Archive for February, 2010
|Playtime with Aggregation
Saturday, February 20th, 2010
Somethings I’ve found
You know how a while back I posted a little bit about personal information aggregation?
Well less creepy than “personas” , I’ve found a couple other interesting uses of our private information. BTW, Though people tend to claim a permanence to the personal info on the internet, my previous life has become harder and harder to find through regular search techniques as time has marched on. I assume it is just buried deeper and deeper on some server somewhere, but it makes me hopeful that a fresh start is still possible in this technological age.
Anyway…
on with the show.
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Tags: art, Ben Rubin, cloud computing, Design, ecloud, information, instillation, New York Times, nytimes, technolgy, visual
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Take Me “Out” to The Movies
Saturday, February 6th, 2010
Over the past couple of weeks I’ve been trying to get my magazine developer’s brain around Adobe After Effects. As the web becomes more and more of a video-based platform, publishing has been abandoning well-researched written presentations for quick video tid-bits. Since I has a face for radio, it is time to leave journalism to just the pretty people.
Anyway, I’ve found a lot of cool uses of after effects to bring Illustrative design elements to title sequences.
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Tags: a single man, after effects, Colin Firth, illustration, mad men, movies, oscar, saul bass, title sequences
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