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Congrats on the tablet.

I have a Graphire 4 A5. What I did was I used it for a mouse for about a week. Just unplugged my regular mouse and forced myself to use the tablet pen to navigate. I found that did a pretty good job at getting a feel for it.

After that I just dove head first into drawing.

Looks fun David -- I'll be keeping an eye on it!

Damn that's pretty.

I give up. Do show us the damn thing if you find it Mike; curious to see this search evading oddity.

Dugg it.

It's ambiguous and controversial. Specialists use it for RDF/OWL type services and protocols; public uses it more loosely. In either case, the specific implications and abilities are in themselves multilayered and 'versionable', if one is so inclined.

The best/most sensible definition, and the one I've seen the fewest people disagree with, is versioning in term of internet decades — we're slowly moving into the third:

Note that as well as mapping a possible future of the Web, here I am also proposing that the Web x.0 terminology be used to index the decades of the Web since 1990. Thus we are now in the tail end of Web 2.0 and are starting to lay the groundwork for Web 3.0, which fully arrives in 2010.

This makes sense to me. Web 2.0 was really about upgrading the "front-end" and user-experience of the Web. Much of the innovation taking place today is about starting to upgrade the "backend" of the Web and I think that will be the focus of Web 3.0 (the front-end will probably not be that different from Web 2.0, but the underlying technologies will advance significantly enabling new capabilities and features). [via Minding the Planet]

There's a nice graph that comes with his article. Using this definition then yes, it does make sense to speak of another level — but it's never a clear cut step! It's a gradual process; new features are created and incorporated as time goes on. There's no "Hah, web 3.0 has launched" — unless we're talking ONLY about the decades.

Re: And "beaker icon" sucks as a Google query!

We'll find it. Getting a bit exciting.

Perhaps this interview and the SR388 jar/beaker?

I like the design Steven. At first glance there are no immediate ideas I get to improve use of colors or fonts. However, I think that a simple solution to give it some spice is to add a photograph somewhere. Photographs can really do wonders for simple designs. Perhaps a picture of you somewhere on the sidebar, possibly in color? (Or something else, objects can convey a lot of meaning.)

I don't know where he went? If I wasn't feeling lazy, I'd have made a 'Missing' milk-carton illustration with David's face on it and put it right where the x is:

X

But since I am lazy, please imagine it's really there.

I have to admit I don't find the workings of the body grotesque or shocking when presented scientifically [...] It's just meaty bits. We've all got them.

Exactly.

[...] (as opposed to, like, with screaming a la grindhouse films).

I came back to this Note just now to ask exactly that: if you consider morbid art nuisance when in canvas form, then what's your stance toward movies with violence in them? (This is not a hidden critique of anyone's opinion, I'm genuinely curious).

I wonder how one goes about donating one's body to Von Hagen?

I've wondered the same.

Fantastic comment Alisdee.

Agree with Nils. And frankly, I don't find Witkins that shocking either. But then again, I'm still emotionally numbed after watching Cannibal Holocaust — in comparison to that venture everything commercial+shocking is kind of dull.

When it comes to art, I try not to judge any general branch of method or style. They all appeal to me to various degrees. Surely, morbid art can go over the line — but I can't and won't put a stamp on a particular style.

I suppose that I object more to the "work" of Gunther von Hagen, a german "professor" who tours the world with corpses treated with some sort of plastic to preserve them.

I'm actually dying (no pun intended) to see it. I believe that the bodies on display were all donated to the show by their previous owners (<-- Strange sentence). Personally I think it's inspiring and intriguing.

Oh, hadn't realized the stock photos for Round 2 had been released. *smacks head*. They look fun! Better than the last batch. I'm actually knee deep in finals so can't spend too much time on this for the next few days though.

Voting begun today; no votes yet for you or me xirclebox. But I think I saw an entry in there from PixlNinja with 1 vote, not sure if it's the same PixlNinja as the user here on 9r (Edit: found the PixlNinja entry again).

I like the texture on the flag, xirclebox. What are the things in between the soldiers?

Haha! It's a fun pic. Thanks for sharing.
Aside from the blob work around the neck I think it looks pretty good! :) (The Vitruvian Bananaman?).

I don't envy you guys for being judges. Some really great entries piling up in there.

Thanks man! It actually wasn't my first choice, I thought of "smog frog" first and made a finished photo. But then right before I uploaded I saw somebody else'd thought of a similar concept already so I scrapped it. But I think it came out okay -- that small image doesn't do the details justice though.

Anyway, if you need some constructive critique for yours, you know where I'm at!

Well, threw something together. Here's my submission.

Anyone else on 9r participating?

Some great entries there already. Any idea how many are expected to participate?

/puzzled

I thought about that at some point. Decided it had to be two guys, but now that you mention the binoculars you've got me wondering. Care to shed light, Mike?

Hello Harry.

There's actually a whole clique devoted to Design Critique, so don't be surprised if this note suddenly gets swooped in there.

The design looks pretty good! Like the color scheme, my taste. Some things that bug me that you might consider changing:

• There's space missing between the end of a section and the start of a red-titles on the About page. This is also the case between paragraphs on the frontpage footer.
• The placement of the vial seems awkwardly positioned/awfully close to the text. Recommend moving it to the left of the text, and moving the text a bit to the right instead.
• The beige navigation buttons don't align with the three info-boxes in the gray area below. Aesthetics injection would be to either move the buttons closer together or the gray boxes further apart, so that they align vertically left and right (preferably the former)

Not really a critique I expect you to change, but the PR-Design Labs font seems overly complex. I had a hard time reading it, and I used to do graffiti in another life. It has its charm — but you should know that it might give visitors unfamiliar with the name a hard time.

I like the current header. The sword wielding wife.

Cool. I was waiting for it to turn into skyscrapers though, so I was kinda bummed when it stopped.

American history outside of America; less development, more war, no?

Hehe.

Helvetica. Often use Futura for poster presentations, too.

That would be a leaf. And I like the colors in the picture.

Oh wow, those are amazing.

A direct link to the favorites gallery and the archive gallery. A 3032 x 2064 version of the photo RightOn wanted.

Thanks Sean, and thanks David for bringing these to our attention!

Here's to hoping we'll have public means of going up there some day in the near future.

Excellent. Thanks for the info. You can be sure I'll swing by Bitforms next time I visit the states.

@jellis

Ach, I envy you for having attended bitforms! I've been wanting to see U-Ram's stuff up close for several months. Regarding Rozin's work, how did the weaved mirror work? I assumed it used a camera, did you notice one?