Maniacal Rage

∞ 10 Dec
♥ 1934

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∞ 9 Dec
♥ 5

The Grownup's Card

Shawn Morrison: There's something about having an American Express Card that makes me feel like an adult.
Shawn Morrison: Probably all the porn I'm buying with it.
Me: Yeah, Amex is great for pornography.
Me: And I agree, it is the grownup's card.
Me: My Amex biz card says "Platinum" on it and has a picture of Gladiator's head, so it's extra manly and grown up.
Shawn Morrison: Oh man, I need to upgrade to that one.
Shawn Morrison: Mine has a picture of classy hobo.
Me: We all have to start somewhere, you know?
Me: I was once a hobo, just like you.
Me: Classy, sure, but a hobo.
Shawn Morrison: Listen, this burlap spots jacket and mismatched bowtie is working just fine for me thank you very much.
Shawn Morrison: *sports
Shawn Morrison: (dammit)
Me: What a classic hobo typo.
Shawn Morrison: It's these damn cat-fur mittens.

∞ 9 Dec
♥ 17

#iphone
#webapps

Showtime, the iPhone web app

Neven Mrgan:

Nial Giacomelli has done a bang-up job with Showtime, his web app for keeping track of your favorite TV shows. It’s not fabulous “for a web app”, it’s fabulous period.

I’ve complained before about web apps versus native apps and how web apps can’t compete for the most part, but Showtime shows how great a web app can really be. Simple, focused, well designed, with good interaction and thoughtful features.

∞ 9 Dec
♥ 8

#interview

Multi-faceted: An Interview with Garrett Murray

Chris Bowler interviewed me over the course of a month, and we talked about my experience with design, developing iPhone apps, filmmaking and being a neat freak.

On not considering myself a designer:

All my design work is for my own projects—things like Ego, my sites, other web applications—I’m the client and I’m not forced to work on a deadline. I could never be a designer by trade because I’m not particularly good at it in regular intervals. I get inspiration, I sit down, I knock out a design. But then I might not design again for two months. If I had to do it every day, I would be a horrible failure.

And “selling yourself”:

It seems perfectly logical to me. I don’t begrudge anyone who is good at self-marketing, especially when they’re talented at something (or multiple things). I do get frustrated when people become famous and/or successful when they have no inherent skills other than networking—what’s the point of being well known for being useless?

It was fun to cover so many topics in one interview. If you’re interested in this sort of thing, give it a read.

∞ 9 Dec
♥ 42

#lost
#art
#tv

The Crash by Eric Tan

∞ 8 Dec
♥ 5

#matrix
#lego
#animation

Lego Matrix: Trinity Help (via kottke)

Very well done. You can’t really appreciate the attention to detail here unless you watch the side-by-side comparison.

∞ 8 Dec
♥ 7

#nerdery

Me: Where did you find that, anyway?
Brian Fling: Usenet.
Me: When you say "usenet" I immediately think "SCSI".

∞ 8 Dec
♥ 26

#batman
#art

Batman Mugshots by Evan Shaner

I love Evan’s style and this is my favorite thing he has done. I want a print of this so badly that I sent Evan a begging email to make some and sell them. I haven’t heard back, so I cry myself to sleep every night.

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The Grownup's Card