Blogs Posted Under January, 2010

While this author of thriller, crime-fiction has been around since 2001, Karin Slaughter has never been an author that I have taken for a test-drive, until now. Her first novel Blindsighted, in which she debuts her heroine, Southern coroner Sara Linton,  for novels to come, is flat-out a great read. As the book puts it, blindsighteness interferes with vision. You can see, but your mind can’t make out what it is your seeing. In otherwords, the truth could be right in front.. || Continue Reading →

Design 7 Studio just put the finishing touches on a project that was in the works over the holiday. The Cambria Historical Society, led by client Susan McDonald, approached Design 7 Studio to take on the task of redesigning the organizations website back in the Fall of 2009. The project launched and went live on the servers on January 28, 2010. It was decided in the beginning that the website needed an antique, vintage look to help promote the Society’s purpose of presenting.. || Continue Reading →

I stumbled across this website that basically helps place medical personal into remote areas like Nepal, Namibia, and Tanzania. For such a humanitarian organization, Gap Medics method they chose to present the information in the form of a website is fresh, inventive, and unique. With the use of washed out colors, and sort of vintage duo-tone look, and obscure typography throughout, the site has a very innovative approach to its design. http://www.gapmedics.co.uk/

There is a now common web-term referred to the “page fold”. This is the line on a web-page where the typical browser window cuts off the content at the bottom. When designing elements or content that you want to be prominent to the viewer, it is referred to as desiring it to be “above the page fold”. What is funny is that we are a people that have come to ignore the page fold. We are so used to scrolling that it has become second nature. We scroll through.. || Continue Reading →

Those of us that are Christians know that one of the great blessings that God bestowed on us is the gift of laughter.  Being able to laugh at ourselves and cliches in the world help us not take life too seriously. So along comes a video produced by the good folks at Fairwood Assembly of God Church in Renton, Washington. This video was shown at our high school youth group the other night and we all got some belly laughs.  I not sure what is funnier… what the video has.. || Continue Reading →

I love lists and I love editorial photographs.  If you have ever picked up a LIFE Magazine “The Year Was…” coffee table books you would know what I mean.  There is something about great editorial photographs that capture the moment, a feeling, the human condition and can tell the whole story or just enough that you crave to know the rest. As usual, Time has unveiled what it considers to be the Top Ten Photographs of 2009. In summary, I would have to agree. #1:.. || Continue Reading →

I love nothing more than when the power of creative minds can be utilized for the greater good of mankind or for social awareness. This is where the San Francisco-based design agency Altitude steps in. Charged with creating an awareness campaign for the areas thriving homeless population, Brian Singer and Altitude came up with a very simple campaign that draws the attention of passersby and causes them to see that for so many people, the streets are their home. These “posters”.. || Continue Reading →

Take the childish freedoms that come from coloring with crayons and the unique appeal of pen sketches or doodling and you get the refreshing originality of French tattoo artist Yann Travaille. Yann’s style has created quite a new buzz in the last year in the world of Inking and it is easy to see why. While tattoo artists are a dime-a-dozen, what really makes one stand out from the rest is if there is either such a refinement to the craft that when the workmanship is viewed.. || Continue Reading →

The literary world lost a great contributor on November 28, 2009 when the author Michael Crichton passed away.  Having conquered all of the major medias such as TV (creator of E.R.), movies (Jurassic Park, Timeline, Andromeda Strain, Congo) and novels (Prey, Next, Airframe), and to say that Mr. Crichton left his mark on the world is an understatement. What a blessing it is for his literary fans to be left with still one last masterpiece that we are able to enjoy almost a year.. || Continue Reading →

I am not sure of as to the original creator and it is foreign with subtitles, but this video appears to be an advertisement for bringing religion back into our public schools. While being a very controversial subject in itself, I thought that the content of the ad was very thought provoking. Very insightful and I can’t believe it was all directly quoted by Albert Einstein himself. As the video states at the end, “Religion is Knowledge too.”