3.5 out of 5

Music

Art, Entertainment

http://www.alextrochut.com/

Art, Design

http://www.lettercult.com/archives/740

Custom Letters is an evolving category that includes calligraphy, sign painting, graffiti, stone carving, digital lettering, hand lettering, paper sculpture, and type design (we’d prefer to feature new/original type over, say, revivals).

Design

http://www.doctorparnassus.com/
Johnny Depp, Heath Ledger, Christopher Plummer, Jude Law, Colin Farrell and Tom Waits

Art, Computer Graphics, Entertainment

http://www.cpubenchmark.net/

50,000+ Systems Tested and 650+ CPU Models – Updated Daily

PassMark Software has delved into the thousands of benchmark results that PerformanceTest users have posted to its web site and produced five Intel vs AMD CPU charts to help compare the relative speeds of the different processors. Included in this list are CPUs designed for servers and workstations (Intel Xeon and AMD Opteron processors), desktop CPUs (Intel Core2 and AMD Phenom processors), in addition to mobile CPUs.

Computer help, Links

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/510390

Interesting.  Fun? So-so.

Games

RepRap 1.0 “Darwin” is a rapid prototyping machine that is capable of making the majority of its own component parts. Instructions and all necessary data are available completely free under the GNU General Public Licence from this website to everyone.

Tech

http://igetyourfail.blogspot.com/

Epic failures in the game development field.

This blog covers funny/weird issues and bugs from games that happened during development.

Send your own contributions to igetyourfail at repi.se (can be anonymous if specified)

Read more…

Computer Graphics, Games

http://www.denofgeek.com

Corridors make science-fiction believable, because they’re so utilitarian by nature – really they’re just a conduit to get from one (often overblown) set to another. So if any thought or love is put into one, if the production designer is smart enough to realise that corridors are the foundation on which larger sets are ’sold’ to viewers, movie magic is close at hand.

The designs that Roger Christian synthesised from Ron Cobb’s prolific and extraordinary conceptual sketches for Alien (1979) are lingered over lovingly at the start of the movie. Ridley Scott knows that corridors matter in a horror (or ‘haunted house’) movie, but these marvellous sets are also being showcased to sell the gritty and grimy, commercial and industrial reality of the Nostromo as well. The upper sections related to the command deck were dirtied down with gold and black paint after a reshuffle of sections in order to convey the grittier world inhabited and Parker and Brett on the engineering level.

Repeat sections are what corridors are all about, and they’re part of the iconography of pre-CGI sci-fi movie-making. For Alien, Roger Christian would have the production department mock up different sections of corridor for Ridley Scott’s perusement, and whatever got the green light was fabricated multiple times to create the final corridor, often with the classic trick of placing an angled mirror at the end of the long set to suggest further recession and depth.

http://www.denofgeek.com

Architecture, Sci-fi

Google’s tools are great.  The design is simple and fairly clean, but there’s room for a lot of improvement.

Helvetical (seen above) improves Google Calendar.  Helvetireader redesigns Google Reader, and Helvetimail is a nice clean skin for Gmail.   If you’re using Firefox, download Greasemonkey and go from there.

Design, Links, Tech

Dr. Osamu Tezuka (November 3, 1928 – February 9, 1989) was a Japanese manga artist, animator, producer and medical doctor, although he never practiced medicine. Born in Osaka Prefecture, he is best known as the creator of Astro Boy and Kimba the White Lion. He is often credited as the “Father of Anime”, and is often considered the Japanese equivalent to Walt Disney, who served as a major inspiration during his formative years. His prolific output, pioneering techniques, and innovative redefinitions of genres earned him such titles as “the father of manga” and “the god of manga”. His grave is located in Tokyo’s Souzen-ji Temple Cemetery.
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osamu_Tezuka

Art

This is beautiful.

Play these [videos] together, some or all, start them at any time, in any order.

In Bb 2.0 is a collaborative music and spoken word project conceived by Darren Solomon from Science for Girls, and developed with contributions from users.

The videos can be played simultaneously — the soundtracks will work together, and the mix can be adjusted with the individual volume sliders.

http://inbflat.net/

Art, Music

The Museum of Animal Perspectives (MAP) collects and displays wildlife imagery that has been captured using remote sensing cameras. Through the presentation and interpretation of this imagery, the MAP endeavors to expand the public’s capacity to empathize with animals and plants.

Flickr: Museum of Animal Perspectives Flickr

Project homepage: http://www.sameasterson.com/

Misc

Guilloché ,  is an engraving technique in which a very precise intricate repetitive pattern or design is mechanically etched into an underlying material with very fine detail.

Above, Ministryoftype.co.uk

Guilloches mechanically turned onto watch faces.

A nice interactive online generator at Subblue.com.

Software, Excentro, for generating Guilloches.

Art, Links

src: http://www.sweet-juniper.com/2009/07/feral-houses.html

Architecture, Art