Draw straight lines with magic, no rulersSpanish-built Tecnilinea Pyramid Liner is a series of clever textured pads that allow you to draw either freehand lines or perfectly square straight lines… freehand. These templates have a small grid of 0.5 milimeter spaced lines through which you run your pen or pencil to make technical drawing almost fun, and certainly a lot faster. I can see potential for more advanced patterns through changing surfaces: perspectives, alignments… physical CAD! [Via Compradiccion] |
SUPERHUMAN: 4 DJs, 4 tables, sick skillsAnd violins. I will just quote a Youtube commenter: la cremme de la cremme They are French and they’re called Birdy Nam Nam. [Thanks TJ] |
WORD: Erconomics, erconomic, erconomyThe economy of ergonomics (saving through preventing injuries).
A quick google on “ergonomic economy” turns up with articles on the aforesuggested (word!) matter:
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HALOHalo theme by college teen virtuoso band Corporeal (of 3 guys playing 1 guitar fame) and a few other Halo 3 trailers that make you wish you You can count videogame franchises that have set a decade-lasting standard in their categories with a hand and a half, and while I’m no fan of First Person Shooters, watching the following trailers makes me proudly remember Halo is one of them — I actually played multiplayer Halo 2 for months. |
Blogactionday.org: All blogs, same issue, same dayWhat would happen if every blog published posts discussing the same issue, on the same day? One issue. One day. Thousands of voices. I’m so joining this. And if you happen to have a blog, so should you. [Via Zen habits] |
SUPERHUMAN: Routines that scored 10 at gymnasticsCompillation of the most stunning gymnastics from the —long gone— era of 10.0 scores. [Via Inner] |
X-beautiful weatherDrak Roasted Blend just posted a compilation of photos of unbelievable cloud formations, good/bad wather thresholds and generally beautiful things that happen in the sky when you’re not there.
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WORD: Quien mucho aparca poco abiertaDel dicho popular “quien mucho abarca poco aprieta” más su posiblemente válido opuesto “quien mucho aprieta poco abarca”. In English: “he who much embraces, little squeezes” |
The names of colors and color palettesAs some of you know, I’m colorblind. A colorblind ex-graphic designer to be precise. I didn’t quit because of my problem identifying most colors —I now actually study car design which is way more critical when it comes to chosing colors— but I inevitably have to start any color composition by picking named colors off Corel Draw’s default palette. Even reading “Light Blue Green” on the status bar makes me feel confident it is indeed a light greenish blue or something like that. Picking colors from a photo or a website is another story, and I have to rely in the pseudoscience of RGB hexadecimal code to decode what a color might actually be.
But today we have tools like Name That Color, a genial (free, open-source) web tool for everybody to check the actual real name of any color and thus the identity it’s been hiding, or select one of the 1500+ preset color names in order to get its RGB code (or just to see how the heck the color wisteria looks like). Also invaluable for many can be the several color palette generators that generate 5-20 colors based on any photograph, either a url or uploaded. For even more random inspiration, colourlovers.com has tons of custom palettes by users, but if you really want to combine colors yourself, you may want to read some advice. Now if only all the good brands of markers put actual names of colors on the labels, and not only the bad ones. |
El nuevo verbo llover (por Elrich)De entre las viñetas de El País (periódico español), las de un tal Elrich (.com) se están haciendo un hueco en mis risas a la mismísima altura de Forges. Ésta es la que ha “triggerado” que finalmente lo publique aquí:
LOL indeed. |
