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• Patience please

  July 16, 2008
  4:27 pm
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  Well … it appears that the plugin I was using to generate the galleries here no longer works.

  I wonder when that happened? In the mean time you can see most of my pictures on flickr. (more…)

• Don’t be scared

  June 25, 2008
  11:06 am
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  A lot of people seem to like this design, but for a long time now I’ve felt it doesn’t really represent my feelings on web design accurately (which as I’m a web designer and this is my portfolio is sort of important). (more…)

• Ah memories

  April 9, 2008
  11:02 am
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  So they are making a 4th Indiana Jones film, I hope it’s good, the title isn’t. What does look good though, is these Indiana Jones trading cards TOPPS has released featuring original art from artist Patrick Schoenmaker. Click the image to see the rest on Patrick’s blog. (more…)

• Change is good

  April 4, 2008
  9:43 am
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  The Royal Mint has revealed a new coinage design for the first time in a long time. It’s the result of a public competition which was won by is Matthew Dent a 26-year-old graphic designer, originally from Bangor who now lives and works in London. (more…)

• Pause, OK, wait! Pause again! Harakiri

  March 26, 2008
  8:49 pm
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  I hope this is a the first in a series of homages to great movie stills. Some of these stand so well on their own, just print them out and stick them on your wall.

  I may have been a bit behind on this one, but I saw this for the first time only fairly recently. All I could think while watching it was “Oh that’s great, oh that’s better!”, so now I have to pare back the fifty or so screen shots I took back to a key two or three.

  Harakiri is a 1962 film by Masaki Kobayashi and is the story of a disgraced samurai hoping to end his life honorably by perform ritual suicide, before he does so he proceeds to tell the story of his life.

  

  

  

  I guess the fact that this is black and white is at play, I think you tend to notice shapes and contrasts more. But the placement of objects, space in the frame and lighting is genius.

  Grab it and watch it if you can, but if you aren’t as slow as me and have already seen it, tell me what you thought.

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