Category Archives: Design

I’m simply amazed

I shouldn’t be because the internet is nothing if not a place for the niche-iest of niches, but I found this link on Kottke that talked about the size of Smurfs and how they lived in mushroom houses when ostensibly Smurfs were “three apples high” or in some rendering knee high on “humans”.  That link led to another link which was a Smurf forum discussing this issue.

Things that amaze me about this:

  • There is a Smurf forum (this shouldn’t amaze me, but it does)
  • That the people on the Smurf forum are serious about the realism of Smurf building/construction
  • That they write things like this:

If Smurfs are three apples tall, how can they live in mushrooms? What kind of mushroom is big enough to house a being about the size of a coke can? This has caused me a great deal of consternation over the last several days. Please help me!

A “great deal of consternation over the last SEVERAL days“!!! Wow. 

Links here:

Kottke’s post via this blog post (JeffRubin.com) via this message board thread (Blue Buddies – Smurf message board)

Even if I was uber into the pics

And taking the pics, and in some artsy art school, I’d not buy and wear these bracelet.

aperturefocus

focus

But I present them here for you dear reader, in case your fashion sensibilities don’t lie exactly in line with my own.  Just thinking about it though.  If I was into photography that much (I am into photography, but not that much… well enough to spend money I shouldn’t on gear I really don’t need), wouldn’t wearing these bracelets/cuffs as I’m shooting be the equivalent of wearing a band tshirt to that band’s concert?

re:vision – Designers – Oye Modern

Roll your own

Maybe I’ll start creating my own graphs, infographics now.

GraphJam.

I’ve not tried it yet, but give me a bit.  It’s kind of like MuxTape.  I blogged, I’m interested, I’ll try eventually.

 

Edit: I just looked at the make your own.  Alright it sucks.  Carry on with your day.  I was hoping for tools you could enter data and they’d pop out cool graphs and such, but nah.  Just blank templates for snarky “observations”/data.