my green crocodile

heartbreaking and beautiful.

Barack Obama: The Font

I rolled my eyes when I read about this. Never too late nor shy about capitalizing on Brand Obama(TM), Insign Design has created a font based on President Obama's handwriting. Yes, for a mere $16, you too can create inspirational pieces of literature with The Hand of Obama(TM), with its magnificent curves, loops, and left-handed slantiness. (To be fair, I think it's kind of pretty, almost something I'd use to match with my Hello Kitty stationery.)

It's only a matter of time before I'll be seeing Obama-brand 2% milk or Obama-brand oil pastels. I guess that's one way to stimulate the economy.

Now excuse me while I finish off the last of my Obama-edition Altoids.

Source: Gizmodo

zap gas

Ridiculous, satirical flash games with the theme of global warming. Obviously political. The one where you have to save Venice from tsunamis kinda freaked me out, hahah (i have this fear of tidal waves). I really like the game where you are a polar bear and have to defend the planet from CO2 balls coming from the four major countries that emit the most greenhouse gasses. It's got the photomontage, surreal feel to it – illustrated by artist Kenneth Tin-Kin Hung. I don't know if it's just me being awful at flash games, but these games are pretty hard. That might be a commentary on how we just won't be able to win against global warming.

Gaszappers site is pretty interesting though, if you get the chance to look through it..

http://www.gaszappers.com/

naked slave for naked art's sake

i don't need to say anything. this is ridiculous. discuss.

LASER GRAFFITI

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HOLOGRAMS. ARE REAL.

secrets revealed. what david borman says about the future of holograms really disturbs me. "it allows for a much more intimate possibility for a remote interview." intimate? scary times ahead.

Toshiba Time Sculpture

The making of:

Awesome Mario Comic

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Amazing Ink Technique

I have been a bad Shift Click Blogger. Bad Dony *gently slap face*.

Hopefully this will make up for it.



Looks like magic!! This guy created an entire graphic novel using this technique. Info on the book here.

The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics

talk about dot and line compositions from principles class! bocket just shared this with me. i've never seen it before, but i love it, narrative-wise and design-wise.
maybe i won't love a square, but lines are pretty hot.

Is there anything else left?

Autodesk buys XSI (i.e., Max/Maya eat up SoftImage)
Is there anyone else left? I wonder if it's only a matter of time before Autodesk and Adobe merge. Oy.

reading typefaces

these are so right. LOL IRL, dawgs.
check out the rest of the dude's studies on flickr.

seredipitous!

these two pictures came one after another on an rss feed. it's super ironic.

before: "yay! so pretty!"


after: "oh crap. time to go home."

Banksy's new pet shop

I will never eat another hot dog again. Maybe at least for another week.

Banksy is a popular graffiti artist known largely for his satirical street murals. Unfortunately, sometimes his anonymity garners more attention than the messages he tries to send through his art. 

This week he opened a "pet shop" in New York City, which is really an art gallery in disguise displaying bizarre, life-like, animatronic sculptures and installments. This is his first ever official art exhibition, after his identity was outed by the British media.

BBC Video