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Tilly and the Wall - “Rainbows in the Dark”

Here. Now it’s in your head, too.

Tilly and the Wall - “Rainbows in the Dark”

Here. Now it’s in your head, too.

A while back a reader asked what I mean when I say the first part of getting a commercial gallery is "doing your homework." How do you go about learning what market your artwork fits into and once you do, how do you learn which galleries are both a good match and willing to discuss the possibility of working with you?I had always thought this advice was sound, but after that question I realize that it's easy for me to say "do your homework"--- and then point to that advice if someone approaches a gallery that isn't right for them ("they didn't do their homework")---but how helpful is that advice really?

From a series of posts on how not to photograph (for serious/professional photographers, I would presume): playing possum, the zig zag, and the vacation slide show. I am glad I'm not a serious photographer. (via conscientious)

Tags: howto  photography 

From a series of posts on how not to photograph (for serious/professional photographers, I would presume): playing possum, the zig zag, and the vacation slide show. I am glad I'm not a serious photographer. (via conscientious)

Tags: howto  photography 

Brazilian designer Fabio Sasso was researching corporate logos for a project that required something “simple,” so he scraped the design site Logopond and put together this collection of logos which use only one color.

All of them are technically two colors if you count the backgrounds, or if you count black and white as colors. Mathematics aside, they’re all dead simple and strikingly beautiful.

[via Delicious]

Brazilian designer Fabio Sasso was researching corporate logos for a project that required something “simple,” so he scraped the design site Logopond and put together this collection of logos which use only one color.

All of them are technically two colors if you count the backgrounds, or if you count black and white as colors. Mathematics aside, they’re all dead simple and strikingly beautiful.

[via Delicious]

In this 47-minute presentation from PyCon, Django co-creator Adrian Holovaty gives us a tour of the inner workings of EveryBlock.com.

The site aggregates news, crime reports, restaurant reviews, photos and other data for a particular urban area and serves the items through an elegant interface, complete with maps and charts.

Holovaty built EveryBlock entirely in Python and Django, and the site is a testament to the power and flexibility of the Django web framework.

He funded the development with a grant from the Knight Foundation’s News Challenge, a program which awards grants to start-ups exploring new ways of distributing local news online using open-source software.

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In this 47-minute presentation from PyCon, Django co-creator Adrian Holovaty gives us a tour of the inner workings of EveryBlock.com.

The site aggregates news, crime reports, restaurant reviews, photos and other data for a particular urban area and serves the items through an elegant interface, complete with maps and charts.

Holovaty built EveryBlock entirely in Python and Django, and the site is a testament to the power and flexibility of the Django web framework.

He funded the development with a grant from the Knight Foundation’s News Challenge, a program which awards grants to start-ups exploring new ways of distributing local news online using open-source software.

See Also: