5th
December
2005
“Yeah! I’ve been meaning to draw up a quick little mini-comic detailing my process, just because it is pretty easy and cheap, but also messy and lo-fi. You should know from the get-go that you probably won’t be super-happy with your initial results… your linework will get fuzzy and you’ll probably lose some detail and there will be ink smudges all over. But eventually you’ll figure out what kind of art works best, your squeegee technique will get better, etc. It’s worth the effort I think!”
posted in Illustration | Permalink |
5th
December
2005
“One of the big How Buildings Learn lessons is about the importance of maintenance. Two asides on the matter spotted in the last two editions of The Guardian. First up, in a profile on the brilliant Japanese architect Shigeru Ban: The idea of building with paper seems riddled with problems - it is flammable, vulnerable to water, weak and temporary, but Ban turns all these arguments upside down: ‘How long do you think concrete lasts? It has many problems and it’s very difficult to replace or fix. If a paper tube is damaged it can be replaced by a new one…’”
posted in Architecture | Permalink |
5th
December
2005
“One area where we ‘geeks’ in the culture are not doing a very good job lately, is in providing concrete advice to our friends and family about how to protect themselves online. Viruses, spyware and security breaches at large institutes make big news, but really the greater risks are from our own actions and practices online. In particular in exposing ourselves to identity theft and other crimes that are occurring on a smaller scale every day.”
posted in Security/Privacy | Permalink |
5th
December
2005
“I was asked about how did I do the rough worn type for post headlines on Khmerang.com, so I thought I’d write a kind of a tutorial on worn type. It’s quite simple technique, derived from Gilder/Levin image replacement, but instead of replacing the whole text, I’m just placing a repeating pattern image on top of it”
posted in CSS | Permalink |
