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Blotter Art – Trippy Tiles

admin — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 17:46:32 +0000

I came across a great site – blotterart.com. Blotter art is the art used on sheets of tiled and perforated paper for ingesting LSD (d-lysergic acid diethylamide). Each tiled piece is a “hit” of LSD. There are some amazing and beautiful designs that have been created throughout the years. Really an inspiration to look at. Blotter Art has become a highly collectible form of art. There are signed additions of famous blotters and such at the site. There are many sites showing examples of this cool art medium, but blotterart.com is a great place to feast your eyes (and maybe lighten your wallet) if you are into collecting. The image below is of a Geisha Girl Blotter signed by the Grandmaster of trippyness himself – Timothy Leary!

Image from Blotterart.com

Sekai Camera – Air Tagging at it’s best

admin — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 21:16:56 +0000

Soon to be released in Japan for the iPhone, and then internationally. The Sekai Camera App is a marvel to behold. The developers have come up with an actual real world use for Augmented Reality (AR). The app allows the tagging of scenes, you know… strip joints, opium dens, absinthe bars, brothels, ok ok … just kidding… NOT! Well anyways, some cool stuff to say the least. Put text tags and picture tags on areas that you have been to. Then when someone else points their camera with the Sekai Camera app running at the same scene, they will see your tags floating in the image on the LCD screen. Much cooler then carving your name in a tree or tagging a wall with some graffiti (that is so yesterday). The main website is here: Sekai Camera (japanese) They say it will be released soon in Japan and everywhere else shortly after. The company also plans on releasing an Android version in the months to follow. Will it be free? I have no idear. I posted a bit ago about a similar Augmented Reality technology here at Paperflame. Check out the vid of the Sekai Camera in action. The only problem I predict is the abuse of advertisers and spammers cluttering up all of the pretty scenes. Can you see it now? Your pointing your camera at the Great Pyramid and see an advertisement for Coca-Cola telling you your thirsty because your standing in the middle of a desert? It could be a cool job though, “Air Tagging” popular places for companies. Sign me up. On another note, what’s up with the guys hair in the vid!?

Google Voice Business Cards: Did you get yours?

admin — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 01:09:25 +0000

A little while back I got my Google Voice Phone Number. As of this post, you still have to sign up for an invite. I got my invite pretty quick. I think it was about a week wait. If you would like to learn more about Google Voice, click here. Well, after logging in to my Google Voice Account, I noticed this little Icon and link to get free Google Business Cards for the first 25,000 users of Google Voice (they are not giving them out as of now). Well I made the first 25,000 so proceeded to sign up for the cards. This is what they looked like when I received them. Pretty cool. Just thought I would share this image of an actual Google Voice Business Card in the wild. Simple, Clean and oh so Google-ish. Oh yeah, did I say Google Voice is a killer Google Application? It’s like Gmail for your phone! Yeah yeah, you might think I’m nuts showing my name and contact information, well I got’s nuttin’ to hide! Feel free to leave me a message!

Del.icio.us Bookmarklet Tag for Google Chrome

admin — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 19:00:21 +0000

As designer’s and web heads, I know we are always bookmarking those awesome websites we find with great tools, fonts, ideas, images, etc… (At least I am)… Many of you may use del.icio.us to tag these pages, if not.. try it .. you will LOVE it… The thing is, I had a little problem that I needed to fix to use Delicious Tagging…

Ever since Google released their Chrome Browser I have been wanting to use it but was never happy because I could not use the Del.icio.us Tag add-on for Internet Explorer in the Chrome browser. I do a ton of tagging, so using Chrome was just not possible. There is a fix! I am so happy because I really like the speed and simplicity of the Chrome browser.

Internet Explorer Del.icio.us Tagger I’m Talking About

Here goes.

All you have to do is drag this link –> Delicious Tag to your Bookmarks Bar in the Chrome Browser. This uses Javascript to get the magic done. Make sure your Bookmarks bar is showing first of course. Now all you have to do to tag that awesome web page that you found is to click on that new Delicious Tag Bookmark and it will pop up a new window just like it did before in Internet Explorer! And from there you can also choose to view your bookmarks. So sweet and simple. So.. load up The Chrome browser and give it a whirl!

Google Chrome Delicious Tag Bookmarklet

Free Vector Files: Japanese Crests – Kamon – Motifs

admin — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 03:06:20 +0000

Yes some more free stuff! Feast your eyes on this collection of Japanese Crests. Some call them Motifs and they are also commonly called Kamon. Each Japanese family name has their own design. The files I am redistributing are just some of the many different beautiful designs that have stood the test of time through years of Japanese bloodline. Over at http://eps.crest-japan.net/index_en.php is where I found these files. They are .eps vector files that need to be opened in Illustrator if you want to edit them. The site offers them as separate downloads, but I have collected them all (it took forever) and have them zipped up as one 50 MB zip file! You can go ahead and open them in Photoshop, but they will have to be rasterized which will remove the editable vector data. It’s up to you how you use these wonderful designs. The site is mostly in Japanese, but there are some English sections. If you know Japanese (or can translate) you can dig deeper into their crest’s database and learn more about each design itself. Pretty cool stuff. The crest categories provided are: Animal, Flower, Furnishing, Martialism, Natural, Pattern, Plants, and even some original designs. The creator of these files has removed all copyrights… You can do what you want with the designs. After you download the files, be sure to visit the creators website. There is also a cool Flash animation relating to Japanese crests.

Japanese Crests – Redistributed for your convenience
1 zip file – 50 MB – 281 .eps files total
Click here to download – Japanese_Vectors_Crests.zip