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Ever had this problem? You set the folder in your XP to thumbnail view but ended up having the thumbnail view but no filename beneath each file. Here’s the solution to this matter (as a matter of fact, having thumbnails without filename is not an XP bug or problem).

Change the folder view to others (aside from the thumbnail that you are having now). Click on “shift” key and without letting go, click to change the folder view to thumbnail. And there you go. The filename reappears again! Here’s the reason why.

I received this short email the other day. Short and simple but big impact. Here’s what was written:

David MacKenzie Ogilvy (June 23, 1911–July 21, 1999), was a notable advertising executive. He has often been called “The Father of Advertising.” In 1962, Time called him “the most sought-after wizard in today’s advertising industry.” He was known for a career of expanding the bounds of both creativity and morality.

Andy Warhol (August 6, 1928 — February 22, 1987) was an American artist associated with the definition of Pop Art. He was a painter, an avant-garde filmmaker, a commercial illustrator, writer and celebrity. He founded the magazine Interview.

What is POP ART?

Pop art was a visual artistic movement that emerged in the early 1950s in Britain and in parallel in the late 1950s in the United States. Pop art is one of the major art movements of the Twentieth Century. Characterized by themes and techniques drawn from popular mass culture, such as advertising and comic books, pop art is widely interpreted as either a reaction to the then-dominant ideas of abstract expressionism or an expansion upon them. Pop art, like pop music, aimed to employ images of popular as opposed to elitist culture in art, emphasizing the banal or kitschy elements of any given culture. Pop art at times targeted a broad audience, and often claimed to do so. However, much of pop art is considered very academic, as the unconventional organizational practices used often make it difficult for some to comprehend. Pop art and Minimalism are considered to be the last Modern art movements and thus the precursors to Contemporary art or Postmodern art.

(See also: Pop art in America, Pop art in Spain, Pop art in Japan, and Notable Pop artists)

by Sam Harrison

Having trouble coming up with your next great idea? In his new book, “IdeaSpotting,” creativity guru Sam Harrison encourages designers to quit looking inward and to explore the world around them for creative inspiration. Here, he offers 10 exercises to help you get started.

An exhibition called “Illegal Art” was held last July 25 at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Artists Gallery. It was created in order to support the unsuccessful legal challenge to Congress’ latest copyright extension. This whole idea is created by Carrie McLaren, the exhibit’s curator. The artworks being display consist of featuring audio and visual exhibits, a full length CD, and several films, which are recontextualized by certain artists using other people’s artistic creations without permission. The whole idea is, in fact, to create a feasible enviroment for an artist to express himself/herself without any copyright permission.

To know more, check the article about this museum exhibit here.

This person might not have anything to do with arts or design but… Maybe art is. This is Talent’s Text section anyway. Anyone ever heard of Nujabes? A guy with lotsa cool hip-hop music in his mind. He is also the person behind the soundtrack for anime Samurai Champloo. That is how I discovered his music anyway.

Here’s what they gotta say about him at Last.fm :
“Jun Seba is a Japanese hip-hop music producer who records under the name Nujabes. He is also an owner of “tribe,” a record store in Shibuya, Tokyo, and runs Hyde-Out Productions, an indie record label. He has released two CDs in Japan, Metaphorical Music in 2003 and Modal Soul in 2005.

He has also contributed music to the soundtrack of Samurai Champloo, an anime which blends a setting in feudal Japan with modern anachronisms, especially hip-hop music.

In addition to Japanese artists like Shing02 and Minmi, he has collaborated with underground American hip-hop acts Cyne, Apani B-Fly, Five Deez, Substantial, Fat Jon and with British rapper Funky DL.

His music is known for a strong cool jazz influence, frequently using samples from artists like Miles Davis and Yusef Lateef.

He is also a member of the production duo “Urbanforest”, an experimental collaboration with Nao Tokui (appearing on the Lady Brown 12″).”

For his Discography, check this link, Discogs.

P/S: Did you notice how he get his name Nujabes? His real name is Jun Seba. If you reverse each word individually and then join them, you will get Nujabes.

Mac OS X, if you have any interest to it, you will sure to know that Apple favors feline. Since they came out with OS X 10.0 they had been codenaming them after any known wild cats. It’s interesting. Here’s the list:

Nice, huh?

Check out this blog too. There are lotsa arguments to predict the next 10.5 codename. Someone vote for Garfield! Heh…

Today is Sunday and I am needed to be at the office. Hmmm… What a luck! And my sis and her boyfriend should have gone to watch the movie. What the hell…

I was around Amcorp Mall today and was purposely there to check out some mags. I bought Beautiful/Decay : Issue N. Found out about this guy called Aaron Noble who applies the technique of US superheroes comic sketches and drawing styles into his work, incorporates them in such an abstract way that you might think you are looking at something but it’s not.

Don’t get it? Go here. Cool stuff.

“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.