Bookmarklets, a small selection of premade bookmarklets you can try.
Secondhand Embarrassment. (robinsloan.com)
Some things I liked this week:
These chair friends
This bit on finishing things, I added it to my collection of endings
This cute video: Beastie Boys through the years
This site: LOADMORE that “collects distinctive mobile experiences” worth the click just for the little mascot
Watch: In Search Of… Ghosts - Season 1 Episode 18 (23:24)
Subscribe: 31 Days of Halloween
Watch: Ghost Waltz (2:04)
Listen: Flow State: Okonski. A nice listen to go gently into your weekend.
Mangos. Manuals. Media.: librarians, heroes of the apocalypse.
Science Fiction Movie Lettering: “Glowing letters were a big trend that started in the late 80s, most likely set off by the Alien franchise. And I can never get enough of the 3D type in early films.” /via The Future is Like Pie
Examples of Good and Bad UX in Improvised Signage in Movie Theaters: answering is there an end or mid-credit scene?
Blackboard Bold: “a style of writing bold symbols on a blackboard by doubling certain strokes” /via SC 2.4.4
Haunted Words, Part 4
This week I:
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Crawled the unhinged, but enjoyable Things you might find in a dungeon are.na board.
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Watched Why everyone is quitting social media … on a social media platform, with an ad in the middle, but it still rings true.
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Enjoyed the Geronimo Stilton style caption creator and the interactive eye-following card.
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Really dug J. Marshall Smith’s art. Especially these two.
I am currently:
Really into this mural painted by Ariel Lee.
Listening to Rain Country by John Swanke.
Coveting these pocket notebooks from Big I Design.
Liking these “humble phantoms” carved from wood.
Nodding along to this definition of the night feeling h/t Jack Cheng.
Glass Window by Brett Allen Johnson
grug.design “grug make design. grug not know much. but grug know pain. grug try to avoid pain. grug learn over many fire-cycles.”
“What I love about pencils is the balance they strike: you can geek out on materials, production, or mark-making, and yet some of the best pencils being made will only run you a dollar or two. So you don’t have to sweat lending one out or losing one.”
“Dystopia is easy. You take what people are afraid of and tell them it’s right outside their door. The cure is to open the door and see the truth for yourself. What’s on the other side of the door is your neighbors, and some of them brought donuts.”
“There’s nothing at all wrong with honing in, developing your craft, making variations of things you’re good at, and getting better each time. Nothing small about it. Nothing unfulfilling about it.”
“There seems to be a certain essence in us that we must allow to guide us through life. If we defy this compass, we can end up in places we don’t belong. But if we trust it, follow it, we might do something as grand as fulfilling our purpose.”
