Ballookey

After reading this article by Joe Clark regarding the Wired magazine iPad app, I’ve come to realize that existing magazines aren’t going to bring us the first awesome iPad magazines.
I’ve downloaded and tried a few, and essentially they all have the same problem. They’re trying to show us, more or less, the same magazine in [...]

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I don’t even remember what this blog post by Phil Plait, The Bad Astronomer, is about anymore. I just got livid with one of the first sentences:
I don’t agree with everything therein; you can’t judge a site by its ads, for one thing.
You better fucking believe I’m judging every site I visit by their ads. [...]

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A while back I saw a blog post about the prop money made for the TV show Firefly, and ever since then I’ve wanted to try making my own fanciful currency.
These were printed on 16 lb vellum with a color laser printer, so the front and back don’t line up as perfectly as I’d like. [...]

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Fentimans.
I love this stuff – the Dandelion & Burdock specifically. If you can find it, give it a try, and even better, add a couple of fingers of a certain Canadian Whiskey. I don’t know if that’s a ‘thing’ or not, but I love it.

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I have a hate/love relationship with FFFFOUND!, the “image bookmarking” website.
Love, because by browsing it’s images daily, I find gorgeous and inspirational things like this:

Hate, because they almost never give a link back to the original artist, creator, or source. There’s never even a mention of the originator’s name. In the case of the above [...]

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Sochi 2014 New Brand on Flickr – Photo Sharing!.
Congratulations on incorporating a URL into your olympic logo. Unfortunately I’ll be thinking “Ew, spam” every time I see it. I’m sorry Russia. I’m really sorry. But that’s what your .ru’s got going on. It’s probably not fair, but from where I sit every single time I [...]

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I’m working on a piece of art right now and wanted to create a line segment with three arches. Only when I first drew it, I thought I wanted five arches. When I decided to switch to three, I thought, no problem, I’ll just cut out two arches and join the remaining segments together.
So I [...]

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Vader Sugar Skull by Tom Whalen. (found via FFFFound)
There are about 9 million ways I’m in love with this, with the teeny tiny exception of the fact that I don’t really like Star Wars. I do wish the creator was more obvious – kind of a drawback to FFFFound is that they’re not consistent or [...]

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Moxie Sozo | Portfolio | Probar.
I was checking out the online portfolio of Moxie Sozo, the Boulder Colorado-based design firm responsible for the cookie dough package from the previous entry when I came across these gorgeously shaded raspberries.
I’d love a little walkthrough of how these and the rest of the illustrations for this series were [...]

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Gorgeous package and vegan? Of course it’s a little too far out of reach, only in Orange County/San Diego stores. Just a little further…that’s it…
Eatpastry.

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