all via css3 transitions. 

This scroll effect is not annoying because you always feel in control. Unlike the apple scroll effects, as a user you’re not merely beginning the animation, you control the entire pace of it. For this reason it’s important for it to be continuous (as opposed to taking a continuous scroll wheel and mapping it to discretized steps, as with many sites).

The graphics also invite the user to make their screen bigger. Which is a cool side-effect as well.

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modularized for your modules.

marti’s secret project was announced today…

also my parents did kitchens for decades. 

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the graphics in these is so well done.

the first too are more pertinent but the last demonstrates the mix of virtual graphics in a more real-feeling place. 

This connects with an earlier idea I had to place our products in studio spaces. 

Sophie Dahl writes about sweaters.

I remember reading Roald Dahl’s memoir, when I was 10 or 12. He wrote about having a motorbike and riding it around disguised when he was in school.

“I never told anyone, not even my best friend…I had learnt even at that tender age that there are no secrets unless you keep them to yourself, and this was the greatest secret I had ever had to keep in my life so far.”

I’ve thought about that line often through the years. Having a true secret has always seemed like a coming of age. A real big kid thing to do.

The first cashmere sweater I owned was dusty sugar pink, and I wore it so a boy I liked would want to put his arms around me. I imagined us at the pub, his hand resting with ownership on my soft shoulder. I was 15 and had yet to understand boys or see “ownership” as a rather…

Sophie Dahl writes about sweaters.

What's the simplest way to set up a home studio or the cost effective way to record voice and keyboard at home?

so-called “social media”

You need 6 ingredients to record and play back voice and keyboard at home:

1. A Computer. […]


2. Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) software […]


3. A good-quality microphone and an analog-to-digital (A/D) converter. […]  I’d get an A/D converter with all of the following inputs: MIDI, 1/4” stereo, and XLR. Hey, look at that, I already did. [MOTU UltraLite-mk3 Hybrid]. Then get a decent-sounding microphone […]

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What's the simplest way to set up a home studio or the cost effective way to record voice and keyboard at home?

See, it’s as I said it was, Utah is deluxe.

tarafirma:

on the road in Utah. 

music blocks oh yeahhhh

fastcodesign:

Imagine, for example, dumping a container full of M-Blocks on an empty lot, then sending a signal for them to self-assemble into a house. Or imagine telling your couch, which is made of M-Blocks, to divide itself into three chairs instead, or transform into a bunk bed to accommodate some surprise house guests.

These Self-Assembling Blocks Will Make Real-Life Transformers Possible - Co.Design

other people’s intimate spaces.

mpdrolet:

The Gatekeeper, Samode Palace, Samode from India Song

Karen Knorr

I act and react, and suddenly I wonder, ‘Where is the girl that I was last year? Two years ago? What would she think of me now?’

Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals  (via thatkindofwoman)

via thesartorialist

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mpdrolet:

Adrien Toubiana

fall is my favorite season

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via phone arena

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playful animation where icons jump up when you hover on them. 
makes post-types feel like buttons without compromising reading the labels across. 

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samanthakeelysmith:

Hearken, 36” x 40”, oil, enamel & shellac on canvas, 2013 by Samantha Keely Smith

zoom in here: http://samanthakeelysmith.com/samantha-keely-smith-paintings/hearken.php

join me here also:

http://www.facebook.com/SamanthaKeelySmithPainter

http://www.twitter.com/SamanthaKeelyS

The closer a man approaches tragedy the more intense is his concentration of emotion upon the fixed point of his commitment, which is to say the closer he approaches what in life we call fanaticism.

Arthur Miller - Wikiquote (via alecresnick)

The ability of humans to read meaning into patterns is the most defining characteristic we have.

Eleanor Catton on astrology (via snpsnpsnp)

Summer was long, clear, beautiful. I was learning to starwatch; that is when you lie down outside on the open hills in the dry season at night, and find a certain star in the eastern sky, and watch it cross the sky till it sets. You can look away, of course, to rest your eyes, and doze, but you try to keep looking back at the star and the stars around it, until you feel the earth turning, until you become aware of how the stars and the world and the soul move together. After the certain star sets you sleep until dawn wakes you. Then as always you greet the sunrise with aware silence.

Ursula K Leguin (via @Lizzyville)

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pretty easy to make

oh yeahhhh
converse are classic. always. 

velvet oh yeahhhh

Why I don’t like this website: 

The image and the body of the product page really don’t gel together.

The image is great because it adds depth to the page but ever other element short changes this. The PRODUCTS tab is pretty useless since there are no other tabs and is uncomfortably flat and 2D. There’s not a great boundary between the image and the body of the page making. The colors are uniform across the page but the only thing that pops is the blue of the LEDs in the image which is not really useful information. 

mpdrolet:

Newmarket

Mark Peter Drolet

mpdrolet:

Eysturoy, Faroe Islands, from HOME

Benjamin Rasmussen

Big red barn just like at the ranch.

mpdrolet:

Black Sun, 2011 from Melancholy

Tereza Zelenkova

humansofnewyork:

"The more times I fall in love, the less sure I am about love."

mpdrolet:

Brett Walker

mpdrolet:

Paris, metro, 1955

Sabine Weiss

mpdrolet:

Calder exhibit at the Guggenheim, 1964

John Swope

Her expression is so sweet. 

Sue Lyon and Hampton Francher

via TomboyStyle