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Drew Strojny from the ThemeFoundry (who I knew from his lovely Traction theme ) recently asked me if I’d like to create a new WordPress theme for him. The offer-I-couldn’t-refuse was complete creative freedom, and the opportunity to make the design process visible. That doesn’t mean ‘open’ in the sense of ‘everything being up for discussion with the internets’ (that way madness lies), but documenting the steps as we go. Everyone has a different workflow, and my workflow isn’t necessarily the right approach for anyone else and vice versa. However, I still love hearing others explain their thought process – the ‘Design Eye’ panels at SXSW spring immediately to mind as being good examples. So on this blog, and on my dribbble account, I’ll be recording what happens as it goes along… Read the rest here

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Stanford University: iPhone Application Development (iTunes) : If you’re interested in teaching yourself how to develop for iPhone, this might be the ideal resource. Includes videos and presentation slides, all free of charge. And the “professors” are Apple employees Alan Cannistraro and Josh Shaffer. Don’t know Objective-C? Start following Dan Walker’s series of articles, the first titled “ Learn Objective-C: Day 1 ”. … Read the rest here

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Suggested Prime Lenses for DSLR Video : From Shane Hurlbut, an experienced cinematographer whose work can be seen in films such as We Are Marshall. … Read the rest here

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How the Old Spice Videos Are Being Made : Just yesterday I contemplated authoring something on what I think is the most fascinating advertising campaign in recent memory. I’m glad I didn’t. It wouldn’t have come anywhere close to the insight offered by ReadWriteWeb in this article. I do wish, however, that the article would have mentioned more about the equipment and software being used for the ingenious, real-time shooting. Video DSLR? Final Cut… Read the rest here

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Super Mario on Violin … Read the rest here

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Current status at the office today, the Friday before a long holiday weekend. And admittedly a test of a Tumblr video upload. … Read the rest here

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How to Make Web Content Look Stunning on iPhone 4’s Retina Display : Aral Balkan’s tutorial includes a number of helpful resources, as well as a petition to browser vendors: I’d like to suggest that browsers adopt the same naming convention that Cocoa Touch uses to find and load high-DPI versions of image and video assets. That is, if I embed an image using the following code… … it should load in flower.jpg when the device-pixel-ratio is 1 but it should attempt to find an image called flower@2x.jpg at the same relative path if device-pixel-ratio is 2 (and so on, for higher pixel-ratios), falling back to the original graphic if it can’t find a high-resolution version. … Read the rest here

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This uplifting ditty and accompanying Python-esque video about my favourite refreshment was Kula Shaker ‘s free Christmas single from 2007! We wanted George Orwell for the narration, not just because he was a T.O.F.F., but because he actually wrote a very serious article for the Times newspaper in the 1940’s about how to make a perfect cup of tea. Whilst we don’t agree completely with his rather rigid, and to be honest, quite dogmatic creed of ‘no sugar’, we still admire his pioneering work as a social prophet and old skool tea drinker. Good old George. Good on you chaps! Tagged: british , music , tea , video … Read the rest here

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“Apple of My Eye” Shot and Edited with iPhone 4 : Directed by Michael Koerbel, a graduate student at the USC School of Cinematic Arts. Update: The video now includes behind-the-scenes footage following the short film. /via First & 20 … Read the rest here

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I just died and went to heaven. Tagged: drwho , music , video … Read the rest here

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ALT/1977: We Are Not Time Travelers : Re-imagining four common products from 2010 as if they were designed in 1977: an mp3 player, a laptop, a mobile phone and a handheld video game system. … Read the rest here

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Villagers debut album “Becoming a Jackal’ has been my most played album in June. Here’s the the single ‘Ship of Promises’, with a suitably hippy video to go with it. The packaging has great artwork too… … Read the rest here

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iPhone Timelapse of St. Petersburg Sunset : So, I might have been lucky enough to capture an impressive sunset and even a brief video just 30 miles from St. Petersburg (and possibly even the same night), but Philip Bloom one-ups me by capturing the entire sunset with his iPhone 3GS using an app called iTimelapse . Only question is, what happens if you need to answer the phone in the middle of it all? … Read the rest here

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Brought up as I was on both Dr Who and the BBC production of The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, this video hits the spot with me! … Read the rest here

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Using iPad On Set : Vincent Laforet, the creative mind behind Reverie , mentions several ways he’s found use for iPad during a film shoot. There’s a brief video included in the article, too. He closes with an opinion I can agree with, even though I’ve been on a “real” set only twice in my life: I’d like to challenge Apple and other software/hardware companies to FULLY take advantage of the iPad. I’d love to be able to use it as a reference monitor for any of the cameras that I’m shooting with. I’d also like to see and grade the footage that I am shooting—LIVE. … Read the rest here

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10 Guides for DSLR Filmmakers : I hesitate linking to anything with “must read” in the title, but there are some helpful guides in this post nonetheless. … Read the rest here

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If you’re designing anything that’ll be viewed on either the iPhone or iPad, you’re going to find LiveView a godsend. It’s been out a couple of years, but I only discovered it this week. It comes in two parts – a Screencaster app for your Mac, and a companion app for the iPhone/iPad. As you work on the graphics, you can view it live on the device. An essential, and free tool. … Read the rest here

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DSLR Slate for iPad : Discussion in the DSLR video space is picking up as it pertains to using a slate (also known as a clapperboard ) in digital format, especially on iPad. Once video-capable DSLR cameras integrate time encoding (most currently do not), the discussion will only increase given the ability to download slate history or even sync the camera and slate wirelessly. This iPad slate app, developed by Chris Boyol, seems like a reasonable $5 expense for indie filmmakers. … Read the rest here

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Handcrafted CSS: A Day with Dan Cederholm and Ethan Marcotte : This workshop takes place next Monday in Nashville, Tennessee. There are still seats left, and your registration includes a copy of Handcrafted CSS, Video Edition book + DVD, and meals. … Read the rest here

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The above tilt-shift video, The Sandpit , is neither video nor tilt-shift. In an interview with Aero film , Sam O’Hare, the film’s producer, explains that the video was produced using 35,000 stills shot with a Nikon D3 and a D80. The tilt-shift effect was created in post: I did some initial tests a while back using a rented 24mm tilt-shift lens, which is the standard way to do this. However, after my tests, I found it made much more sense to do this effect in post, rather than in camera. Shooting tilt-shift requires a tripod, as it is very hard to stabilise afterwards, and gives less flexibility in the final look. I opted to shoot it on normal lenses, which allowed me options in the depth of field and shot movement in post… Read the rest here