Pancake Maestro

Your weekend routine will seem a bit more drab once you see this these amazing pancakes.

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1922 Film Test in Color

This early screen test of Kodachrome film was taken in 1922. Bewitching.
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RGB Colorspace Atlas

A beautiful book by artist Tauba Auerbach that shows the colorspace of RGB in more than 3,000 pages.
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The Strange Beauty of Diagrammed Sentences

Remember diagramming sentences in elementary school. I don't know if I actually learned anything from them, but this article does remind me that I secretly enjoyed creating them. Great little history lesson on a truly weird practice.
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Fresh Guacamole

For me, Friday night usually means indulging in some tasty Mexican food. This awesome stop-motion movie by PES for Showtime has already got me hungry.


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Fotoshop Beauty Secrets

A funny video by filmmaker Jesse Rosten.
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Wimbledon Like You've Never Seen Before

WIM•BLE•DON from BRYANKU on Vimeo.
Student designer Bryan Ku dramatizes a Wimbledon match between tennis greats Federer and Nadal.
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Technical Evolution

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Cosby Sweater Project

A catalog of sweaters worn on The Cosby Show. Also, includes a painted pattern swatch.

Organizing the Bookcase

Schadenfreude Dog

Schadenfreude Dog
Originally uploaded by fatheed

Just seeing this makes my trigger finger itchy. That's the Duck Hunt dog. See more of Aled Lewis' "Video Games Vs Real Life" where all your favorite 8-bit characters live again. Awesome series.
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Long Live the Doodle

I distinctly remember my college history professor walking around the classroom as he lectured and coming up behind me as I was avidly scribbling in my notebook. However, he was a little perturbed by the large amount of doodles versus the scant amount of notes on the page. But don't underestimate the importance of doodling: Sunni Brown writes about The Miseducation of the Doodle and why doodles aren't such a bad thing and in fact can help you out.
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The Limousines Video by Mathieu Wothke

THE LIMOUSINES from Mathieu Wothke on Vimeo.

Cool video utilizing PhotoShop, the Mac OS-system and other software.

CQ/3x3 Office Featured in Lifework

This week's Herman Miller Lifework Blog features our live/work space in Brooklyn where we produce Creative Quarterly and 3x3.

“Should I Work for Free?” by Jessica Hische

Should I  Work for Free by Jessica Hische

Flowchart by Jessica Hische helps you decide whether to take that non-paying job or not.
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A Peek at Sagmeister Studios

It's truly a design studio website for our reality-obsessed, over-sharing age: Stefan Sagmeister's website that shows the studio in real-time. While away the hours watching Sagmeister's studio. Fascinating and yet a bit creepy.

Glide 2

Another post on a hi-speed film. Hi-speed camera films from moving train. Really cool.

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High Speed Video of Popcorn Popping

Core77's Annual Gift Guide

Core 77 has unveiled their 2010 gift guide. Seventy-seven gifts under $77. As always, some very cool stuff.

Cover Story

Even though Gutenberg created a wonderful new technology, it doesn’t mean that he created an industry. This article in the Boston Globe looks at the early years of printing presses and how they made money (hint: it wasn’t by printing books).
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