Thursday, 04 September 2008 | BADGE GENERATOR

Generate your own web 2.0 styled badge. You never know when this might come in handy.



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Thursday, 21 August 2008 | GOT MILK?

Another super amazing website from Got Milk? The previous version Get the Glass was also pretty amazing. There is also another version in Spanish called "Toma Leche" that is also worth a look.

The campaigns are also pretty funny, 'White Gold' is ultra cool!



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Thursday, 21 August 2008 | 0101001

This site supported an exhibition 010101: Art in Technology Times at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art a while ago.



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Tuesday, 19 August 2008 | I MET THE WALRUS

A powerful piece that features a message which is even more relevant today than it was 30 years ago....

"In 1969, a 14-year-old Beatle fanatic named Jerry Levitan, armed with a reel-to-reel tape deck, snuck into John Lennon's hotel room in Toronto and convinced John to do an interview about peace. 38 years later, Jerry has produced a film about it. Using the original interview recording as the soundtrack, director Josh Raskin has woven a visual narrative which tenderly romances Lennon's every word in a cascading flood of multipronged animation. Raskin marries the terrifyingly genius pen work of James Braithwaite with masterful digital illustration by Alex Kurina, resulting in a spell-binding vessel for Lennon's boundless wit, and timeless message."



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Monday, 18 August 2008 | EVGENY

Nice illustrations by Evgeny Kiselev



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Thursday, 14 August 2008 | FUTURE ME

When I was 24 my friend and I wrote ourselves a letter 10 years into the future. In it we talked about how we felt in that moment in time and also what we hoped for the future, our goals and dreams.

As the years passed our friendship dissipated into a memory but when I turned 34 I received a letter that had been addressed to my parents place. I didn't open it right away, even though I felt an excited anticipation and at the same time hesitation for what the letter might contain.

I needed to wait for the right moment. Two days later I broke open the wax seal and immersed myself in a journey to the past. The interesting thing about the whole experience is not what the letter contained but how I sounded to myself. In ten years I had evolved into quite a different person, I guess it's to be expected, however you never really analyse yourself in that way. It was an insightful experience that I think I might try again.

So what brought on this nostalgic blog entry? This website which I just stumbled upon called Future Me , a site in which you can send an email to yourself into the future. If you're feeling slightly voyaristic check out the public entries, some of them are quite touching.



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Thursday, 14 August 2008 | PATTERN TAP

Awesome pattern library!



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Thursday, 14 August 2008 | STUFF YOURSELF FULL

Ray Bradbury is the author of more than 500 published works—short stories, novels, stage plays, screenplays, TV scripts, poetry. Exploring become his oxygen and the secret of his prolific creativity. Bradbury told Jack Foster that he had read a short story, an essay and a poem every day since childhood.

"If you stuff yourself full of poems, essays, plays, stories, novels, films, comic strips, magazines and music," Bradbury said, "you will automatically explode every morning like Old Faithful. I have never had a dry period in my life because I feed myself well." Make an exploration list for your life.

Fill it with readings, films, music. Excerpted from "zing! Five steps and 101 tips for creativity on command" by Sam Harrison, MacHillock Publishing/IPG Distributors.

~Creative Exercise: Feed Your Mind January 23, 2008 by Sam Harrison



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Monday, 11 August 2008 | CHANGE THIS

I just came across this online gem called ChangeThis. The site contains a plethora of mind stimulating articles that are beautifully presented in PDF files.



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Monday, 11 August 2008 | SPIROGRAPH

Richard Sarson is a graphic artist based in London, his website features some really nice pieces of work. Reminds me of the spirograph that I used to have when I was a child.



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Monday, 11 August 2008 | SPECIAL GUEST



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Wednesday, 06 August 2008 | 8 SECRETS OF SUCCESS



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Monday, 04 August 2008 | WHAT.WHY.WHEN.HOW.WHERE.WHO



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