⇒ blankenship: Comping up an “eCruit” website for a college. Yay for design puns!
⇒ blankenship: Is pondering the value of doing all my design and mark-up, then contracting a patient genius just to fix all the IE bugs.
Video: Vimeo Embed Test Post
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Your Personal Moon. I want. (via Coudal)
⇒ blankenship: Sitting on top of a mountain in New Hampshire. Dang pretty and Autumntastic.
⇒ blankenship: Up bright and early for a hiking day trip to New Hampshire.
Testing, Testing, 1, 2, 3
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⇒ blankenship: I love Miles Davis, but that Bitch’s Brew-era stuff is almost un-listen-able.
Don’t worry about people stealing an idea. If it’s original, you will have to ram it down their throats. - Howard Aiken, computing pioneer
A note from The Management: To all you lovely RSS readers, please stop by today to check out the redesign. If anything looks too wonky, just refresh a few times.
⇒ blankenship: Writing my first Cron Job script. That sounds more like a Conan the Barbarian reference than a coding endeavor.
Nice Apple Pro profile on Joshua Davis. Davis gets a bad rap sometimes, but I adore his style and the computer-generated work that he’s been creating.
Of all the comic books of my childhood, I don’t think I saw them getting Iron Man quite right, and yet: they’re totally going to. The casting, character design, plot, etc. all look top-notch. (Tip o’ the hat to Yewknee for the trailer link.)
If it were that easy to make money on the web, everyone would do it. There is no such thing as a quick buck made out of a small buck…only a small buck being lost really quickly…[whatever] you get for $4000, it’s not going to make you rich.- Information Architects Japan, excerpted from A Word on Design Value
⇒ blankenship: PHPooped out.
Adam Cruickskank - Illustration
Lovely portfolio of illustration and design from Adam Cruickskank. I really like the variety of styles, typography, and, of course, yetis.
Filling My Brain and My Day With Inspiration, Not Time-Wasters
In an attempt to be more productive and less distracted, I’ve removed site aggregator popurls from my daily bookmark visiting. In theory, it’s great. In practice, it’s a ridiculous time suck and doesn’t accomplish anything.Aggregators like popurls just put a bunch of user-generated “news” sites together so I can waste time browsing top 10 lists and silly surface articles that do me no good either as artistic inspiration or time-management. Digg (and its kin) allow the community to decide what’s important, but those people aren’t me and those sites are becoming increasingly irrelevant to me, so why bother visiting?There are too many things I need and want to be doing. I’d rather fill my browsing time with things that benefit me as an artist and inspire me. (That being said, I’ve welcomed illustrator Kevin Cornell’s Bearskinrug and fashion-watcher Notcouture to the dailies.)
Simplicity does not mean want or poverty. It does not mean the absence of any decor, or absolute nudity. It only means that the decor should belong intimately to the design proper, and that anything foreign to it should be taken away.- Paul Jacques Grillo, architect
⇒ blankenship: The Mrs. is reading Flannery O’Connor aloud while I work on some freelance. Basically perfection.
Nikon has announced their first full-frame D3 DLSR for right at $5000. As I’ve said in the past, I love Canon products, but the fact that the lenses are so dang expensive makes Nikon much more attractive to me.
Video: Daft Hands on YouTube
Do not be fooled by the first 40 seconds. This video is an amazing feat of human ingenuity, practice, timing, and awesomeness. It is harder, better, faster, and stronger.
You can explore the sky in Google Earth now.
[ba-cn] — noun
1. notifications, newsletters, updates, etc. that you sign up to receive via email
2. email you want, but not right now
3. email notifications that are somewhere between spam and personal email: Between Twitter, Flickr, and Virb, my inbox is full of bacn.
[Origin: 2007, coined via PodCamp Pittsburgh conversations]
The SkinnyCorp Method for Creating Online Awesomeness (and other cool stuff) 45 minute presentation from the Threadless founders. Stellar, and without a hint of cynicism. I love this company.
Dear Annoyed iPhone Early Adopters,
Ok, ok, I hear you - you were in line on day one and you plunked down $600+ of your hard-earned cash to buy an iPhone and then yesterday, a mere two months later, before you’re even done basking in the glow of the coolness of your new toy, it’s magically (deliciously) $200 cheaper. Ouch, it stings. Woe is you. Etc.
That being said, somewhere along the way I think your love of Apple and their sleek, functional products has gone to your head. You started to think that they’re your friend, that they have your best interests in mind, that all those products exists to put you at the center of the universe and make your life easier and better. You deserve better than this for all your years of dedicated fanboydom. And while all these things are true (in part), the bottom line is that Apple is a company and their ultimate goal is TO MAKE MONEY and TO PLEASE THEIR SHAREHOLDERS (by making them money.)
There’s never that perfect moment where you will buy a piece of technology or gadgetry and be set - something better will come out and the price of your precious will drop. Welcome to commerce. Things devalue. New cars depreciate 33% when you drive them off the lot. How’s that for instant? The timeline for this particular price drop was just a tad shorter than Apple’s typical marketing strategy.
There seems to be a consensus (not necessarily large, but certainly loud) that if you are a loyal customer and an early adopter, you should be rewarded for that. You should get perks. Now, obviously companies should do their part not to alienate their customers, but honestly - Apple exists to take your money and they will take as much of it as you will give them. We prove over and over again that we’re willing to pay more for our products, and they will continue to push that boundary as long as we let them.
Consider it early an adopter tax,
Joshua
For those of you prone to follow/admire/adore/stalk/etc. my co-workers, you’ll be happy to know that The Big Noob has delicious blue “I’m a noob.” t-shirts for sale. Go forth and purchase. (Don’t miss the call-to-action button.)
⇒ blankenship: Just finished up Season 3 of Battlestar Galactica. Waiting for Season 4 will suck, though not in a Lost-like way.
⇒ blankenship: Could any day of the week possibly rule more than Saturday? I submit that it could not.
Speaking of Threadless, they’re having a $10 t-shirt back to school sale through next Monday. Clothe yourself.
⇒ blankenship: Highlight of the week: http://flickr.com/photos/hrtwrk/1342992689
⇒ blankenship: Friday! Hooray!
⇒ blankenship: Editing photos for Cottyn.
⇒ blankenship: Much like crime capers and heist movies, doing “one last big job” as a freelance web designer is proving to be a very bad idea.
⇒ blankenship: Thursday feels like an avalanche.
⇒ blankenship: Is it wrong that emptying Safari’s cache just took 5 minutes? Perhaps I need an internet break?
⇒ blankenship: It’s awesome how when I’m on hold with Comcast about no web connection, they give me all these tips and features on THEIR WEBSITE.
Fantastic motion graphics reel from Onesize. The audio/sound design is equally impressive from Run Silent. (via avclub on Twitter)
⇒ blankenship: I feel for all those twisted arms out there that were forced to buy the iPhone for $200 more. You’re true martyrs, entitled to your rage.
⇒ blankenship: Everyone with an iPhone is suddenly thinking “wow, this new iPod is just like my phone, minus the phone part.”
⇒ blankenship: Laying in futon, internetting via stolen wifi, Sunset Bar & Grill in my tummy, Dbox conversations still fresh, talked to Gary, etc.
⇒ blankenship: Congratulations to @dbox and his bride-to-be. Hooray for love.
⇒ blankenship: Bubba Burgers = delicious formerly-frozen cow treats
⇒ blankenship: Stealing wi-fi from someone in the new neighborhood. Apartment 4 is shaping up quite nicely. Feels like home, even without all our stuff.
I’m not really sure what a gorilla or Face Value-era Phil Collins have to do with Cadbury Dairy Milk, but this is wonderful nonetheless.
⇒ blankenship: Long day, tired feet, parked the car, waiting for an outbound train, still have to assemble a futon, can’t complain.
⇒ blankenship: Hello, IKEA. It’s been awhile. I need a futon on which to lay my weary head.
⇒ blankenship: We’re having an unusually leisurely apartment move. Open parking spots, no elevator traffic, beautiful weather. Also, I adore handtrucks.
[W]e have decided to offer every iPhone customer who purchased an iPhone from either Apple or AT&T, and who is not receiving a rebate or any other consideration, a $100 store credit towards the purchase of any product at an Apple Retail Store or the Apple Online Store. Details are still being worked out and will be posted on Apple’s website next week. - Steve Jobs, in an open letter to iPhone users.Now all you people who complained so vehemently that Apple let you down, you can all go back to being fanboys, walk into the Apple Store with your $100 gift card and pound of flesh, buy something that costs more than $100, and give Apple more of your money.