Tony Stephens / Simian Design

These are my delicious links for November 18th:

• Pop Culture Propaganda - Brilliant outtakes of Pop Culture done up in a old school propaganda style. Now I love me some propaganda, and they nail the style with these selections.

Wow. I’m a fan of Dune, both the books and the movie, but this blows me away.   I was not aware that this ever was conceived.

Alejandro Jodorowsky worked at creating a truly amazing Dune movie in 1975.  He worked with H.R.Giger (!!), Jean Giraud, Chris Foss, Pink Floyd (!!) to do the score.  Funding stopped the process, and it’s a shame.

Casting, sound, art, it was all planned out to be a beautiful, weird movie (and yes, I know Lynch’s was the same, but go look at the art and tell me that this wasn’t going to be magic.)   I mean, check out his description of Emperor Padishah Shaddam IV.

The Emperor of the galaxy is insane. He lives on an artificial gold planet, in a gold palace built according to not-laws of antilogical. He lives in symbiosis with a robot identical to him.

 

 From his summary of the script:

Already 20,000 years ago
        that the Earth burst…
Man conquered the Galaxy,
        but he realizes
        that he still lives on an Island:
the Galaxy itself is encircled by
        an insuperable Magnetic Wall.
No one could cross it.
Not having anything more
        to discover,
        to conquer,
Man delivers himself completely
        to the pleasure,
give his capacity to machines
        and degenerates in the luxury.

Oh how I wish this was made.  The imagery just brings the books to life, just so much more in line with the books tones.

These are my delicious links for November 13th:

• Ralph McQuarrie Concept Paintings for Star Wars - a set on Flickr - I love his stuff, I have the book and have spent much time enjoying his work.
• delizzy - del.icio.us Bookmarks Search Engine - Sure, Delicious has a search, but they don't search everything, they just search tags, and title. This searches everything, the contents of each bookmarked page or site.
• Common Visual Design Misconceptions :: UXmatters - Excellent points here. Answering the questions/assumptions of: 1) Visual design is about making things look pretty.
  2) Making things pop more can improve visual design.
  3) It’s possible to evaluate visual design in pieces.

These are my delicious links for November 12th:

• New York City Map of SuperHeroes - A great map drawn up by a fan of where the superheros live and work.

These are my delicious links for November 9th:

• Photoshop in real life. - Amazing recreation of what a real life photoshop workspace would look like.

These are my delicious links for October 23rd:

• Beautiful Examples of Moleskine Art - Gorgeous pieces of art. Well worth taking a gander.
• Giant spider eating a bird caught on camera - Telegraph - Oh my God. A Spider is eating that bird. *shudder*

These are my delicious links for October 20th:

• Robo-Planter will find the sun for its plants - Go watch the quick video of this working. It's the GREATEST.

  This chair-like robot consists of a planter with robotic legs and some circuitry to detect sunlight levels in the room. When the robot find the brightest, spot it scurries on its legs over in that direction in order to give the plant the mos exposure.

• Robert Glenn Ketchum / G2 Gallery - Very nice nature photographs.

These are my delicious links for October 16th:

• Mattias Inks - Mattias Adolfsson has a super lightweight and whimsical feel to his drawings.
• Gorilla Artfare - I like Bjorn Hurris style a great deal. His steampunk Star Wars are pretty good, but be sure to go a few pages back as well.

These are my delicious links for October 6th:

• Galleriffic | A jQuery plugin for rendering fast-performing photo galleries -
• 12 Examples of Paragraph Typography - Only standard <p> tags have been used. Some of these styles are experiments using pseudo elements and adjacent sibling selectors; browser support is not consistent. Paragraph font size is set at 1em (equivalent to 16px if browser font size is unchanged) and line height set at 1.25em. Georgia was used exclusively. No browser specific CSS has been used—any inconsistency in the rendering of line-height, baseline and element positioning has been left for cross browser comparison before implementing.
• Turner didn't paint AT-ATs but if he did… - Gorgeous.