This is Dare. Are You? -> Infographic Video

This is Dare. Are you? from thisisdare on Vimeo.

London based agency ‘Dare’ created this entertaining self-promotion infographic to attract grad students to apply for the Dare Grad Scheme. I love the bit about the check shirt, converse shoes and glasses. Worth a view.

Visit -> thisisdare.com/​grads

Happy Halloween -> iPhone Pics/Tumblr

Recently, I’ve been having a lot of fun posting to my ‘Chris Kalani’ themed Tumblr blog (Chris Kalani is the designer and creator of yayeveryday.com). For the most part I use the blog to post daily pics from my iPhone or some of my shots from my Canon 7D. Halloween is one of my favorite [...]

Sevnthsin -> Distance Makes No Difference

My buddy Jamey Erickson is always up to something interesting and fun. Whether launching weather balloons to take pictures of the outer stratosphere, prepping for his next outrageous Halloween costume (I’ll spare you the visuals) or just coming up with interesting ways to make his Minneapolis based design studio Sevnthsin an inspiring place to work… he’s bubbling [...]

Grafitti Art Collection -> Jake Dobkin

Flickr is a big part of my world. I check in with it daily, I’ve made really great connections, learned a lot, it’s honestly much more of a social destination than most people consider it to be. One of my favorite contacts is Brooklyn based Jake Dobkin of graffiti arts blog  streetsy.com. He’s amassed an [...]

Kilian Martin -> A Skate Escalation

When I was a young towheaded skate rat, a guy named Rodney Mullen was responsible for blowing my mind with his otherworldly, elevated and almost ‘upper crusty’ skateboard tricks, and on a really narrow board that was just unexplainable at a time when decks were FAT. I also remember his deck graphics being one of [...]

Rolling Shutter -> Photo Effect Oddity

I thought the above in-flight turbo prop pictures taken by Jason Mullins with his iPhone 4 were pretty amazing, and at first I had thought maybe they were an odd Photoshop experiment of some kind. As it turns out, it’s a photographic phenomenon/effect called ‘rolling shutter’ that occurs when an image is scanned either from top [...]

Augmented City 3D -> Keiichi Matsuda

Augmented City 3D from Keiichi Matsuda on Vimeo.

This is an entertaining and well visualized concept by Keiichi Matsuda. Lot’s of little sci-fi AR details, some interesting ideas around the ability to enhance one’s environment, some fun UI… all dipped in an old school vat of 3D… Where did I put those glasses? Worth a view.

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Life Photography -> Jeffrey David Luker

Photos like the above can only be captured by someone who passionately lives behind the camera, always taking it with them, every day, every night… and of course, it doesn’t hurt to be packing an abundance of talent along as well. Portland, Oregon based photographer Jeffrey David Luker has an outstanding collection of life photos [...]

Flickr Set: Hong Kong and Macau in the 1950s -> Phil Roeder

I’m finding a ton of amazing things on Flickr lately. The above shots are vintage photos taken by Des Moines based Photographer Phil Roeder’s father (possibly with a Zeiss Ikon Contessa from what I’ve gathered from his Flickr page) while travelling Hong Kong and Macau in the 1950s. Wonderful retro coloring and contrast along with the fact [...]

Photography Update -> Shooting the Canon EOS 7D

I’m happy to report that I received my long awaited Canon EOS 7D in the mail from B&H Camera last Thursday and I’ve been tinkering with it ever since, despite a head cold and some pretty drippy and unusually cold weather (for August). Right out of the box I knew I had made the right [...]

Chemistry for life -> Dosdecadatres

Chemistry for life from Dosdecadatres on Vimeo.

Madrid, Spain based agency ‘Dosdecadatres’ is responsible for the beautifully crafted video above, which was created for the 7th ANQUE’s International Congress Opening credits. The soft blue coloring, smart typography, fluctuation of depth of field and complimentary musical score holds my interests well and makes this video a pleasure [...]

Meet Flipboard -> Content Aggregate iPad App

My ‘old school’ pal from way back in the the day when most of our time was spent trying to score change to play video games (arcade games, the kind you stood in front of at a mall) sent me this link yesterday with one simple statement attached -> “this is why you want to [...]

Liquify! -> Aira

LIQUIFY! by Aira from Aira on Vimeo.

To me, this video captures the epitome of summer play in a short but sweet span of 1:23 seconds. Well captured, filled with great light, color and interesting aquatic moments that take me back to the days of my favorite summers on the Jersey Shore. A great view for [...]

Freedom Tunnel -> Charles le Brigand

Above are a few nice stills from the below short video documentary of one of NYC’s more mysterious hidden underground places called ‘The Freedom Tunnel’ that many New Yorkers may have heard about, but few have actually seen with their own eyes. I really like the degree of contrast and vignette used in these shots, [...]

iPad + Velcro -> Jesse Rosten

iPad + Velcro from Jesse Rosten on Vimeo.

This clever video has been spreading through cyberspace at lightning speed the last couple days, and rightly so. There’s no doubt that the iPad really does make itself useful in so many endless ways, so, having a super flexible mounting system that can apply to a billion different [...]