The The Tattooed Banana, has some clever banana art. These are a few that caught my eye. They would be perfect for cheap and creative Halloween decorations.
A Brighter Day
The Vote for Hope video was created at Ursa Minor Arts and Media in San Rafael, CA with chief animator James Curtis, using designs and direction from M.C. Yogi. It’s is an extremely well crafted video funded and supported by grassroots donations.
MC Yogi – Vote For Hope from MC YOGI on Vimeo.
Hit play or watch Vote for Hope on Vimeo.
About the video:
With the 2008 presidential election, Americans face a pivotal choice between not just two candidates, but two paradigms. We need someone who understands the complexity of our time. Someone who believes in investing in renewable energy, in education, in women’s rights, in civil rights, in healthcare for Americans. Someone who believes in dealing with global issues with diplomacy so we can restore our respect in the world. Barack Obama represents the change we need and can lead us into a brighter future.
Vote For Hope was written to encourage and inspire the hip hop generation and everyone to get involved, and contribute their time, energy, creativity, and other resources to be the change they want to see in the world. We have been inspired by the artistic and musical contributions that have been pouring out across the nation in support of Barack Obama’s campaign. Vote for Hope is our offering to this creative movement. It is our way of adding our small voice to the collective voice of millions of Americans calling for a change.
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ILoveSketch: 3D curve sketching system
ILoveSketch is a curve sketching system that makes drawing in 3D a lot more like drawing on paper. Check out the ease with which the demonstrator creates a three-dimensional air plane at the end.
ILoveSketch from Seok-Hyung Bae on Vimeo.
Hit play or watch I love sketch on Vimeo.
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How to Hook Up Your Home Theater
This hilarious Jack Kinney style Goofy short, How to Hook up your Home Theater, isn’t new — it was released in 2007, shown in theatres before National Treasure 2: Book of Secrets — but it is significant because it recaptures the spirit of Disney in the golden era of animation. It aims particularly at recapturing the Jack Kinney classics like Hockey Homicide or a Goofy Gymnastics with a modern twist.
It’s available in the iTunes Store. Search for How to Hook Up Your Home Theater. It think it sells for around $2.
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Adobe Photoshop CS4 Release Date Announced
I’m happy to hear that Adobe will be releasing their newest version of Photoshop in just a couple of weeks. The entire Creative Suite 4 (CS4), is targeting a release date for October 15, 2008.
Here’s a quick video demonstrating one of Photoshop CS4’s amazing new abilities (which was foreshadowed here) to scale intelligently based on the content of an image.
It opens up a whole new can of worms in the ethics of editing photos department, but at the same time, it looks REALLY fun to use.
Hit play or watch Content Aware Scaling on YouTube.
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jeffmilner.com Wordle
Another wordle, this one is comprised of the words I use most when posting to this site.
Obama / McCain Wordle
I downloaded the transcripts of all of Obama and McCain’s speeches from their respective official websites from March 25th, 2008 to the present and then put them each into Wordle.
Wordle gives greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text.
I used 51 speeches by McCain and 61 by Obama.
McCain’s site only had transcripts from March 25th to the present and I figured that was plenty of data for my purposes.
MyHope
MyHope is an original song by sweetafton23. It’s lovely—I wonder what my future kids will think of this site.
[MyHope – YouTube]
Ladysugar
My friend Katy says:
My band, Ladysugar, made it to the final round of voting for the star 98.7 radio contest! The competition is extremely tight so EVERY vote counts. Voting is quick and easy and would really help us. Just go to http://www.987fm.com/pages/rockstar3/videos.html and find the Ladysugar video. Even if you’ve already voted you can vote again because that was round 1 but now it’s round 2 so voting starts all over! Voting started last Friday at noon and ends this Friday at noon. You can vote once a day from the same email address.
Here is the band in action:
Hit play or watch I Want What I Can’t Have at YouTube.
And here is the voting page.
T.J’s Electrical Music Saw
Musician T.J. Hill hooked a saw up to his amp and now rocks out on the tool. Check out his rendition of Amazing Grace.
Hit play or watch T.J’s Electrical Music Saw at Youtube.