The culmination of over a years work shooting, editing and authoring, bitclone and TRD are proud to release the 2 disk DVD “Hits Highlights, and Catfights!”. This EPIC amount of footage from season one and two is finally available for sale on Tucsonrollerderby.com. This was a great experience for us all here at Bitclone, and we are happy to see the product reach fruition! Hopefully you will pick up a copy and experience the excitement, hard work and dedication the women of TRD offer up for your entertainment every month here in Tucson! It’s made believers out of us!
LiWei
March 22, 2006
hmm well i pilfered this link from newstoday…pretty strange and wonderful stuff from chinese artist LiWei
His first significant public exposure was at the Tbird Shanghai Biennale in 2000.During the opening ceremony, without any official invitation, he entered the gallery lobby to execute a performance piece. He showed up with a three -foot -square mirror with a hole, large enough to accommodate his head and neck. He places his head through the hole, his face reflected in the mirror. Looking at the mirror, his face seemed to be floating with the audience opposite, also reflected in the mirror. Viewers were surprised to find their images overlapping with the artist’s face. – Zhang Zhaohui
View the strange art of LiWei
Simple CSS
a cool looking CSS authoring tool from joe-
With Simple CSS you can easily create Cascading Style Sheets from scratch, and/or modify existing ones, using a familiar point-and-click interface. You can manage multiple CSS projects, import existing style sheets, and export your projects to CSS files.
Brain Age
March 18, 2006
Hmm a video game that strengthens the mind…sounds BORING! hahahah well now take a look and decide for yourself and then go to work on your “DS Brian Age”
Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day for Nintendo DS is a fun, rewarding form of entertainment everyone can enjoy, as it helps players flex their mental muscles. Brain Age is inspired by the research of Professor Ryuta Kawashima, a prominent Japanese neuroscientist. His studies evaluated the impact of performing certain reading and mathematic exercises to help stimulate the brain.
New Code Editor
So says the Laughing Daddy! So says we all!
TextMate brings Apple’s approach to operating systems into the world of text editors. By bridging UNIX underpinnings and GUI, TextMate cherry-picks the best of both worlds to the benefit of expert scripters and novice users alike.
Check back for an in house review…if i have time
25 Great License Free Fonts
March 16, 2006
Vialy Friedman does some leg work for us LAZY designers…check out these good fonts and give him a shout out!
Input Devices
If you can’t afford one of these fancy Cintiq tablets (i tried one out a siggraph a year or so ago and they are worth the $ if you got it to burn)-
Cintiq
maybe this new tool from Logitech will hold you over until you can!
Divided (like a pizza) into 8 cells that can be filled with tools, filters, commands, files or applications, tooldial allows you to quickly customize your workflow. Drag and drop your most frequently needed items onto the NuLOOQ console to build your own custom interface.
i am not sure what is with the really goofy names for these things…”NuLOOQ”??? but hey it ONLY works on the mac so buy one and snub your PeeCee based designer friends…as if they need more annoyance, they’re running windows!
Personally i own one of these griffin powermate dealies. it is cheaper than the others, but has less features. i like it as it works pretty well in Final Cut and audio apps likw Garageband as a scrubber…
Powermate
Tucson vs. Texas
March 8, 2006
hey, we posted some REAL rough clips from the final bout on youtube. this is not edited or anything, just some clips grabbed while capturing. We have day 2 and day 3 captured working on day 1 (tape machine rolling in the background). ok enjoy the clip. Word on the street is the TRD season one and Two DVD is shipping from the duplication plant so hopefully they will have them for the bout on the 18th here in Tucson.
Travel Ephemera
March 2, 2006
Wow loads of cool old design from the 20′s and 30′s!
This is a virtual online gallery I’ve created to display and share the best items in my collection of 1920s and 1930s travel-related ephemera. It is not my whole collection, just a portion (oh, I wish I had the time now!). Everything on this website is original. The material is not reproductions.
Here is a link to the website (put on your sunglasses and hit the links on left side of the page to view loads of sweet old design stuff):
Painted Room Illusions
Wow these are pretty cool!
Here is a link to a page full of them…Neat idea. Thanks to laughing daddy for the link.
>painted room illusions
Bitclone is a small Portland, Oregon based Web Design Agency owned by these two nerds Eric Baldoni and Alex Carey (pictured above somewhere in the outdoors, clearly lost without their trusty computers).