August 2008 Thirty-two posts

• 31-Aug-2008
  The Pain of Paying; Decline of Credit Worth a read, via Paul Kedrosky: The Death of the Credit Card Economy: This shock to the system may further damage the already-fragile psychology of the consumer. Writing a check or deducting the price of a pair of shoes directly from your bank account packs a much more potent emotional punch than charging the pair...

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• 31-Aug-2008
  Rollerskating Ninjas Perfect. via Japan Probe.

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• 29-Aug-2008

  
  Chris and Pensacola (I explain the title of this entry at the end of the post–in case you were wondering) Yesterday I drove to Union Station to see my friend Chris Greazel. Chris I’ve known for over 20 years, ever since he was the artist and I was sort of the cartoonist at my high school. He’s still...

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• 29-Aug-2008

  
  Digital Breast Reduction in Pixar’s Knick Knack jwz has all the details on the breast reduction that took place in the re-release of Knick Knack. I remember seeing Knick-Knack at a computer animation festival and at other animation tournees in San Diego and I do remember the original version. In fact, I think I have a VHS tape with the original versions...

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• 29-Aug-2008
  Yahoo! Mash Shuts Down Huh. Okay. You can see what my Mash profile looks like today only at http://mash.yahoo.com/websandiego. I wonder what Yahoo! will do in terms of social networks now? I think they’re focussed on OpenSocial, whose aim is to federate social software. I guess if you can’t build something standalone, build tools to embrace and extend other...

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• 29-Aug-2008

  
  Animation: Initial energy lost in final product This is a problem in all the arts, I think. The energy of a a musician’s demo is higher than the final recorded song. A sketch is more fun than a final drawing. It’s acute here in the storyboard and the final rendering from the new film Bolt: Funny commentary from Cartoon Brew:

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• 28-Aug-2008
  Vote for Abigail for Southwest Blog-o-spondant Abigail, who runs a pretty great blog, is trying to blog for Southwest Airlines. She’d be great at this: Here’s what she just posted: I have submitted a video application for the Southwest Airlines Blog-o-spondant. It’s a really cool blogging gig and I really, really want it. I kind of think it’s perfect for me,...

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• 27-Aug-2008

  
  Site Launch: The Prosser Group I worked with Ron Prosser, CEO of The Prosser Group to get this site built this week. It’s a relatively straightforward site. It’s a rare occasion that I do design these days, but this was a fun one to build, and a nice piece of freelance work. Nice when a site can come together quickly....

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• 25-Aug-2008
  Penetrators: Shopping Bag Another piece of culture I’d never seen, via PCL Linkdump. I had heard of the band Penetrators but I’d never heard anything by them that I was aware of. The video is nearly perfect in its chaotic silliness. The song has a perfect hook too.

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• 25-Aug-2008
  Web Anthropology, particularly YouTube Anthropologist Dr. Michael Wesch talks about Digital Ethnography. He puts YouTube in perspective and reminds me I love it despite the fact that one needs a tool like Comment Snob sometimes to appreciate it.

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