Fantastic music video for Ramona Falls debut single I Say Fever. I’ve watched it through half a dozen times, song’s great and the animation is spot on, crank up the volume sit back and enjoy. The animation is by the talented Stefan Nadelman.
Via: seiz whaa?
I take my hat off to Eric Testroete for his Halloween costume this year. It was inspired by ‘big-head mode’ in videogames and is surprisingly creepy when seen in the real world.
Via: the newshelton wet/dry.
I‘m loving this series of murals - A Love Letter For You, by Stephen Powers. He’s still got a few more to do (50 comissioned in total), reminds me a bit of Bob & Roberta Smith’s shop signage stuff around Hoxton Street, although Steve’s stuff is much more graphically interesting and funny.
Via: 30gms.
Nice take on toilet graffiti by doodler Marc Johns, check out all his paper towel drawings here. Must remember my felt tip next time I’m dropping the kids off.
Via: DivineCaroline.
Finally I got my Typekit invite yesterday :) It’s ridiculous really when you think about how long the web has built on only a handfull of fonts.. well no longer!
All the major browsers are now starting to support this embeded font thing if you provide a URL in your CSS to the font file, great news. Problem is there’s not that many fonts that you can ‘legally’ use in this way. That’s where Typekit comes in, it’s essentially web only font licencing service, with some clever stuff behind the scenes that smoothes out differences in how browsers handle type.
You can sign up and use the free fonts (for free), or drop a bit of cash (up to $50 a year subscription) to get access to hundreds more.
“For designers and developers, this is a significant step forward. No longer will you need to trap your content in images or Flash just to express yourself visually. Pages will be more usable, accessible, and indexable.”
I’ve been having a little play around with it, and am currently using Buendia by César Puertas for the titles. I think it might be time for a full re-design soon though.
Movember + Twitter & Hashtags = Tachetags! This was the brainchild of a mate at Blast radius, who got me in as the ‘moustache expert’ to make it happen.
Basically the idea is you upload daily photos of your folical folly to twitter (using twitpic, yfrog or img.ly) and add #tachetag in the text. We’ll pull them all into tachetag.com where you and anyone else can see your progress and, if they like the look of your hirsute heroics, add a donation in your name.
There a few more features in the wings, like being able to post images directly on the site, personal pages with all your photos and hopefully an animated gif of it growing.
My new favourite iPhone/iPod game is Canabalt by Adam Atomic. Your little pixel dude is trying to escape what looks like some sort of alien invasion, and he’s running for his dear life. All you can do is choose when he should jump (by clicking), between rooftops, through windows into offices and across cranes etc.
Makes for a quick game, but super fast paced and addictive. My top score is 7927m, see if you can beat that! Also you play it online (free) here »
Well we’re 3 days into Movember, so here’s a summary of possible moustache styles in desktop picture format to inspire all those taking part this year. If this is the first you’ve heard of Movember then you should sign up and help change the face of men’s health.
The illustrations are actually taken from a fun Movember related site I’ve been working on, more details when it goes live… soon!
Here a close up of the Zorro tache:
Mick Jagger’s brief to Andy Warhol - “do what ever you want….. and please write back saying how much money you would like”. Ha ha, why don’t I ever get briefs like this!
The album in question was Sticky Fingers, which famously had a huge bulging cock imprint on a pair of jeans with a working zipper:
Via: Biggest Apple.
I‘ve seen plenty of custom alphabets, but can’t think of any that focused on numbers, that is until I saw this Number Character project by Skwirrol. Not quite finished yet, but I like where it’s going and eagerly anticipate the rest of the set.
Mark Weaver is still knocking his retro/modern collage pieces every day, I hope he makes this one into one of his silksreen posters.
My brother’s twins are getting bigger and more interesting every time I go back home :) I forgot to do the six month post.. but here they are at 7 months!
Daisy is still racing ahead in the growth again, got 2 teeth now and big chubby cheeks like me when I was a baby.
Oliver strangely looks a bit older because he never really put on his baby fat and is looking like a lean mean super baby model, definitely got his photogenic skills nailed at an early age.
This is an awesome idea, recycling old camera lens components into these one off retro bracelets. Brain child of Aussie Photography Craig Arnold (can’t find his site), but they are for sale in the UK Cost £100 - £150, available from Oye Modern. Not many left, but be sure to check all the sold one’s too »
Via: Ace Jet 170.
Ha ha, this cracked me up, I didn’t understand it at first - can you see what’s not as it seems it this picture?
That girl climbing into the bunk has got her arse out right?
(Click through for the spoiler)
Animator Victor Ens is building up a nice collection of Pencil Tests and posting them to his blog. This one is by BJ Crawford.
Via: Drawn!
