Simian Design

These are my delicious links for December 1st:

• English Russia » A Magnificent Flight – A fantastic group of photos from the latest AirBus. Talk about traveling in style….

These are my delicious links for July 29th through July 31st:

• Feral Homes – James Griffioen has a haunting collection of photos of homes and buildings being overtaken by vegetation in Detroit. I can't imagine walking the streets with these buildings, must be surreal.
• Photos of Chicago from the top of a Crane. – Ken Derry, crane operator for McHugh, has taken some amazing pictures of the Trump Tower during its construction.
• 202 Star Wars T-Shirts – A grand list of 202 Star Wars Shirts. Not ranked, just a missive listing.
• I'm pretty sure I stopped growing up in my teens and have been faking ever since. – One of the best XKCD's I've seen in a while.

These are my delicious links for July 27th through July 29th:

• Andres Amador creates large-scale art on beaches that wash away in hours. – Many of his stunning images, which start out as simple squiggles in the 39-year-old's notebook, span an incredible 500×300feet and are raked into the grains in a race against the tide.
  Using a canvas crafted by the elements the patient American waits for a full or new moon to make sure low tides offer him plenty of space to muster the incredible patterns.
  And just a few hours after etching his grand designs the curves and contours will be washed away – leaving the beach surface looking as if nothing had ever happened.
• Jaime Jones – Nice matte paintings, love the style. Very nice stuff by Jaime Jones.
• ZeroEdge Aquarium Corp. – It's what you get when you combine an Aquarium and a zero-edge pool. Gorgeous.

These are my delicious links for July 8th:

• Photo Fun – Real or Fake Image Game – LIFE – Is it 'shopped or not? Fun game.

These are my delicious links for June 24th through June 26th:

• Touched by an Angel – The story of how the Farah Fawcett poster came to be.

  "…t may be the most famous pinup poster of all time. Farrah Fawcett's smile is a row of impossibly white teeth so perfectly aligned they look machine-made, her hair a windblown blond tangle that swallows her slender hand.
  Then there is her nipple: a salacious nub straining against the nylon of her red one-piece. Its appearance marked the advent of "nippling." Whenever a model applies ice to her breast before a photo shoot, she's paying homage to Farrah….."

• The Bug, the Worm and the Death Star – As professionals, we prefer logo, logotype, mark, symbol, wordmark, icon, visual identity or signature. With this many choices it is no wonder others have settled on the irreverent bug. Incidentally, a long-time friend in Mumbai told me of some of the general names for logo in India include pintu (pint sized), chintu (tiny), dabboo (fat) and kaka (small one). (But depending on the specific region, language and even community in India, kaka also can mean poo-poo, as elsewhere. I guess context is everything, when calling a logo kaka in India.)

  But whether we designed it, manage it, or just live with it, having a name for the logo appears to fulfill some human need. Some companies provide a formal name, such as The Monogram (GE). Here are a few logos and their officially sanctioned names:

• How many colors? Wrong. – Richard Wiseman comes one of the best color optical illusions I have ever seen.
• Fun with a spray-gun, a field and perspective. – Nice project, doing POV Perspective on a field, the photos are quite nice.
• Volcano from Space; or how I would kill a man to stay in the ISS for a bit. – A chance recording by astronauts on the International Space Station has captured the moment a volcano explosively erupted, sending massive shockwaves through the atmosphere.
• 10 Ways to Instantly Increase Your jQuery Performance – Nettuts+ –

These are my delicious links for May 18th through May 20th:

• James T. Kirk Captain's Chair – This full-scale replica of Kirk's captain's chair from the original Star Trek TV series is constructed from the original design conceived by Matt Jefferies, and is limited to only 1,701 units. Features include a wood and steel platform, leather seat and back with oak arm rests, 360-degree swivel action, and various toggle switches, knobs, and buttons from the series, some of which play classic Trek dialogue or sound effects through the seat's built-in speaker.
• The Macho Man drugged to the eyeballs. – I used to think Crispin Glovers interview on Letterman was about the most fucked up I've seen someone give an interview.

  The Macho Man blows him away. NO MORE QUESTIONS!

• Solar Transit – WOW. Atlantis captured in solar transit with a solar-filtered Takahashi 5" refracting telescope and a Canon 5D Mk. II.
• Galactic Center of Milky Way Rises over Texas – Great time-lapse video showing the stars and the Milky Way rotate and move overhead. I wish that you could see the stars like this where I'm at without driving way out into the sticks.

These are my delicious links for May 5th through May 6th:

• Night Run – The camera was fastened to an outside rail and set to take a photo every six seconds. Quicktime then assembled the photos into a .mov file that plays back at 12 frames per second. So, one minute of movie time represents 72 minutes of trip time on the channel. The first half begins just below the Port of Houston Authority Turning Basin (the very end of the channel) and continues down to Green's Bayou. The second half takes us from there to Morgan's Point at the head of Galveston Bay.
• Best Artwork of Superheroes – Nice collection of artwork from a ton of different artists.
• Nyle "Let The Beat Build" on Vimeo – What I find fantastic about this video is that is was shot with one take. That's BOTH the video AND audio.

These are my delicious links for April 20th:

• Webphemera: Franklin: The Lost State of America – What led to the creation of the State of Franklin and why isn’t around today? Even more to the point, why hasn’t anyone ever made a movie out of this strange but remarkable story? My parents would live right near the State of Franklin if it were around today.
• Amateur Snapper | 10 Top Photography Composition Rules – The only rule in photography is that there are no rules. However, there are many composition guidelines which can be applied in almost any situation, to enhance the impact of a scene. Below are ten of the most popular and most widely respected composition 'rules'.

These are my delicious links for January 27th through January 28th:

• CSS Font Stacks – A compiled a list of font stacks that will both open up more font possibilities for web designers, and hopefully offer more appropriate substitutes. Defintely not the Dreamweaver defaults you see all over the place. This is a good list.
• [ws] Color Scheme Designer – This is great, easily find out your mono, complement, triad, tetrad, analogic and accented analogic color schemes.
• Fluid 960 Grid System | 16-column Grid – A good demo page showing a fluid 16 column grid, in conjuction with mooTools.
• The Milky Way Over Mauna Kea – Stunning photo. I remember as a kid being able to see the Milky Way back at my grandfathers house back in the woods. I wish the light pollution today wasn't so bad, and that this was a more common sight.

If this isn’t camera porn, I don’t know what is.  It’s a stunningly complex photo of  a Nikon D3 cut in half.  The detail shown is amazing.  Just look at all the glass in that lens.

I love this.