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Meet Rohan Gunatillake – Buddhify Meditation Mobile App. Innovator : Too often when looking to make change in the world, we tend to ignore our inner worlds and focus only on the outer

Buddhify is the world’s first mass market modern meditation mobile app. It is available for iPhone and Android platforms. On Design: What organisations or traditional institutions want isn’t necessarily what people want and so focussing more on the needs of real humans rather than trying to fill holes in a balance sheet is what good [...]

Finding Portland

Finding Portland was produced, shot, and edited in 51 days during March and April at the invitation of TEDx Portland, where the video was unveiled to a sell out crowd of 650 and met with a standing ovation. Filmed in Portland and the Columbia Gorge, this time-lapse piece offers a new perspective to the City [...]

Kenzo Animation

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Quentin Jones: Naked with Paint

Illustrator, animator and fashion filmmaker Quentin Jones paints a daring self-portrait in an inky new film for NOWNESS. The London-based model and Cambridge philosophy graduate, whose mélange of hand-drawn and digital animations have appeared in fashion films for Vogue, AnOther and The Hunger, ditched the usual scripts, storyboards and wardrobe to star in a freewheeling two-tone romp. A personal project [...]

Google Fosters Cutting Edge Photographers With New Drive

Today Google launched ‘Google Drive’. A slightly new way for individuals to save their files and access them using a variety of smart devices, including iphones, ipads, and any other idevice a user could possibly imagine. I suppose no one at Google bothered to Google what the iCloud is before launching this news. Nevermind. In [...]

Random Redirection In WordPress

If you run an online magazine, most of your readers will never go through your archive, even if you design a neat archive page. It’s not you; it’s just that going through archives is not very popular these days. So, how do you actually make readers dig in without forcing them? How do you invite [...]

The Worst Kinds Of Tweets: STUDY

With more than 140 million active users tweeting 340 million times per day as of March 2012, drawing in followers onTwitter with one well-crafted, 140 character-long tweet can be pretty difficult. While you may not have mastered the art of tweeting yet, the least you can do is avoid tweeting the wrong thing. Thankfully, researchers at Carnegie [...]

Artupdate Learning Photoshop Focus: Greek Artist Creates Unique Coachella Cover

Charis Tsevis, a renowned Greek visual designer, has created one of the most talked about Coachella magazine covers for OC weekly. The image is a mosaic made out of numerical data that shows the growth of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio, CA and put together, creates a portrait of Radiohead’s Thom Yorke. [...]

Artupdate Learning Photoshop Focus: Skittles portrait

This is a 36-inch by 48-inch mosaic portrait of George Zimmerman mugshot. Andy Bell put the Zimmerman mug shot through some Photoshop paces and mapped out a way of recreating it in red, green, yellow and orange candies. His wife and friends helped him with the gluing he said. Would you like to learn simple tools [...]

How Mike Tyson Became a Social Media Heavyweight

Tyson has gathered some 4 million combined followers on Twitter and Facebook, and his Youtube has amassed nearly 23 million views. He posts photos to Instagram, too, and is one of a growing number of athletes to embrace social games as the next frontier in personal brand-building and marketing. Recently, the 45-year-old Tyson functioned as WWE WrestleMania‘s “social media [...]

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