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Everything you need to know about image compression

Brett Curtis — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 14:15:28 +0000

I am always looking for the best way to be able to get clean and crisp compressed images to reduce my file sizes when I sent out work. This article clearly and concisely explains it all for you. Finally a decent guide to image compression!

Image Compression Article

English to someone who doesn’t speak the language

Brett Curtis — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 14:13:51 +0000

Every wondered what English would sound like to a foreigner who didn’t speak the language. I know I have. This Italian guy made a song that consists of sounds of what English sounds like, it’s a pretty catchy tune. Looks to be made in the 70s and quite entertaining.

Click the picture to watch the vid:

Email Exchange

Brett Curtis — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 03:32:22 +0000

I came across this earlier this evening. Now I know in consulting you aren’t supposed to talk to clients like this but sometimes it is necessary. When I was in consulting I could name a few clients who had these “mind blowing ideas” and were assured to become rich if we only did a few things for free. This is how I probably wold have preferred to deal with them instead of being strung along. this email exchange is pretty funny and someone long but for anyone who has to deal with a-hole clients you will get a kick out of it.

Here is the link:

Email exchange

The Muppet Bohemian Rhapsody

Brett Curtis — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 13:23:10 +0000

This is my first post in a while, frankly due to the fact that there is a lot of garbage out there and i haven’t found anything that I found to be inspiring or fun enough to put up here. I found something. the muppets sing Queen’s Bohemian rhapsody, in youtube’s HD. Growing up watching the muppets it is great that they are still going and furthermore still making me laugh. Enjoy

Education is Stiffling Creativity

Brett Curtis — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 21:11:17 +0000

Lately I have been going onto the TED website and watching some of the videos they have on there. TED conferences happen all around the world and are meant to inspire thought and innovation in which ever field is being discussed by that current speaker. I found this one that I wanted to post because it stuck a special chord within me.

As an artist and designer i am glad that I was too stubborn to just plod along into whatever career path I would have come across and certainly I would have been unhappy doing so. This is not to say that those friends of mine in other areas have done this however I do know a few people that have forgone their natural talents to follow what would be considered a social norm. I was never the best student in high school and the reasons, i have come to find out, were that I had no interest and talent in what they were putting emphasis on and the teaching style did not suit my learning style. turns out despite that I figured it out and I think i will be ok. Anyway, check out this video I thought it was great.

About Sir Ken Robinson-

A visionary cultural leader, Sir Ken led the British government’s 1998 advisory committee on creative and cultural education, a massive inquiry into the significance of creativity in the educational system and the economy, and was knighted in 2003 for his achievements. His latest book, The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything, a deep look at human creativity and education, was published in January 2009.

Here is the link:

TED Talk

Amazing Hi-Res Milky Way Image

Brett Curtis — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 20:00:20 +0000

Every wonder what the Milky way looks like up close and personal. Here is an unbelievable hi res image that you can navigate around like good maps. Check out how close you can zoom in. This is pretty cool even if you aren’t a complete nerd.

Galaxy Image click here

Brett Curtis — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 03:19:56 +0000

Ditch the office job, burn your house down and tell off the bank, it’s time to rock out with your animal nature. Royksopp’s video for “This Must Be It” is a celebration of precisely that freedom, and the weird druidic tendencies of the human spirit. Directors Filip and Andreas Nilsson are no strangers to comedy in their story telling, you will find yourself laughing out loud during this video (while scratching your head at other points). A big high five to the Nilsson crew on their casting, we totally want to rock out with the dude on the drum car. [director's reel: nixonnoxin]

Future richest man in the world?

Brett Curtis — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 17:48:25 +0000

I am interested to see how this one plays out. Seems too good to be true but I have faith.

CNN.com

Perfectly mirrored images

Brett Curtis — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 20:24:26 +0000

There are 20 of them and they are absolutely stunning. Enough said.

Mirror Images

How online photo galleries should be done

Brett Curtis — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 17:36:40 +0000

I am big into photography, I love to do it but never really devote a ton of time to it so i am not as good as I would hope to be. This means that I spend a good bit of time checking out online photo galleries. Most are super frustrating to navigate through or the pictures just aren’t big enough. In my opinion the Boston globe got it right. you get one huge picture to start and you can scroll through them including captions. If you see something you like you can click on it and view the entire collection from that artist as well. hope you like…

The Big Picture