David Emery OnlineCafetiere
You know how your dad or someone always has a go-to joke or phrase for something? Well over the past year mine has become, “At least, it’s something to blog about.” After walking a few hundred yards in the wrong direction to go and get some Tarantula Piss and Ritz crackers from the petrol station, I took a photo of my Stan Smiths, pressed the stopwatch on, and set off; and one of my first tasks was to ford the mighty Hanna Creek. It wasn’t that tough, really; there’s a road bridge over it.
Flip Flop Flying is the blog of Craig Robinson – him of Minipops fame – and is one of my favourite reads. Lovely little normal stories.
Visit ➔Fuck the foundries
Seriously. Fuck them. They still think they’re in the business of shuffling little bits of metal around. You want to use a super-cool ultra-awesome totally-not-one-of-the-11-web-safe-fonts? Pick an open source font and get on with your life.
I couldn’t agree more. The font foundries – like the music industry before them – need to accept the fact that this whole internet thing exists and there’s nothing they can do about it. What they need to be doing – as soon as they possibly can – is changing their licensing so that you can use them on websites in a legal way.
Because they’re just about to have a huge influx of new potential customers for their fonts, so it might – you know – be useful to be able to sell to them.
Visit ➔RED ONE Camera Shoots Esquire Magazine Cover
Esquire magazine today announced that the June 2009 issue of their rather glorious magazine (on sale May 10) features Megan Fox on its cover, and more importantly, that the image was captured with a video camera. Yes. That’s right the REDone’s 4k image is the first I know of to be sitting nicely on the front cover of a high-end, public-at-large magazine.
The march of progress continues, although I think possibly the point may be: Why? It’s a nice enough cover but it’s hardly something that couldn’t have been achieved via a traditional camera.
What I wonder is how on earth you go about wading through the footage to find the ‘shots’? For example on Monday at the Sonic Youth gig I took over 1000 shots and picking between those was hard enough – what do you do when you have 10 minutes of footage at 25fps (which works out as 15,000 frames)?
Visit ➔D&AD Nominations Announced
The nominations for the 2009 D&AD Awards have just been announced. After last year’s furore, will graphic design figure this time?
Never mind graphic design, is anyone else thinking that the websites nominated are almost all rubbish? All chintzy, obvious marketing rubbish with no hint of style, class or innovation. It’s quite interesting how out of touch the traditional design world is from the ‘web’ world.
Visit ➔The Horrors - Primary Colours
Certainly a contender for album of the year, now in handy embedable form:
Visit ➔Discovery - Orange Shirt
Discovery is a little side project by Rostam from Vampire Weekend and Wes from Ra Ra Riot, and is totally the sound of the summer - the album is really something special.
From http://stereogum.com/archives/mp3/vampire-weekenders-prepping-second-album-side-proj_066112.html
Sonic Youth - Sacred Trickster
From Sonic Youth’s forthcoming album The Eternal – more info: http://www.matadorrecords.com/matablog/2009/04/20/sonic-youth-first-mp3-secret-show-in-london/
Sonic Youth – Sacred Trickster
Visit ➔Fluid Images
Ultimately, I decided to use the approach from his third example, which was to set a max-width of 100% on all images on my website […] And as it turns out, this works just fine for most embedded videos, too.
Well that’s mighty clever.
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