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Link Digest 1-05-09

thegorilla — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 18:30:14 +0000

Beautiful non-sequitur branding spots. Make sure to check out the rest of Nervo’s work. Too bad about the hard to navigate flash site though. Give me back my back button Nervo!

Build The Best Paper Airplane

It works!

History of the Internet

Informational short film. The clean and minimal animation works well for the subject.

Vvound

Collection of inspiring photography and design. Kind of like ffffound, but not.

icantdeci.de

For the indecisive

Big Picture - Ski Jumping World Cup

Big picture is, as always, fantastic.

Gorilla Goods

Didn’t get what you want for the holidays? Check out my list of recommended gear and books at my new Amazon Store. The most helpful, and least expensive piece of gear, is the super-inspiring It’s Not How Good You Are, It’s How Good You Want to Be:

AETuts Begins.

thegorilla — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 16:10:38 +0000

Good resource for Beginner Motion Designers. The makers of Psdtuts bring you Aetuts. AE is the best program to bring together animation, compositing, and design into one super usable program. You could say that I’m obsessed with it. They only have a few videos up now, but they are growing at an incredible rate. Head over and learn something. Just don’t forget to stop watching and start doing and some point.

Contest Deadline Friday: Best and Worst of 2008

thegorilla — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 17:05:22 +0000

January 2nd is the last day to enter the Greyscalegorilla/Coudal Best and Worst of 2008 Photo contest. We will be announcing the winners and sending prizes from Field Notes, Jewellboxing and Greyscalegorilla next week.

Head over to the Flickr group to enter.

30 Unforgettable Movie Opening Sequences: One Missing

thegorilla — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 13:34:10 +0000

Quality list of Movie Opening Sequences including two of my top three favorites (Catch Me if You Can and Se7en.) My absolute favorite opener, Royal Tenenbaums, didn’t make the list. To make it worse, I can’t find it online anywhere. Bummer.

House Letters & Ligatures Opening Photos

Design: 37 Signals Highrise Signup Page

thegorilla — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 17:57:42 +0000

Jason from 37Signals shows us his design process for the new Highrise Signup Page.

2009: Year of the Gorilla

thegorilla — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 16:26:14 +0000

Photo by minipixel

Hello there fellow Gorillas: I hope everyone’s holiday was wonderful and relaxing. It was one year ago on a train home for the holidays that I made the plan to start a blog for creatives and creators. I launched it in February 2008. And now, I finally feel like I’m gaining momentum. I have started to post more and I have been growing into my writing style.

So, what’s in store for next year?

I am launching a photo based iPhone application in a couple months.

Simple online portfolio, Contrast, is in development and coming along quite nicely.

The Greyscalegorilla/Coudal Best and Worst contest ends on January 2nd. Show us your worst, we’ll give you our best.

Make sure to sign up for the new Greyscale Mail Newsletter. The first one will be coming out soon with details on new contests and ideas for creative projects.

Passionate about Creativity? Come hear me talk about “How to be creative and get paid” on January 21st at Columbia.

Thanks for visiting. Happy New Year!

Updates: About Page, Daily Photo, and Newsletter

Canon Vs Nikon: D700 Vs EOS 5D Mark II

thegorilla — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 17:50:35 +0000

Listed below are some articles comparing the low-light champ (and my favorite camera) Nikon D700 vs the new, long-named, Canon EOS 5D Mark II. The nikon definetly holds it’s own on picture quality and ISO performance. The Canon fights back with incredible resolution and the ability to shoot beautiful HD video. However, the black dot problem disappointed those who were hoping for a Knock out punch, Nikon Killer from Canon.

Here is some more hot Nikon on Canon action.

Prakash Photography: Nikon D700 Vs Canon 5D mark II (MK 2)
DP Review: Canon EOS 5D Mark II Hands-on Preview
Neutral Day: CANON EOS 5D MARK II VERSUS NIKON D700
Photography Bay: In-Depth ISO Comparison
Camera Labs: Canon EOS 5D Mark II intro

Post your favorite D700 vs 5D Mark II articles and your favorite camera in the Comments.

H8ter.org Launch: What do you hate?

thegorilla — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 00:39:38 +0000

Honorary Gorilla and new biz partner, Trevor, has launched H8ter. Too much happy holiday spirit going around? Head on over and tell the world what you hate.

h8ter is a service for malcontents, hostiles and haters to communicate and stay hateful through the exchange of quick, malicious answers to one simple question: What do you hate?

Command+Shift+L Saved My Life Tonight: And Other OSX Hidden Features

thegorilla — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 17:13:42 +0000

Tons of great hidden keyboard commands at howgoodisthat.

Command+Shift+L = Searches Google with the currently highlighted text. Works for any object containing text currently selected—even icons and non-editable text in dialogue boxes.

Three Under-Used Apple Keyboard Shortcuts

DIY: Ski Boot Cam

thegorilla — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 12:10:00 +0000

My Cam Jam post was pretty popular. Good to see all of you DIY camera mounters out there getting ready for the season. I wanted to share the first attempt at an action cam one year before the Cam Jam was invented. I call it Boot Cam. It’s not very comfortable to wear, but the low angle makes for some dynamic video. The process involves attaching your digicam to a very small tripod. I used a small Gorilla Pod. Then, shove the tripod legs down into the front of your boot leaving just the camera sticking out. Cover the lens up as much as you can with the bottom of your pants (usually elastic), leaving just enough room for the lens to peek out. You can also wrap up the whole rig in a ziplock before you head out to keep it dry. Edit between Cam Jam and Boot Cam shots to make a fun video of your winter trip.

Here is a Boot Cam shot of “Bananas”, one of my favorite carving runs at Snowbird.