I found this whilst browsing around Design You Trust just now. I love it.

So after a rather long afternoon/ evening of working on the presentation boards for the RSA project. I took a break and decided to have some fun with Photoshop. Craig introduced me to an incredible website that goes by the name of Abduzeedo (go there, it’s amazing), so I headed there for some tutorials. In a continued attempt to improve my work with typography I came out with this:

I’m really pleased with the outcome of it. The textures came from Jocosity, Lailomeiel and Cloaks. The sexy swirly awesome vectors are from jlwDesign. So with these newfound techniques, I’ve got some great ideas for this site!

Meet Cyber Figure Alice, for all your otaku needs.

Actually I think this is a pretty impressive example of virtual interaction and augmented reality. It reminds me of a flash project that ran along the same lines I saw a third year student present for their final presentation; in which they used black and white shapes to trigger an animation on the screen. Different combinations of shapes made different animations. This seems to work on a similar idea, but it works through a webcam rather than a projector, meaning you can run the programme from your desk at home.

I just found this novel little programme on The Unofficial Apple Weblog that let’s you convert your digital photos into Polaroid shots. Poladroid is only in it’s beta phase, but it works really well and the results are pretty amusing. You just drag your photo onto the camera on your screen, and then wait for it to develop. Or if you want to speed things up then - like the real thing - you can shake the photo!

It’s pretty simple, and is more of a novelty thing. But I think there could be some interesting uses for it.

I’ve just spent the last ten hours in front of the computer. I fear my eyes wish to escape their wretched head prison >_<