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April 2008 Links
Digital Motion Detection Cameras
Shots triggered by motion sensor. Via Photojojo’s Mother’s Day Gift Guide.
Designing Record Sleeves for Spiritualized
Interview with band leader Jason Pierce and designer Mark Farrow discussing the beautiful packaging they’ve worked on together for the band’s past decade of releases.
NYT: BlackBerry’s Quest to Fend Off the iPhone
“Since the iPhone went on sale last summer, amid long lines of shoppers and media adulation, the contours of the smartphone market have begun to shift rapidly toward consumers… R.I.M., which has historically viewed big corporations and wireless carriers as its bedrock customers, needs to alter its DNA in a hurry.”
We All Hate Quickbooks, Do You?
Cleverly designed marketing site from LessAccounting, cited by Dan Cederholm as a nice example of parallax scrolling.
TechCrunch: Is Keyword Search About to Hit Its Breaking Point?
An overview of an excellent presentation by Nova Spivack.
NYT: Profile of Stern Pinball Inc.
“A range of companies once mass produced pinball machines, especially in the Chicago area, the one-time capital of the business. Now there is only Stern. And even the dinging and flipping here has slowed: Stern, which used to crank out 27,000 pinball machines each year, is down to around 10,000.”
Rejected Book Covers
Klas Ernflo’s stunningly beautiful but torpedoed designs for a series focusing on classic artists. Via Aisle One.
Art Directors Club: Young Guns 6 Now Open for Entries
“Entrants must be 30 years of age or younger and must have been working professionally for at least 2 years (both full-time and freelance work qualify). Entrants can submit both professional and personal, unpublished work. Fifty new ADC Young Guns will be chosen.”
Port Map and TCMPortMapper
Graphical interface for opening up ports on your home network so that they might be accessed remotely.
A British MP Calls for Reasserting Photographers’ Rights
A welcome stand against the reflexive and often unofficial prohibition against camera usage in perfectly situations.
NPR: Nina Simone’s 1968 Tribute to the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr
Three days after King was assassinated, Nina Simone and her band performed “Why? (The King of Love is Dead),” a beautiful tribute written by their bass player Gene Taylor.
Chris Andersen: Of Fly Eyes and Newspaper Revenues
“If you’d ask me to describe the state of the newspaper industry based on the scary coverage about it alone, I would have guessed that it had fallen by half and that we were back to 1970s levels. Instead, it’s a US$45 billion business, which is twice as big as Google and Yahoo combined.”