Miss Dior Chérie

Have I posted this before? If I have not, here you go. If I have, here you go again.



Sofia Coppola's Miss Dior Chérie ad. Utterly beautiful and adorable :)

What Obama wants

A tableau of the new president's obsessions, illustrated by the talented Fosta, from London, aka Nick Foster. Click through for larger size



Through (Boing Boing)

Bounc'em up.

I know you will want this.

Very cute avatars from Russian Illustrator Ilya Kazakov.
Yes, I post cute things too.





Get them here.

Crayon Physics

It's 2009 and all the new year resolution crap is just not my thing. Since everything's quite settled down lately, I figure I should get back to the blog wagon.

As a start, I stumbled upon this very aesthetic PC game. Using the word " aesthetic " doesn't really justify what it is. But it definitely has something to do with art.

One night when I couldn't sleep I spent 10 minutes finishing the game demo and I felt better to go to bed, in a positive way. So it can some kind of alternative therapy too. Take my word for it. Or none at all.



Visit the site to download the demo before your purchase.

10 great years.

Yasmin's work. This got me laughing for a long while.

Big Buck Bunny

Big Buck Bunny from Blender Foundation on Vimeo.

I forgot where did I get this. But, I just recall it's an open source animation.
Drop me a note if you know.

Firefox 3

I shall not exaggerate by calling today a day of change to internet usage pattern. But, somehow, there will be a significant change to how we perceive internet browsers. Yes, it's Download Firefox Day and I've done just that. Deeply believe that web browsing trend should be driven by users themselves, this new release just thrilled me.

From end user's perspective, I noticed a few changes after using it for an hour. I have yet to test it on the sites that are only-IE-friendly. I hope Firefox 3 will tackle the flaw that boycotts non-IE browser.

What I like:

1. Smoother flow in page switch. This could be the result of memory usage improvement that's been a key feature in this release.

2. Revamped bookmark feature - New way of tagging a page for bookmark, auto-complete of address field according to page name or website address, as how you bookmark the site, etc.

Then, I googled "Amazing Firefox" and stumbled upon the post by Mozilla's Software Engineer, codenamed Pavlov. Please give Pavlov's write-up a read. The post is about the improvement made on Firefox 3 Memory Usage. It's a geek-friendly post involving a lot of technical jargon. Since it was posted in March 08, it sure did give me a clearer perspective on the key improvements to be expected that I might not notice.

In all, I'm happily using my Firefox 3. Are you? Regardless the fact of you helping them make it to Guinness Record or not, get your Firefox 3 today.

Summer Bloesem!

As I was browsing through Cookie's house tour feature section, I saw a feature on a house located in Kuala Lumpur. The interior is warm and bright, just perfect to raise a kid. And also, Irene's a Dutch, somehow it just clicks with my love for Dutch design although this and that are so not related. But, whatever.

Anyway, Irene also hosts a blog which content I resonate very much with. Don't miss it. Have a look!

Sebastian's Voodoo

I'm supposed to post my pictures from Australia but I ended up discovering stuffs much more worthy of my space here. I didn't even finish my Cambodia/Vietnam travelogue. So, we'll see. ( AGAIN?? Yes. )

Another discovery from BoingBoingTV.

In today's episode, Boing Boing tv presents an animated short by Joaquin Baldwin, a UCLA grad student working towards his MFA in animation. Joaquin has recieved numerous awards for his work, including Best Animated Short at the Sedona International Film Festival and has been featured on the front pages of Youtube, Crackle.com, and Dailymotion.com.

In this piece, entitled "Sebastian's Voodoo," a voodoo doll must find the courage to save his fellows from being pinned to death. For more on Joaquin and information on festival screenings, you can check out http://www.pixelnitrate.com/

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Go gringo!

Gringo, as I looked in dictionary, means foreign language. You know me, always have a <3 for foreign languages. Also, I believe that, to learn a language well, you should learn from the basics and the most commonly used phrases, which will be dirty words. So, it seems that Sao Paolo design agency Gringo also agrees with me, and puts together this website that allows you to learn dirty words in every foreign languages as contributed by users. Each word will come along with a video where you can see how the native gives the 100% punch to the word!

As a start


Record your own



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Crazy Sexy Beautiful

“ ...I refused to be saddled with the isolating stigma associated with cancer. Just because it had changed my life forever, didn't mean that I had changed...
-Kris Carr ”


Having felt the start of dry season for tv series, I have seek alternatives in movie sources as usual. One day, I bumped into RLSLOG's post regarding VoMiT's release. It's about fighting cancer that turned out to be crazy and sexy, as the title "Crazy Sexy Cancer" says. That is quite true as how the main character presented it.

On Valentines Day in 2003, Kris Carr was diagnosed with a rare cancer which was in critical last stage with signs of deterioration. What lied ahead was knowledge of a time bomb being paused but with the possibility of being resumed into ticking in time. Weeks later, she began filming her journey seeking of cure, in medicine, homeopathy and inner peace. In this true-story-turned-documentary, Kris shares her wild and inspirational journey with exuberance and humor.

This documentary is about strength and growth in life, love and friendship, courage and wisdom. I love the editing of the story that really made me wonder how Kris could have faced this hardship alone, and then slowly, other characters such as family, friends and lover were introduced. Now, Kris has founded My Crazy Sexy Life!, a social networking site for the supporters of holistic medicine; Crazy Sexy Blog! that keeps those that concern updated. It's all about WEB 2.0!

In all, she had all my respect and admiration when she just laughed off certain difficult moments and decisions facing death. This is the spirit.

And that is what I do facing inflation. Go NGV!

The Girl Effect

"Girl Power" - one term that arose when female intruded the male dominance in many countries decades ago. What stay estranged is this phrase that is nonexistent in developing countries where female rights are still struggling.

Regardless, adolescent females in developing countries should be entitled to this term, be allowed to earn it by being offered opportunity to battle for the inequality of socio-treatment and economical benefits. They should have the opportunity to make a change not only their families, but also their communities and countries. Before they can change their surrounding, the world needs to give itself a change. As a start, the Nike Foundation and the NoVo Foundation have donated $100 million and collaborated with Norfolk based Grow Interactive and Portland ad agency Wieden + Kennedy to drive this cause for the world to recognize The Girl Effect. With that, we hope social issues such as poverty, disease, early marriage, and pregnancy will see a sign of reduction, so that the girls can unleash their power and lead their communities and nations towards change.

I enjoy watching the clip. I hope you do, and at the end of it, something inside of you is itching and screaming to make a difference, how minimal it may be.

Peace out.

d-e-f-i-n-i-t-e-l-y

I've noticed that even native speakers can get spellings for simple words wrong. So, someone smart turned it into a source of creativity.

Definitely, you will want to print the page out if you are not sure of the spelling.

Not just a university calendar

Amusing design by Jörg Block. I wish I can see such innovation being accepted by our local education arena soon. Well, you know, this takes time, very long time to happen.

Excerpt From Adobe Design Achievement Awards:

The illustrations were created for the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences research calendar. Each month illustrates a different project to demonstrate the variety of the university’s research activities for the general public. I used striking, funny, or droll images to inspire spontaneous interest in the featured research subjects. I intended the images to stimulate viewer curiosity about the concrete research activities referenced on the back of each calendar page and hope the viewer reads the detailed information there. The illustration subjects include marketing bio food, logistics systems, anesthesia technology, joining technology, bio diesel, and packaging.

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For the love of black and white photographs, here's something non-related to black and white but somewhat related to it as well.

The posted video was created by Julien Vallée for a division of Bleublancrouge Montreal’s design/ad agency ; Black and White.

I came across a lot of fancy and really creative ads in a few ads-collectors' blogs. I might look into sharing them soon. Ahhh...laziness...

Hang it !

I imagine having my boss stuck on the wall with this.
Neat!

GET OVER IT

I'm sure you have your utmost regrets that you wish you can turn back time and correct them. The truth is, we all can't do that and have to get over it anyway. If you can't, share your sorrow with GET OVER IT, and get consoled by the public sympathy.

GET OVER IT shares similar concept with the secret postcard project. Everyone gets to expose their most shameful secret or regret with anonymity assured.

I hope you'll feel better after this. So, just share it.

Then.


GET OVER IT

Changing pavements

France's Eurovia is developing a thermosensitive road varnish that changes colour to indicate freezing and dangerous conditions. Colour changing boxes - hmm, I think I've seen this somewhere in before on a geeky t-shirt - Hypercolor.

As the temperature changes to subzero or other way round, the road could turn to any other indicative color as pre-designed. Several roadways in France are currently being used for durability and usability tests. I look forward to more lively roads in near future. When i say "lively", it could be vividly blinking colours "lively".

Men and their fantasies

Maid cafe is here. I mean in California, USA. This creation is inspired by Japanese role playing game or "cosplay" a.k.a costume play. In Maid cafe, the customers will be served as "masters" by the waitresses dressed up in maid uniforms. Customers are always superior wherever they are but with this settings, I'm sure the gratification achieved is twice as high.

Enjoy.

Aqua Leung

I always think Marvel comic is all there is for superhero-themed comics or all there is for western comics. Yes, I'm talking about handsome men with husky and muscular bodies, wearing tight leather pants. I'm pleased to see something different. Well, maybe only now is when I take notice on the minority players.

Here's a new comic with Asian character bearing same name with its title "Aqua Leong", I suppose, and it just reminds me of the infamous Wong Yuk Long's Oriental Heroes comic which turned Dragon Tiger Gate movie. This comic Aqua Leung, is created by Mark Andrew Smith and Paul Maybury. Yes, Mat Salleh! I'm keen to see how this will turn out, if any media attention is stirred as expected.

Joe Keating of Image described it this way: "In a nutshell - the royal family of Atlantis is slaughtered, with their murderer taking up the throne. What he doesn't know is their young prince survived and is battling across the ocean to get his revenge."

Browse for preview pages here.