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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

She goes by the name the Sexy Granny. Apparently.

Some Russian entertainment. Best not consumed with food.

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:

Stressed by life? Love to relax some? Body in dire need of some time out?

Luxe on a Beer Budget

You sound like you need to take some time out for yourself and R-E-L-A-X. Everyone benefits from spending some time shutting out the world and focusing on their own self. So what? Be selfish for a while! You deserve to have some “ME” time. It’s only healthy.

A simple, but often forgotten luxury is a bath. For those of you who don’t have one then you’ve lucked out – unless you can hire a hotel or borrow a friends.

My relaxation suggestion for the day is to do something different and try a milk bath. Cleopatra is remembered for bathing in milk, and that was why she was so renown for her wonderful, youthful skin. For the majority of you that have never had the pleasure, a milk bath is just sooo relaxing – something decadent that can be done on the cheap.

Milk baths benefit the skin immensely. Milk is a natural exfoliater. It nourishes and moisturises the skin. The active property that makes a milk bath feel so delightful is the fact that milk contains lactic acid – the source of alpha hydroxy acids. Read the rest of this entry »

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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Happy New Year Kids!

(PLEASE NOTE: this post was transferred from the old blog)
Ok, so its a little late. But as they say, better late than never…

So. What does 2009 have in store for us this year?

Well, for starters America has a new president. That in itself heralds a new change. He might not be as foolish or funny (read: amusing) as George Bush. But what the hey.  (I will miss those Bush-isms though)…

Given the way the current climate has rained on our financial parade, there will possibly be more turmoil on the economic front. Perhaps however, this will push the world to find more creative and less hedonistic ways of living.

How does this affect us locally? How will this affect globalisation? Food crops, starvation and poverty are on the rise. Even in the developed Western world. Read the rest of this entry »