Posted by 2scoopz
here's a list of sites I go to to be inspired for interface and digital product design:
edit* ok now its time to get serious.
http://killedideas.com/
nuff said.
http://www.123vectors.com/
free vectors, uh, zhank yu.
http://www.behance.net/
Great site, as good as thefwa.com. multi-ball nerdout bonus on all things design.
http://www.blog.spoongraphics.co.uk/
good shit, another compilation site like smashing. I'll have to bubble up their articles from time to time.
http://psd.tutsplus.com/
uh, zhank yu chouji!
http://www.cssstyle.me/
web site design, i need to learn more about css.
http://www.ito-partners.com/
28th and 12th is a hike, but they have a purist approach to design. Clean lines.
http://erickvogel.com/
A good interactive art director.
http://www.thefwa.com
www.smashingmagazine.com
www.colourlovers.com
3.24.2009
proprietary
Posted by Tek Lord
My Kung Fu is nearly all proprietary, but I might be able to leak some mad Know(the)Ledge soon.
Peace to the Gods And The Earths.
My Kung Fu is nearly all proprietary, but I might be able to leak some mad Know(the)Ledge soon.
Peace to the Gods And The Earths.
3.23.2009
God Bless You Tullycast, Whoever You Are
Posted by JG
Ok, I know half of you out there can't stand Bill Maher, but I grew up on George Carlin, Public Enemy, and Politically Incorrect. Love him or hate him, Maher definitely puts the work in to make his TV show as entertaining as a political commentray show could be (stop griping about the monologues, Aresnekoff!!).. He might be a misogynistic self-righteous asshole, but I gotta say, ever since he stopped pretending to be conservative and started having actual smart people on his show (instead of just whatever flavor of the moment celebrity needed a plug), I agree with him most of the time. He also likes drugs, booze, politics, rock & roll, sports, and chicks, so judge for yourself.
I thought when I got rid of cable I would have to go over to friend's houses to watch all my favorite HBO shows (at least before they end up on TVOKAY.com or Surfthechannel.com or Quicksilverscreen). But as nerdy as I get, I still like to go out on Friday nights and have a fucking ball, or at least my friends with cable do, so I turned to youtube, which is where I discovered Tullycast.
Now up to Tullycast4, I'm pretty sure this is some guy that keeps getting booted off youtube for posting Real Time with Bill Maher in nice segments on his profile. So good luck finding him, he gets thrown off a lot, but he keeps me up to date with what I consider to be the best political show on television.
Here's some help finding the latest incarnation of Tullycast.
Ok, I know half of you out there can't stand Bill Maher, but I grew up on George Carlin, Public Enemy, and Politically Incorrect. Love him or hate him, Maher definitely puts the work in to make his TV show as entertaining as a political commentray show could be (stop griping about the monologues, Aresnekoff!!).. He might be a misogynistic self-righteous asshole, but I gotta say, ever since he stopped pretending to be conservative and started having actual smart people on his show (instead of just whatever flavor of the moment celebrity needed a plug), I agree with him most of the time. He also likes drugs, booze, politics, rock & roll, sports, and chicks, so judge for yourself.
I thought when I got rid of cable I would have to go over to friend's houses to watch all my favorite HBO shows (at least before they end up on TVOKAY.com or Surfthechannel.com or Quicksilverscreen). But as nerdy as I get, I still like to go out on Friday nights and have a fucking ball, or at least my friends with cable do, so I turned to youtube, which is where I discovered Tullycast.
Now up to Tullycast4, I'm pretty sure this is some guy that keeps getting booted off youtube for posting Real Time with Bill Maher in nice segments on his profile. So good luck finding him, he gets thrown off a lot, but he keeps me up to date with what I consider to be the best political show on television.
Here's some help finding the latest incarnation of Tullycast.
3.17.2009
happy st. paddy's!
Posted by RMM
Must start my entrance to nerd out with one of my most favoritest, bestest youtube videos of all time.
Please enjoy and dont forget to eat delicious Irish soda bread and drink a proper Irish car bomb (just say no to green beer!!) in my honor.
xo
ru
Must start my entrance to nerd out with one of my most favoritest, bestest youtube videos of all time.
Please enjoy and dont forget to eat delicious Irish soda bread and drink a proper Irish car bomb (just say no to green beer!!) in my honor.
xo
ru
3.09.2009
Street Fighter IV Is Turning Me Into An Arthritic 10 Year Old
Posted by KrsJams
Flashback:
I am 10 years old and begging my parents to give me quarters just to embarrass some teenager when I Hadoken him to death. Present Day:
So, not only did I pre-order Street Fighter IV, I totally splurged on the cheesy Collectors Edition. I haven't watched the half-assed anime yet, but I have played this game for hours on my couch. Addicted isn't the word, it's more like nostalgic, to the point of listening to the original Street Fighter II songs while playing the new game, just to feel like a kid again (they're awesome, check them out here). Seriously, I just can't help but think about the early arcade days in my hometown of Manhattan in New York City.
I am 10 years old and begging my parents to give me quarters just to embarrass some teenager when I Hadoken him to death. Present Day:
So, not only did I pre-order Street Fighter IV, I totally splurged on the cheesy Collectors Edition. I haven't watched the half-assed anime yet, but I have played this game for hours on my couch. Addicted isn't the word, it's more like nostalgic, to the point of listening to the original Street Fighter II songs while playing the new game, just to feel like a kid again (they're awesome, check them out here). Seriously, I just can't help but think about the early arcade days in my hometown of Manhattan in New York City.
It must have been the summer between 4th and 5th grade when I first played this game in the back of a lotto store around the corner from my apartment. I was kind of upset because I had been kicking ass at Bad Dudes, and they switched it before I beat the game. But this game seemed different there were two joysticks and...really? Six buttons each??!
What the shit?! Most beat 'em up games had two buttons, jump and attack (with the deadly combo of jump + attack to do a special move). Even Neo Geo arcade machines only had 5 buttons, and most of the time they didn't even use all of them. Now this six button shit comes along? I soon found out just how much I needed light, medium, and fierce (later they changed it to heavy) attacks to wreck shop on strange opponents from across the globe. I think I always played as Ryu back in the day, because I could never mess with back for two seconds. I also couldn't do the dragon punch for a long time, but that's another story, Shoryuken.
So here I am, again, 10 years old and begging my parents to give me quarters just to embarrass some teenager when I Hadoken him to death. Many quarters were lost in the Arcades of Coney Island, Penn Station (there was a massive Arcade there, now it's a fucking K-Mart), and my all time favorite: Chinatown Fair.
Hidden away on Mott Street is probably the oldest/oddest Arcade in Manhattan. Chinatown Fair, the former home of The Dancing Chicken when I was a really little kid (God bless you Mom and Dad), is now the Mecca of fighting games in NYC. Today, they still have several Street Fighter II games and lots of other Capcom fighting games. The jewels in their crown right now are the four HD screens with their individual table top controls that link up for two player games.
This shit is crazy. First of all, it costs a dollar to play some guy that's been sitting there all day in some rickety-ass chair. And then he absolutely kicks my ass and I have to go to the back of the line to wait to repeat the sad process all over again. So even though its fun to try to embarrass strangers in public I much prefer demoralizing my friends at somebody's house.I think the first home version I played was the Super Nintendo version. I played this game for so long I think I memorized all the classic music. I was finally able to do the dragon punch after someone's older brother showed me how, and I was ready stay up all night and do hurricane kicks.
I always kept up with the latest editions they released, and it wasn't long before Sega Genesis came out with the Championship Edition. Super Nintendo had six buttons, four on the face and two shoulder buttons (L and R), but Genesis only had three. At first you had to press the start button to switch from punch to kick and that was a pain in the ass, then they released the glorious six button controller. This thing was inspired, it had the exact button setup from the arcade and it changed the game at home on the Genesis.
Now, finally, after many other versions of this fighter: Alpha, EX, III, we have the next gen Street Fighter. I've been kicking ass and taking names online, so put KRSJAMS (Playstation 3 only) on your friends list and see if you got what it takes to beat this nerd!
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NERDOUT, people.
Here's a clip of the trailer and then a clip that shows my favorite combo in the game:
Was Watchmen faithful enough to the comic?
Posted by JG
Okay, so I've seen Watchmen twice in the past three days, so I consider myself somewhat of an expert on the movie (compared to others). I saw it the first time with two of my NERDOUT brothers who are serious enough to read the whole graphic novel before going to see the movie, and then the second time I saw it with a guy who used to like comics (including a real love for the Watchmen graphic novel) and a girl who is cool as shit but sadly has never been into comics.
I can't begin to tell you how different the reactions were. The NERDOUT crew couldn't stop complaining about "no bird-octopus" and "why keep this line but not that line" to the point of ridiculousness. The second group took it for what it was, and loved it.
To really see the devotion the graphic novel inspired, watch this fake intro to an imaginary Watchmen cartoon:
So here's my deal with the movie--
Better ending than the original comic ending that sucked. Come on!!! Bird octopus??? Fuck that. That was dumb, and even Alan Moore should know that.
Much better after seeing it twice to really catch everything (because I DIDN'T re-read it before going - although on a nerdy tip I'm reading it now). I totally forgot most things from the comic so there was a lot to digest. I wonder what the reviews would be like if every critic had to see it twice.
There was wayyyy too much blue penis. Even though I love that semi-omnipotence has led Dr. Manhattan to stop caring about clothes, I really was happy to only see his blue wangbone a few times in the comic. Here, it could have been listed as the third lead. But really, that couldn't have been avoided in a live action setting without getting too Austin Powersy. Speaking of which, did Mike Meyers really come out of the closet?
Patrick Wilson was pitch perfect as Night Owl Malin. Akerman, the girl who plays the new Silk Spectre, is totally hot, but a terrible actress. Billy Crudup was sort of not in the movie because I think it was all CGI but he was awesome anyway. Jackie Earle Haley was sick as Rorschach (who was definitely the audience favorite opening weekend). Jeffrey Dean Morgan killed it as the comedian and somehow made me actually like the character and even want to grow a mustache, so go that guy. Carla Gugino was there for five minutes; kind of a waste because she's so awesome and deserved more screen time.
My beef was that it was too short. I know, I know - it was almost three hours long. But who cares?? There was so much source material that it was crying out for a two parter a la Kill Bill. I heard the DVD version will have a ton of shit from the graphic novel that didn't make the cut so I'm happy about that.
Other than filling it with Oscar winning actors, I'm not sure how this movie could've been much better. I liked it; and not just cuz liking it means some Alan Moore fundamentalist will hate me. I actually think it's gonna have a place in my DVD collection one day. Take that, fanboy!!!!
Later, haters.
Okay, so I've seen Watchmen twice in the past three days, so I consider myself somewhat of an expert on the movie (compared to others). I saw it the first time with two of my NERDOUT brothers who are serious enough to read the whole graphic novel before going to see the movie, and then the second time I saw it with a guy who used to like comics (including a real love for the Watchmen graphic novel) and a girl who is cool as shit but sadly has never been into comics.
I can't begin to tell you how different the reactions were. The NERDOUT crew couldn't stop complaining about "no bird-octopus" and "why keep this line but not that line" to the point of ridiculousness. The second group took it for what it was, and loved it.
To really see the devotion the graphic novel inspired, watch this fake intro to an imaginary Watchmen cartoon:
So here's my deal with the movie--
Better ending than the original comic ending that sucked. Come on!!! Bird octopus??? Fuck that. That was dumb, and even Alan Moore should know that.
Much better after seeing it twice to really catch everything (because I DIDN'T re-read it before going - although on a nerdy tip I'm reading it now). I totally forgot most things from the comic so there was a lot to digest. I wonder what the reviews would be like if every critic had to see it twice.
There was wayyyy too much blue penis. Even though I love that semi-omnipotence has led Dr. Manhattan to stop caring about clothes, I really was happy to only see his blue wangbone a few times in the comic. Here, it could have been listed as the third lead. But really, that couldn't have been avoided in a live action setting without getting too Austin Powersy. Speaking of which, did Mike Meyers really come out of the closet?
Patrick Wilson was pitch perfect as Night Owl Malin. Akerman, the girl who plays the new Silk Spectre, is totally hot, but a terrible actress. Billy Crudup was sort of not in the movie because I think it was all CGI but he was awesome anyway. Jackie Earle Haley was sick as Rorschach (who was definitely the audience favorite opening weekend). Jeffrey Dean Morgan killed it as the comedian and somehow made me actually like the character and even want to grow a mustache, so go that guy. Carla Gugino was there for five minutes; kind of a waste because she's so awesome and deserved more screen time.
My beef was that it was too short. I know, I know - it was almost three hours long. But who cares?? There was so much source material that it was crying out for a two parter a la Kill Bill. I heard the DVD version will have a ton of shit from the graphic novel that didn't make the cut so I'm happy about that.
Other than filling it with Oscar winning actors, I'm not sure how this movie could've been much better. I liked it; and not just cuz liking it means some Alan Moore fundamentalist will hate me. I actually think it's gonna have a place in my DVD collection one day. Take that, fanboy!!!!
Later, haters.
3.04.2009
Oh Lord, Thank You For FAILBLOG
Failblog is an amazing blog of epic failures. Always worth checking out.. I'll probably do the best of failblog videos one of these days, but for now here's this awesome video:
To see more amazing videos and pics, check out FAILBLOG.
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