I honestly don’t recall this feature in Mac OS X Leopard, so I’m going to assume it’s new in Snow Leopard. But apparently you can hover over a media file in Snow Leopard and a play button will appear allowing you to preview the file’s contents (video/song) without having to open up a specific application. There you go, I learned something today.
Designing Obama takes a look at the art behind the Obama campaign
September 18, 2009 @ 8:20 pm
Scott Thomas, the design director of the Obama Presidential Campaign, is putting together a book called Designing Obama that takes a look at the enormous effect the art community had on helping elect President Barack Obama. The book features the artwork of those people who were officially and unofficially helping the campaign gain attention in the media. Spread out among 360 pages are inspirational, beautiful, and influential pieces of art that each ended up serving its part in electing America’s first African-American President.
The wonderful thing about this book is that it’s being funded just like the grassroots movements during the campaign. Together with KICKSTARTER, Scott Thomas is hoping to raise at least $65,000 to run the minimum order of books. Any additional proceeds during the fundraiser (from now until Novemeber 4, 2009) will be used to print additional books for every single person who pledges to help this project through to the end.
Currently there are 4 levels of participation each with its own unique copy of Designing Obama. You can pledge $10, $50, $100, or $150 and if for whatever reason the book doesn’t raise at least $65,000 by November 4th, you get all of your money back — no questions asked!
Head on over to KICKSTARTER now to help get this beautiful book out the door as soon as possible!
Watch the promo video for the book below.
Designing Obama from mas / menos on Vimeo.
Bleep Bloop takes a look at an early DVD video game
September 16, 2009 @ 11:43 pm
I don’t recall ever seeing or owning any DVD video games, and after watching this video, I’m sort of glad. They look incredibly static and boring. But they certainly are funny so many years after DVD media launched.
Putting digital storage into perspective
August 29, 2009 @ 7:19 pm
Online data and backup service Mozy created a tall graphic to show just how much data storage has changed over the last couple of years. They show the amount of music, books, movies, and photos the average person carries around with them these days and relates that to older media formats. Enlightening to say the least and a bit scary as to how much one actually loses if they get a computer lost or stolen.
The image above is only a small portion of the graphic, so go here to see the entire image in full.
CNN interviews Wong Fu Productions
August 17, 2009 @ 9:56 pm
CNN took their cameras behind the scenes at Wong Fu Productions to see what 3 guys are doing to better represent Asians in media and popular culture. Watch it!
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