Film is rich with the kind of cross-pollination between science and art that inspires really great ideas. There is nothing more fascinating than digging up the grains of truth behind movie fantasies. I can’t say to what extent, if any these re-life projects have taken inspiration from the cinema, but one thing is [...]
Author Archives: Trev
Ping.fm Beta Invites and New Features
May 12, 2008 – 1:13 pm
The social network and microblog posting service Ping.fm has expanded it’s set of features with better posting control and improved support for posting to full-length blogs. Ping.fm offers unprecedented flexibility and is a huge time saver for people who maintain an online presence across multiple sites. We’ve updated our Ping.fm tutorial to reflect [...]
Updated: Ping.FM Tutorial
May 12, 2008 – 1:19 am
For those that haven’t heard, Ping.fm is a great tool that allows you to post to multiple Social networks and Blog services at once. So instead of say, updating your Facebook status, then logging in to Twitter and updating there you can do it all at once. (and more, but we will get [...]
FontStruct: Online Font Creation Tool
May 9, 2008 – 4:02 pm
Font Shop has quietly released a nifty new online font creation tool called FontStruct. FontStruct is an Ajax-y (really, is that actually a word?) web app that lets you go to town and try your hand at making your very own font which you can download in TrueType format. You can also make [...]
Obama: the New Chuck Norris?
May 9, 2008 – 12:48 pm
Apparently, the meme of the day over on Twitter involves declaring how the world will be better when Obama wins. Here are a few of the more amusing things that will apparently happen when Obama wins, according to the Twitterverse. Hyperbole included for free.
Brain Hacks: Six Ways to Come Up With New Visual Ideas
May 9, 2008 – 12:07 pm
Overcoming Mental Block
Looking at other work is a great way to get inspired, but what if you want to do something totally from within, relying on your own brain to come up with something without the benefit of external ideas? Here are a few tips that can provide that little bit of inspiration that can [...]
Social Portability and the Free Internet
May 6, 2008 – 4:13 pm
With the advent of the social network, web denizens have been enabled socially in ways that where never possible before. People who would never have been comfortable wining and dining at a real-life cocktail party (myself included) have been given the tools necessary to network, make and follow up with friends and colleagues online. This, [...]
Interesting Link of the day: Twistori
April 29, 2008 – 12:16 pm
Twitter as a Narrative
Twitter can be notoriously overwhelming if you deign to to browse the public feed. Thousands of random thoughts and snippets of conversation de-contextualized and served up like so many TV channels flipping past at a huge rate. Twistori, however has created a truly interesting Twitter inexperience. Looking at Twitter not [...]
Commodore: Out of Extra Lives?
April 25, 2008 – 1:46 pm
The Channel Register is reporting this week that the Dutch firm that owns the Commodore brand has been declared bankrupt.
One has to wonder if the German and Dutch firms that traded Commodore around over the past few years failed to understand the value in leveraging the American nostalgia for the brand.
What is sad is [...]
Twitter and Friend Sourcing: a Proposal
April 24, 2008 – 5:42 pm
Your TwitterBase
I recently read a post by Mark and Sean Evans over on their blog talking about Twitter. They touched on something that I’ve been hearing and thinking a bit about lately, but defined it in a particularly succinct manner:
“Twitter has accomplished want nobody, not even Google, has yet to figure out - [...]
