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GoodShit › GoodShit Skip to content Home About Archives Links Cultura digital Browse Design blog for resources and inspiration I’m sure you’ve seen this office plenty of times on the internet. This office is all about fun: it has a lot of specially decorated rooms in which employees can do their work. There’s even a game room for relaxation and a gym where you can work out. Check it out: The TV Spoilers Site OddMods - Furniture Mods, Interior Design, Architecture, and Design Inspiration You’ll be shocked to find out that these average objects, that on any normal day wouldn’t get any attention, are actually handcrafted by a single block of wood. Randall Rosenthal, a New York based artist, takes wood sculpting to the next level. His “Lunch Money” piece, a representation of a cardboard box full of $100 bills, took 6 weeks to carve, and 6 weeks to paint.

88 Brilliant Examples of Forced Perspective Photography Forced perspective is a technique that employs optical illusion to make an object appear farther away, closer, larger or smaller than it actually is. It is used primarily in photography, filmmaking and architecture. It manipulates human visual perception through the use of scaled objects and the correlation between them and the vantage point of the spectator or camera. There are many ways to attack photography and some are much more expensive than others. Here in this showcase, we presenting a Stunning collection of Forced Perspective Photography and Pictures taken by various artists in which all pictures are linked to the author’s pages. You may want to explore further works of the photographers we’ve featured below.

Beautiful Portraits of Strangers Beautiful Portraits of Strangers Danny Santos II is a weekend photographer who likes to shoot strangers in the streets of Singapore. He’s been shooting street for about 2 years now. More beautiful portraits of strangers can be found in Danny’s Flickr set or his website dannyst.com.

HTTP/1.1: Status Code Definitions Each Status-Code is described below, including a description of which method(s) it can follow and any metainformation required in the response. 10.1 Informational 1xx This class of status code indicates a provisional response, consisting only of the Status-Line and optional headers, and is terminated by an empty line. Download failed.: Operation timed out after 30 seconds posted on January 31, 2009 in Linux, Unfiled with 5 Comments Been getting this error “Download failed.: Operation timed out after 30 seconds” every time I try to update a plug-in in my WordPress 2.7. After some digging around I found that my web server’s download speed was pretty low. WP 2.7 by default has a 30 second timeout set for it’s download function which I constantly kept hitting.

Importance of Great Web Typography & Excellent Examples Typography is one of the visual elements that can be used to create great web design. And the importance of good web typography is proportionate to that of good web design. Good typography helps to establish good visual hierarchy, leading the reader across the page in accordance to the level of importance of the different text and images. Vertically suspended zen gardens These beautiful hanging gardens suspended by thin string are a whimsical art installation type project by Fedor in Belgium. Using string, moss, grass, and bowls or a glass reservoir, various types of plants are transformed into mid air planted floating gardens that are a variation of kokedma, a Japanese botanical style. The string gardener says his intention is for the plants to “find their balance” as they grow and become heavy. The string gardens are meant to be viewed at eye level. Some of the plants are covered with moss and placed in a bowl, others are woven into horizontal nets which are covered with moss, clover and grass. Some string gardens float in their environments alone, some are grouped with others creating a sort of horticultural symphony.

Animated Short Movies » Life-Changing Arts Movie shorts, or short animations are a unique form of art, which can inspire and enlighten just like any other art form. Sometimes even more so. Here is a selection of inspiring, or for some reason animated short movies, here shown in their original full length. Thanks to all the visitors who have contributed with their detailed suggestions! That is why there are now two pages of great animated shorts! Photoshop For Beginners: 6 techniques to extract anything from its background This is the second of a series of tutorials thought for Photoshop beginners. I’ll explain in depth those features that can result difficult to understand for a newbi. Today I’ll show you 6 techniques you can use to extract a person/object from its background.