Findings 11.14.08

I think reading blogs, or even writing them have given me ADHD. It’s probably why I haven’t finished reading a book the whole way through in a good while. I started reading Serious Creativity by Edward De Bono this past weekend. The idea of holding a book in my hands always feels foreign. I’m determined to finish it. It’s quite inspirational, I highly recommend it. The book isn’t about artistic creativity, but rather creative thinking and problem solving in general.

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• Natural Talent vs. Hard Work – Working in the creative industry, I’m often amazed at the work of some artists. I can’t help but wonder if such great work is due to natural talent or hard work, or both.
• Air & Space Museum – A post of photos I took while visiting the National Air and Space Museum this past weekend. It’s becoming one of my favorite museums in DC area.

Blogs from Elsewhere

• Is CSS3 RGBa ready to rock? – An overview of the new CSS feature, RGBa(“a” as in alpha). This article also contains useful links to other CSS3 related sites.
• Lessons Learned while Building an iPhone Site – A very nice article from Ross, a developer for Flickr. He talks about what to watch for when developing a site for the iPhone, or mobiles in general.
• Seen It All Before – Seth makes a few good points about assuming, or anticipating what your audience may or may not know.
• Dutch Government Introduces Corporate Typeface – A good through review by Sanders, on a new typeface Rijksoverheid Serif / Sans. Very pretty indeed.
• Saturday Bulletin – A very funny blog I discovered this week. The blogger, Jerry Tracy takes clipart he finds and adds funny captions.
• Equivocality – The personal blog of Jeff Ngan. You can definitely tell that Jeff is a creative person from his clean site design and candid photography. However he doesn’t blog about design much, just honest personal writings. Maybe that’s why I’m drawn to his blog.

Fun Stuff

• Cambridge Face Memory Test – I scored a 93%. But I gotta say, those faces creep me out.
• Ocarina iPhone app – I really want this, for no particular reason except to annoy people on the subway :)
• Super Obama World – Replace Mario with Obama…
• Peering into the Micro World – I love boston.com’s “the Big Picture” section. This latest release features some amazing microscopic photography.

Rodrigo y Gabriela