This Schnapps program takes the fuss out of creating timelapse videos of your designs. Personally, I think I'd feel way too self concious to ever share such a thing but there are a number of amazing designers and illustrators out there that I'd love to see this kind of documentation from. The best part is that it only creates a frame when you save your document - so the flubs you may experience along the way probably won't make it to the final product since you likely aren't saving on such a thing anyway.

Please take a moment to give the Creativity Bundle a serious bit of contemplation. Four phenomenal movies - Indie Game: The Movie, Helvetica, Sign Painters and Beauty Is Embarassing - all available together for a very limited time at an unreal price point. You can pay $5, $10, $15 or whatever you'd like for that matter. Call it a helluva good deal. Call it an experiment. Call it an empowered undertaking by a group of forward thinking filmmakers. It's all those things! The deal expires in 5 days, so get to it.

I like the dude's music but his attitude needs some serious adjustment. Definitely a bummer at times at the pity party he throws for himself.

kind of handy actually

I was recently diving headfirst into this profile on Nick Zammuto and his absolutely absurdly amazing Record Scratch Technique (literally - think less hip-hop and more actual needle blips to create a beat) and then it came to light that there's a new Zammuto record on the way - Anchor. After a successful crowdfunding campaign it appears that the new batch of songs will be available Sept 2nd. The video for "Great Equator" (the song linked above) is viewable here and it's a doozie.

Thanks to VHX's newest addition, Courtney Burton, I checked out a great deal of Desktop to Mobile Device design previewers. I wish there was a snappier name for it but, basically, I needed a way to view designs meant for a smaller screen on the actual device. You would think having the right canvas size would suffice but there's something entirely different about interacting with a design on a phone than there is just seeing it on your giant screen. After much trial and error - xScope, Skala, Mockup and Silkscreen - I landed on Nicholas Zambetti's LiveView. It is, for my money, the simplest and easiest solution. It lacks a little bit of elegance (I'd love to be able to lock the preview area and still click under it but that's getting into the weeds a bit) but it does what it promises with zero hassle. It's also helped immensely with improving a User Experience because now I can see that those form fields I was using were just way too small.

I must admit, despite not fully understanding the technology behind this Breach browser I am fully intrigued. The claims that it is written "entirely in Javascript" (on top of Chromium and Node.js layers) sounds like a great recipe for a browser with a lot more possibilities, as its development is largely on the shoulders of curious hackers. This summary introduction to the project is compelling:

The initial motivation to create Breach was to create a browser whose state (tabs, cookies, extensions, etc...) would be completely untangled from the machine it runs on, so that users could project that state on any machine running Breach easily. The idea was to let users get control of any machine around them transparently by making it very easy for them to push their state onto these machines. Think of it as tab syncing as seen in Chrome, Firefox, Safari, on steroids and built to be used on machines you don't necessarily own (which is a strong limitation in existing systems).

Count me in! Going to give this a spin.

band drops acid together, records album. surprisingly good, albeit lo-fi, results

newness

InterpolVEVO

fascinating read on Shanley Kane.

First week back from vacation is always a bit more intense than just a regular week. So, with that in mind, watch these twice. You need your rest.

• Verschleif 4k - even with zero explanation, this is an entrancing exercise in reduction. Then when you realize it's the best usage of an edge sander in an artistic environment, well, you're sold.
• Backflipping beach guy - this seems fake. is this fake? can this be real?
• Fox go FLOOF - The title is a fair representation of the bonkers nature of the owner of this domesticated fox but I just love seeing this little guy run around!
• Pallas cat - I think I can say that this is easily my favorite video of 2014. Maybe I'll eat those words but a Pallas Cat investigating a camera with the stealth you would expect from a giant housecat is absolutely perfect. The GIF is pretty great too.
• The Best Cover to Beatles - Come Together! - this is weird and then it gets weirder and then it maintains its weirdness. Throughout the song is strange but not unenjoyable.
• Pallet Riding - not sure if this can be embedded but this guy riding a Pallet on the rails is pretty solid.
• CMT's Coffee Corner - timelapse of Rachel Briggs drawing a huge wall mural at the CMT offices. Incredibly impressive.

If you find yourself lacking some vulgarity from this weeks playlist, dive into Peter K. Rosenthal's review of 'Dawn of the Planet of the Apes' - hilarious in its aggression.

Have a great weekend!

good to see Nashville at #5 on the list

I reserved my username but my site is too old to display the characters (facepalm). via @waxy

I've been familiar with the work of Ryan Duggan for awhile but it's been a few years and he's, oddly, managed to improve on what was already phenomenal. The poster repository is bonkers but I'm really loving these poster of the week prints.

I will be following along more intently from here on out. Who wouldn't want to see this as soon as it's available to the world at large?!

"EO1, a computer designed to bring the beauty of the Internet into your home. "

At the heart of it, Electric Objects is a series of deluxe photo frames. The catch being that it's actually designed and intended to showcase art culled from the Internet - rather than just a shoddy LCD screen that cycles through a folder of images. It's got a beautiful aesthetic and I'm glad someone is tackling this field to up the ante on quality of digital frames. It's about time!

It's no surprise they blew past their goal - going from $25k to $270k with about a month to go. Another million dollar project? Probably! Congratulations to them.

All that being said, I don't think I could rationalize $300 for a wall mounted screen. Hopefully this really does blow up and they can get their unit cost much lower on the whole.

After numerous recommendations, I watched The Institute - a documentary capturing the phenomenon of 'The JeJune Institute' - a San Francisco collective that appears to be part Cult, part Alternate Reality Game, part religion, part counter-culture and part reality. It's really all in how you decide to take it in. It does get a bit cheesy at times with some transparent acting but, miraculously, that somehow lends itself to blurring the line even further.

At the very least, it's hard to imagine being a part of the story as it unfolded. It's a nice reminder to let yourself be consumed from time to time.

Bonus: The poster is by Mark Weaver and you can watch it on Netflix right now.

you know these destinations but it's great to see them all together

back and forth. forever.

Really been enjoying the simple beauty of @OnePerfectShot - a twitter account solely devoted to posting the "best" images from cinemas past. There's a website version too but the Twitter account is just the right platform for consumption.

The curator of the account is also running a crowdfunding campaign to start a "platform" where users can share their own perfect shots or vote on others. I'm not convinced that's how I want to experience this kind of content but I'm all for supporting cinephiles that want to take their obsessive interest to the next level.