When I look over the scope of a fairly intensive project, it’s pretty daunting. I see a colossal list of components for a design and try to comprehend how I’m going to manage it all. And with most design projects, each successive layer builds on the previous one. Read more
Photographer Jon Shireman soaked flowers in liquid nitrogen and then shattered them for his 2010 photo series“Broken Flowers.”
This is a sketch I created this weekend that I was thinking about submitting to one of those t-shirt contests online. Let me know what you think. If enough people like/comment/share it, perhaps I’ll enter a contest. Otherwise, it was just a fun exercise in drawing and bad punning.
This site gives you an opportunity to transform your face in a variety of ways (ethnicity, age progression/regression, artistic rendition by great painters, etc.). Below is the gallery of my face created from the site.
The last three photos were an experiment. I used a photo of myself as a child to see how accurate it was on how I would look now, as an adult, and later, as an old man. I also think I’d make a kickass anime character.
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Artist Maisie Broadhead originally trained as a jeweller and now produces fine art photographic parodies. Her work is being featured as part of a ground-breaking exhibition at the National Gallery. As part of the exhibition Jack Cole and Maisie Broadhead directed a video to be hung next to the 1844 photographic print by Hill and Adamson that it references. It was Produced by Cap Gun Collective, Edited by James Norris at Whitehouse London and Post and VFX by Carbon FX. It recently aired on Channel 4’s “Random Acts”.
In the past, I’d had a few more DIY photologs (Making a Closet, Making a Patio, Making a Genovese) and thought it was about time that I put a new one online.
Last month, our Linux sandbox server died—presumably from heat prostration. So while we were shopping around for a new one, we thought: “wouldn’t it be better if we just built the server ourselves rather than ordering some pre-fab system that doesn’t really suit our needs?” (tons of fans, Debian Lenny/Linux, small, etc.). The parts arrived a few days later. Above is a gallery of the server construction. I’m happy to report that for the last few weeks, the server has been quietly humming without any problems.
Here’s a the step-by-step process of the server’s installation. Below the gallery, you can see a list of the parts we ordered.
| Part | Price |
| Rosewill R101-P-BK 120mm Fan MicroATX Mid Tower Computer Case Item #: N82E16811147112 |
$29.99 |
| Foxconn A76ML-K 3.0 AM3 AMD 760G Micro ATX AMD Motherboard Item #: N82E16813186215 |
$44.99 |
| Hitachi HDS721616PLA3 80 160GB 3.5″ SATA 7200RPM 8MB Pull Drive Item #: EBTECH-719855 |
$33.99 |
| LOGISYS Computer AC610 92mm Hydro Beta 10 AMD CPU Cooler Item #: N82E16835999041 |
$12.99 |
| Sony Optiarc 24X DVD Burner, Bulk Package Black SATA Model AD-7280S-0B – OEM Item #: N82E16827118067 |
$16.99 |
| COOLER MASTER R4-C2R-20AC-GP 120mm Case Fan Item #: N82E16835103061 |
$9.99 |
| AMD Athlon II X2 250 Regor 3.0GHz Socket AM3 65W Dual-Core Desktop Processor ADX250OCK23GM – OEM Item #: N82E16819103904 |
$52.99 |
| hec HP485D 485W ATX12V Power Supply – Power Cord Included Item #: N82E16817339020 |
$29.99 |
| G.SKILL Value 4GB 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1333 (PC310666) Desktop Memory Model F3-10666CL9S-4GBNT Item #: N82E16820231423 |
$20.49 |
| Total | 252.41 |
My new design for a friend’s tattoo has been featured on The Daily Glyph. The design is an homage to Herb Lubalin and based roughly on the font Antique Ancienne (note his studio logo, at that link).