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  • Colosseo Letterpress Poster

    What began as a 10-year wedding anniversary to Rome concluded a year later as an artistic endeavor to reimagine the Coliseum with type.

    Colosseo: Reimagining the Roman Coliseum with type (Canon 7D) from Cameron Moll on Vimeo.

    To read more about this artwork and to purchase a copy, please visit http://colosseotype.com

    In March 2009, Suzanne (wife) and I spent several days in Rome to celebrate our 10-year anniversary. This was also a chance to observe in detail the Coliseum, which I’d already selected as the next subject in my series of letterpress posters (see http://cameronmoll.bigcartel.com/category/posters).

    Over the course of the next 12 months, the artwork was handcrafted character by character, totaling roughly 250 hours of work from start to finish. Characters from the Goudy Trajan and Bembo Pro typefaces form the Coliseum, also known as today as Colosseo (Italian) and originally known as Amphitheatrum Flavium (Latin).

    Printed at Bjørn Press in Provo, Utah. http://bjornpress.com

    I shot the video shown here using a Canon 7D, with Suzanne’s assistance for my interview segment. Edited with Final Cut Express. I picked up the 7D literally the day before shooting at Bjørn Press, so I still have lots to learn. (I botched my interview part by failing to turn off sharpening before shooting and by not having Suzanne sit at the same height while interviewing me, hence my eyes focus differently in each segment. But oh well, it is what it is.)

    The opening segment was filmed at 1280/60fps, then in FCE it was slowed down and resized to fit the rest of the footage, which was shot at 1920/30fps. The 7D makes it really easy to pull off high-quality slow motion.

    Font used for the titles is Bembo Pro.

    Lenses:
    * Sigma 30mm f/1.4 EX DC HSM prime
    * Canon EF-S 17-55mm f/2.8 IS USM zoom
    * Canon EF-S 60mm f/2.8 USM macro

    More about my video setup here: http://cameronmoll.com/archives/2010/02/canon_7d_video/

    All music is by This Will Destroy You. Their self-titled album (2007) seemed to compliment the footage perfectly. Songs, in order of appearance:

    “The Mighty Rio Grande”
    “Leather Wings”
    “Villa del Refugio”

    http://www.last.fm/music/This+Will+Destroy+You

    Thanks for watching.

    via Colosseo Letterpress Poster: Reimagining the Roman Coliseum with type.

  • Auto Switch for Android / iPhone

    Let’s hope this theme works for iPad to – assuming it also returns the user agent as “Mobile Safari”.

    [The] iPhone optimized Magento theme will be available in the next few days via Magento Connect. Additionally, as part of the upcoming 1.1 release, automatic detection and delivery of packages, theme(s) (templates, skins, css, layouts) based on the user-agent (client) may be associated on a global, website and store view. The video below gives a preview of Magento on the iPhone.


    via Magento – Blog – Video: Magento via iPhone – eCommerce Software for Growth.
    Configuration in Magento couldn’t be much simpler:

    UPDATE: Use “Mobile Safari|iPhone|iPod”. Also you don’t need to enter the exception against each of the ‘skin’, ‘layout’ templates’ etc parts, just add an exception next to the ‘default’ theme. Finally, the fields for ‘Matched expression’ and ‘value’ are case sensitive and do not require quotes around them. Enter each exactly as shown here (for iphone); Matched expression; iPhone Value iphone The theme is called ‘iphone’ in lower case so the value must match this exactly. Maybe not so simples after all!

    magento iphone configuration

  • Big App Publishing Bruv

    Got the tshirt? Now get to see how your reading will be monitored when reading books on iPhone, or more plausibly iPad.

    Below is a video of Enhanced Editions’ Ignite speech from this year’s Tools of Change conference, originally intended to be delivered by Rhys Cazenove but eventually given by Peter Collingridge.


    via Tools of Change: Analytics wake-up call | Enhanced Editions

  • Tart Secrets

    We all know the benefits of using snippets and bundles to speed up our coding, but what if we could take things a step further, and turn a complex html structure into something as simple as a CSS selector? Well, thanks to a new project, called Zen-Coding, we can do this very thing!

    In this four-minute video quick tip, he shows how:

    via Learn how to Write Lightning-Fast Code in 4 Minutes: Screencast | Nettuts+.

  • 15 Brilliant CSS3 Based Articles

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    CSS3 is becoming more and more popular these days and many developers are using it regardless this is good of compatibility issues with some browsers. Today probably everyone knows about CSS3 and its features. But you can extend its use further with following awesome tutorials or resources. So go ahead and try them!

    via 15 Brilliant CSS3 Based Articles | Powerusers.

  • Wired Sussex 04.03.10 | Garage Studios

    bad hair

    Wired Sussex 04.03.10 | Garage Studios.

  • Getting British Business Online

    Businesses of every type and size need to be found online. Use our simple online tool to create your first website – no technical knowledge needed. Update your site from any computer, for free.

    via Getting British Business Online.

  • Lies and stats

    Among all the staggering stats, perhaps the lowest is the number of websites at 236 million I think – not sure as they fly past at quite a rate and I’m a bit dyslexic.

    JESS3 / The State of The Internet from JESS3 on Vimeo.

    JESS3 designed and animated this for the JESS3 lecture at AIGA Baltimore in Feb 2010.

    via Rosie Land

  • Anatomy of Apple Design on Vimeo

    Anatomy of Apple Design from Transparent House on Vimeo.

    The animation was done entirely using 3Ds Max and V-Ray render and took about 10 days to complete. Professionally done 3D visualization is the perfect tool to present concepts or new products in a beautiful, photoreal style, while creating a mood with music and conveying a message, through on-screen text or narration.

    Soundtrack: Oleg Galkin

    Transparent House used its visualization capabilities to create a tribute to a company they greatly admire on the occasion of the iPad release. The idea was to show a glimpse into the history of this product giant by modeling some of the innovative products theyve developed in their 3+ decade history. The animation was done entirely using 3Ds Max and V-Ray render and took about 10 days to complete. Professionally done 3D visualization is the perfect tool to present concepts or new products in a beautiful, photoreal style, while creating a mood with music and conveying a message, through on-screen text or narration.via Anatomy of Apple Design on Vimeo.

  • New Sony Gadgets Take Aim at Apple

  • Crunchy spanicopita

    I hate it when I make this and it always emerges soggy from the oven, so today I decided to prebake the base and cook the egg to the point of very loose scrambled egg before filling the pie. Other ingredients: feta cheese, spinach prefried in garlic, cinnamon or nutmeg. And of course butter/olive oil between sheets. Works great – just waiting for it to cool now!

  • Hotmail

    When I see this behaviour from a mature microsoft product I wonder if there is not a degree of internal sabotage, such is the appearence of this foot shooting:
    Delivery to the following recipient failed permanently:

        [email protected]

    Technical details of permanent failure:
    PERM_FAILURE: SMTP Error (state 12): 550 SC-001 Mail rejected by Windows Live Hotmail for policy reasons. Reasons for rejection may be related to content with spam-like characteristics or IP/domain reputation problems. If you are not an email/network admin please contact your E-mail/Internet Service Provider for help. Email/network admins, please visit     http://postmaster.live.com for email delivery information and support

    You’d have thought at least they’d have the decency to place me in the recipient’s spam folder and let them decide?