Witoyo

Designer, Photographer, Illustrator, Husband, Father, Tech Enthusiast, Buddhist and one proud Apple boy

[tinycartridge]

I don’t know why there are Opoona LINE stickers ⊟

But I can accept this development. Artepiazza, developer of the 2008 Wii RPG, released this set of stickers featuring new art on the LINE messaging service. They are very cute.

I’m glad, at least, that Artepiazza has found a way to generate revenue from this old character it had knocking around. Via Japanese Nintendo.

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[mrjakeparker]

The 8 Minute Drawing Challenge (#8minutedraw) goes like this:

Pick a subject, could be anything. Like a dog, or a truck, or a helicopter, or a self portrait, or a tree house. I drew a tank this time.

Grab a sheet of paper and divide it into 6 even sections.

Click play on this 8 minute timer video: http://youtu.be/jsrQ6Iynx4w and when the timer starts you have 4 minutes to draw your subject in one of the sections.

When it beeps again you start another drawing in the second section, but this time you only have 2 minutes to draw it.

Then do it in 1 minute. Then 30 seconds. Then 15 seconds. And finally 5 seconds. Now compare your drawings. Post it online with the hashtag #8minutedraw

It’s a great exercise for getting faster and better at drawing. A side benefit is that it lays a foundation for you to find your individual style.

Watch me do the challenge here: https://youtu.be/06GxNHHREJA

[neil-gaiman]

I have been trying to write for a while now. I have all these amazing ideas, but its really hard getting my thoughts onto paper. Thus, my ideas never really come to fruition. Do you have any advice?

Write the ideas down. If they are going to be stories, try and tell the stories you would like to read. Finish the things you start to write. Do it a lot and you will be a writer. The only way to do it is to do it. 

I’m just kidding. There are much easier ways of doing it. For example: On the top of a distant mountain there grows a tree with silver leaves. Once every year, at dawn on April 30th, this tree blossoms, with five flowers, and over the next hour each blossom becomes a berry, first a green berry, then black, then golden.

At the moment the five berries become golden, five white crows, who have been waiting on the mountain, and which you will have mistaken for snow, will swoop down on the tree, greedily stripping it of all its berries, and will fly off, laughing.

You must catch, with your bare hands, the smallest of the crows, and you must force it to give up the berry (the crows do not swallow the berries. They carry them far across the ocean, to an enchanter’s garden, to drop, one by one, into the mouth of his daughter, who will wake from her enchanted sleep only when a thousand such berries have been fed to her). When you have obtained the golden berry, you must place it under your tongue, and return directly to your home.

For the next week, you must speak to no-one, not even your loved ones or a highway patrol officer stopping you for speeding. Say nothing. Do not sleep. Let the berry sit beneath your tongue.

At midnight on the seventh day you must go to the highest place in your town (it is common to climb on roofs for this step) and, with the berry safely beneath your tongue, recite the whole of Fox in Socks. Do not let the berry slip from your tongue. Do not miss out any of the poem, or skip any of the bits of the Muddle Puddle Tweetle Poodle Beetle Noodle Bottle Paddle Battle.

Then, and only then, can you swallow the berry. You must return home as quickly as you can, for you have only half an hour at most before you fall into a deep sleep.

When you wake in the morning, you will be able to get your thoughts and ideas down onto the paper, and you will be a writer. 

[jedavu]

Unbelievable Places That Look Like They’re From Another Planet

[derekdraws]

Saving this biz for later reference…you should too.

[witzer]

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Speakers (also called loudspeakers) push and pull surrounding air molecules in waves that the human ear interprets as sound. You could even say that hearing is movement detection. So what makes a speaker travel back and forth at just the right rate and distance, and how does that make sound?

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What happened to the baby from Ghostbusters II?

Oscar from cult spook sequel was actually played by twins.

Ghostbusters is turning 30 and Ghostbusters II is 25 this year. I thought this would be a good movie trivia.

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Tom Warren of The Verge:

Microsoft is moving its Lumia phones to a new home. The software maker is planning to kill off the Nokia and Windows Phone brands this holiday season, and it has now started to move Nokia.com to Microsoft.com in preparation.

As someone who used Nokia phones in the past, this is truly a sad news to me. It’s presence was always felt in the phone community. It was the brand that everybody looked up to. I frequently passed by a Nokia service center in my town and it was always full of people. Nowadays, only a few visitors would walk around like it’s a museum.

Thank you for letting me be a part of your world Nokia. You have been a great company. Good luck with your other endeavor.

[witzer]

Every Apple product photographed and published into one beautiful coffee table book. Some dedication from the creator. If you want to get a copy of this, go to http://iconicbook.com.

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Inspired by the fruit company.

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From Vimeo description page:

Who is Jeffrey Zeldman? The "Miles Davis of web design"? "Godfather of the web"? Or simply "your friend on the Internet"? For people who make websites, Zeldman is all of these and more. He's been a guiding voice in web design since the earliest days of the Internet, leading the charge in the fight for web standards. He's an educator whose businesses—A List Apart, An Event Apart, and A Book Apart—are extensions of his basic instinct to share his best ideas. He's also a community leader that other designers look to for inspiration. This film is an intimate portrait of a man who has helped shape the web but isn't recognized by most of the people who use it everyday. Learn how he evolved his influential mailing list, how he convinced Netscape and Internet Explorer to support HTML and CSS, and what he's doing to pass the torch to the next generation.

[witzer]

Speaking of saying no, here's a great talk by Jason Santa Maria about the topic.

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Say no to free work (except occasionally when you feel like doing so).

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I'm gonna get more lettering done on paper.

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“Enter Pyongyang” is another stunning collaboration between city-­branding pioneer JT Singh and flow-motion videographer Rob Whitworth. Blending time-lapse photography,…

This changes my mindset of North Korea. Whenever I think of it, the thought of militaristic and communistic came to mind. But this video showed the normal everyday sight of North Korea that a lot of people probably doesn’t know. The city area is very well built. Makes me want to go and see it for myself.

Via The Verge

[witzer]

I wonder if it really works.