Mary sticks her tongue out, it's a sign Two fingers is a magical state And she promised me she'd show me why I don't think I can wait
Year: 2022
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Show Me Mary
“Show Me Mary” by Catherine Wheel (YouTube) -
Surprise, surprise on the stage
You know being positively surprised is one of the best feelings there is.
The other day I went to this music venue here in Dortmund with Fernanda expecting to watch a Mastodon concert, no big deal.
Like, Mastodon was fucking great and all, no surprises there, but what we ALSO got was an excellent, entertaining as fuck performance by opening band De Staat.
The bass part in particular was NUTS. Loud, heavy and groovy. It’s something that unfortunately can’t be easily reproduced on video, but I think you can get a decent feel how they are on the stage.
Favorite tracks: Input Source Select, Pikachu.
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The inconspicuous beauty of liquid-crystal displays
The world around us is rather spectacular. It’s filled with things that may look ordinary for the naked eye but at close inspection can reveal an entirely new dimension.
Take liquid-crystal displays, for example.
No, not the one you’re looking at. The screen in which you’re reading this probably is a modern LCD panel made of billions of microscopic red, green and blue-coloured LEDs which are beautiful in and of themselves. I’m talking about its grand-grand-grand-grandmother, the one which shows these odd-looking, seven-segment digits.
A digital watch face displaying the time. Like many computer technologies, LCDs were pioneered in the 60s. It got lighter and more efficient, sure, but its basic design and function didn’t change drastically through the years.
Its simple, elegant interface’s everywhere: on digital watches, microwave ovens, cameras, audio recorders, musical instruments, elevators, calculators, gym equipment, car dashboards, cellphones — old ones, remember? — and many others.
But one thing these old, primitive liquid-crystal displays possess it’s their peculiar optical properties. Something that’s not quite obvious to notice without a powerful macro lens and additional light sources.
Check out this video (with headphones on) and be amazed:
The DSM LCD (like) you’ve never seen If you don’t trip after this you probably have spent too much time in Amsterdam but hey, I’m not judging.
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From screen pixels to ink on paper
This beauty arrived in the mail just the other day. ✨
The iOS App Icon Book is a project created by Michael Flarup that celebrates the art and craft of app icon design.
The project was funded by a successful Kickstart campaign that raised over 135.000 € by 1.450 backers.
An aside, this is actually the second Kickstarter campaign that I’ve backed, the first one being the Pebble 2 smartwatch back in 2016.
The book is great, colours are vibrant and the printing quality absolutely superb. Containing over 150 pages and hundreds of icons, I hope this book’s gonna provide a ton of inspiration for me.
Chegou app icon by Marcel Muller One thing that I couldn’t not notice though is that there aren’t many icons by Brazilian or Brazil-based designers in the book.
One that I could find is the gorgeous Chegou app icon by Marcel Muller. The icon is super recognisable and clean, it depicts the classic Correios uniform in blue and yellow.
So in order to remedy this I will create my own collection of iOS app icons by fellow Brazilians and display it on this very website in the coming weeks!
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Beyond Tellerrand Day 1
I know it’s a bit late in the night and I should’ve been sleeping but I really wanted to write some words about the first day of the Beyond Tellerrand conference in Düsseldorf.
The quality and diversity of talks and presentations is excellent. But of course what makes the event really shine are the people.
I met some interesting folks from Slovenia and the UK. We chatted over some beers, discussed about the preservation of the web, the role of communities and the infinite depth of online fanfic communities.
Before that, on Sunday, I met some other people at the Wacom Experience Center. There was this super trippy room with a TV and neon lights in which I met this guy from Viena and we chatted about creativity.
Wacom’s trippy room I learned that some of these people also attended the IndieWebCamp which’s this kind of self-organised, user-generated event that aims to help people to publish their on websites outside of corporate walled-gardens like Twitter, Google and Facebook.
Honestly I couldn’t feel more inspired! That’s the kind of stuff that can make me go on for hours on end.
