Thumbs In Place of Guns
Thumbs and Ammo posits the idea: would it be funny to replace guns with thumbs up in stills from movies?
YES!
Cartoon Character Dressed as Other Characters
My mind melted a little bit. Click each to see its full glory.
Squirrel Sticks His Head In A Jack-o-Lantern
Photographer Max Ellis of Teddington, London:
"My kids love Halloween and beg to start decorating the house and carving pumpkins from about October 1. Obviously cut pumpkins only last a couple of days so I carved a small one to keep them quiet. I thought we could have a bit of fun with it making it hover spookily in the back garden."
Ellis waited days to capture the curios creature donning the pumpkin. What an adorable accident.
Shot Face - A Tumblr of Portraits the Moment After Taking a Shot
Shot Face - Tim Charles is a project from photographer Tim Charles catching his friends and subjects the moments after taking a shot. I quiver to think how I'd appear. Sounds like a great party photobooth idea though.
Eagle-Wing View of Paris
A non-profit FREEDOM put a Sony Action Cam Mini to the back of a white-tailed eagle named Victor, and let him fly from the observation deck of the Eiffel Tower.
SpaceTime-Lapse of Boston
A full-time engineer at GE Aviation, Julian Tryba calls this spatial-temporal slicing in video “layer-lapse.”
With time lapse locations around Boston sewn together to create this fast shifting time and space show.
A Parisian Apartment Becomes A Timecapsule From 70 Years Ago
An apartment on the Right Bank owned by Madame de Florian, an affluent Parisian socialite and actress, was left suddenly when the Nazis rolled into Paris.
Even though she never returned, she kept paying the rent all the way up to her death at 91.
Among the exquisite architectural details, the tapestries, the view into a bygone era, was found the painting discovered to be Madame de Florian herself, painting by renowned 19th century Italian Giovanni Boldini. The painting, and several handwritten love letters from Boldini seem to confirm that she was in fact his muse.
Marthe de Florian at 24 years of age painted by Giovanni Boldini
Lego Stop-motion Thriller
Truly outstanding use of LEGO stop-motion.
Skydiving Beauty
Sony sent a team of highly skilled skydivers about 15,000 feet in the air and filmed them in slow-motion with the new SONY Alpha 7 and Alpha 7R cameras.
Finger Icons
Astoundingly creative.
Abandoned Houses in Rural Iceland
Run by R3 Radgjöf, Gláma-Kím architects and Stapi, "Abandoned Houses in rural Iceland" is an on-going research project that started in 2011 that aims at mapping all abandoned houses on the southeast coast of the country.
See also Abandoned Hotels Around the World
User Experience Designer's Bookshelf
I recommend Bill Buxton's Sketching User Experiences as a important book to read.
It very much pushes on the way both the imagined end result and the tools at hand play a huge part in the success or failure of a design. It has totally changed my mindset.
Tufte has become an icon for me in the space that often gets reduced to infographics, but really has to do with the meaning available through comparisons.
One of the concepts that came to me from him is roughly "information is all the differences that make a difference." And this title of his, Envisioning Information, explores the way changes and similarities, represented visually makes information accessible in ways numerical abstractions sometimes hide.
A further extension on this thought, is the way images and the information contained in them can be the heartbeat of a power, convincing and compelling narrative. His Visual Explanations challenges a lot of the notions I had about important and help me refine a key idea for all of my interaction and information designs: salience.
For the actual work of designing interfaces, Kim Goodwin's Designing for the Digital Age and Robert Hoekman, Jr.'s Designing the Moment have formed the basis for my process, moving from strategies and concepts through user insights to frameworks structures and finally interfaces.
Twenty20 - New Startup for Me, New Role
Twenty20 is a startup based in Marina Del Rey I recently joined as the Director of User Experience. I am working alongside a great deal of talent, all across the board and am excited for what's to come.
The way we explain ourselves is:
Twenty20 is bringing stock photography into the modern, mobile age. Our global community of over 250,000 creative mobile photographers have contributed over 40 Million photos for sale, making us the largest crowdsourced commercial image catalog in the world. We sell those images to digital creators, brands, and ad agencies who are looking for a more authentic alternative to traditional stock imagery. We are a 25 person team, have raised over $10 Million in financing, and are based in Los Angeles (near Venice).
Lion Cam Wildlife photographer Steve Mandel
Urban Ruins - Abandoned Dorm in the Middle of Tokyo
Five years after a fire ripped through Seika Dormitory in 2007, the lives of Chinese and Taiwanese students have remained largely untouched.
In 2012m two photographers and a videomaker: Belgium-based Suspiciousminds, Japan’s TomBoy and France’s Kitsuney visited the site and captured stunning imagery.
Photographer Captures Argentina's Perito Moreno Glacier Rupturing
In February 2014, Jakub Polomski was in Argentina at the Perito Moreno glacier on a day that it ruptured in a spectacular display that happens every couple years.
Miniscule Sculptures in Pencil Lead
Turkish chemical engineering student Recep Alçamlı carves these super tiny lead sculptures.
Also see Mini Sculptures On Pencil Leads »
Time lapse of October 8th's Blood Moon
If you didn't stay up into the wee hours the catch the blood moon, here is an amazing time lapse of it.
The Yoga Skeleton - 3D Animations of the Human Body
In close conjunction with medical experts, these animators have created this awesome 3D visual study of the human skeleton.