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Awkward Stock Photos

Mike Purdy — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 00:34:37 +0000

If you’ve ever looked for a stock photo, you have come across a photo that confounds you. This is a whole site of them.

Cross-browser kerning-pairs & ligatures

Mike Purdy — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 00:45:16 +0000

Well, I didn’t know about this. I have already edited my stylesheet and noticed a difference upon refresh. Of course, it’s more obvious at larger font sizes. So all of you Safari 5 users with EXTREME TYPE SENSITIVITY, this one is for you.

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Star Wars Portraits

Mike Purdy — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 00:36:15 +0000

Portraits of Star Wars characters.

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FCS Maintenance Pack

Mike Purdy — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 19:47:49 +0000

I’ve been known to edit video every now and again. On my latest project I’ve gotten to mess with some RED One footage. In my meager experience in editing, I’ve never run into any MAJOR file problems until three days ago when Final Cut Studio just stopped rendering a file. For anyone who ever runs into a similar, seemingly unfixable problem. The FCS maintenance Pack is what saved my butt.

FCS Maintenance Pack

Kudos.

McSweeneys Internet Tendency: Great Literature Retitled To Boost Website Traffic.

Mike Purdy — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 21:10:21 +0000

Whenever I hear the term “Search Keywords” or “Search Engine Optimization” my skin crawls. This link goes a long way to explaining why. Also, this link get extra points for having a Faulkner reference in a joke about Search Engines.

Great Literature Retitled To Boost Website Traffic..

The Video Tripod: What to Know Before You Buy | Video Insights

Mike Purdy — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 20:30:57 +0000

Informative little article about tripods:

The Video Tripod: What to Know Before You Buy | Video Insights.

Knoxville’s Big Ears in the NY Times

Mike Purdy — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 00:29:38 +0000

…and it’s not something embarrassing.

Minimalism, which is Mr. Riley’s ballpark, can be expressed through many musical languages. After getting a headful of Ms. Newsom, I went to the Pilot Light, a tiny bar, to hear Argentinum Astrum, a fantastic doom-metal band from Knoxville. Repeated riffs so fat, loud, slow and heavy that the individual notes are nearly disconnected: what’s more minimal than that? Nothing. Consider yourself informed.

Be sure to check out the photos by my friend Brian Wagner.

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Four Ways to Mix Fonts

Mike Purdy — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 16:56:12 +0000

Is there a way to know what fonts will work together? Building a palette is an intuitive process, but expanding a typographic duet to three, four, or even five voices can be daunting. Here are four tips for navigating the typographic ocean, all built around H&FJ’s Highly Scientific First Principle of Combining Fonts: keep one thing consistent, and let one thing vary.

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