Adobe is publicly thinking about developing apps for the Apple iPad device. While I do love the Adobe Creative Suite family, I’m not too sure how I feel about the idea of them on the iPad.
How large will the apps be? The iPad comes in only 16, 32, or 64GB drive capacities, so probably really small, thus limiting the apps when it comes to functionality and usability. Many features and tools will most probably be excluded, and only the “essential” features will be available. But every designer has their own take on what is essential. Inconvenient problem.
I haven’t yet experienced a designing emergency that couldn’t wait until I’m back at the office. Also, a laptop is always present at client meetings in case on-the-spot changes or brainstorming is required. So I ask you, is having these limited apps on a limited mobile device really necessary?
Fifteen years after drawing this strip, Calvin and Hobbes creator, Bill Watterson, stepped out from his low-key profile and was interviewed (via email) for a Cleveland-based paper.
“By the end of 10 years, I’d said pretty much everything I had come there to say…If I had rolled along with the strip’s popularity and repeated myself for another five, 10 or 20 years, the people now ‘grieving’ for “Calvin and Hobbes” would be wishing me dead and cursing newspapers for running tedious, ancient strips like mine,” Watterson said.
I love Calvin and Hobbes, but I do understand where he’s coming from. More of the same would have made this comic less special than it is.
“The only part I understand is what went into the creation of the strip. What readers take away from it is up to them. Once the strip is published, readers bring their own experiences to it, and the work takes on a life of its own,” Watterson said.
Most people in this world are individuals that belong to a distinct group. Be it by gender, family name, nationality, occupation, health, religion, etc. And because they belong to this group, they are expected to represent it completely and know absolutely all there is to know about being part of that group. You are expected to spread awareness and knowledge when it is needed. Personally, I always had to defend my groups. I was always defending Islam, Arabs and Journalism. Living in a foreign country where people are ignorant (can’t blame the people for that) yet curious, defending myself was a constant routine. I was sick and tired of it.
Islam. This is the hardest one. Even the basics of Islam are hard to defend thanks to the contradicting events happening in the Middle East and surrounding regions. I would tell them that Muslims believe in and are supposed to respect all the prophets and books sent to us from God. What could I respond with when even the Arkan Al Iman (Articles of Belief) are set aside?
Is it still justified to say that Islam is a religion that promotes peace? To my knowledge in the times of Prophet Mohammed (PBUH) people of different faiths lived peacefully in their towns. It was only when the Muslims were wronged that jihad was declared and the peace was disturbed. Let’s not also forget the Islamic movement that was for the purpose of spreading the religion. It was effective, but also violent. That is a fact.
I consider myself to be a religious person, in my own way. I love my religion and it is always on my mind. Almost every night before I fall asleep, my head rests on the pillow as I ponder and think about the things I was told to memorize at school. I try to make sense of it all. I do. And if I need to, I ask my mom to help me figure things out. She gives me the facts and lets me understand them on my own. The only thing that throws me off is that Muslims all over the world believe different things. We claim that that all Muslims are unified in their beliefs, but it is painfully obvious that we are not.
So the only things I said in my defense is that the people that are behind non-peaceful events and actions are extremists. Even though the truth is that some of those people that agree with extremists are just ignorant and don’t know any better. I’m not a history buff, but has there been a time when there hasn’t been a war in the name of Islam? (That’s a legitimate question that I hope someone answers in the comments.)
If you’ve gone to see the movie WALL-E, you probably saw Pixar’s latest animated short called ‘Presto.’ It is absolutely amazing. I love Pixar shorts and I wish they would do more on a regular basis. A while ago I was complaining about the animated movies that we see today and how they are inferior to the Disney movies of the past when it comes to content. I still wish Pixar would stop making “funny animated films that are for kids and adults! Yay!” If I was the CEO of Pixar, I would have the production team stop working on feature films and instead work on 30-40 shorts a year. Just like the old Looney Tunes shorts, the Pixar shorts would be a huge hit.
Anyway, the thing that makes this short so great is that there is no dialog. Just fantastic action and music. A Tom & Jerry-esque format if you will. Watch it in HD by downloading it from this site. PLEASE download it because you won’t be doing it any justice by watching it in a small YouTube square.
P.S. Notice how the opening title card is the same as the old Disney shorts from the 1940s and 1950s? Cool huh?
This guy is unbelievable! Check out his incredible sketches on his Flickr account. It’s a shame that the sketches only last for a brief period of time before he has to shake it away and start a new one.
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This Peanuts character is my second favorite after Peppermint Patty. He is the younger brother of Lucy and Linus. Thanks to their parents’ sense of humor, they decided to name him Rerun after Lucy’s reaction to his arrival. She’s always wanted to be an only child and felt that having to go through another younger brother was like watching bad re-runs on TV. However, Lucy treats him noticeably nicer than she treats Linus.
Rerun’s main story lines revolve around him trying to stay alive while riding on the back of his mom’s bicycle. In the back seat, Rerun thinks about life, sings and occasionally performs soliloquies. Not bad for a one year old. In later strips and cartoons, he is depicted as a few years older. I believe that he was the only character that actually grew.
Richard Avedon was an American photographer who began his career in the 1940s. He is well known for being a successful photographer who worked for high fashion magazines such as Vogue, Life, and Harper’s Bazaar. He was also very interested in portraiture and took many portraits of celebrities in the movie and music industries. He believed that portraits were the best way to look into and discover a person’s soul.
After building a reputation for being a great photographer to the stars, he decided to find other subjects to shoot. Avedon was deeply intrigued by the blue-collar workers of the West in the late 1970s and early 1980s. This resulted in a multi-state trip across the West photographing people in various states of appearances and financial statuses. Read the rest of this entry »
