Archive for September, 2006

London Game Festival

The first ever London Game Festival starts up next week (oct 2-7th). The week will feature a series of diverse events in different venues for different audiences. Whether you’re a gamer, a parent needing advice on games, someone working in the industry, or someone wanting to find out more about how games work and where [...]

get flagged.

Jon Chapman sends word that he has redesigned his site. The gang over at Lounge72 have 2 new interviews up for your reading pleasure. MWM Graphics has updated with a new look and new works. Jacorre shared this new Pixel Flag Collection he’s started, pretty useful for web designers.

X06

Today Microsoft kicked off their X06 Convention in Spain for their Xbox360 platform. Some big news came from the show. The original DOOM is on the xbox live arcade, TODAY!, featuring co-op and deathmatches for 800pts (i’ll be on there tonight, gamertag: silvernome). Other news was announcements for new games, including a new Banjo Kazooie, [...]

moving sale.

youworkforthem is having a big moving sale, with books goin for as cheap as $3, posters too. Maclaren McCann Direct & Interactive created the Feel Energized site for Pontiac Canada to promote the 2007 G5 on which visitors can fool around with their mouse and keyboard to create customized visual and audio representations of the [...]

grumpy freak show

Sadly, the show has come and gone, but be sure to check out the Grumpy Freak Show blog to see some of these awesome creations in progress or check out the flickr show for all the Grumpys that were featured at the show. Over 50 artist participated in this event with proceeds going to charity. [...]

weekend links.

Audrey Kawasaki has a beautiful style that must be seen. UrbanCollective is back with their 49th issue. A new issue of Profile magazine is up as well. BetterFonts has over 10,000 fonts for free. Karin and Raoul (nsfw) features some beautiful nude photography. Looking for some good CSS Layout Templates? Check these out, claiming to [...]

Lacunal

Alex Wilson sends word that he has a new book featuring his amazing photography (some which has been in our issues). The book is called “Lacunal: Volume 1” and is a collection of some of Alex’s favourite images taken during 2004 and 2005.

changelog: 092306

Added: Added Terms of Service to PB (finally) Added Interview 24 Added Interview 23 Added Interview 22 Changed: random code on PB made Support banners random (still tweaking)

Slimming Camera

File this under “WTF” or under “What’s Next?” First there was red-eye elimination, but now, HP has announced a new feature for their digital cameras, Slimming. That’s right, it will slim the person in your photo directly on the camera. I wonder, if in a few years, Photoshop will be basically useless (joking of course).

gaming in RL

Project Blinkenlights brings arcade games to life, using buildings. Looking for some wordpress themes? Check out these free ones from Fahlstad, nice assortment. The site for musician Michael Fakesch has some slick and nice flash use. Nebo Peklo has some beautiful simplistic yet detailed works. Again, thanks to Jessel for hooking us up with some [...]

design is..

Design is…. What is design to you? Seems there has been a wild fire of desktop wallpapers popping up across the net with this theme. Started with Jon Hick’s wallpaper, than spawning into takes by Shaun Inman and Dan Rubin. There is even a flicker pool dedicated to this. So, what is design to you?

the maverick doodler

Maverick Doodler, The Couscous Kid, gives the tempting nipple of naive a huge tweak in his long overdue site revamp and update. Vectortown has an interview with Niccolo Balce, good read. There are some truely awesome pieces at MingDynasty to be seen as well. Check out these photographers, all with amazing photos and some really [...]

shift those stocks

StockVault is having a competition for the best stock photo of 2006, with a grand prize of $1,000. Shift’s 118th issue is online. Tim McKenna has some beautiful photos photographers and surfers alike will love. ArtWorld has a bunch of new tutorials just waiting to be checked out.

Wii Details Announced.

Today Nintendo has announced what many a Nintendo fan / gamers have been clammering for, details of the launch and pricing of the Wii. The Nintendo Wii will be launching in North America on November 19th, 2006 for $250. Included with the system will be the system, one Wii-mote, one nunchuck style attachement and a [...]

new appleness.

There was quite the news from the Apple side of the world today. First is the release of the new iTunes 7, featuring an enhanced GUI, with new library views (well, not library anymore), which includes a really slick sliding album art viewer. What’s that? You don’t have the album art to your favorite albums? [...]