thus far”. Good, detailed writeup on the ISO50 blog.

State of the Internet, a motion type presentation by the Jess3...

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:41:20 +1300

State of the Internet, a motion type presentation by the Jess3 agency of mostly mind-blowing statistics from the big social networks during 2009.

The Panic Status Board by Cabel, Steve and Neven. WebKit-powered...

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:46:48 +1300

The Panic Status Board by Cabel, Steve and Neven. WebKit-powered via AJAX and various APIs, displayed full-screen in Chrome running on a Samsung professional display. Fantastic.

Longboarding at Goat Hill filmed by Mammoth Media using a Nikon...

Sat, 06 Mar 2010 00:28:45 +1300

Longboarding at Goat Hill filmed by Mammoth Media using a Nikon D90. The vintage grading is perfect.

"Can you name a company you admire that spends its time enforcing patents, instead of innovating?..."

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 10:11:19 +1300

“Can you name a company you admire that spends its time enforcing patents, instead of innovating? Remember the pirate flag you flew over Apple’s headquarters when you were building the Mac? Is Apple part of the Navy now?”

- From Wil Shipley’s open letter to Steve Jobs regarding the HTC lawsuits.

Photograph by Piotr Obal. (via Tim Van Damme)

Sun, 28 Feb 2010 11:25:43 +1300

Photograph by Piotr Obal. (via Tim Van Damme)

One of four Jules Verne cover designs by Jim Tierney created for...

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 00:34:00 +1300

One of four Jules Verne cover designs by Jim Tierney created for his senior year thesis project. Faceout Books has extensive coverage including original sketches and this video of the completed books. Would buy! (via Meagan Fisher)

"Even if Firefox, IE, and Opera halted development today and added no new features, Apple and others..."

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 00:21:18 +1300

“Even if Firefox, IE, and Opera halted development today and added no new features, Apple and others on the WebKit team would be working their butts off to make the web richer — because they want it for themselves.”

- Neven Mrgan, The WebKit monopoly. (via WebKitBits)

Hayden Hunter: The Rest — “Modern Time Travel...

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 23:54:24 +1300

Hayden Hunter:

The Rest — “Modern Time Travel (Necessities)”

I’m seriously liking The Rest at the moment. They’ve got a 4 track EP The Cried Wolf available for free which includes an awesome cover of Robyn’s With Every Heartbeat.

Quicksand

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 23:33:11 +1300

Quicksand:

A jQuery plugin by Jacek Galanciak to reorder and filter items using animated transitions. (via Lee Majors)

Revised Font Stack

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 10:39:09 +1300

Revised Font Stack:

David Kaneda:

A Way Back takes a fresh look at default font stack, first citing statistics about pre-installed fonts, then making recommendations for popular sites like Yahoo and Facebook.

Khalid Mohtaseb shot and graded this footage in his spare time...

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 13:13:00 +1300

Khalid Mohtaseb shot and graded this footage in his spare time while on assignment in Haiti following last month’s earthquake. He used a Canon 5D2 and Kessler Pocket Dolly, and all footage was shot in natural light. Stunning. (via Zach Klein)

Flickr Short URL Generator

Sun, 21 Feb 2010 23:29:00 +1300

Flickr Short URL Generator:

Site and bookmarklet by Matthew Freedman to create Flickr base-58 short URLs from an image’s full path. Update: Na Wong has another bookmarklet solution that displays the URL in a pretty overlay and sends it directly to Twitter. (via Preshit Deorukhkar)

Trailer for Wellington actor/director Taika Waititi’s new...

Mon, 15 Feb 2010 23:46:45 +1300

Trailer for Wellington actor/director Taika Waititi’s new feature Boy, inspired by the characters from his Oscar-nominated short Two Cars, One Night. His Q+A appearance (in three parts) following the film’s Sundance screening is delightful.

Apple’s pro photography app Aperture 3 has at last added...

Sat, 13 Feb 2010 17:24:50 +1300

Desaturated

Golden

Vintage

Cross Processed

Original

Apple’s pro photography app Aperture 3 has at last added an export option for custom adjustment presets. Here, then, is a presets file containing four of my custom adjustments, yours to apply and remix as you like.

To install the presets, switch to the Adjustments tab in the main Aperture window then select Edit Presets… from the Presets drop-down menu. Now from the actions drop-down menu in the bottom left corner of the Adjustment Presets window, select Import…, locate the downloaded file and press the Import button.

Old, but good. David Lynch on the iPhone film experience. (And...

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 18:00:00 +1300

Old, but good. David Lynch on the iPhone film experience. (And from the related videos, why he turned down Return of the Jedi.)

Uniform

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 23:03:01 +1300

Uniform:

A jQuery plugin to style checkboxes, drop-down menus, radio buttons and file upload inputs the same across all browsers. Includes default themes by Josh Pyles and Made by Sofa, plus tools to build your own. (via Tim Van Damme)

Noah Kalina’s new portfolio site is big and beautiful. The...

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 16:09:00 +1300

Noah Kalina’s new portfolio site is big and beautiful. The full-screen slideshows are done in JavaScript; I really like the little touches such as the slide-off/slide-on effect when you reach the end of a gallery. Design and code by Patrick Moberg.