iPhone 3.0 Software is out!
YAY! The 3.0 iPhone software update was just released. I’m downloading it now (229MB). It’s free for all iPhone users. If iTunes doesn’t automatically prompt you to install, just click the Check for Updates button.
Star Trek Burger King Commercial
I just love this commercial for Star Trek and Burger King. The Burger-King-Klingons crack me up.
I know I’ve been posting a lot of commercials lately, but there’s just been so many good ones coming out.
Type-Face Portrait of Steve Jobs
Here’s an amazing portrait of Apple CEO, Steve Jobs, done almost entirely in type. It was created by Dylan Roscover. The portrait is formed by the text from Apple’s, Here’s to the Crazy One’s ad campaign of the 90’s, and it uses fonts found in Apple branding and products. The image above is just a slice of the portrait, I recommend checking out the full size version to really appreciate it.
If you like this style of typographic-portraiture, here’s 45 more portraits to look at.
via YayEveryday
Noma Bar’s May 2009 Limited Edition Spock Cover for Esquire
I just love this illustration of Spock for the May, 2009 (limited edition) issue of Esquire Magazine. It’s by famed illustrator Noma Bar. His work is really wonderful.
I can’t find a site for Noma, but you can see more of his work by doing a Google image search. He also has a book available at Amazon.
via YayEveryday
Bruce Campbell sings Hungry Like the Wolf for Old Spice
Apparently this came out about a year ago, but I totally missed it. It’s Bruce Campbell singing the Duran Duran classic, Hungry like the Wolf, for an Old Spice commercial. I love it! When did Old Spice get so hip?
via Neatorama
36,000 Americans die every year from the flu
I was watching a press conference this morning by the CDC (Center for Disease Control & Prevention), and they were going over statistics from the Swine Flu pandemic. They stated there’s been 1 confirmed death here in the U.S. as a result of the Swine Flu. To put that number in context, they said on average, 36,000 people die from the flu every year in the United Sates alone. I found that number shocking.
Wonderbra Optical Illusion
Clever viral ad for Wonderbra. There’s no digital trickery involved, simply watch the center of the animation closely and see what happens.
Jimmy Dean Solar System
I just love this commercial.
Is After Effects Gobbling Up Your Hard Drive?
I recently discovered that After Effects (CS3) wasn’t deleting it’s Media Cache files when I quit the application. The folder had swelled to 6.19 GB.
I’m not sure if this is a bug in CS3, or if all versions of AE suffered from this problem. But, if you’re an After Effects user you may want to make sure you haven’t (unnecessarily) lost some drive space. On a Mac, the folder is located at ~/Library/Caches/Adobe/After Effects CS3/Media Cache Files. You can either manually toss the content of the folder, or you can open AE on go to the Memory & Cache preferences and click, Clean Database & Cache.
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