Open the Pod Bay Doors http://openthepodbaydoors.com Observation and work. Tue, 10 Jun 2008 18:52:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 en Houston Discovery Green Park http://openthepodbaydoors.com/2008/06/10/houston-discovery-green-park/ http://openthepodbaydoors.com/2008/06/10/houston-discovery-green-park/#comments Tue, 10 Jun 2008 18:44:32 +0000 admin http://openthepodbaydoors.com/?p=123 Some images I took at Houston’s new Discovery Green Park.

www.discoverygreen.com/

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]]> http://openthepodbaydoors.com/2008/06/10/houston-discovery-green-park/feed/ Bonnet House - Ft. Lauderdale FLA http://openthepodbaydoors.com/2008/05/25/bonnet-house-ft-lauderdale-fla/ http://openthepodbaydoors.com/2008/05/25/bonnet-house-ft-lauderdale-fla/#comments Sun, 25 May 2008 19:47:36 +0000 admin http://openthepodbaydoors.com/?p=116 These are some super pics from a little trip my father and I took to Ft Lauderdale in February 2008.
Bonnet House:

In 1893 Hugh Taylor Birch reportedly got on Henry Flaglers Florida East Coast Railroad which went through to Titusville then set sail in a boat loaned to him by Henry Flagler. Blown ashore to safety in Lake Mabel (Port Everglades today) during an unseasonable Atlantic storm, he believed Fort Lauderdale was where God meant him to be and was where he would stay.

Mr. Birch purchased over three miles of oceanfront property along Fort Lauderdale’s beach for less than one dollar per acre. Henceforth, he spent the winters on his beachfront land where he could absorb the seascapes, enjoy a daily swim in the ocean and grow the fruits and plants he loved.

www.bonnethouse.org/home.html

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]]> http://openthepodbaydoors.com/2008/05/25/bonnet-house-ft-lauderdale-fla/feed/ NIN posts free album http://openthepodbaydoors.com/2008/05/06/nin-posts-free-album/ http://openthepodbaydoors.com/2008/05/06/nin-posts-free-album/#comments Tue, 06 May 2008 16:19:48 +0000 admin http://openthepodbaydoors.com/?p=13 Download The Slip for the low low price of one email address.

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]]> http://openthepodbaydoors.com/2008/05/06/nin-posts-free-album/feed/ New Puscifer Video - DoZo http://openthepodbaydoors.com/2008/04/30/youtube-dozo/ http://openthepodbaydoors.com/2008/04/30/youtube-dozo/#comments Wed, 30 Apr 2008 13:40:04 +0000 admin http://openthepodbaydoors.com/2008/04/30/youtube-dozo/ New video from Puscifer, side project of Maynard James Keenan.  How did I not know about this before?

Keenan describes Puscifer as “simply a playground for the various voices in my head, […] a space with no clear or discernible goals, […] where my Id, Ego, and Anima all come together to exchange cookie recipes.”

YouTube - DoZo

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Cool new prints from Russ Mills.

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Boing Boing TV has a sneak peak of a new documentary of Graffiti Research Lab
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]]> http://openthepodbaydoors.com/2008/04/30/10/feed/ Retro Style Propaganda Posters http://openthepodbaydoors.com/2008/04/25/retro-style-propaganda-posters/ http://openthepodbaydoors.com/2008/04/25/retro-style-propaganda-posters/#comments Fri, 25 Apr 2008 16:33:43 +0000 admin http://openthepodbaydoors.com/2008/04/25/retro-style-propaganda-posters/

One of the great aesthetic legacies of the Soviet Union is the great wealth of magnificent propaganda posters it left behind. In this post, I present some personal favorites.

Propaganda Design & Aesthetics: Soviet Retro Posters | Crestock.com Blog

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Like haiku poets, we can embrace limitations, and in so doing create beautiful designs. We can choose to understand the limitations of the mediums we work within. We can also impose artificial limitations, by placing structured restrictions on our work, in order to create unified successful designs. Let’s review some minimalist strategies for improving both: your design work and your bottom line.

PSDTUTS - Photoshop Tutorials and Links - Working Within Limitations to Achieve Great Designs

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Photography by shift.

“I am passionate about future things”

I love his visions of the future world.  Growing up, I always found comfort in the future.  I think it was a symptom of growing up in the age of the “Space Race”.  The idea of this untapped potential waiting for us as a society seemed to be the whole point of life.

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Did a little camera practice with my new HV20 and a tripod. Most of the footage is quite shaky, but such is life. Going to take snippets of this footage to start playing with Apple Color, and see if some basic grading can create more dramatic images.


USS Texas 04-12-2008 from James Seaborn on Vimeo.

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