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Jeremy Fish painting a mural at Fecal Face Dot Gallery in San Francisco. Music by EL-P. March 2009.

^_^…

This Mural is by Perth street artist and illustrator Creepy

You have to look at his work for the So Many Broken Umbrellas at Gorker Gallery, Fitzroy, Melbourne.

Love it! Love it, Love it!

I love Flickr.

I always did. I pay for Flickr. I respect the rules on Flickr. I got in contact with amazing artist via Flickr. I keep in contact with friends far away and next door via Flickr. I print my business cards with Moo via Flickr. I blog about art I find at Flickr…

Okay in short i am in LOVE…

I am not a social networking type. Not in the real world, not on the internet. I start to enjoy twitter though…but this is another post.

I am usually critical of most internet hypes and interaction website designs. Most internet services make me just mad and angry… very angry… even most of the ones I am involved in ^_^…

So why Flickr?

Now – other than in the real world where I always fall in love with the wrong guy – there are many good reasons to love Flickr.

The team behind Flickr manages to provide a service which actually knows what it does and does it very well. You store and share images.

Graphic design

The design never gets in your way and never tries to outmatch your content. It even makes your content look better.

Just think about how fantastic – and rare – that is. And while doing this it preserves one of the best and most significant brands online, with just (a quite small) logo, 2 lead colours, typo in one font, black and white and shades of grey.

Easily done? Try selling something like this to one of your clients (or mine).

Interaction design

You never have to search for action buttons. They are there just above your content. Titles and descriptions can be added directly. click > edit > save.

The complexity of the tools in use grows with the complexity of the task, as does the interface design. “Organize” (working with hundred of photos) uses a very different interaction design approach and language than any other page.

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I stumbled upon The Magic Bottle by Camille Rose Garcia (2006, fantagraphics) in the graphic novel section in the library this week and had to take it home! It tells the story of Lulu, Sad Little Turtle and Mr. Blue. They are on a quest to save Peppermint Island the last bit of nature and free will not overrun by The Company. Read the rest of this entry »

Ariela’s Tree, by Johnny Siu, Thylacine Graphics, San Francisco, USA… OMG could I please be sooooooo talented! Just for one second. Read the rest of this entry »

I felt a little blue the last weeks seeing that I can’t really spent too much time on being crafty. So I went online shopping. I bought 3 sewing books to brighten my day… I really love all three of them, and I can’t wait to try some of the projects inside – maybe over Christmas when everything slows a little bit down…
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Okay! usally we are told to have a visual journal now Keri Smith tells us to wreck it! I love the idea! Since my 12* Series 02 is not improving maybe i should change the Theme… oh i would like to do that…
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