Archive for April 2007
Art. Lebedev
26 April 2007. Tagged computers, design, images
The Art. Lebedev Studio is the largest design company in Russia, founded in 1995 by Artemy Lebedev. This company has it’s fingers in a lot of pies including industrial design, graphic design, web design, and interface engineering. I found about this site by accident when try find some interesting desktop background on Google images. When looking around the site I found it very interesting. As a design company it has lots of really cool ideas for real world products and has a very different view on product design. With lots of different things the company makes, I was shocked to find out that they also make computer parts.
Most interesting is a product called Optimus keyboard (pictured left). Every key of the Optimus keyboard is a stand-alone display showing exactly what it is controlling at this very moment. Personally, I don’t think that I am going to be rushing out to get one just yet as, looking at the Art. Lebedev store, the prices that seem to start at $1400, which is a little out of my range. It is still very interesting to look around the everything part of the site and see all the idea they have.
There is also I never nice set of desktop backgrounds, which are entitled posters which are free to download and use on your own computer. Personally I love the background called, New directions and I used it as my background for many months.
It is nice to see stuff like this, with some much of the internet full of rubbish. Hope you enjoyed the site.
Bad advice
16 April 2007. Tagged personal, random, rant
In my short little life, I have been even lots of advice. Some of it has been very useful, but lots of advice that I have been given has been pretty much useless. So when thinking back about the advice that I have been given the most, is interestingly the worst advice ever. What is this useless saying that I have heard some much
Buck up
It is as simple as that, buck up. For the life of me, I can not think of a time in my life when this advice has done any good, what so ever. I find it hard to believe that it is even said. To my understanding, all the saying, buck up means, it, don’t be sad anymore. What are you ordering me not to be said? Yes, when I am in a bad mood, being told not be to is pretty much the last thing that I want to hear. I don’t think so.
If you have ever really truly been depressed and been in a really bad mood, that saying doesn’t not help anything. If you really want the person to be happier, give them a reason to cheer up. Take them down to the pub, for a nice meal or if you are a girl, good shopping.
Saying Buck up, to me, means that you don’t really understand what state the person’s emotionally state is and have no idea what they going through. People that think that you can change your mood back to happy when you are truly depressed are fools of the highest order.
Right, got that out of my system.
CSS naked day
4 April 2007. Tagged design, site
Happy CSS naked day. I know that this site is no longer a Tech blog, but I still think that I should take part in stuff like this. The basic idea behind this day that web designer stick to standards. It also gives me a chance to show this site’s nake <body>
Other sites that are doing this
For more information, go to the officle site.
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