Comix Step-by-Step

Step by step from pencilling to inking to the digital-coloring

Really cool site for design

This site I think really exemplifies the close link that exists in all the creative disaplines.

http://iso50.com/iso50.html

This guy is really expressing himself in many mediums and the feel of the music while you peruse his visualls is really cool.

a complete world, a really good job at creating a harmonius enviroment.

Teh Drubbing

Noun 1. drubbing – a sound defeat

Noun 2. drubbing – the act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows

synonyms: thrashing, trouncing, walloping, whipping, slaughter, debacle

We lost 4-1 to Chivas Rayada. It was a horrible, horrible drubbing. As if a drubbing can be anything but horrible.

Sitting On Balls

One of my office-mates is considering trying out an exercise-ball instead of a chair as his main sit-on-thing at work. I had never heard of this practice and am now intrigued, partly because I am a terrible sloucher, but also because it would be funny to see an office full of big orange exercise-balls instead of office-chairs. Also, of course, there are all kinds of jokes to made….

multiple keyboards - Google Search

multiple keyboards - Google Search
A quick Google search reveals that most people want fewer keyboards rather than more, but after I read this blog post's comments I started thinking about how cool it would be to have more than one keyboard.

Basically, screen-sizes are getting so that you can permanently keep more than one application in the foreground. However, most operating systems only allow one application to have focus at a time. For example, even though you have Word and Excel running side by side on the screen, you can only type into one or the other.

I think it would be cool to be able to have a second keyboard that was tied to a specific application. Right now I have a bunch of iChat windows on the right-hand-side of the monitor. I change focus to write in them, but I'm not changing the screen very much. Because of this, sometimes I get confused about what app I'm really in and hit command L to write a URL in Safari, which accidentally logs me out of AIM in iChat.

I would like an input manager preference pane that lets me designate a second little keyboard just for iChat, so instead of changing focus to that application, I can just type in a quick note on a different physical keyboard.

Dinosaur Comics

This is one of my favorite online-comic series

i made an icon set.

and there it is! i am working on a UI project which keeps getting more and more interesting. i spent today reworkng the grid that i built the first comps on and making the icons.

right now the only thing i am happy with (besides the icons) is the color palette that is developing. i also got to sit in on a meeting between the client and developers. it was interesting, but it seems like a good professional team.

one thing i heard a lot of was scope protection on the part of the developers. i think i can learn a lesson from those guys.