Archive For June, 2005

3D STREET ART

By | June 30, 2005

“Julian Beever is an English artist who’s famous for his art on the pavement of England, France, Germany, USA, Australia and Belgium. Beever gives to his drawing an anamorphose, his images are drawn completly deformed which give a 3D image when viewing on the right angle. Visit Julian Beever“ [ Republished from the cool hunter [...]

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RyanTown

By | June 29, 2005

Someone recently pointed me to the site of Ryan McFaul… RyanTown. Ryan makes these awesome commercials, short films, and videos. he does really excellent work. I haven’t had a chance to look at all the movies yet, but so far one of my favorites is Gay Boyfriend… it’s hilarious!

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Coverbuddy 1.1

By | June 29, 2005

A couple of weeks ago I posted a story about CoverBuddy. My major complaint was that it had a problem streaming music to Airport Express. It would always stop playing after the first song. I’m happy to say that CoverBuddy 1.1 will fix this problem. I’ve downloaded the pre-release (1.1b8), and everything seems fine. They [...]

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Using iTunes to backup your music

By | June 28, 2005

UPDATE (9.12.06): This procedure, written in June of 2005, is no longer necessary. Apple released iTunes 7.0 today, and it has a similar function built right in. See this post for more info. A few weeks ago there was a tip floating around various blogs I monitor about using iTunes to backup your music library. [...]

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Google Print (beta) goes live

By | June 28, 2005

“Google has opened up Google Print to the public. Pretty impressive at first glance. In typical Google fashion, the main page looks pretty much like the standard Google home page, which is to say very white and very sparse. Enter a keyword or two and you get a glimpse into thousands of books that contain [...]

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Boris FX to acquire Final Effects Complete from Optibase

By | June 28, 2005

I’m not sure what this announcement will mean to future versions of After Effects. I believe some of these filters are bundled with AE Pro. I hope they don’t get excluded in future releases. I like these filters “Boris FX and Media 100 today announced that Boris FX has entered into a definitive agreement to [...]

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Just Do it!

By | June 28, 2005

I found this image over at the cool hunter. It’s from a current Nike advertising project.

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Polaroid-o-nizer: Trick out your photos, scrapbook-style

By | June 28, 2005

“Polaroid-o-nizer is kind of a one-trick pony, but it’s a neat trick. You feed it the URL of a photo or graphic anywhere on the web and it spits out a reasonable facimile of a Polaroid photo. You can add your own caption, customize the background color, and change the angle of rotation. If you’re [...]

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