Creatively Distracted
Creatively Distracted
Things of interest stumbled upon.
While watching Avengers: Age of Ultron this past weekend, I noticed one of the chairs on the bridge of the SHIELD Helecarrier was an Eames Aluminum Group Management chair. While I’ve passively noticed chairs on movie sets in the past,…
There isn’t anything particularly revolutionary about these tutorial videos, save for the amazingly dry humor. So dry, in fact, that I’m going to grab an icy drink now. Be sure to watch through to the credits at the end so…
What a fabulous idea! “Since we love upcycling and hate seeing anything go to waste,” says RenewPurpose, “we’ve assembled some beautiful examples of what can be done with left over glass bulbs.” Here they are. GOOD (via 5 Creative Uses…
A brilliant architectural ouroboros, No Limits in New York City by Alexandre Arrechea, 2013:
Snow acrylic, ink, magazine photo on panel 8″ x 8″ 2010 Shipbreaking, Yosemite Valley acrylic, ink, magazine photo on panel 18″ x 11″ x 2″ 2012 Palouse Falls with Containers 2 oil on canvas 70″ x 48″ 2012 Denali National…
Gorgeous glass, deliberate process, intimate documentary.
Ampersand Cookie Cutter on Shapeways. Printing cookie cutters is brilliant! Tagged: 3d printing, cookies, shapeways, iconolith via my Tumblr
Gorgeous, gorgeous lettering. typeworship: The Voice of all the Gods – New work by Seb Lester Over the last couple of months Seb has taken a break from his client work to focus on some personal prints. I’ve been in…
This photo is the most amazing photo, ever.
explore-blog: Lovely visual additions to history’s finest definitions of art from Creative Mornings. These make me happy.
I need these ThermaCell Rechargeable Heated Insoles for all the non-running activities I do in the winter. My toes constantly go numb. Do you think they are worth $122.99? Tagged: gear, running, iconolith via my Tumblr
I love how it looks as if it is taking the form of a cliff, and that activities going on within would seem to be elevated above normal every day experiences because of that. Exactly how one should feel at…
10 HTML and CSS Online Editors Some of these are interesting. I used Thimble to upload and share some code examples for my CITS F221 class. It’s super easy to create and publish HTML/CSS pages, and even editable if you…
Free icons available for download and use. Tagged: icons, free, iconolith via my Tumblr
The depth and structure of these painting is absolutely gorgeous. Paintings by Dimitri Kozyrev Via: just-art Tagged: iconolith, architecture, painting via my Tumblr
Early examples of color-wheels and color charts. Tagged: iconolith, color via my Tumblr
– New stories with AR Tagged: iconolith, ar via my Tumblr
The Black Keys Gig Poster by DKNG Studios via laughingsquid Tagged: design, iconolith, color, posters via my Tumblr
Some words of wisdom from Agent Dale Cooper.
Meomi’s Octonauts characters make me wish I was a kid again, but I’m a huge fan regardless. Cute!
As I was paging through the West Elm Summer Sale catalog the other day, I noticed a little blurb at the top of the Customer Service page saying that Etsy artists are featured in the pages of the catalog. How…
Last week was Web Directions USA in Atlanta, GA. Real World CSS3 for Designers was the title of the first pre-conference workshop given by an Rubin on CSS3. Of all the sessions throughout the conference I enjoyed this one the…
Don’t mind this post. I’m just testing the embed feature of Zeemaps. Its a very handy collaborative mapping tool, btw. This particular map places videos I’ve found of throat singers around the world. It is sometimes difficult to determine the…
have to say that I’m digging the fine work over at Daily Drop Cap. Normally, I just don’t make much use of them because it can be so time consuming to find that perfect letter to showcase, but all of…
SynthPond is a sort of audio exploration toy app for iPhone by Zach Gage. It really brings to mind a very complex and highly customizable windchime. I’m not quite sure how else to describe it without getting into a more…
If you haven’t had the pleasure of watching Sita Sings the Blues, then I recommend it highly. It is animated as beautifully as 10,000 lotuses. More importantly, it is being made available under a Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license by…
I’m really digging KERN, a game for the iPhone. Despite the rather mundane sounding premise, it is wholly addictive if you’re one of those detail oriented designy types (with a few minutes to kill and an iPhone, of course). Elegant…
The idea is that you insert the sharp point into the seam of a walnut – just in the back where it actually grows from the tree (the flat part). I have to note this find here as proof that…