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Braucht man wohl nicht wirklich - aber ein paar nette Effekte lassen sich damit schon erzielen. Gibt´s für $25,- bei Photojojo:

The clock is a link to the traditional 'memento mori' - an object designed to remind us that life is brief and that we should make the most of the time we have.

Wird mal wieder Zeit für ein selbstgemachtes Mixtape passend zum Samstag heute:



Tracklisting:

James Blake: CMYK
Zola Jesus: Seekir
Burial: Unite
Battles: Atlas
Salem: Till The World Ends (Britney Spears Cover)
Apparat: Black Water
John Frusciante: Central
WU LYF: Dirt
Holy Other: Yr Love
Gil Scott-Heron & Jamie XX: NY is killing me
Joy Division: Transmission
Mount Kimbie: Carbonated
Four Tet: Locked

» via Design You Trust

Nach den 15 kostenlosen Responsive Wordpress Themes neulich gibt´s bei DesignM.ag nun 26 weitere responsive Webdesigns als Inspirationsquelle:

Destino is an animated short film released in 2003 by The Walt Disney Company. Destino is unique in that its production originally began in 1945, 58 years before its eventual completion. The project was a collaboration between American animator Walt Disney and Spanish painter Salvador Dalí, and features music written by Mexican songwriter Armando Dominguez and performed by Dora Luz.[1] It was included in the Animation Show of Shows in 2003.

Wer mittels Html und CSS schon einmal versucht hat Formular-Elemente für alle Browser zu vereinheitlichen und zu stylen wird garantiert den ein oder anderen Fluch weit unter der Gürtellinie ausgestossen haben.
Das Mini-Framework Ideal Forms, basierend of jQuery, schafft Abhilfe:

- Ideal Forms is a small framework to build powerful and beautiful online forms.
- It's very easy to use and requires minimal html syntax.
- Absolutely everything is stylable with css, no images needed.
- Support for IE 7+, Firefox 3+, Chrome 3+, Safari 3.1+ and Opera 11+.
- Degrades gracefully with javascript disabled.

...die jeder Designer beherrschen sollte, gibt´s in diesem umfangreichen Blogpost bei WeGraphics. Von Keyboard-Shortcuts, Aktionen und Batch-Processing bis hin zu Masken und Smart Objects werden alle wichtigen Grundlagen erklärt.



» via Photoshop-Weblog

with tiny leaves around it.

Video zum Thema Medienkompetenz, welches im September 2011 in vielen Kinos gezeigt wird. Es geht dabei um die unerwünschte Begegnung mit dem eigenen Profil. Das Video soll das Webangebot unter www.netzdurchblick.de promoten.

Supercut of the Day: A supercut of people in movies and TV shows telling other people that their mores are outmoded because “it’s the 90s,” which, of course, is such a quintessentially 90s thing to say.

Und nicht vergessen: "1990 was 20 21 years ago"



» via The Daily What

Another World ist für mich immer noch eines der besten Action/Arcade-Games überhaupt - selten gab es zuvor solch ein Storytelling gepaart mit den (damals) atemberaubenden Charakter-Animationen.



Umso mehr verwundert es mich, dass das Game inzwischen für iOS verfügbar ist - ich kann mir persönlich um ehrlich zu sein nicht vorstellen wie der recht hohe Schwierigkeitsgrad über eine Touch-Steuerung zu meistern ist.
Wie auch immer - hier der Trailer:



Und hier der iTunes-Link (aktuell $4.99 - gebt mir bitte Bescheid sobald eine Android-Fassung verfügbar ist ;))

P.S.
Ist das Release wirklich 20(!!) Jahre her?

Released across more than a dozen platforms since its 1991 debut, Another World has attained cult status among critics and sophisticated gamers alike for its cinematic effects in the graphics, sound and cut scenes.

Another World chronicles the story of a young scientist hurtled through space and time by a nuclear experiment that goes wrong. You assume the role of Lester Knight Chaykin who has to dodge, outwit, and overcome the host of alien monsters and deadly earthquakes that plague the alien landscape he finds himself within. Only a perfect blend of logic and skill will get Lester past the deadly obstacles that lie in wait.

20TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION REDESIGNED FOR IPHONE & IPAD

For its 20th Anniversary Edition, Another World has been redesigned to fit iOS gaming standards and young gamers' expectations:

• Remastered graphic environment with both original and upgraded graphics which support the high definition iPad format as well as the iPhone 4's Retina Display
• Switch between Original/HD graphics by using 2 fingers at any time
• 2 game controls, New intuitive touch controls or classic D-pad
• 3 difficulty modes, Normal (easier than the original game), Difficult (Equal to the original) and Hardcore (more difficult than the original)
• Sound and SFX fully recreated to make the most of the iOS audio capabilities
• Game Center support with 13 achievements to unlock
• Support in 5 languages (English, French, Italian, German, Spanish)