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Poco Apollo
Here’s a beautiful use of the web audio API: Enoesque generative music composed right in your browser. Each piece is generated from one of the 14,226 photos in NASA’s Apollo archive. The darker and murkier the picture, the moodier the music.
Control Panel | Flickr
Photos of analogue interfaces: switches, knobs, levers, dials, buttons, so many buttons.
Typewriters in the Technical Museum in Figueres | Flickr
If you enjoyed reading Marcin’s serendipitous story on Twitter, here are the pictures to accompany it.
NASA – Past and Present Dreams of the Future | Benedict Redgrove
A selection from an ongoing photography project—seven years and counting—leading up to the launch of the Orion project.
Psiu Puxa Wallpapers
Yummy wallpapers for your desktop, tablet, and phone, from NASA and ESA.
Why The Longplay Face | Collection
I giggled at quite of few of these mashups.
BitCam : The World’s Most Advanced Camera For Your Mini Pocket Computer
A lovely little native app:
The world’s most advanced camera for your mini pocket computer.
View source for added nostalgia/flashbacks.
Oh, and RTFM.
IndieWebCamp Düsseldorf | Flickr - Photo Sharing!
Lovely, lovely pictures from last weekend’s brilliant Indie Web Camp in Düsseldorf.
Kate’s Christmas cards (est.1998) | Flickr - Photo Sharing!
Kate has been hand-making Christmas cards for seventeen years.
2013’s Gizmo Stardust remains my favourite.
Project Apollo Archive on Flickr
This is so, so wonderful—hundreds and hundreds of photographs from all of the Apollo missions. Gorgeous!
The shots of Earth take my breath away.
Clearleft 10th birthday party | Flickr - Photo Sharing!
We celebrated ten years of Clearleft’s existence this weekend. A splendid time was had by all!
Clearleft Letterpress Day | Flickr - Photo Sharing!
This was a fun way to spend the day—getting my hands dirty with ink and type.
Flickr: Official SpaceX Photos’ Photostream
SpaceX has a Flickr account, and you have permission to use these photos.
Some thoughts on “designing in the browser” | The Haystack
An important clarification from Stephen:
You don’t actually design in the browser
When I speak of designing in the browser, I mean creating browser-based design mockups/comps (I use the terms interchangeably), as opposed to static comps (like the PSDs we’re all used to). So it’s not the design. It’s the visualization of the design—the one you present to stakeholders.
Exactly!
Personally, I think it’s as crazy to start in the browser as it is to start with Photoshop—both have worldviews and constraints that will affect your thinking. Start with paper.
On File Formats, Very Briefly, by Paul Ford · The Manual
A history lesson and a love letter to the early web, taking in HTML, Photoshop, and the web standards movement.
Those were long years, the years of drop-shadows. Everything was jumping just slightly off the screen. For a stretch it seemed that drop-shadows and thin vertical columns of text would define the web. That was before we learned that the web is really a medium to display slideshows, as many slideshows as possible, with banner ads.