2013-05-14
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Employee holds plates closed.
Throughout The Philosophical Transactions (From the Year 1732 to the Year 1744), edited by John Martyn (1747). Original from Montserrat Abbey Library. Digitized February 9, 2011.
Finger protection in evidence.
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Reanimated stain.
From L’Examen de Soy-Mesme pour Bien se Préparer à la Communion par Jean Claude (1682). Original from the Lyon Public Library. Digitized August 16, 2010.
I don’t follow The Art Of Google Books, so every now and again I have a look and find gems like this.
2013-04-26
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Gawker: “Plastic Surgery Blamed for Making All Miss Daegu Contestants Look Alike.”
Kotaku: “The assumption is now that the contestants wore their make-up in a similar style and, more likely, the same person Photoshopped the contestants. That would explain why all their smiles and faces are incredibly similar.”
2013-03-27
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Remember the ISS photography maps from Nathan Bergey? The ones where he asked “Draw a dot for the location of every photo of Earth taken from space what do we see?” Well, everyone loves an animated gif, so here’s the final “mission mapped separately” image rejigged as an animation.
It’s a little janky, because despite being a developer not a designer I ended up wrangling this in Photoshop, but hopefully you like it anyway.
2013-03-25
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I saw this animated GIF elsewhere on Tumblr, but it had annoying jitter between the frames. A quick bit of Photoshop and that’s gone, but the annoying changes of colour remain. Ah well; it’s still making its point well.
2012-11-05
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two months of nate silver in gif form by Michal Migurski on tecznotes:
One week per second, 538 collected daily since September 3rd.
I tweaked the image to crop out the (somewhat distracting) probabilities, remove the looping, and optimise transitions (to get it under the Tumblr 2MB file size limit).
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An animated GIF composed from the New York MTA hurricane recovery maps from the first to the fourth of November, most obviously showing the restoration of service in Lower Manhattan and across the East River to Brooklyn. Full size version (1.3MB).
The map format changed on the third to not include the parks or some other details, but I neither have the software nor skill to remove them from the first two PDFs. If you do and want to do better, please go ahead.
Source PDFs: Nov 1, Nov 2, Nov 3, Nov 4 (midday); Nov 4 (evening).
