Blue Sheep Studios Blog

Daily Photo: Oldschool

Alek — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 00:51:47 +0000

Falling Photos: Flickr Edition

Alek — Sat, 02 May 2009 00:43:56 +0000

Haven’t posted in ages. After a long break I like to share some more falling photos. Just can’t seem to get enough.

Daily Photo: Perfection

Alek — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 02:41:56 +0000

New MacBook Pro screen too shiny!

Alek — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 17:31:48 +0000

With the release of the new Macbook Pro, I am SOOO close to wanting one. But — and it’s a big but — Apple seems to have made a screen with exceptional color and contrast along with serious daytime usability issues. I’ve seen ‘em in the stores. The reviews are right. The thing is more reflective than my bathroom mirror.

Benek says it all quite well on his letter to Steve Jobs:

For the love of god and everything that’s good and holy in this world why the hell did you make all of the new MBP screens ultra-glossy!?

It’s a shame to see such and all around awesome product be ruined by a screen that in almost all daytime settings is unusable. Some designers actually work during the day!

There are certainly some who disagree, but I think many current users and MacBook dreamers alike are wanting to see an already great product improved with user feedback in mind. Sure the glossy screens produce great colors and contrast, but being able use one in a less than pitch-black room is clearly more important.

If Apple takes this kind of criticism to heart and updates the screen options it would do LOT to please many users. No one wants to have to buy some matte finish sticker thing and stick it to their screen. If you are paying a premium for something like this (which you certainly are with Apple), then it should have an excellent screen out of the box. Make the fix (offer a matte option), and I’m one more new customer to add to the list!

Daily Photo: Yellow

Alek — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 18:05:32 +0000

More Falling Photos

Alek — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 21:24:30 +0000

I’ve previously posted about two photographers I love. Both Julia Fullerton-Batten and Denis Darzacq have a thing for capturing people falling or in a suspended state. I love their stuff so much I’m back with more from these two greats, as well as a few other “falling” photos I’ve stumbled across.

Li Wei

view the whole series at Hemmy.net

*vaporiss

Julia Fullerton-Batten

Denis Darzacq

view the whole series at his website

ME!

…and one of my own just for fun.

ShiftSpace: a new internet

Alek — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 00:36:59 +0000

ShiftSpace is a brilliant concept: an open-source layer built on top of the existing websites that lets you reorganize and recontextualize information with several handy editing tools. Immediately I think of what a time-saver this would have been for those countless university research papers, now that the internet has almost completely replaced the library as our primary reference source. With ShiftSpace you can reorganize the seemingly endless content on the net into a more manageable community web of information.

From the ShiftSpace website:

…control over how users interact online has given us largely centralized and closed systems. The web has followed the physical transformation of the city’s social center from the (public) town square to the (private) mall. ShiftSpace attempts to subvert this trend by providing a new public space on the web.

…a ShiftSpace user can invoke a new meta layer above any web page to browse and create additional interpretations, contextualizations and interventions – which we call Shifts. Users can choose between several authoring tools we’re working to develop – which we call Spaces. Some are utilitarian (like Notes and Highlights) and some are more interventionist (like ImageSwap and SourceShift). Users will be invited to map these shifts into Trails. These trails can be used for collaborative research, curating netart exhibitions or as platforms for context-based public debates.

Think a little further and a whole host of professionals could benefit from these tools. Bloggers can find and connect related information and commentary much quicker and easier by highlighting relevant text, and leaving notes and trails to further reading. Designers can pool together inspirational artwork, and swap images to make the web their own customized inspirational resource. Coders can can reference tutorials, post code snippets, or manually alter or insert new html source code to hack together their own interpretations of existing sites, or to combine resources. There’s no end to what’s possible. Plus, with an entire community soon to be Shifting the web, heaps of other Shifts are available for you to view, enabling you take advantage of the clipping, highlighting, note taking, and code shifting that others have done.

Even if this concept seems a bit overwhelming, take a look at some of the videos they have outlining the main features, and you may just be inspired to Shift a little yourself. Getting started is a Firefox extension away.

Type is Art

Alek — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 18:21:38 +0000

Please go check out Type is Art : An Interactive Exploration of the Typographic Form. There you’ll find a great little Flash app that let’s you create any form you can think of out of type/font parts. It’s very easy to loose an hour or so as you explore what you can create with a few simple shapes.

Type is Art is am Interactive Flash driven exploration of the typographic form.

If you like what you create, you can save it. Or browse the gallery to see what others have created. Some of them are far more talented than me with letter parts!

Windy, sunny, Saturday, park-day

Alek — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 00:34:39 +0000

The seasons sure are a changin’ (well as much as they can in SoCal). Last night the cool air and winds hit. Today is more of the same. Leaves, sand, and dead palm branches are scattered everywhere.

Recycled Tele-sheep!

Alek — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 23:27:02 +0000

I’m not sure where these images originated. (If any of you find a source, please let me know, and I will reference it.) What you are seeing is an installation at the The Museum of Communications in Frankfurt, a heard of sheep created from recycled telephone cords, headsets, and entire phone bodies!

Think the simulated wool is cool, look at the heads and feet!

Update…

Just found a bunch more images here for your viewing pleasure.