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- March 3, 2005
A Cheesy Paint Effect
March 3, 2005Read moreStart up Photoshop with a hi-res (4MPixel) photo! Duplicate the base layer twice, for a total of THREE layers!
- On the bottommost layer, apply the Artistic Palette Knife Filter
- On the middle layer, apply Artistic Drybrush, then Artistic Watercolor. Set the layer mode to SCREEN
- On the top layer, apply Gaussian Blur, then set the layer mode to OVERLAY
Voila! A really cheap and cheesy painted effect. Ba da bum ba da bing!
- March 3, 2005
Java Alphabet Soup
March 3, 2005Read moreThere’s a whole world of “enterprise class web development” that I’ve succesfully avoided for the past several years. As a result, my mind is a verdant pasture filled with happy thought and harmless conjecture. But today, I leased some of this virtual property to Java, which apparently has become quite the awesome development environment for web applications; the last time I really did anything with Java development was in 1996. So J2EE, J2SE, JDK, JRE, JavaBeans, Servlets, and Eclipse have rumbled into my headspace, bought up some primo locations, and have set up shop in a new development.
- March 3, 2005
Milton Glaser: Art is Work
March 3, 2005Read moreBrad forwared me this fascinating vid, the influential New York City graphic designer who waaaay back when created the I love NY logo, among others you’ve probably seen.
- March 2, 2005
HybridWorks
March 2, 2005Read moreJeff forwarded me this link to HybridWorks, a Japanese graphic design / illustration firm based in Tokyo. It’s one of those sites that make me wonder what business I have doing computer graphics when I’m comparatively better suited for stacking boxes of cereal or sweeping out the stables. At the same time…yummy yummy pixel and vector artwork and animation! Yummy, I say! Reach for it!
- March 1, 2005
Manhattan Transformations
March 1, 2005Read moreStumbled upon Manhattan Transformations, a mapping of “Manhattan’s skyscraper district through time”. It allows you to visually layer different kinds of geographical data, such as geological formation, districting, and so forth.
It’s a well-executed Flash piece. Some of the cool pieces are the 3D flythrough (depicted above), which I’m guessing is pre-plotted rather than computed. There’s a very nice load indicator that doesn’t use the usual “loading bar” look. Digging through the site notes, it looks like this site was created way back in 2000, and was a Macromedia Site of the Day! It still holds up in 2005. Of course, I am a sucker for wireframe graphics; sue me, I’m a child of the 80s!