Month: February 2009
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Wallpaper of the month
Smashing magazine have got in early this month with their desktop wallpaper competition. I’ve gone for this one (bit festive but I like it), which one will you choose? www.smashingmagazine.com
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Films that fans of Chavs would like
The text competition on Richard Bacon’s radio show last night – the winner was “Lidle Miss Sumshine”
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Create a minature world with the tilt-shift maker
I like the effect that a tilt-shift lens gives – turning a bustling city into a model railway set. The effect is created using a special lens which gives a very shallow depth of field on objects far away. It’s better explained in this article: What is tilt-shift photography?. The lenses aren’t cheap (theonlinephotographer.typepad.com) but…
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Mapping out the Olympic site and beyond
The Mapperz blog has highlighted a great interactive map of the activity around the country in preparation for the 2012 Olympics. Street level details shows the latest ariel photos of the site as well as altering the map to show activities over a particular time period. An excellent example of how mapping and other media can be…
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An online paper petition with heart.
The latest site I’ve been working on is for the British Heart Foundation to promote their campaign for a new government strategy for heart and circulatory disease. The site is flash based and features a crowd of origami people campaigning for BHF, and by signing the petition another person is created on screen who joins…
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Yorkshire time
This clock was pointed out to me in a North Yorkshire pub called the Nags Head. It took me a second to work out what was unusual. The pub didn’t have a clock theme, the walls and ledges were filled with a mix of unusual and usual trinkets. They did serve a very good game…