Biomotion Lab concept robots The Original Star Wars Concept Art Is Amazing Hyperbole and a Half Jon Combe | Code | HTML clocks using JavaScript and CSS rotation February 2010 Warning: This isn't going to work in any currently available version of Internet Explorer* or many older browsers. Background In July last year, the excellent Jonathan Snook wrote an article about CSS rotation. If you're interested stuff like this and you haven't heard of Mr. Snook before, I suggest you read his stuff. He explains in his article that the Webkit (Google Chrome & Safari) and Firefox 3.5+ browsers support the CSS transform property. He also notes that it is also possible to implement basic (0° / 90° / 180° / 270°) rotations using Internet Explorer, but clearly this wasn't going to cut it for what I wanted to do here. The code to make the clocks work is really very simple. transform: rotate(42deg); // this won't work yet, but one day it may -moz-transform: rotate(42deg); // mozilla specific -o-transform: rotate(42deg); // opera specific -webkit-transform: rotate(42deg); // webkit specific In jQuery that could look like: How it works A couple of things to note
Industrial Design Sketching and Drawing Video Tutorials 20-Year-Old Hunter S. Thompson’s Superb Advice on How to Find Your Purpose and Live a Meaningful Life As a hopeless lover of both letters and famous advice, I was delighted to discover a letter 20-year-old Hunter S. Thompson — gonzo journalism godfather, pundit of media politics, dark philosopher — penned to his friend Hume Logan in 1958. Found in Letters of Note: Correspondence Deserving of a Wider Audience (public library | IndieBound) — the aptly titled, superb collection based on Shaun Usher’s indispensable website of the same name — the letter is an exquisite addition to luminaries’ reflections on the meaning of life, speaking to what it really means to find your purpose. Cautious that “all advice can only be a product of the man who gives it” — a caveat other literary legends have stressed with varying degrees of irreverence — Thompson begins with a necessary disclaimer about the very notion of advice-giving: To give advice to a man who asks what to do with his life implies something very close to egomania. Every man is the sum total of his reactions to experience.
Op art Op Art Illusion design works that look like op art. Please note that this page could make you feel sick. "A pulser" The figure appears to scintillate. Copyright A.Kitaoka 2003 "Mesh spirals" The figure appears to scintillate. "Flemming's rules" Something appears to run in the circular clouds (visual phantoms). "Flip-flop" The figure appears to scintillate. "Falling snow" The figure appears to scintillate. "Op autumn" White patches appear to scintillate. "Rokuyo stars"* *Rokuyo is kind of week made up of 6 days: Sensho, Tomobiki, Sembu, Butsumetsu, Taian and Shakko. Six white circles appear to scintillate. Related reference: scintillating lustre by Pinna, Ehrenstein and Spillmann (2002) rokuyo.cdr (CorelDRAW) "A time tunnel" Color blobs appear to scintillate. "Matataki"* *scintillation Caution!! "A color curtain" Color lines appear to scintillate. "Treasure box" Color squares appear to scintillate. "Jiggle" The surround appears to jiggle and scintillate. "Blue sun" Circular scintillation appears. "Warp" "Glare"
Paleo-Future - Paleo-Future Blog - Going to the Opera in the Year 2000 (1882) This lithograph from 1882 depicts the fanciful world of 2000; flying buses, towering restaurants, and of course, 1880's French attire. Albert Robida is less well-known than Jules Verne but contributed just as much to the collective imagination through his amazing illustrations. If you speak French I recommend picking up the Robida book La vie électrique. For the record, I don't speak French. Much like a child, I got it for the pictures. (UPDATE: Some very good questions have been raised about the date of production for this lithograph. See also:Postcards Show the Year 2000 (circa 1900)Collier's Illustrated Future of 2001 (1901)Predictions of a 14-Year-Old (Milwaukee Excelsior, 1901)The Next Hundred Years (Milwaukee Herold und Seebote, 1901)What May Happen in the Next Hundred Years (Ladies Home Journal, 1900)
Oscar Wilde on Art by Maria Popova “The temperament to which Art appeals … is the temperament of receptivity.” Oscar Wilde may have been the twentieth century’s first and most tragic pop celebrity, and a masterful writer of love letters, but he was also a poignant observer of culture and custodian of the creative spirit. His 1891 essay The Soul of Man Under Socialism (public library; free download), written mere months after The Picture of Dorian Gray was published, explores the social structures of art with equal parts libertarianism, anarchism, and genuine concern — but more than a political treatise, at the heart of it is a profound meditation on what it means to create, to live, and to be human. He begins with a beautiful addition to history’s finest definitions of art: The temperament to which Art appeals … is the temperament of receptivity. He goes on to explore how the appreciation of art differs across creative disciplines: With the novel it is the same thing. There are three kinds of despots.
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