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Everybody’s a Project Manager Comments 5 Comments

May 31st, 2007 ,

Along with a few colleagues, I’m taking a project management course at work. We’ve learned many things already, one of them being that verbal communication is much more effective than textual, which is why this list of tips and techniques is presented to you in readable bulletform…


Microsoft Surface - A Multi-Touchscreen Table Comments 4 Comments

May 30th, 2007

So Microsoft just unveiled “Surface“. It’s a table with a flat screen that’s sensitive to multiple pointers (fingers). It’s pretty much what we’ve Apple does wants to do with the iPhone, except larger.

This seems to spell the arrival of multi-touch interfaces and I think it’s great. How long untill I’ve got this on my work-table as an addition to my mouse? Not soon enough, I’m sure.

GoCard: Wish You Were Here Comments Comment

May 29th, 2007

Go-Card: Wish You Were Here

Visit Go-Card

Go-Cards are free danish postcards given away at cafés and McDonalds across the country. Artists are free to submit their non-profit work for approval. The above is such an example. May 29th to June 5th, this “Wish you were here” postcard will be available in 400 cafés across Denmark, including Copenhagen.


Flash Player 9 + Fullscreen Mode Comments 3 Comments

May 29th, 2007 ,

Youtube + Fullscreen Adobe recently released their massive CS3 package. With this, a new version of the Flash authoring tool. While Flash Player 9 has been around for a while now, the release of the authoring tool unlocks dormant features that were put there by the “visionary” minds at Macromedia Adobe. Among this functionality: the ability to fullscreen-fullscreen.

There was a time when lousy Flash sites drove people from the plugin. It seems as though the advent of YouTube has driven people back again. So it’s only natural for Adobe to embrace YouTube-like sites. Case in point: the fullscreen feature does seem like it’s been added solely for the benefit of YouTube. And sure enough, YouTube has already integrated the new code. Click the fullscreen button in the bottom right corner: fullscreen Flash video with no chrome (Requires FP9). I think it works well and I plan to use it myself. Now we just need hardware acceleration.

Did you notice the change?

Pirates of the Caribbean 3 Mini-Review Comments 8 Comments

May 28th, 2007 ,

Reviews are spoilerfree but beware of comments.

In many ways, Pirates 3 (subtitled At World’s End) is a better movie than the second one. It puts more weight on story and character development. It also takes itself slightly more seriously; after all, it is the end of a trilogy.

Personally, however, I never went to see the Pirates movies solely for their gripping storyline. I went to see the battles, the pirate coves, the leviathan sea monsters and odd mythical Caribbean locations we all remember from the Monkey Island games. Based on this, I actually preferred the lighter spirit of Dead Man’s Chest. Three stars is not bad, it’s just not great either.

New Speaker Bite Me Website Comments 6 Comments

May 23rd, 2007 ,

The danish band Speaker Bite Me has recently released a new album, Action Painting. For this occasion, I designed and built a Wordpress-powered website for them. Take a look at their new website, and be sure to listen to the sample tracks. I like it a lot!

Von Neumann Illustrations Comments Comment

May 22nd, 2007

Programmatically generated illustrations, named in honor of mathematician John von Neumann.


Stream of Consciousness #4 Comments Comment

May 21st, 2007 ,

In which I talk about the end of a 6 year ritual, what’s next for me, and what it’s like submit stuff to digg.com.


Creating Smoke In Photoshop From Scratch Comments 56 Comments

May 16th, 2007 ,

Smoke - How To

Using Photoshop and a specific technique, it’s rather easy to create something that looks like smoke or fog — from scratch. It’s not as good as actual smoke photographed on a black background, but it’s much easier to come by. Here’s the trick…


Single Illustration Deconstruction Comments 4 Comments

May 14th, 2007 , ,

Noscope Finale Deconstruction

Inspired by a gorgeous Factory Girl movie poster deconstruction, I decided to try my own luck.