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Fantastic art: What children’s drawings would look like if it were painted realistically

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Illustrator Dave DeVries has explored the idea of what the result would be if he used children’s paintings as base for paintings. The result is pure awesomeness.

It began at the Jersey Shore in 1998, where my niece Jessica often filled my sketchbook with doodles. While I stared at them, I wondered if color, texture and shading could be applied for a 3D effect. As a painter, I made cartoons look three dimensional every day for the likes of Marvel and DC comics, so why couldn’t I apply those same techniques to a kid’s drawing? That was it… no research, no years of toil, just the curiosity of seeing Jessica’s drawings come to life.

The projects site seems to be down at the moment, so this link post links to Elezea.com, the blog where I found out about this.

Via David Paulsson and Björn Persson on twitter.

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LG rips off the MacBook Air

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LG completely rips off the MacBook Air with this ”Ultrabook”. A product designer who does this can’t have any pride in his/her work.

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The best thing about the month of X-mas

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Christmas is just a few weeks away. This means all kinds of advent calendars one of which is one of the best things about december; 24 Ways. It is, in their own words

the advent calendar for web geeks. Each day throughout December we publish a daily dose of web design and development goodness to bring you all a little Christmas cheer.

(My emphasize.)

So what are you waiting for? Visit 24ways.org or add http://feeds.feedburner.com/24ways to you RSS reader right now.

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Animation with CSS Transitions Made Easy « Aza on Design

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This is a good (although old) article on CSS Transitions. Especially the following caught my attention:

You can even add an event listener to detect when the transition has finished:

I haven’t read anything about this in any of the other bazillion articles about CSS transitions that is out on the web. Sound interesting to me.

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The iPhone 5 will be announced on October 4?

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According to AllThingsD:

Tuesday, Oct. 4.

That’s the day Apple is currently expected to hold its next big media event, according to sources close to the situation, where the tech giant will unveil the next iteration of its popular iPhone.

AllThingsD also states that Apples new CEO Tim Cook will be the one leading the keynote speech at this, and all future, Apple events. I think that is not necessarily correct. Cook will likely lead this one to show everyone that he really is the new man in charge. However in the future someone else might be better qualified to do the keynotes. To paraphrase John Gruber, Steve Jobs didn’t do the keynotes because he was the CEO. He just happened to be both the CEO and a really great keynote speaker.

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More facts on usage of iOS vs Android

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Here’s another report of iOS vs Android use. According to Mobile Marketing Watch iOS represents two thirds of the mobile traffic that hits Google Search.

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”The perils of possession without utilization”

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Horace Dediu makes a chart of ”Possession vs. Utilization for Android and iPhone”.

This data seems to support the hypothesis that Android users are disproportionately less willing to spend money (note that the data does not say that users don’t have money, but simply that they are not spending it).

Which is why my current idea for a smartphone app will be realized as an iOS app, not an Android one. (Click through to the original post to se the actual charts.)

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New 5by5 podcast – The Web Ahead

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The great 5by5 podcast network has recently launched a new show called ”The Web Ahead. It is

A weekly podcast about changing technologies and the future of the web, discussing HTML5, mobile, responsive design, iOS, Android, and more. Hosted by Jen Simmons.

The first episode was published last week and featured Peter Lubbers who told us a great deal of information about web storage/local storage/web databases etc. and I thought it was awesome. This weeks episode is a long talk with Ethan Marcotte about ”Responsive Web Design”.

I highly recommend you all to start subscribing to this (and all other great 5by5 shows).

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ddDrumr – a drum machine in your browser

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Last weekend Daladevelop – in this case Mikael, Emil and I – spent 24 geeky hours in a house in Bjursås. The goal of every Daladevelop is to make program something great. Hitherto it has resulted in for example the WP Plugin Boilerplate and ”Pizzasugen”. This time it resulted in ddDrumr, a browser based drum machine prototype.

Since it’s awesome, I’ll advice you to try it! (You’ll need a really modern browser for it to work well.)

(Or, fork it on github,)

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Instagram’s great success

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In just nine months, the photo-sharing startup hit 150 million pix and more than 7 million users who upload about 1.3 million photos daily (15 per second).

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It took Flickr, one of the world’s largest photo-sharing sites, close to 2.5 years to reach 150 million photos, which could be uploaded from any computer and shot on any camera. But it took San Francisco-based startup Instagram roughly just nine months to hit that same milestone–with just one mobile app, available on just one device maker’s OS (Apple’s).

The interview and article is from FastCompany.com. The interview is good but I think the comparison between Instagram and Flickr that’s made by the author is unnecessary and incorrect.

Instagram has grown faster than flickr, that’s true, but I don’t think the comparison is very good. To me flickr is clearly a service aimed at photographers, amateurs and professionals alike. The users main focus is to show photos as art. Instagram is much more of a ”traditional” social network, but with images instead of text.

Just to clarify, I love Instagram and use it as a way of telling people I know about what I’m up to. I also love Flickr.

(Extra bonus irony-points to the article for using a picture from Flickr for illustration. Tough, I don’t think irony was what they were aiming for.)

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