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The Color Of is a site where you can enter any keyword, then it will pull images from Flickr and overlay them to generate an aggregate color.
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Starbucks Spelling, a Tumblr dedicated to photos of misspelled names written on the cups by baristas when taking your order. I avoid this by saying my name is “Alex” because I can not stand seeing/hearing my name one more time as “Herman”. Shown: Stephanie.
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How to Make Deviled Eggs, an animated recipe by Josh and Marta Harding.
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Crikey! The complete Harry Potter saga in comic form by Lucy Knisley. (available free for non-commercial d/l)
07.06.2011
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Student project by Ric Bixter. “Brief: Go into a pound shop and pick a seemingly uninteresting object and rebrand it, increasing the value and interest. I designed an elastic band box that looks like it is being squeezed in by the bands.” Very clever.
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The Colour Clock by Jack Hughes changes a hexadecimal color every second. You can toggle between clock and hex value.
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People Staring at Computers by Kyle McDonald. Doesn’t really need an explanation. It would be interesting to have volunteers do time lapses at their own workplace or home, rather than the specific set up of an Apple store which influences behavior a lot. That way you could see people’s range of expressions.
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A diagram by Daniel Feral. And now you know what came before and after graffiti and street art.
07.05.2011
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