{"id":12283,"date":"2007-03-21T13:35:10","date_gmt":"2007-03-21T13:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2007\/03\/know-when-to-fold-em.html"},"modified":"2007-03-21T13:35:10","modified_gmt":"2007-03-21T13:35:10","slug":"know_when_to_fold_em","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/21\/know_when_to_fold_em\/","title":{"rendered":"Know when to fold &#039;em"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\/\/na\/\/ If those <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seamlessdisplay.com\/index.html\">mammoth screens<\/a> get to be too much, rest your scalded eyeballs with the help of some paper: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Thomas Allen makes dioramas from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foleygallery.com\/artists\/artist_ins.php3?artist=8\">the covers of old pulp novels.<\/a> Seems like they&#8217;re popping up (er, sorry) everywhere, from the cover of <a href=\"http:\/\/covers.fwis.com\/bloodonthemoon\">James Ellroy novels<\/a> to the pages of (I think) GQ. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kottke.org\/remainder\/07\/02\/12794.html\">Via<\/a>] Turning old images into &quot;2-and-a-half-D&quot; creations reminds me of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0303353\/\"><em>The Kid Stays in the Picture<\/em><\/a>, a film that achieved a similar effect using old photos plus Photoshop and After Effects (popping characters off their backgrounds, panning across them to introduce a sense of depth). <\/li>\n<li>The folks at the ni9e blog have fun (and no doubt baffle stewardesses) making paper-based visualizations of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blog.ni9e.com\/archives\/2007\/02\/skymall_liberat.html\">SkyMall demographics<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>If you&#8217;ve got more time (and skills) than money, thank your waiter with some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pfadvice.com\/2007\/02\/21\/5-great-ways-to-leave-a-tip\/\">cash origami.<\/a> [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.core77.com\/blog\/news\/5_great_ways_to_leave_a_tip_5586.asp\">Via<\/a>] <\/li>\n<li>Okay, it&#8217;s not cash, but check out this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.core77.com\/blog\/materials\/yes_yes_yes_the_folding_chair_5490.asp\">amazing folding chair<\/a> (the name doesn&#8217;t do it justice).&#160; Doesn&#8217;t it seem like the Apple campus should be full of these?&#160; (Well, maybe if they were off-white.)<\/li>\n<li>[For more paper goodness, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/2006\/02\/cut_cut_cut.html\">see previous<\/a>.]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>(Upon hearing this blog entry&#8217;s title, my wife remarked, &quot;I know when to walk away&#8230;&quot;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\/\/na\/\/ If those mammoth screens get to be too much, rest your scalded eyeballs with the help of some paper: Thomas Allen makes dioramas from the covers of old pulp novels. Seems like they&#8217;re popping up (er, sorry) everywhere, from the cover of James Ellroy novels to the pages of (I think) GQ. [Via] Turning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12283"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12283\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}