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Alex Buga site

I like a good creative website just as much as the next techie, web nerd so I’ve decided I should post some of the cool sites I’ve come across and get back to posting some of the more cutting edge design floating around out there on the interwebs.

Sure, it’s not always made to be legit and pass every coding rule-book, but like many designers’ personal websites, experimental can be fun. I wanted to do something more experimental for my revamp, but time wouldn’t allow. Not yet anyhoo…

Check out Alex Buga’s site for fun in the meantime.
Complete with mini-drum machine if you feel the urge to bash out some angst.

http://www.alexbuga.com

I remember liking this blog when it first started. And least it seems to be updated with much more regularity these days.

Sarcasm meets the modern world. A nice deconstruction.

So despite the term ‘hipster’ being used these days as a general reference to tight-jean wearing, educated, artsy, anaemic types, this blog is not about that kinda hipster.
It depicts house owners in their uber-modern abodes, generally ripped from the pages of Dwell magazine, somewhat recontextualised with witty comments.

All screenshots are examples from the Unappy Hipsters site. Click ‘em to see details and captions.

http://unhappyhipsters.com

This is a short film that was directed by the French animation collective H5 (François Alaux, Hervé de Crécy + Ludovic Houplain).

It appeared at the Cannes Film Festival 2009 and also opened the 2010 Sundance Film Festival. In 2010 it won an Academy Award (in the category of animated short).

Logorama from Marc Altshuler – Human Music on Vimeo.

Check-check-check it out…

Found this cool little quirky vid which combines Cinema 4D reality with After Effects.

It’s short but I like it. Movie: “Vanishing Point” by Takuya Hosogane (a motion graphics editor from Japan).

Vanishing Point from Bonsajo on Vimeo.

Ok today’s post is an example of simple, but effective animation.

Rejected – Best Oscar Award Winner Movie

Goes for 10 minutes so you may want to watch it when you have a Smoko – do these excuses for breaks even exist anymore, or is there a workplace ban on them too? Make sure you catch the end where it gets more creative

Today’s offering is a link to a website I like to check out every so often during “rendering time”… Meet Mathew Inman. A nutty web nerd who makes great cartoons, comics, quizzes and silly shit that is really entertaining.

Why? Cuz even a workhorse designer needs some humor in his/her/its life occasionally, and this guy makes me laugh.

I only need to post one link as there is enough on his site to keep you entertained for some time. Providing you have a sense of humor of course…

www.theoatmeal.com

Some of the appropriate-to-me comics are included the following:

I realise i’ve been rather busy of late – pre-occupied with getting better and managing an ever growing To-Do-List (yes, i really do love my Lists ). So these posts are more a general collection of “stuff” I stumble across on the interwebs.

Oh well…something’s better than nothing, right? Here’s a short clip with a bunch of downhill skaters, each with neon Tetris shapes on their heads. The aerial view is kinda cool in a cheap thrills kinda way. But i like the idea.

Understandably there are many people in the world do not use Firefox, but if you’re still stuck on Internet Explorer then good luck with that.  This post isn’t really aimed at you, so you may wish to ignore it.

Firefox Add-ons

If you haven’t already guessed I’m a big Firefox fan and tend to use it over other browsers. Personally I try and avoid Internet Explorer, and generally only use Safari if I’m on another Mac. Firefox addicts have created a ton of add-ons and plug-ins to make your life easier and enhance your browsing.

So whilst this is not an exhaustive list, by any measure, I thought I’d share some of the handy web design / general design tools and plug-ins that I’ve come across for– take your pick. On no particular order. I may add to this list later…

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Shoot From the Lip

Yes, Welcome.

Bienvenue. Willkommen.
Boa vinda – however your mother-tongue exclaims it.

Finally you can scream, shout and applaud – cuz finally I managed to install and finish tweaking the Brainstorm section of my site – The Design Assassin.

The place where I can cut loose, and Shoot From The Lip.

It will feature: Design related musings. Trends. Tutorials. Written Blurbs. Recipes. Whacky Stuff and Techno Chic. Anything that doesn’t fit elsewhere, well that gets lumped here too.

Sometimes an outlet for my verbal diahorrea, or a soap box upon which to lather linguistically. Other times informative discussion shall take place. Serious topics may appear. Ideas will be shared. Creative minds shall collide.

It is a pastiche of “stuff” that will kinda meld into some form of semblance when content is added. Perhaps even develop some recognisable “assassin-style” and humour.

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