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60 free desktop wallpaper designs for May from Smashing Magazine
Smashing Magazine have their usual monthly wallpaper showcase, and this month there’s 60 to choose from, with some really strong entries. This month I’ve picked the “creative spark” design by Vinod Batus from India. “The entire concept of this art came out when i was playing around with various photoshop brushes. The effect came in so Read more
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Name that tube and flag that city.
Today I found a new way to challenge my London knowledge, which was a map of Zone One of the London Underground without any of the station names. You have 10 minutes to type as many of the station names as you can remember and watch as your answers get added to the map. I Read more
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3328 photos, 2 minutes of video, 1 song.
This is a great video, i know I take a lot of pictures but the work that went into this is astonishing. London (harder, better, faster, stronger) from David Hubert on Vimeo. Read more
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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 Read more
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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” Read more
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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 Read more
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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 Read more
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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 Read more
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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 Read more
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Don't interrupt me, I'm changing the world
This was the reply to a heckler at Dylan Moran’s stand-up show last night. The performance was a collection of seemingly drunken ramblings about the state of the world and humanity. Each point was brilliantly made with surreal and insightful examples of the worlds problems, and every one of them had you laughing at the Read more