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My name is Celine. In ten years I will be a nomadic novelist UX-enthusiast greeting-card designer extraordinaire, or maybe just your ordinary hardcore typography geek. Right now I'm just another college kid.

Factoid: I like writing extraneous ümlauts on whiteboards. When yoü do this in a mythology classroom people get confüsed all over the place.

Factoid: I have very strong opinions about the design of online forms. Some kids check out people. I check out websites.

Factoid: I am not a fan of Keats.
I answer questions pertaining to ampersands. And other stuff too, I guess.
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RAC, better known for their ebullient remixes, released their first track “Hollywood”, featuring Penguin Prison’s Chris Glover for the vocals. 100% distilled summer, and very good, although the lyrics are fleeting in significance.

Like 90% of everything I listen to, it’s freely downloadable on Soundcloud.

“The Camera Collection” is a remarkable creative endeavor animated by Antonio Vicentini, using lo-fi pixelated illustrations, by Bill Brown, are licensed under the Creative Commons. The gently nostalgic backing music is by Ben Hantoot, who’s made a number of well-crafted classical and electronic tracks available for free download. (He also has one of the few truly intriguing Flash-based websites I’ve seen recently. Heavy on gratuitous visual effects, yes—but entertaining.)

And so this is a visually entertaining video, but it’s also pretty indicative of the current creative environment. The zeitgeist of internet culture these days is heavily biased towards free and open content. I’m always happy to see creatives and hackers putting their work into digital circulation for remixing and hacking.

(Source: vimeo.com)

“ ‘So good!’ I think I should yell at my food more. ‘Bro. Satisfy me’…both things she said. ”

Susie Ferrell, during our Maggie Murph’s—Tazza—Asiana food run. (Sadly, no dumplings were present today.)

windowsloth: i needed to upload it somewhere She is the cutest. <3

windowsloth:

i needed to upload it somewhere

She is the cutest. <3

Tangentially topical: never fall victim to a proof by laziness.

Tangentially topical: never fall victim to a proof by laziness.

fueledbycoffee: Time to show your strategic allegiance. For Core77. Venn Vipers. You know how I roll. Originally discovered via Brittany Cheng, but felt the need to get sauce on the original creator, the excellent illustrator Craighton Berman. 

fueledbycoffee:

Time to show your strategic allegiance.

For Core77.

Venn Vipers. You know how I roll.

Originally discovered via Brittany Cheng, but felt the need to get sauce on the original creator, the excellent illustrator Craighton Berman. 

&gt; implying I can even register for typography classes …but an understanding of type adds a fascinating layer of understanding to a text-based world. You start seeing type set at large as the space between the letters, not just the forms (and the contained semantic meaning) represented. For body text—there&#8217;s this concept of the &#8220;blackness&#8221; of a page, of how dense the ink is and how it interacts with the space around it. You begin to appreciate subtle topographic (because ink density denotes certain things about hierarchy and importance) qualities of the concentration of ink. A deep understanding of type is a deep understanding of visual space.

> implying I can even register for typography classes

…but an understanding of type adds a fascinating layer of understanding to a text-based world. You start seeing type set at large as the space between the letters, not just the forms (and the contained semantic meaning) represented. For body text—there’s this concept of the “blackness” of a page, of how dense the ink is and how it interacts with the space around it. You begin to appreciate subtle topographic (because ink density denotes certain things about hierarchy and importance) qualities of the concentration of ink.

A deep understanding of type is a deep understanding of visual space.

(Source: fyeahartstudentowl)

Google thinks the collective consciousness has body issues.

Probably. 

Instagram programming challenges > midterms. 

In brief: unshred an image. Instagram is using this as a publicity-stunt-hiring-challenge-free-T-shirt op (sadly, they ran out of shirts). I’m thinking of doing this over the weekend (realistically, since I have a score of midterms and assignments, I’ll probably only finish after Thanksgiving).

Three birds with one stone: become more fluent in Python, put in a few hours into becoming an algorithmic ninja (as per the 10,000 rule), have an interesting photographic/programmatic project to look forward to.

instagram-engineering:

Your challenge, if you choose to accept it, is to write a simple script that takes a shredded image in as input and outputs an unshredded and reconstituted image. That is, imagine if you took an image, divided it into an even number of columns and shuffled those columns randomly to produce a shredded image. Then, take that image into the script and output the original image…

Mark Zuckerberg answering student questions @CMU

Student:
What's the future of the Web? What's the next Web 4.0, 5.0?
Zuckerberg:
(smiling) Did we skip 3.0?
Mark Stehlik (moderator):
He's a mech. e.
Audience, general tone of laughter:
[did he really say that?]
(Stehlik is the highly amusing, generally awesome assistant dean of CS at CMU.)
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