A very interesting video about the cultural phenomenon of “the hipster”

To be honest, like just about most people in the video, I have a very VERY vague idea of what the “culturally modern hipster” is. But basically my definition of the hipster of our day is: “cultural elitist with a lot of money.” Or with little money, but will spend like no tomorrow to make sure they’re on top with what’s “in”

Personally, because of that I consider it an insult to be called a “hipster.” Granted, I’m a graphic designer, I own a Mac, and I probably look like one to a certain extent…seriously, I could care less about having the latest thing around.

But it is interesting to read about LOLL

Who knew there were 12 different Slinky commercials? har.

Love the hilarious subliminal messaging in slinky commercial #3 that tells you that “YOU WANT TO GET A SLINKY” (YES YES YOU DO! hurrhurrhurr)

I too, still build some of my LEGO like they do (i.e. pixelated-looking people and animals)

Sometimes I wonder why we stopped doing musical commercials.

http://laughingsquid.com/adobe-reveals-next-generation-image-deblurring-software/

With respects to hotlinking, I discourage it and I really don’t like it. Mostly because I come from the age of when bandwidth wasn’t cheap (to me anyway) and hotlinking from someone who made a really good free site usually killed their site (geocities anyone?). I also fear for the people who don’t take the extra 2 seconds to credit (it’s a bad habit, it really is).

My best practices for sharing:

-ASK THEM.
And tell them/give them a link to where you are posting it if they let you repost it on your site. I absolutely appreciate people who ask, even if I sadly say no to them. At least they did.

-Just post a link to the article/page as opposed to a direct link to the file and/or image
I read one comment that said something along the lines of (paraphrasing here) “who wants to see a site full of links?” Eh, check out Google? And what’s wrong with just posting a link? Takes you like…..2 seconds?

-ALWAYS give credit where it is due.
If you must copy, reupload the whole thing, image and all, credit where you got it from. Respect the people who took the time to put up all that awesome stuff that you stumbled upon.

End of the day, ask, give credit and don’t kill the internets.
That is all.

I know my opinion is one-sided, but that’s how I feel

As much as I am interested and in a way fascinated by crazy roller coasters like these, you can never get me on them. hurrr

20 Creative Lego Print Ads:
http://speckyboy.com/2011/09/30/20-more-creative-print-ads-from-lego/

The ads with actual lego in them are amazing!

Lego Star Wars: Make Your Own Story:
http://laughingsquid.com/lego-star-wars-make-your-own-story/ 

It’s in the print ad collection, but that collection also missed the first ad with Vader and the stormtroopers.

And…..

That’s all for today

http://www.thebrowncorporation.com/index

Gulp: The Largest Stop-Motion Animation

and

Dot: The Smallest Stop-Motion Animation

You can also find the making-of videos of these awesome sequences on Youtube and Vimeo.
Enjoy!

A History Of The Title Sequence from jurjen versteeg on Vimeo.