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Things I liked this week - Monday 29th February 2010

March1

Cool FlashSite and pretty cool song.

Quality Irish song tbh.

Nice collection of Fonts perfect for logo designs.

4onDemand on Youtube. How have I not seen this before?!

Possibly the best WebDesign ever.

My new Workspace

Flirting with an Anti-Gay Protester

February25

Just hilarious. Brilliant stuff :)

After Effects - Something I really should to get into

February24

I was at a lecture from Mark Swaine the Creative Director of Squire today which proved to be an excellent and informative class.

One thing I came away with though was a feeling that I should really delve into AfterEffects a lot more. I’ve messed around with it but Mark says that he loves using Flash and AfterEffects and, although it might sound a bit stupid, that was a combination I can’t say I’ve ever thought of using before.

He showed us how they can be combined to make some truly dazzling websites and videos. Granted, these companies have big budgets and years of experience under their belts but this stuff is just awesome.

Ford Mustang Website

And the absolutely hilarious Viral Site for the Pomegranate Phone.
Pomegranate Phone

There is no reason not to give it more of a go seeing as there is more than enough tutorial sites to help get started such as;

If anyone has any relevant sites to share be sure to comment.

Things I liked this week - Wednesday 24th February 2010

February24

My birthday was last week. Had an epic party to celebrate. T’was good. Thanks friends! :)

Google give Wikipedia $1,000,000. Why?

JK Rowling caught for plagiarising?

A showreel demonstrating just how much GreenScreening takes place in TV shows.

A freakin’ sweet ad from Google for their Chrome Browser. (via BarryHand)

Things I liked this week - Monday 18th January 2010

January18

Cool Vintage Advert Collection (via Barry Hand)

Learn to spell.

Pretty awesome Parkour Stop Motion Video thingie.

Sometimes, just sometimes, people are stupid.

Frozen Britiain. We thought we were bad!

A tutorial to create a little cool kid in photohop.

Things I liked this week - Monday 11th January 2010

January11

Please view the post properly by clicking here. Thanks.

Body Blading is freakin’ awesome!

Welcoming 2010 Worldwide: Some really cool photography in the collection.

55 incredible examples of photo manipulation. Really amazing stuff!

Really cool Paper Roll Forest Cutout Art.

A 103 meter drop Waterfall that you literally stand on the very edge of.

Grab yourself some Boob Cupcakes from a really friendly and talented Designer/Artist I’ve spoken to online.Boob Cupcakes!

What condoms can do for us. (Thinking outside the box.)

One of the funniest LameBook posts I’ve read yet.

Amazing Wordpress tutorials for Designers and people beginning to delve into Wordpress, at Themeforest.net’s Blog.

Things I liked this week - Monday 3rd January 2010

January2

A Christmas Story told the Dubberland way.

Free Fight Like Apes Live album. Free is always good :D

Nice little photography project over at Boards.ie.

Amazingly unique Clock Design.

2009 in photos from Boston.com. Some stunning Photos in there.

I’ve really been listening to a lot of The Beatles lately,  largely because I got The Beatles: Rockband, and I particularly love “Here comes the Sun”.

Jason Mraz takes on Winter Wonderland. Well, might I add.

Alma is a fantastic 3D short film. Really fantastic.

Oxygen from Christopher Hendryx is another really groovy short 3D film.

That’s all for this week folks. Enjoy!

The Sun Parody Apple’s iPhone Advert

December13

Just saw The Sun’s (Newspaper) advert on T.V. just there. It’s a blatant parody of Apple’s iPhone adverts that are currently running every where (see below) but its very, very cleverly executed and very effective. I loved it.

Beautiful Design - New Wallpaper

July6

I’ve made a new wallpaper for myself in photoshop. Unfortunately it’s only currently available in 1280 x 800.

Feel free to download and use it yourself and as always, criticism and critique are welcomed.

From Flock Photos
Blogged with the Flock Browser

Are you an Irish Twitterer?

May20

And do you lack an iPhone or one of those new fandangled phones that do everything? Fear not for this will interest you.. Enter: Ag Tweet.

This service is cool. It allows you to send a SMS or text message to an Irish number and that, in turn, updates your Twitter’s feed. If you have free texts then this won’t even cost you a dime.

It’s better than forking out for the English Number and it literally takes 20 seconds to set up (including putting the number in your phone)

And for those a bit weary, there is more info here and just to prove it actually works;

agtweet test

Have fun and happy Tweeting :)

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