dots AND lines

Any designers would prefer to be different on their own sake. To be unique. However, at times when it comes to corporate clients, especially when it comes to designing a site, designers just tend to stick to certain cliché ideas without knowing. Results eventually become dull and common.

How to avoid that? Read this article from snap2objects.com. It does not provides a direct guidelines to strengthen your creative skills, but it does give a list of common ideas that poor designs have been using for ages. Worth to read, and sure to make you smile and think twice before you use it again.

If you are a common Flash user or developer or just any Internet user who likes flash, you should notice whenever you mouse over a Flash element, you will be prompt with message “click to activate and use this control”.

According to FixIt.com, “This is caused by the latest IE updates. Microsoft recently lost a legal battle with a patent holder about the way Internet Explorer displays OBJECTs and EMBEDs in webpages. Microsoft then decided to update its Internet Explorer browser with changes requiring user input to display and activate ActiveX based media.”

Thanks to that, users now have to click on the Flash, QuickTime, RealPlayer, Java, etc. files first to activate its functions.
For new developers, how to solve this small issue? Yes, it is quite minor.

Follow these steps:
1. Below the last in the HTML coding, insert the following Javascript:

2. Create a new javascript file (.js) via Notepad (or any program you prefer). Copy and paste the following code into it:

3. Save this file as IEmatter.js (or any name that you specify in the src for script tag in step 1).

Alternativelt, just visit FixIt.com and download the above file from there. Remember to right-click on top of download and select “Save as…”.

4. Upload both files to your webserver, and the problem should be solved.

“Collage is a fine art tradition, comics are a popular entertainment tradition, and muralism or wall painting is a populist art practice that insists on its availability to a democratic audience.” - Aaron Noble.

I dunno where to put this site at first. But I thought, hey this can be source of ideas so… Here it is.

They got a nice section to download their pictures, which is quite funny. You really should check them out here.

These pictures you can download them 1 by 1 by accessing the link about, or all in a single zip file at here.

“I believe that drawing is thinking and painting is feeling. Therefore, I draw what I think and paint what I feel. As there is no feeling without thinking, there is no painting without drawing. Sometimes I feel more comfortable calling my works painted drawings rather than just paintings.” - Charles Cham.

Street art, Post Graf, Urban Art- call it what you like, in it's raw essense it's all about leaving your mark. A trace of existence, to taunt or humour the public as well as a liberating F*** You to the powers that deem our work vandalism.

It's not that it can't be viewed as vandalism, but in my mind, every sticker, every tag seen on the street has artistic merit; be it the sprayed flick or a marker drip on a letter or even the illustration style of a particular sticker bomber. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and there is an aesthetic value and a passion sensed in each piece of work that's up, flick through the pages of this book and you'll see what i mean. If the work was taken out of its urban context, placed on a canvas, givan a hefty price tag and hung up in a gallery, it's likely those same people that viewed it as vandalism would see it as art. Although to take the work out of its urban context means the work nearly always loses something in transition, part of the creativity is how it integrates within the environment, the chosen spot which gives it the finishing touch… There is something missing like the interaction and conflict of the work in location. The smack between the eyes of an amazing reach, the build up of tags on a shutter or the layering of stickers on the back of a street sign. Each mark is a reminder to those visually aware enough to notice that we were here as well as a code to other artists that passed through and how fresh the work is when that journey took place. Only the initiated know to whom these psoudonyms belong to.

My first experience of graffiti was drawing on my parents wall with a crayon, aged 8. I knew it 'was wrong but it seemed so much more exciting than the colouring books that I knew I could draw in. A few years on I discovered the book Subway Art, it was an eye candy binge of pick, mixed colours and flavours for a kid that had been starving hungry. See. I grew up on a diet of skateboarding, cartoons and cereal stickers collecting them and swapping them. It was then that the spark leap and the connection between my graffiti dabbling, a love of cartoons and an appetite for sticker that D*Face was born.

A series of disfunctional characters for a disfunctional generation that could be released into the urban environment through an arsenal of techniques, from stickers, hand drawing, painting to over sized pasted posters, I constantly question what myself and others do, why we take time, lots of energy and great risks in putting our work into the public domain. This normally occurs when I'm lying on a rooftop waiting for the police to drive by in order to put up some work. But it soon becomes clear when you flick through the pages of this book and when you get to meet the great people behind this work, love it or hate it you have to admire it.

Keep on keeping on.

Peace.
D-Face

I find what he said was pretty cool. That's why I put it here. Buy the book. It's just as cool.

I just received this mail from my mom while jotting something in this blog. Most must’ve read this. Anyway, here:

Dearest all,

I’m freaked out all right! By the guy who wrote this! He must’ve a hell lotsa time to do this! Humans!