Category: Culture
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Top colors in movie posters
It is quite common for movies to have nearly the same colors even if they present completely different features. In this context, there is a study titled “Dark and Fleshy: The Color of Top Grossing Movies” presenting in details the color spectrum of Hollywood blockbusters.
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Watches, watch madness
Do you love watches? Are you a geek? You should love these surprising watches. WebTime Series Elite is displaying time by the alignment of the colored polygons and the vertical scale: Shinshoku prefers to use a colored light code: Seiko’s e-Ink is more a prototype using flexible electronic ink or electronic paper to display time.…
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National Punctuation Day
The first National Punctuation Day was on September 24, 2006. OK. It seems that it was a hit in many different medias and among the US English teachers. This is now time to prepare the next one: Only one month left to collect the examples of the worse punctuation and to find ways to improve…
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News from the P2P front line
It has been quite some time that I did not write about the P2P news. They start popping up everywhere and it is time to talk about the wonderful things happening right under our eyes. First, the Internet users start to find again -in Europe- some protection since a decision from the European Justice Court:…
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Read a musical score like a pro orchestra
Major works of classical music are written on musical scores that can be superb (not only musically, but also graphically). Unfortunately, it is often impossible -for those who had not the proper education- to keep reading a score while music plays.
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Spirals
A few images collected all around the place to celebrate this nice form. by davesag by gadl by Martin Sweeney by whatdavesees by gardawind by s e u s s by Pascal by blue fam by optik by roddh by NeverB4Breakfast by purefinder by tom Q by 0olong by [ Petri ] by fdecomite Collected…
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Very nice graphic textures
A graphic designer, a web site designer often need to find a reliable source for graphic data and more specifically for graphic textures. Here comes an excellent small web site: In-Texture.com bring a very rich collection of graphic (and photographic) textures that are available for free. And a few very nice samples!
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Japanese flora
BibliOdyssey, as usual, presents one more impressive antique book: Ten albums of Japanese flora containing more than 700 images from the Museum at the University of Tokyo: honzo database (English home page).