This clip is called “The Hate Destroyer” and will be your 5 minutes of inspiration for today guaranteed! The woman really got some interesting points about being a citizen, being political and even makes good points about art as well! Read more about Irmela Mensah-Schramm. (via krystman, thx!)
Pixelpicture by scnclr.de
Holy cow. We had massive issues with out Digital Tools RSS-Feed within the last weeks (or even months). Nobody did tell us!! Yesterday I fixed it in a general blog-maintenance day. Fellow RSS-readers: welcome back!
There are other good news for the facebookers out there: I also did an “official” Digital Tools Blog Facebook-page, that is waiting for your likes! If you are reading this on the website: have a like at the top-right sidebar. Otherwise just go to the Facebook-page and like it there. We like you, too!
Using DJ-Turntables, special printouts and some sort of strobe to make cool animations. A project by Japan artist chuuu. It’s magic, instant animation, when putting the disc at the turntable! A similar project is Beat Fleet, a turntable controller game. (via)
Made made the step into the realworld, by providing an QR-Interface for their Flattr-Buttons. That buttons in combination with mobile-devices (equipped with the right apps) lat you Flattr events, artworks or other stuff, that can be found in the real world. A unique real-life-micropayment-interface for even more community-driven goodness. Here is an overview of the Flattr-offline feature with links to mobile apps as well, like for example flattr4android.
Beautiful stuff for MacBook lovers and people who like colors as well. This item came via Etsy, but unfortunately already sold a long time ago. Will someone please do something similar again? According to the product-site at Etsy, this are stickers “made by special material-Avery MPI. If you don’t like and want to have a new look, you can clean it easily.” But I guess, that the black borders of the single keys still remain black…
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And while we are at cool colors, I also found this nice picture, that won’t fit in any category, so I just post it.
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A lovely animation short movie, with the name “Drawing Inspiration“. Watch this, to add a little flavor to your everyday life! (via)
Naked Password screenshot
Naked Password is a neat approach to encourage users to select more secure passwords on the web. It’s a jQuery-plugin, that undresses a pixel-women in direct relationship to your password-strength. Feel free to fork this stuff! Try the live-demo at the Naked Password demo-site.