May 2011
22 posts
WatchThe Greeks - Is Tropical [dir. Megaforce]
LiveView for iOS →
Creating a design mockup in Photoshop right now, screencasting it to an iPhone via LiveView and basically freaking out like an obnoxious child over how cool this is.
Discless Software Installs
Because hard drives have such a low failure rate that we can totally trust them to store our backup copies of Adobe Creative Suite that we paid $2,000 for.
“I mean, seriously buddy, I won’t fuck up your data. Bro! You can trust me on this.” - Any hard drive I’ve ever had before it failed on me (this has happened seven times in the past five years)
Lost Type Co-Op →
Pay-what-you-want business model… for typefaces.
Topolsky, Patel and Miller have actually used the...
“The extremely modest success of Ill Doctrine is the most fulfilling experience...”
– Jay Smooth on why I don’t really blog anymore he hasn’t made a ton of videos recently
"Important information on getting paid"
“I always have this theory, if you want to move someone else as an artist, you...”
– Truman Capote, from Conversations, 1966. (via rach)
File under “every thought you’ve ever had has already been better-articulated by someone just outside the range of your narrow purview”.
WatchVelo Cerebrum - Holbrooks
Oh, don’t mind me, just looking through Motionographer.
Those F5 skull-makeup bumpers are sublime.
WatchPuppets - Daniels
Just downloaded the Android SDK as an incredibly complex screenshot app, because there is no other way to take a screenshot on a non-hacked Android phone except for USB debugging. It’s 2011 and this is how Google predicts use cases for its software.
“Tyler [the Creator]’s combination of dubious fantasies, anti-gay slurs and...”
– Alex Macpherson
Twilight Of The Brands? →
Meant to link to this weeks ago:
Today you can launch your media company and call it “TBD,” and folks will just shrug or chuckle. A year from now, some genius will launch a hot new media property called “Whatevs.” It’s only a matter of time until someone starts to go to all the trouble of launching a brand, and then realizes what they really need is a hashtag.
This matters because to us media...
