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Thursday, April 18, 2013

Link Round-Up: April 18, 2013

Lego Maurice Moss (from the IT Crowd) by Chris McVeigh

The Design Museum has just announced the contenders for the sixth annual Designs of the Year. Here are the 22 Best Product Designs of the Year

The Ethics of Disaster Photography in the Age of Social Media. When everyone's got a camera, the best and worst will all go online quickly.

How the Chess Set Got Its Look and Feel

In this blog post photographer Robert Thomas explains how blend modes work in Photoshop. He shows how to manipulate blend layers through keyboard shortcuts, as well explains the actual mathematical operations that drives each mode.

Wednesday, April 17, 2013

Short Film: Aperture: Shadows

"Aperture: Shadows" by Syntheticph

Aperture: Shadows chronicles Doug Rattmann's quest to reunite with an old companion after GLaDOS forces him to incinerate his best friend.

Short Film: Spacebound

Spacebound directed by Ellen Sufrom

The story of a little boy and his dog and the wonders they experience while stranded in space.

Video: Surprising Speed Painting

'Speed Painter' Takes Stage in 'Anderson's Viewers Got Talent' by Anderson

"Master speed-painter" D. Westry demonstrates his skills in a minute and a half on an Anderson Cooper segment. Try to guess what he's painting before his time is up.

Diorama: Ancient Marienburger

"Rime of the Ancient Marienburger" Warhammer diorama by GMM Studios

"Here is my finished Adepticon army. Thanks to all of those that followed and/or commented on my blog. I hope you like it!

It is inspired by Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The poem has always been a favorite and has inspired a lot of my other work and tastes in art. I love all things nautical (even though I rarely see the ocean funnily enough). Empire, cephalopods, old time imagery, movies, the trunk itself (a 100 year old family heirloom), and all things in, on, and around sailing ships have always been interesting to me, so they all come together to make an army that is very sentimental to me.

If anyone is interested in the process of building the display over the past month or so, please check out my blog thread: http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/515905.page"