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"posting this here so I remember it later" and other cool findings
« on: July 16, 2018, 08:01:48 AM »
During my IRL and internet travels I come across a lot of things that pique my interest, that I have a desire to share, but I can't really classify them into concrete categories in order to post them into a certain thread.

So I figured I'd make this thread to serve that function.  :doge

Also, discussion is encouraged if you see some stuff that you have knowledge about.
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« Reply #1 on: July 16, 2018, 08:02:01 AM »
Here's some books I might try and find for myself later:









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« Reply #2 on: July 16, 2018, 08:11:59 AM »
This seems like a good place to post pegging videos too.
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« Reply #3 on: July 16, 2018, 08:28:01 AM »
« Last Edit: July 16, 2018, 08:41:31 AM by Atramental »
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« Reply #5 on: July 16, 2018, 07:22:56 PM »
Apple has some nice backgrounds on their ipad pro demostations. Someone on reddit managed to nab them via airdrop.

https://9to5mac.com/2018/07/16/ipad-pro-wallpaper/

For the lazy or sane peeps that like to stay off rabid fanblogs:
-> https://wetransfer.com/downloads/2511e4a26177e5db750b72630e770ed120180715223935/6c3566
-> plus one more that somehow got lost: https://dbr.ee/cZNG
-> Imgur gallery (horribly recompressed, but easier for a casual browse): https://imgur.com/a/KbSbnxS

5K resolution, so files are a bit on the juicier, bigger side. Some neat stuff. Getting dizzy from the aerial shot though...
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« Reply #6 on: July 17, 2018, 10:55:10 AM »
Doublepost? Duncare.

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2018/07/installing_a_cr.html
-> https://boingboing.net/2018/07/09/crooks-install-skimmer-on-poin.html

Video of how quickly a credit card skimmer can be installed at a point of sales terminal. Just insane how little time it takes to slurp credit card data. :o


Bonus crap:
1) Why do I find this imageso amusing?
2) Random neat thing to look at for 0.5 seconds that you wold normally ignore: https://www.youtube.com/robots.txt
3) Arnold Schwarzenegger has a snapchat account. And it's called ArnoldSchnitzel. Yes, Schnitzel. He be looking rough, tho.
4) EU RATS! I knew it.  :o

OK, bus is here. Time to pack up and stop leeching the WLAN of a nearby restaurant.
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« Reply #7 on: July 17, 2018, 06:14:14 PM »
Just hope TVC doesn’t find this thread.
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« Reply #9 on: July 17, 2018, 09:30:52 PM »
 :drudge politico article :drudge

https://www.politico.eu/article/big-in-japan-how-the-eu-pulled-off-its-largest-trade-deal-negotiations-tokyo-phil-hogan-cecilia-malmstrom-agriculture/

This is actually pretty interesting, a small writeup on the history of the EU-Japan deal. Thank you, Trump... I guess? MEUGA.

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« Reply #10 on: July 17, 2018, 09:42:21 PM »
Quote from: Corporal on July 17, 2018, 10:55:10 AM
Doublepost? Duncare.

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2018/07/installing_a_cr.html
-> https://boingboing.net/2018/07/09/crooks-install-skimmer-on-poin.html

Video of how quickly a credit card skimmer can be installed at a point of sales terminal. Just insane how little time it takes to slurp credit card data. :o


Bonus crap:
1) Why do I find this imageso amusing?
2) Random neat thing to look at for 0.5 seconds that you wold normally ignore: https://www.youtube.com/robots.txt
3) Arnold Schwarzenegger has a snapchat account. And it's called ArnoldSchnitzel. Yes, Schnitzel. He be looking rough, tho.
4) EU RATS! I knew it.  :o

OK, bus is here. Time to pack up and stop leeching the WLAN of a nearby restaurant.
https://twitter.com/_CY17/status/1018990347974782981
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« Reply #11 on: July 18, 2018, 11:46:51 AM »
Google Calendar has these simple but classy illustrations for certain events based on keywords like "dinner, lunch, etc."

I believe this is the designer/illustrator who made them.

https://mayastepien.nl/googlecalendar.html
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« Reply #12 on: July 18, 2018, 12:39:51 PM »
It's very rare that I ever use HTML, CSS, and JavaScript since I just make website mockups in photoshop and send them over to the front end web developer.

But this resource is fairly handy beginners guide for all that stuff: https://internetingishard.com/html-and-css/
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« Reply #13 on: July 18, 2018, 03:16:12 PM »
Quote from: Atramental on July 18, 2018, 11:46:51 AM
Google Calendar has these simple but classy illustrations for certain events based on keywords like "dinner, lunch, etc."

I believe this is the designer/illustrator who made them.

https://mayastepien.nl/googlecalendar.html
She's Dutch and very talented  :rejoice
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« Reply #14 on: July 19, 2018, 03:01:11 AM »
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« Reply #15 on: July 20, 2018, 01:08:35 PM »
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2005/05/23/space-case

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What can you say about a civilization where people zip from one solar system to the next as if they were changing their socks but where a woman fails to register for an ultrasound, and thus to realize that she is carrying twins until she is about to give birth? Mind you, how Padmé got pregnant is anybody’s guess, although I’m prepared to wager that it involved Anakin nipping into a broom closet with a warm glass jar and a copy of Ewok Babes. After all, the Lucasian universe is drained of all reference to bodily functions. Nobody ingests or excretes. Language remains unblue. Smoking and cursing are out of bounds, as is drunkenness, although personally I wouldn’t go near the place without a hip flask. Did Lucas learn nothing from “Alien” and “Blade Runner”—from the suggestion that other times and places might be no less rusted and septic than ours, and that the creation of a disinfected galaxy, where even the storm troopers wear bright-white outfits, looks not so much fantastical as dated? What Lucas has devised, over six movies, is a terrible puritan dream: a morality tale in which both sides are bent on moral cleansing, and where their differences can be assuaged only by a triumphant circus of violence. Judging from the whoops and crowings that greeted the opening credits, this is the only dream we are good for. We get the films we deserve.

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« Reply #16 on: July 20, 2018, 01:19:45 PM »
It gets better :dead

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No, the one who gets me is Yoda. May I take the opportunity to enter a brief plea in favor of his extermination? Any educated moviegoer would know what to do, having watched that helpful sequence in “Gremlins” when a small, sage-colored beastie is fed into an electric blender. A fittingly frantic end, I feel, for the faux-pensive stillness on which the Yoda legend has hung. At one point in the new film, he assumes the role of cosmic shrink—squatting opposite Anakin in a noirish room, where the light bleeds sideways through slatted blinds. Anakin keeps having problems with his dark side, in the way that you or I might suffer from tennis elbow, but Yoda, whose reptilian smugness we have been encouraged to mistake for wisdom, has the answer. “Train yourself to let go of everything you fear to lose,” he says. Hold on, Kermit, run that past me one more time. If you ever got laid (admittedly a long shot, unless we can dig you up some undiscerning alien hottie with a name like Jar Jar Gabor), and spawned a brood of Yodettes, are you saying that you’d leave them behind at the first sniff of danger? Also, while we’re here, what’s with the screwy syntax? Deepest mind in the galaxy, apparently, and you still express yourself like a day-tripper with a dog-eared phrase book. “I hope right you are.” Break me a fucking give.

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« Reply #17 on: July 21, 2018, 03:46:16 AM »
How People Weave Online Information Into Pseudoknowledge

http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2056305118785639
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« Reply #18 on: July 24, 2018, 04:06:07 PM »
https://www.behance.net/gallery/50793851/Integral-CF-ultra-bold-typeface

Oh god, this font family has me all hot and bothered. So thick and strong. :noah

Most likely going to buy it for some personal projects.
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« Reply #19 on: July 24, 2018, 04:18:49 PM »
I really dig bold, full-width types like that for logos. It could come off a little generic though.
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« Reply #20 on: July 26, 2018, 06:15:17 PM »
Just adding to the collection.
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« Reply #21 on: July 26, 2018, 07:20:20 PM »
Previous ex-presidents are so self aware, there's no way Trump is going to fit in without it feeling awkward.
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« Reply #23 on: July 27, 2018, 06:37:10 PM »
Quote from: Tasty Meat on July 26, 2018, 07:20:20 PM
Previous ex-presidents are so self aware, there's no way Trump is going to fit in without it feeling awkward.
Clinton will always get the occasional intern scandal thrown at him or his speeches, foundation or Haiti.

Bush however gets away with having killed thousands of Iraqi's for no good reason and plunging much of the world into an economic crisis which he mismanaged so badly that we still suffer from the effects.
Not to mention he put some of the worst people in 'power' and authorized the use of torture and CIA black sites.

But George makes the best jokes. So all is forgiven.  :mynicca

Just look at Obama. He had to clean up most of the mess that Georgie left behind but even he can't be mad at him.  :lol
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« Reply #24 on: July 28, 2018, 01:49:47 AM »
Quote from: Atramental on July 18, 2018, 12:39:51 PM
It's very rare that I ever use HTML, CSS, and JavaScript since I just make website mockups in photoshop and send them over to the front end web developer.

But this resource is fairly handy beginners guide for all that stuff: https://internetingishard.com/html-and-css/

HTML+CSS+JS is literally the easiest thing ever tho :thinking

Then again it's almost part of my DNA at this point so I may be biased.
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« Reply #26 on: July 28, 2018, 01:59:27 AM »
Quote from: Tasty Meat on July 26, 2018, 07:20:20 PM
Previous ex-presidents are so self aware, there's no way Trump is going to fit in without it feeling awkward.
That's why you rarely see Carter with the rest unless they're all getting together for some formal thing. Ford was the only one who liked him.

George W. calls Bill Clinton his "brother from another mother" after George H. W. adopted Bill. And they started doing all the hurricane/earthquake/etc. relief stuff. I have to assume W.'s trying to make Obama part of the club no matter how he feels about Bill.
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« Reply #27 on: July 28, 2018, 01:59:42 AM »
speaking of W:


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« Reply #28 on: July 28, 2018, 02:29:46 AM »
Quote from: Tasty Meat on July 28, 2018, 01:49:47 AM
Quote from: Atramental on July 18, 2018, 12:39:51 PM
It's very rare that I ever use HTML, CSS, and JavaScript since I just make website mockups in photoshop and send them over to the front end web developer.

But this resource is fairly handy beginners guide for all that stuff: https://internetingishard.com/html-and-css/

HTML+CSS+JS is literally the easiest thing ever tho :thinking

Then again it's almost part of my DNA at this point so I may be biased.
To a degree. I used to build web pages in HTML & CSS. Then responsive design for phones & tablets became mandatory and I kinda gave up after that. Plus, it wasn't really something I was eager to learn more about.

I rather be creating fun things (to me at least) like logos and vector illustrations instead of websites & user interfaces. Especially since most of our clients don't like stuff that's too innovative or different for their websites.

For example: trying to create websites, like the ones that are featured here, would be a hard sell for our boomer clients. Plus, a lot them don't have the budget for a creative and unique website.


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« Reply #29 on: July 28, 2018, 02:40:19 AM »
Unique and creative websites are literally the worst.

The best websites adhere to standard UX conventions. They're accessible. They support internationalization. They don't reinvent the wheel.

Old people contracting out websites are the worst and they should just fucking die already.
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« Reply #30 on: July 28, 2018, 02:47:24 AM »
Hence when I'm kinda miserable as a UI/UX designer most of the time.  :lol

I like making weird shit and UI/UX isn't really about weird shit.

I can admire functional design but at the end of day I just want to make things that push people outside of their comfort zones.

Too bad being a "true artist" is a great way to starve for most people.


Here's a designer I came across recently due to his work with Oneohtrix Point Never: http://davidrudnick.org/

I feel like his body of work really bridges a gap between art and design.

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« Reply #31 on: July 28, 2018, 02:57:57 AM »
I love one-off transgressive websites.

Most websites should not be transgressive.

Unless you're a true autist, do not make your website harder to use than it should be.
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« Reply #32 on: July 28, 2018, 03:07:25 AM »
Don't worry. I know better. Also, I like to eat and have a roof over my head.

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During my spare time I am creating my own "alter design persona" though.
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« Reply #37 on: August 05, 2018, 06:30:35 PM »
Quote from: Vincent Van Gogh
Just as we take the train to go to Tarascon or Rouen, we take death to go to a star. What’s certainly true in this argument is that while alive, we cannot go to a star, any more than once dead we’d be able to take the train. So it seems to me not impossible that cholera, the stone, consumption, cancer are celestial means of locomotion, just as steamboats, omnibuses and the railway are terrestrial ones.
http://www.vangoghletters.org/vg/letters/let638/letter.html#translation

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« Reply #38 on: August 13, 2018, 10:05:32 PM »








I want this book for... reasons.  :doge
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« Reply #41 on: September 05, 2018, 10:53:50 AM »
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Late reply, but I have that Milo Rigaud Secrets of Voodoo book. It’s good, but it’s from the 50s or 60s and is dated in some respects in regard to history and the breadth and interconnectivity of related subjects—this is primarily Haitian voodoo, not the New Orleans/Louisiana or Cuban takes on it, and I don’t recall it diving into syncretism all that much, which is an amazingly interesting area, especially when you consider it in relation to all the voodoo variants (and and religions that had a similar-ish origin like santeria and palo).

It has lots of cool pics and illustrations. If you want any cool voodoo-y symbol pics with a description, let me know and I will provide.
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