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Early New York Films

2006-08-13T21:12:00.000-07:00

Not sure who may need this or for what, but it's a good resource of early films about New York from 1897-1906, mostly by Edison. Cool stuff, even if you don't use it. -Mike

IF Interns

2006-08-10T08:50:00.000-07:00

So my buddy over at Imaginary Forces told them that my presentation went well, and they said they'd love to have interns if anyone is interested. Good to keep in mind.

-Mike

Free sounds

2006-08-09T13:28:00.000-07:00

For anyone who's interested, this is a great site for free sound effects and the like (for inclusion in Flash projects or whatever):

http://freesound.iua.upf.edu

Not only is it free as in "free beer," it's free as in "free speech." No royalties or other crap, just a very liberal Creative Commons license:

http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/legal.php

And you can contribute your own sounds to add to the roughly 20,000 sounds already there. This is my (sole) contribution to it:

http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/samplesViewSingle.php?id=451

-Mike

the evolution of dance

2006-08-08T20:35:00.000-07:00

If you guys have any time, just check it out :) this dude rocks!! or raps.. or.. whatevet

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8919541964498299964&q=dance

cck

The Floater

2006-08-08T15:18:00.000-07:00

SectionAwesome

This might be the coolest thing I've seen...maybe ever:

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - A young Dutch architect has created a floating bed which hovers above the ground through magnetic force and comes with a price tag of 1.2 million euros ($1.54 million).
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Janjaap Ruijssenaars took inspiration for the bed -- a sleek black platform, which took six years to develop and can double as a dining table or a plinth -- from the mysterious monolith in Stanley Kubrick's 1968 cult film "2001: A Space Odyssey."

Read the rest of the story at http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060807/od_nm/dutch_bed_dc;_ylt=AtGyVVRDwTojuswoKiWOa.qs0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA3ODdxdHBhBHNlYwM5NjQ-

that guy.....

2006-08-07T17:03:00.000-07:00

I'll be rockin the section awesome on daniel brown

-king of play-create.com (one of my fav websites:).

i was thinking about jonathan ive (vp of design at apple), but i think we are all sick of looking at his designs every single day of our waking lives- and he gets enough play anyways.

emilia

Joe's Website Presentation

2006-08-07T12:48:00.000-07:00

/Volumes/JOE/Midterm Presentation.pdf

Haha!

2006-08-06T20:15:00.000-07:00

Hahaha, I was 2 minutes too fast for you Aniela :)

2006-08-06T19:02:00.000-07:00

...ok I will not :). You snooze you loose.
I'll do in on Jan Tschichold, because he's got talent, too :)
Aniela

Sunday, bloody sunday!

2006-08-06T18:38:00.000-07:00

I'll have my presentation on Paula Scher
Because she's got talent.
Hasta la vista!
Aniela

Paula Scher

2006-08-06T18:36:00.000-07:00

Hi, I'm going to do my presentation on Paula Scher. See you guys tommorow!

-Nettie

By the Way...

2006-08-06T14:21:00.000-07:00

Oh and it's Joe for Barbara Kruger. Sorry forgot to put my name in there...

Barbara Kruger

2006-08-06T14:10:00.000-07:00

Hey guys!

Im gonna be researching Barbara Kruger. Quite known, but intresting.

See ya!

2006-08-06T13:55:00.000-07:00

Here are some web links from Jing:

http://www.pem.org/yinyutang/
A nice designed chinese style web site.

http://www.klausmitteldorf.com/
A photographer's personal website.

Enjoy!

Jing

Jing's research is 2x4 design studio

2006-08-06T13:45:00.000-07:00

Hello, SectionAwesome!

As I already showed 2x4 desgin studio's website as my favorite one last Firday, I decide to choose it as my research target .

See you on Monday!

Jing

2006-08-05T19:31:00.000-07:00

Hi everyone,

I'll research April Greiman.

See you soon!
Laura

sAul Bass

2006-08-05T14:58:00.000-07:00

oops, sowwy
not soul saul *stupid stupid*

soul bass

2006-08-05T14:00:00.000-07:00

Hey section aaaaawwweeesssooommmeee!!!

I was planning to dig in with segmeister, but I think some of you guys are more interested than me in him :) So he's free heheh

Im planning to work on Soul Bass, cuz I love minolta! Here is a link about him
http://www.designmuseum.org/design/saul-bass

If you don't have any idea about who you want to work with, here is another link.
http://www.designmuseum.org/design
There is a lot of different designers, architects, materials (duh), even automobile designers. Check it out, cool reference.

I really think this section rocks, when are we gonna get some beer? asap?

c ya,

CCK

Karim Rashid

2006-08-05T09:30:00.000-07:00

Hey everyone I think I would like to do my project on Karim Rashid because I really love his work and his vision. Also I think this would be a great way to get to know more about him.

http://www.karimrashid.com/

Hope everyone's weekend is going well...cya on monday

Liz :o)

Imaginary Forces

2006-08-04T18:39:00.000-07:00

I'll do my presentation on Imaginary Forces. I was one of their freelance IT lackeys for a time, and they do some pretty amazing film, broadcast design, and architectural work. Check them out. --Mike

Sound Programming with Chuck

2006-08-02T08:36:00.000-07:00

I was chatting with Jay about this yesterday, and I wanted to send around the link to this today after those wicked awesome new media pieces we saw. There's a language called Chuck that works kind of like Processing, except that instead of creating images using code, it can create sound. You can use all kinds of oscillators and filters (very few of which I understand) and you can even hook it up to input from and output to your MIDI keyboard or whatever. But very cool effects can be created without much work.

There's a pretty good tutorial on it, and there's an editor available for all the major platforms.

BEEEEEeeeEEEEP.

--Mike

font website-it's good 'cause it's free, it's free 'cause it's good!

2006-07-31T11:33:00.000-07:00

dafont.com

FontForge

2006-07-30T17:31:00.000-07:00

I got to playing with fonts over the weekend, and FontForge was a really great tool to inspect and edit fonts, fool with baselines and kerning, etc. The interface looks pretty lo-fi, but it's a very powerful app--equal or better than Fontographer. It's available for Windows, Mac, and Linux. You can even use your Wacom tablet with it to trace font outlines. -Mike

Collaborative Typography

2006-07-30T09:25:00.000-07:00

Interesting typography site here. It was created by someone in a fairly similar program to ours. Looks like a good resource if you want to work with other new designers on type--it's focused on collaboration. They also have a really extensive links section about typography. -Mike

websites websites websites!

2006-07-29T22:58:00.000-07:00

Hey guys
this is my very first blog entry in my life yay!
those links I showed are listed below

www.orisinal.com - Gamesss horraayyyy!!

www.99rooms.com

www.myheritage.com

www.absolutad.com

www.deviantart.com
I don't know how many of you are aware of it, but I would suggest you guys to sign up and put up some of your stuff. I got some cool feedback

See y'all!

CCK aka jasmine