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• 01.29.09
  Twitter computing | (0)

  Used correctly, Twitter's 140-character blurbs provide a stream of haikus to your adoring public. But how to overshare without overwhelming? To find out, we asked Twitter's top talents what makes a great tweet. Here's what they had to say, in 140 characters or less. "If you want more people to follow you on Twitter, give your real name on your account profile. Not everyone knows you by your username." — Scott Beale "Every single Twitter post you write should be something that could get you laid, ruin a marriage, or bring a tear to a fat little kid's eye." — Joshua Allen "Don't ...
• 01.20.09
  Infoporn- Wired Magazine Playmates then and now technology | (0)

  Wired has crunched the BMI's of every Playboy centerfold model from 1953 to 2009. Dare I quote Rosie O'Donnell from the 1996 movie "Beautiful Girls" "Implants, collagen, plastic, capped teeth, the fat sucked out, the hair extended, the nose fixed, the bush shaved. These are not real women, all right? They're beauty freaks. And they make all us normal women with our wrinkles, our puckered boobs, and our cellulite feel somehow inadequate." See the Results.
• 01.18.09
  Bon Iver to release “Blood Bank” music | (1)

  Bon Iver songwriter Justin Vernon, a Wisconsin native — is releasing his new album "Blood Bank" on January 20, 2009. Last February, he became one of the most discussed musicians of 2008. See The New Yorker video interview here. Bon Iver in collaboration with director Matt Amato for The Masses filmed "The Wolves (Act I & II)" on location in Fall Creek, Wisconsin, in January 2008. Rushing to get to Wisconsin for fresh snows and still frozen air, director Matt Amato arrived in Eau Claire, hometown of Justin Vernon of Bon Iver. Matt received a phone call, one of his ...
• 01.18.09
  Tribute to Ralph Rapson September 13, 1914 – March 29, 2008 architecture | (0)

  "I don’t want to retire. I expect to be carried off on my drafting board." He was born with a deformity in his right arm that required amputation. There were many things he couldn't do with one hand, but he could draw, and he did, becoming one of the foremost architectural draftsmen of the 20th century. Invited by Frank Lloyd Wright to apprentice with him at Taliesin, he studied at the Cranbrook Academy of Art. Rapson immersed himself in Cranbrook's interdisciplinary approach to metalworking, sculpture, photography, graphic design, architecture, city planning, and textile design. It was at Cranbrook that Ralph rendered ...
• 01.10.09
  Funkytown Mash-up music, technology | (0)

  Another mash-up I've recently created in garageband. Clean acapella lyrics of a female r&b group, remaking a 70's Bee Gee's disco hit. Mixed with a trance background, blended with an 80's disco hit. Your feedback is encouraged! [audio:http://studiod23.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/funkytownmix.mp3|titles=funkytownmix]
• 01.09.09
  What makes us happy? ideas | (0)

  Dan Gilbert, author of Stumbling on Happiness, challenges the idea that we’ll be miserable if we don’t get what we want. Our "psychological immune system" lets us feel truly happy even when things don’t go as planned.
• 01.04.09
  Aussie Carver Grant Vaughan art, craft, design | (3)

  Although his pieces are often rounded forms, there is no turning in them—Vaughan doesn’t even own a lathe. All the work is done with carving tools. After extensive sketching and drawing, Vaughan transfers measurements and cross-sections to the workpiece. Then he cuts out the overall shape on the bandsaw. He roughs out the carving with an Arbortech power carver, whose conical teeth, he reports, make it carve quickly yet with great control. He also does some excavation with a hand drill and a shopmade depth stop. From there, much of the work is done with chisels and sandpaper. See more of ...
• 01.03.09
  Oleg Dou art, craft, design, fashion, photography, technology | (1)

  Interested in human individuality and self-expression, he draws inspiration in fashion and surrealism, trying to create his personal aesthetics of work, by combining reality with artificiality. Says Oleg: "I felt an urge for arts and creation some time ago, when I was working as a web designer, which pushed me to study seriously the design. That's how I "bumped into" photography, and I had an idea to combine it with design. Creation brings me an enormous pleasure, I became conscious of the fact that photography is something I always wanted to do. I am stubborn, ambitious and optimistic by nature, ...
• 01.03.09
  Verdier Hybrid Vehicle design, ideas, technology | (1)

  The concept of this project is quite impressive. The site is also designed very well. Similar to the actual VW site with it's overall branding feel. You just have to experience this, I'm unable to do it justice with words. http://www.verdier.ca/
• 01.02.09
  Sølve Sundsbø image-maker craft, fashion, photography | (0)

  Despite his versatility, it's easy to spot a Sundsbo image. His pictures look as if they've been digitally altered, when in fact often they haven't. "People assume my work has been through a computer but actually I also use a lot of old-fashioned techniques," he says. The concept is also more important to Sundsbo than the finish and he probably has more in common with a fine artist than slick fashion snapper. Sundsbo is now intent on railing against mediocrity in fashion imagery. "Photography has become democratic – anyone with a digital camera can shoot something and alter it in ...

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