Archive for May, 2008

Papercraft

Some nice examples of paper craft. Biggest part of these works are made just from one sheet of paper.

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Computer bottle

No, it’s not a whiskey - it’s a fully functioning computer. Yeah, sometimes computer modding could be real fun.

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Wine bag

White wine Gallo rosé wine White Grenache


Friday’s fun

For small peace of fun in this friday’s evening. Go to site tatuagemdaboa.com.br. Enter your name in first row but your girlfriend’s (or other beloved person’s) name in second row … and watch.

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Wedding ring

Wedding ring for true geeks. But i really love the idea. Thre is amessage behind. Something like “we’re connected now”.

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Acronyms and photography

I just came around of list of Canon specific acronyms used in conection with photography. This list is made by photographer  Joe Kurkjian to help out folks that don’t speak English as their first language.
AA - anti aliasing
ACR – Adobe Converter RAW, the RAW converter included in PS
ADC - analog to digital converter
A/D - analog [...]


Free Alien theme icons

Russian icon design company TurboMilk offers free alien themed icon set for free download. They come for Windows, Macos and as PNG files. Icons can be freely used for personal noncommercial purposes. Give credits to http://www.turbomilk.com in case of public use

They have also two tutorials on icon drawing:

Drawing an Icon: Sketches and Metaphors
Drawing an icon: [...]


Stylish steampunk lamps

Some very nice steampunk styled lamps. I’d like to have one myself.

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Creative Braun ads

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Design your tomb

Don’t wait when others will do it for you! Design your tomb by yourself and do it right now. All you have to do - download template from tombdesign.com and release your creativity.

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