June, 2009

Movies — 2 Comments
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Jun 09

Aw Hell No! 2012 is coming..

2012With all the rehash blockbuster nonsense circling the drain this summer, with slightly wonky sequels in the form of terminator and transformers, at least you know you can always rely on Roland Emmerich to know how to f**k shit up. I mean seriously, look at the ludicrous work in this trailer for 2012 – granted this will almost definitely contain ALL the best bits of super CG destructo-vision from the film but by crikey there’s plenty of it. Michael Bay eat your heart out. No really, do, I think a lot of people would like that. kthxbye.

Go here! http://movies.yahoo.com/premieres/14045569/standardformat

Yes people this is what a lack of sleep does to a bloggist.. a relentless search for stuff.

Design / General — No Comments
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Jun 09

Sci-Fi Artwork Heaven

If you’re a fan of some of the classic artworks for novels, films and videogames you’ll absolutely love sci-fi-o-rama.com. Thanks to Simon for the heads up on this, i’m certainly not an expert on the subject in any way but I think Chris Foss’ work on Elite is incredible, as is most of the work to be found on the site. And I know its stating the obvious here but I really think its a shame this kind of artwork isn’t used as much today, its absolutely stunning, and I find it funny how it was used a lot when the graphical prowess of actual games and sci-fi films could not match the artwork, but now that they do, we simply stick cgi artwork on the box… shame! Anyway, this site rocks, so stop reading this and go enjoy!

Design — 3 Comments
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Jun 09

Adobe Browserlabs

If you’re a web developer, you know what a massive chore cross browser checking is. Working on a mac is especially problematic because a) the morons at apple decided I couldn’t have a hash symbol key on my keyboard (yet I get that ludicrous crucifix symbol next to 1) and b) because working in web design means getting things straight in Internet Explorer 6+. When designs don’t match up, testing realistically means having a PC around to check differing versions of internet explorer, as sadly it still holds a large market share due to microsoft’s dominance of the OS market and it being installed with the OS.

Now many developers have decided to veto spending countless hours of tweaking to get their sites looking coherent in IE, but for those of us who still aspire to keep things consistent, Adobe have stepped into the breach and present a fantastic time-saving idea in the form of Browser Labs. Visiting the site you’ll be able to compare two versions of your site and even use ‘onion skinning’ (a flash term) style transparency to fade one into another to compare differences.

This amazing tool will no doubt transform many developer’s workflows and for this we salute Adobe. But as such tools progress, and as my colleagues at work have commented, isn’t this the kind of innovation we should have been seeing in Dreamweaver CS4? as opposed to a vague interface overhaul…?