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This is what happens when you ask Meaghano to take your picture.

(Photo by Tiffany Arment)

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Post your desk.  Or not, you don’t have to.

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Ewing’s builder, John Lane, used a front-end loader to stack slabs of Indiana limestone for the house’s front steps. Each slab rested atop a layer of ice cubes, creating just enough clearance for the nylon straps to be pulled free. The slabs settled into place as the ice melted in the summer sun.

Bringing It All Back Home

via nevver

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Promo concept art I made that we didn’t end up using.  I think we found someone though!

Me:	I'm like a sweet peach on a hot summer day.
Megan:	You're like a sour pickle, on a windy day.

52 Weeks of UX →

matthewb:

A discourse on the process of designing for real people, from Joshua Porter and Joshua Brewer. I love seeing this sort of project built on Tumblr, and Brewer has included some sweet design details, including the 1–52 navigation in the header, linking to articles tagged for each week.

Whoa! This is beautiful.

Slow motion owl attack.

Via loveliftedme and subcreation.

MTA Announcement:	We are temporarily stopped due to train traffic ahead of us. Thank you for your patience.
Guy lying beneath a bench:	BOOOO!!

Pitchfork Top 10 Albums, In US Sales

adamisacson:

perpetua:

1. Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion 131k
2. Dirty Projectors Bitte Orca 48k
3. the xx xx 35k
4. The Flaming Lips Embryonic 75k (estimate)
5. Raekwon Only Built For Cuban Linx Part II 141k
6. Grizzly Bear Veckatimest 132k
7. Bat For Lashes Two Suns 36k
8. Phoenix Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix 205k
9. Fever Ray Fever Ray 23k
10. Girls Album 19k

I don’t know the economics of this at all, but it’s hard to imagine an indie band even paying its grocery bills with such measly record sales. If we assume Animal Collective cleared $3 per album, then each member of the band would have got about $100,000 from US sales of Merriweather Post - less than what a mid-level Senate staffer makes.

And we can safely say that no mid-level Senate staffer made anything nearly as great as Merriweather Post this year.

I wonder what the Pitchfork Effect looks like and what the sales numbers will be a month from now.

OSX Tip

Here’s something that I’ve kept to myself for a while:  To move a window in the background without bringing it to the front, ⌘-click its chrome and drag.

But wait, there’s more!

It’s not just the chrome that reacts this way.  It’s any element of the background window.  Select text, refresh a page, close the window, pause a movie (iTunes’ buttons are natively able to be used without bringing the application forward); anything.

This is one of the many reasons I have my scroll-wheel button set to ⌘-click.  I also use it to open links in new tabs and deselect icons and list items (it bothers me when an email item or desktop icon is left selected;; I keep the bodies beneath the floorboard, etc.)