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The Perfect Recipe.

Stuffed animals.  Explosives.  Need I say more?

Posted by: Andrew Ball on Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008

Categories: Art, Fun, Inspiration | 1 Comment »

We Feel Fine.

Some lovely Flash work, great infographics and an interesting idea, all mashed up.

Posted by: Andrew Ball on Wednesday, February 27th, 2008

Categories: Fun, Inspiration, Pop Culture | 2 Comments »

A new typography term.

Keming.  I give this about a week before it’s used industry wide.  And it’s available as a t-shirt.

Posted by: Andrew Ball on Wednesday, February 20th, 2008

Categories: Pop Culture, Typography | 2 Comments »

You Suck At Photoshop #4.

Here’s this week’s episode of You Suck At Photoshop on Paths and Masks, in which Donny works on an image for an eBay auction.  As he says, you need to watch this “because you’ve only been using about $75.00 worth of [...]

Posted by: Andrew Ball on Wednesday, January 30th, 2008

Categories: Education, Fun, Uncategorized, We love | No Comments »

You Suck At Photoshop.

“My name is Donny and you suck at Photoshop…”  So begins episode 3 of the tragic and funny tutorial series, You Suck At Photoshop, in which Donny teaches you how to use Photoshop, while focusing on the breakdown of his ma [...]

Posted by: Andrew Ball on Friday, January 18th, 2008

Categories: Education, Fun, We love | No Comments »

Samurai Cinema and you.

My passion for samurai films is really unreasonable.  Well, for that and Yakuza films.  And the films of Takashi Miike, Miyazaki, Studio Ghibli, anything Takeshi Kitano was ever in (especially Brother), Japanese serials like Lone Wolf and [...]

Posted by: Andrew Ball on Monday, January 7th, 2008

Categories: Art, Film, Inspiration, Pop Culture, Vancouver | No Comments »

Simple. Not simplistic.

Sometimes ideas come together in a collision, creating sparks. And for one, brief moment, you can see something in a new light, something you may not have seen before. This afternoon, I read David Pogue’s review of a new phone offering, [...]

Posted by: Andrew Ball on Monday, November 12th, 2007

Categories: Interactive, Learning, Reading, Technology | No Comments »

Backup isn’t sexy (a short screed).

I work in a world of data. Most of what I do directly involves the manipulation of data or the transfer of data from A to B. Most of what my clients do is manipulate or transfer data from A to B. Indeed, most of my clients are paid by t [...]

Posted by: Andrew Ball on Sunday, October 21st, 2007

Categories: Technology | 1 Comment »

As it turns out, UI is, occasionally, rocket science.

I am not a designer. I am…well…something else. So everything I know about UI and Human-Computer Interaction has been learned the hard way: spending countless hours using software and websites and wrestling with a UI so bad I wanted to [...]

Posted by: Andrew Ball on Saturday, October 6th, 2007

Categories: Design, Learning | No Comments »