Rob Whitworth put in epic work to create this novel, flowing tour of the beautiful city. Production required, he writes,
363 hours work
75 Hours Logistics and Travel
31 Hours Scouting and Location Finding
78 Hours Shooting
179 Hours Post Production
26014 Camera Raw Files
817gb of data
[Vimeo]
I’ll say it again: Thank God E.T. sucked, because otherwise Russell Brown might never have gotten laid off, joined a startup called Adobe, helped revolutionize an industry, and years later save me from layoff & open the door to my joining Photoshop.
In any event, this documentary about the notorious game’s rushed development from lab to landfill could be fascinating:
I love this app’s vision of photographers creating, sharing, and remixing the edits they’ve done. It’s something we talked about a lot at Adobe (on whose foundations companies like VSCO and even Nik got their start selling presets/actions).
[Vimeo] [Via Brian Matiash]
Anonymously draw versions of others’ selfies, and have them return the ostensible favor; what a bizarre but oddly compelling idea. It’s loaded with fun, cheeky little UI details, and the developers claim that it’s been downloaded more than a million times.
I took this crappy image of myself & minutes later it became part of a diptych. Thanks, RiotingKnucklehead!
Shine on, you crazy doodlers. [Via Brian Matiash]
No wonder Steve Jobs clicked with Adobe founder John Warnock. While introducing the iPad Jobs said,
“The reason that Apple is able to create products like iPad is because we always try to be at the intersection of technology and liberal arts, to be able to get the best of both.”
The Warnock family embodied just that, pairing a pioneering software engineer/mathematician with a professional designer. Their collaboration shaped PostScript and then Adobe’s first app, Illustrator. This beautifully produced little documentary (warning—you’ll get sucked in) tells the tale. I love hearing from old friends & new talent:
Interviews include cofounder John Warnock, his wife Marva, artists and designers Ron Chan, Bert Monroy, Dylan Roscover and Jessica Hische.
Side bonus: Here’s a copy of the VHS demo tape that shipped inside the Illustrator 1.0 box that I uploaded a few years ago:
Julieanne Kost gives a great 2-minute overview of this very well received feature:
To dive into the details of applying perspective correction across multiple images, check out her follow-up post.
[YouTube]
Russell Houghten used “Lots of masking in Adobe After Effects” to bring stillness to LA, turning its freeways into a solitary playground for skaters. (Stick around to the end to see regular life start to flow back in.)
[Vimeo] [Via Alex Powell]
Photographer Brendan Fitzpatrick uses X-Ray equipment to peer into cheap plastic toys, then colorizes the results. Check out the series.
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