Choosing the best screen resolution for your screencasts — from The Screening Room by Lynn Elliott
On 04/27/2011,
in design, digital video, elearning, graphics, online learning, online media, productivity / tips and tricks,
by Daniel Christian
From DSC:
First of all, I ran across this item:
Which reminded me of this item:
Which reminded me of some great feedback from Randall Pruim, Associate Professor of Mathematics and Statistics at Calvin College, who wasn’t impressed with the importance or mysteriousness of this particular sequence or the above video clip…but who also provided me with some papers, each with the words “The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics” in the title:
- Wigner, E. (Feb., 1960). The unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics in the natural sciences. Communications in Pure and Applied Mathematics, Vol. 13(1). New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Retrieved at http://www.dartmouth.edu/~matc/MathDrama/reading/Wigner.html.
- Hamming, R.W. (Feb., 1980). The unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics. The American Mathematical Monthly, Vol. 87(2). pp. 81-90. Retrieved from http://www.math.lsa.umich.edu/~mduchin/UCD/111/readings/hamming.pdf
Anyway, I can’t say I understand all of this. But I believe God’s fingerprints are on many events, things, and changes that we experience — some of these things we see, but many are invisible.
May your Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, and Easter morning be especially meaningful this year for you and yours! Here’s to our Creator, Redeemer, and Friend!
Peace,
Daniel Christian
On 04/21/2011,
in design, digital learning, digital photography, digital storytelling, digital textbooks, graphics, online media, photography,
by Daniel Christian
40 free premium stock images to spice up your education blog — from EduDemic
From DSC:
I also like istockphoto.com — very reasonable for pricing. I’ve heard Blue Vertigo is a good place to start as well.
Some other ones I used to keep track of — several of which are NOT free — as well as some potentially interesting/helpful sites to you — are:
- PicLits.com
- http://visualsymbols.com/Dispatch.pl?do=display_page&page=about_how.tmpl
- http://www.gograph.com/
- http://www.shutterstock.com
- http://www.graphics-free.com/index.html
- http://www.fotosearch.com
- http://creative.gettyimages.com/source/home/home.aspx
- http://www.digitalvisiononline.com/
- http://www.indexstock.com/ <– http://www.photolibrary.com/
- http://picturequest.com/
- http://www.photonica.com/
- http://www.eyewire.com/
- http://images.com/
- http://corbis.com/
- (Really) Stunning Desktop Wallpapers
Stunning desktop wallpapers related to typography, art, technology, photography and abstract themes. - 35 (Really) Incredible Free Icon Sets
Amazing free icon sets which you can use for your web designs or your desktop. - 100 Excellent Free WordPress themes
Together with hundreds of other designs, these themes have been manually selected, installed and tested. They all can be used for free in personal and commercial projects. - 40+ Excellent Freefonts For Professional Design
An overview of over 40 excellent free fonts you might use for your professional designs in 2008. - Also see –> Royalty Free Music and Images — from Creating Lifelong Learners blog
- For icons, see iconfinder.net
On 04/06/2011,
in design, future, internet, mobile technologies, web design and production,
by Daniel Christian
Designing for the future web — from SmashingMagazine.com by James Gardner
Design tips — from blog.99designs.com
- What Separates Good From Great? – http://bit.ly/fLztMk
- 100 Principles for Designing Logos and Building Brands – http://bit.ly/ewI24G
- The Difference Between Pixel and Vector-Based Graphics – http://bit.ly/f16Ne7
- Web Design Tips & Advice from A to Z – http://bit.ly/fbOhyI
- Why whitespace matters – http://bit.ly/g1ILJf
- A Simpler and Faster Alternative to Wireframes – http://bit.ly/hPpLou
- 35 Websites with Outstanding Use of Textures – http://bit.ly/fIV3xu
- Top 10 Dos and Don’ts of Web Typography – http://bit.ly/hKlcb0
- The 100 Best Fonts – http://bit.ly/gRc4e3
- How to Create Brochure Mockups in Photoshop – http://bit.ly/ebGVWy
- How Nationality Reflects In Artworks – http://bit.ly/ihVzOa
On 03/21/2011,
in Adobe, art, creativity, design, graphics, human-computer interaction (HCI), innovation, interactivity, media/film, new media literacies,
by Daniel Christian
Adobe Museum of Digital Media announces new exhibition: John Maeda: Atoms + Bits = the neue Craft (ABC) — from finance.yahoo.com
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SAN JOSE, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– The Adobe Museum of Digital Media (www.adobemuseum.com) is pleased to announce its second exhibition, John Maeda: Atoms + Bits = the neue Craft (ABC), on view March 23 to Dec. 31, 2011. The exhibition is a digital representation of Maeda, president of the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), leading an interactive lecture on how artists are connecting the worlds of digital creativity and analog (or handcrafted) creativity. Titled Atoms + Bits = the neue Craft (ABC), the lecture underscores the mission of the AMDM to provide an interactive venue for presenting digital media works as well as providing a forum for expert commentary on how digital media influences culture and society.
According to Maeda, “Computers let us imagine digitally what we once could only validate by handcraft in physical form – the infinite malleability and reusability of bits have forever changed the creative process. But just as it took Icarus to first imagine human flight by carefully observing how birds can fly, digital tools have relied on many of the original tools and media used by artists in the pre-digital world.” Maeda sees the thread that runs between the tools of physical art making – such as pens, brushes and pigment – and the way new media has co-opted many of the same tools to manipulate bits in digital art. Through the exhibition, he examines the history of linking analog and digital creativity within his own work and the works of others.
On 03/08/2011,
in art, design, digital storytelling, graphics, story, storytelling,
by Daniel Christian
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Addendum 3/14/11:
- 60% reached on kickstarter – new videos online!Yesterday, 60% of the funding goal for the Wormworld Saga App was reached on kickstarter.com and like I promised, here’s the next batch of videos in the “Art of the Wormworld Saga” series.
On 03/04/2011,
in design, future, technologies for your home, usability, user experience (UX),
by Daniel Christian
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[Adobe] Photoshop vs Illustrator: Raster vs Vector — from macprovideo.com
20 sets of free and awesome watercolor textures — from webdesigncore.com
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30 Amazing Examples of Camera Toss Photography — from webdesigncore.com
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