taking a creative break right now

Lithoglyph’s Mondrianum is a powerful plug-in that enables Mac applications to leverage the resources of the kuler community. Once installed, Mondrianum acts like a built-in, system-wide color picker, available in any Mac application that supports this feature of Mac OS X. Apple’s own iWork™ and iLife® suites, Google Sketchup™, and renowned applications like Coda, CSSEdit, and many more, all work well with Mondrianum.

Mondrianum combines the best of the community content on kuler and the nativeness of Mac applications. If you work with colors on a Mac, be sure to check it out!

Good looking site and good structured information. Worth a look. History of Visual Communication

Minako Saitoh Botsford is an illustrator from Tokyo, Japan who creates digital paintings of fashion, pin-up girls, beauty and fantasy using Photoshop.

Minako creates fashion fantasies with a fun sense of humor. Her work is available for commercial advertising agency work for fashion, urban culture, women’s themes, magazine and book publishing, cosmetic and beauty companies, retail and corporate in house freelance work.

New paintings on Amy Sol’s new blog. She just gets better and better it seems. She has a new group show coming up Feb 1st at Gallery 1988 SF. The show also includes Camilla d’Errico, Caia Koopman, Lily Piri, and Krista Huot.

Information Architechts Japan present the 2008 Web Trend Map. This time they’ve taken almost 300 of the most influential and successful websites and pinned them down to the greater Tokyo-area train map. By popular demand, they enlarged the poster size from A3 to A0. They guarantee it will make a great addition to your home or office.

View the Big A3 PDF or view the clickable online version or you can order a poster for only $50.

I’ve been beta testing this site and I am impressed with the overall user experience. It has some really cool features and the design is minimal and clean.

Hulu’s greatest weakness: Hulu is NOT a repository of user generated content like YouTube or a download service like iTunes Store. All of the video on Hulu is premium content and users don’t have access to any uploading capabilities. Hulu will keep distributing TV shows until five weeks of newer episodes have passed, at which point older shows will presumably just disappear from the site.

Sorry. Five weeks is not a lot of time …

Tooble: Browse, Search, and Download YouTube Video directly to your iPod! In one easy step, tooble automatically downloads, converts and imports any YouTube video to play on your video iPod, iPhone, AppleTV, or even on your computer with iTunes. Now all your favorite videos are with you and ready to play, no matter where you are.

I’ve been downloading all my favorite music videos to my iPod Touch. It’s fast and simple. The downside is the poor video quality …

It was on sale. I couldn’t resist.

Book Description:
Since her earliest photographs in the 1970s, Cindy Sherman has built a name as one of the most respected photographers of our day. Famous for posing as the subject of her own photos, Sherman’s work addresses the role of the artist, the impact of the media upon the art world and the position of women in society. Organized in a roughly chronological path by theme, Cindy Sherman provides a comprehensive review of the artist’s complete works, including her Bus Riders, Murder Mystery, and Untitled Film Stills series, and photographs on topics ranging from surrealist pictures, fairy tales, rear screen projections, the Old Masters, centerfolds, pink robes, clowns, dolls, and Hollywood. Fascinating archival material includes a notebook of personal snapshots that Sherman kept from an early age, on which she would circle herself and label each one: “That’s Me.” This monograph is the catalogue for an international exhibition that will be held in Paris, Denmark, Austria, and Berlin from 2006 through 2007.

This made me smile.

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Jennifer Maestre’s pencil sculptures are delightful.