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Keith Loutit time-lapse tilt-shift films

Patti Schiendelman — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 07:00:00 -0800

The North Wind Blew South from Keith Loutit on Vimeo.

Australian photographer Keith Loutit makes enchanting short films using time-lapse and tilt-shift photos. It's hard to believe these take place in the real world. Via Bent Objects

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Shared by sergeychernyshev on Nov 17, 2008 at 03:38:52 PM with comment:

Cool!

Typeface.js - embedded HTML fonts sans Flash

Jason Striegel — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 22:00:00 -0800

It's always struck me that font embedding is a huge omission from the web standards toolkit. If you're not satisfied with Georgia and Verdana, you usually need to turn to images or Flash to get the typeface you want. Tools like sIFR have made this a lot more functional, allowing you to write standard HTML and have Flash dynamically replace content in the page, but using Flash just to display HTML text seems a little unsavory. Typeface.js changes all this, providing a standards-compliant way to deliver a rich type experience using HTML and Javascript with no proprietary technologies.

typeface.js uses browsers' vector drawing capabilites to draw text in HTML documents. For a good while, browsers have had support for vector drawing -- Firefox, Safari, and Opera support the <canvas> element (as well as SVG), and IE supports VML.

You declare the particular fonts to use with the font-family attribute, just as you would normally do in CSS. Then you add the "typeface-js" class to any HTML element that should be rendered by the typeface library. The actual embedded font is delivered to the page in the form of another javascript file, which contains the vector information for the particular font face.

The cool part is that any Truetype font can be easily converted to the javascript format using a perl utility that comes with the package (or a web form provided on the typeface.js site). Simply convert any fonts that your page requires and add them to your html using the script tag. The whole process is at least as convenient as building font swfs for use in sIFR, making it a worthy open source alternative.

Typeface.js - HTML/JS Font Embed Library

Previously:
HOWTO - Use rich fonts in your web design with sIFR

Shared by sergeychernyshev on Nov 13, 2008 at 09:18:13 AM

Housing in tents times

Luke Iseman — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 10:00:00 -0800

Treehugger has an excellent overview of 30 non-standard ways to put a roof over your head in 'tents times.' Above is one of my favorite: a tent disguised as a car. Don't worry: the article is as good as the pun is bad:)

Shared by sergeychernyshev on Nov 12, 2008 at 11:55:45 PM

TEDTalks : Our cell phones, ourselves - Jan Chipchase (2007)

Thu, 18 Oct 2007 14:05:00 -0500

Nokia researcher Jan Chipchase's investigation into the ways we interact with technology has led him from the villages of Uganda to the insides of our pockets. He's made some unexpected discoveries along the way.

Shared by sergeychernyshev on Nov 11, 2008 at 11:01:18 PM

TEDTalks : The powerful link between creativity and play - Tim Brown (2008)

Thu, 06 Nov 2008 01:00:00 -0600

Designer Tim Brown talks about the powerful relationship between creative thinking and play -- with many examples you can try at home (and one that maybe you shouldn't).

Shared by sergeychernyshev on Nov 11, 2008 at 10:06:36 PM

TEDTalks : Brain magic - Keith Barry (2004)

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 07:40:00 -0500

First, Keith Barry shows us how our brains can fool our bodies -- in a trick that works via podcast too. Then he involves the audience in some jaw-dropping (and even a bit dangerous) feats of brain magic.

Shared by sergeychernyshev on Nov 11, 2008 at 08:44:06 PM

CamSpace + webcam + anything = game controller

John Park — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 17:14:40 -0800

Interesting-looking free program that uses your webcam to track any object as a rotational and translational game controller. I haven't tried it yet, but I can't wait to play Tetris with my shoe.

CamSpace is a program that allows the user to control his favorite games and applications with any webcam. Use your body and arbitrary objects to replace the mouse, keyboard and joystick! Currently, CamSpace only works for Windows, but Mac and Linux versions are on the way...

CamSpace

Shared by sergeychernyshev on Nov 11, 2008 at 08:21:14 PM

3D printer makes objects from regular paper...

Phillip Torrone — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 11:35:16 -0800

The Mcor Technologies 3D printer makes objects from regular paper... via Giz

Shared by sergeychernyshev on Nov 9, 2008 at 07:09:22 PM