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Clean, stylish, functional… what more to ask.
Now on to migrating galeries, thumbnails and other WordPress niceties…
BETTER THINGS: The Life & Choices of Jeffrey Catherine Jones
Check out the teasers of this documentary.
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Procrastination buster
Lifehacker has a whole featured category about fighting procrastination.
First steps:
- Visualize how you spend your time with time tracking or a log
- Focus on what you actually do first, and not on open ended vague to-do lists
- Make room for both productive work and guilt-free play
- Work in short bursts
Inspirational image collections
11 Inspirational Image Collections selected by the Digital Photography School
(Image by Rachel Sian)
35 Years of the World’s Best Microscope Photography
The results of the 2009 Nikon Small World competition were the occasion for Wired to celebrate 35 years of fantastic microscope imagery.
Some of these shots would pass easily as modern art or computer generated fractals if we didn’t know any better.
TED| Beau Lotto: Optical illusions show how we see
A fascinating demonstration of how our visual system is conditioned by what we perceive as ‘Reality’, with unexpected conclusions about what we call Illusions.
For a spectacular version of the ‘sand dunes’ experiment from the video, open this image and stare at for 20 seconds.
Spectrum and the Met
I just spent an afternoon of pouring rain and Art in New York City.
First stop was the 2nd Spectrum Exhibit hosted by the Society of Illustrators.
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Wyeth exhibit at the Brandywine Museum
I got the occasion to experience an unexpected side effect of the workshops I recently took.
We are spending the weekend a little north of Philadelphia, near Longwood gardens, and on a whim, we decided to visit the Brandywine Museum. There, I had the occasion to appreciate the works of N.C.Wyeth (among others) with a different eye than I used to in museums before.
http://brandywine.doetech.net/pictsrch.cfm
Instead of paintings, I could see sharp/diffuse edges, value, colors, and so on I know it’s not anything new if you had classical art education but I thought I would share that anyway.