Interesting bits & bobs – May
Finance & Money
Mike Monterio – Fuck You. Pay Me
This is the talk linked to in ‘The devil is in the invoice’. A talk sponsored by Happy Cog and Typekit it’s funny, informative and full of solid gold advice on dealing with clients that don’t/can’t pay up, or change project scope. Well worth a watch for anyone who works in a creative industry. Vimeo – Fuck You. Pay Me
The devil is in the invoice
An article written by Happy Cog about how they deal with project invoicing. Useful hints from how a big player Happy Cog – The Devil is in the invoice
Experiments & Visualisation
Ted Talk – Aaron Koblin: Artfully visualizing our humanity
The guy behind Arcade Fire’s “Wilderness Downtown” video and the Johnny Cash Project shares some of his projects and explores how modern technology and data can be used to make us more human. http://www.ted.com/talks/aaron_koblin.html
RO.ME – 3 Dreams of Black
A collaboration between ROME (Danger Mouse, Daniele Luppi, Norah Jones and Jack White) and Google. This interactive music video shows real potential for webGL animation. Rome – 3 dreams of black
Anatomy of a mashup – Definitive Daft Punk
This very cool visualisation dissects a mash-up of the song “Definitive Daft Punk” by Camaron Adams in realtime to show how the 23 different parts make the whole song. Anatomy of a mashup – Definitive Dafk Punk
Cinemagrahs
This is something I’ve only recently come across. Cinemagraphs are a cross between photography and videos, while animated GIF images have been around for a long time, they seem to only be used within internet memes (roflcopter anyone?) and myspace profiles. I’ve never seen GIFs look so classy. Cinemagraphs
Techy
Explaining the dreaded DNS delay
Ever wanted to know why it can take so long to change website name servers? Smashing Magazine – Explaining the dreaded DNS delay