Haven’t posted a work in progress in a while. So I started this months ago, and finally came back to it.
Title: Untitled
Program: Photoshop CS4. Painter 12
Hours: ~15
Now this is how you do a 404.
Easter Egg of the Day: Restaurant-menu-complimenting startup Nosh has a 404 error message page that is better than most websites.
At Nosh, we are fortunate to have a relationship with several teams of ex-special forces operatives who help us track down these missing pages. When a page on this website goes rogue — and a code 404 arises — we dispatch one of our teams to bring it back. Ideally they are able to salvage the missing page, but sometimes, if the page is truly lost, they have to take it out (resulting in the subsequent code 500 when the page gets taken down).
[nosh.]
COLOURLovers by The lucre uses COLOURLovers API to pull random random color palettes and displays them in smooth animated transitions.
Words Americans use to describe the federal budget debate.
The opinion-poll numbers are here.
And this is exactly why I can’t stand US politics. As long as public debate lingers in the shallows of melodramatic and sentimental bipartisanship, policy will go nowhere.
US government is consistently stymied by a culture that passes insult-throwing as political debate. Frustrating? Confusing? Fair enough. But nobody has any right to call any politician in good faith pathetic, stupid or disgusting. You may not agree with their policies, but when was the last time you took a practical step to change the world in which you live? When did you have the guts and conviction to put your reputation on the line for a cause?
The problem can only cease when Americans stop identifying themselves as ‘Republican’ or ‘Democrat’ and begin to recognise policies for what they are: ideas. Not ‘liberal’ ideas or ‘conservative’ ideas. Not socialist or fascist. Just ideas, from minds which are probably more dynamic than yours, from people who want to make your country a better place, just like you.
That’s perspective. And when perspective begins to settle in the polity, maybe then the rest of the world will stop despising your country.
You judge American’s based off our media and assume that’s the attitude of everyone. I don’t know where you are from, but I know it would be wrong to judge you based off what I gleamed from your media outlets. People make assumptions about cultures all the time “The French are Dirty, The British have Bad Teeth, Jew’s are greedy, Irish are drunk etc” How many of these sterotypes are correct? Very few, so why is it ok to sum up American’s in the same way?
Sure some people criticize the government, it’s the given right to criticize. You would have a critical eye if the people you elected to take care of you and your country can’t look past their noses to agree for what’s best for everyone. Also it’s better that people are being this critical because it shows that they are finally caring. Which in turn can result in better people being elected. This is not a phenomenon that is isolated to US politics either, you will find these attitudes everywhere there is an organized government. So how about stop reading The Washington Post or NY Times and thinking “This is US Politics” because you’re only getting half the story.
The designers over at Degree just printed up this wicked lithograph.
(via catchmyfall)
Design work of Allan Peters
