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BIG BANG BIG BOOM:
an unscientific point of view on the beginning and evolution of life … and how it could probably end.

direction and animation by BLU
production and distribution by ARTSH.it
sountrack by ANDREA MARTIGNONI

I’m having a hard time categorizing this. It’s not exactly stop-motion animation but it does remind me of Don Hertzfeldt’s famous animations.

A video from a recent “Ukraine’s Got Talent” competition.

What is: a pentatonic scale. See also http://www.worldsciencefestival.com/video/notes-neurons-full

You can find the official video here including more details on the installation.

Beatboxbattle.tv has a lot of good stuff including all the battles videos. I was also reading about the “Amazing Beat Box Girl” on Digg and found a couple of other mind blowing performers. Check them out after the break:

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I’ve been thinking of getting a set of private “business” cards (visiting cards?) made. The initial research showed that there are a lot of printing houses available online to choose from; some of them carry pretty exotic choices for materials and colors (including metal and plastic cards – even gold/silver plated).

The most important thing is (of course) the actual design and overall style of the card. Luckily there is no shortage of examples and photo collections of awesome business cards for inspiration. I’ve collected a few here as an example:

http://blogof.francescomugnai.com/2008/05/70-new-amazing-business-sards/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/dailypoetics/sets/72057594104389710/

http://www.reencoded.com/2008/05/20/42-awesome-business-card-designs-with-links-to-100s-more/

http://onemansblog.com/2008/10/17/the-massive-business-card-gallery-over-250-amazing-business-cards/

http://designblurb.com/beautiful-business-cards-found-on-flickr/

Initially I was quite tempted by some of the most unusual designs – cut through logos, metal/plastic cards etc. but as this is a private card and my name is not a brand I decided against it. I do whish I was a graphics designer so I could justify a über cool card but alas that’s not the case..

So after a lot of consideration I decided to go for a more traditional card done using the letterpress technique. It represents the older side of printing techniques, which means that these type of cards are getting more and more rare – and therefore they will stand out nicely from the crowd (without being too “artsy”). Unfortunately, my choice leaves me with a problem as these days it is very difficult to find printers that still have the required equipment for letterpress. So far I’ve only located a couple and they are both situated in the US, which is less than optimal for me. So, the search continues for a letterpress printer within the EU..