Aug
31

Nova Premium Tumblr Theme

Although Nova looks incredible with a fresh install, you have the option to customize the nearly 50 appearance option, choose from the standard two column layout and a HD-wide one column layout, enable infinite scrolling, customize colors, upload background and header images, choose between the dark and light styles, and much more.

Preview the HD Layout & Infinite Scrolling

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See an example of Nova 1.1 using the HD layout perfect for 720 pixel wide content. The demo also features the new infinite scrolling option for a continuous feed of posts.  Have questions about Nova 1.1, infinite scrolling or the HD layout?  Email us at nova@stylehatch.co or send us a message on Twitter - @stylehatch.

Advanced Theme Customization

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Using the Appearance color values and image uploads you can create a unique version of Nova for your site.  Depending on the style you’re going for you can toggle the dark/light modes for variations in the icons, date blocks, and post backgrounds.

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Make Nova Your Own

Although Nova looks great fresh out of the box, give it that extra 5% of love and you’ll have something unique that matches your own style.  All you have to do is change up the layout, background, colors, and upload some header images.

Have you made something unique with Nova?  Leave a link to your site in the comments and we might show off your site here or on Twitter - @novatheme.

Coquet Coquette

by of Montreal
album False Priest

The track Coquet Coquette is on of Montreal’s new EP for their album False Priest coming out on September 14th—pre-order the album.  Have a look at their absolutelyinsane music video for Coquet Coquette.

of Montreal managed to mix in pretty much every genre of music on ‘False Priest’. You get a little bit of soul, funk, R&B, pop, rock, and of Montreal (yes, that’s now a genre).

Source dysonsound.com

Aug
30

Illustrator Saiman Chow Working with Buck, Saiman Chow created hundreds of illustrations for Nike’s presence at the World Basketball Festival in NYC.  The illustrated branding included more than 40 basketball players, pop legends, dozens of sneakers, NYC iconography and additional elements to capture the spirt of the basketball festival. In addition to the branding Buck also produced, in collaboration with Cypheraudio, this Nike 30 sec TV spot and a number of other eye-candy bits that covered Times Square.

Illustrator Saiman Chow

Working with Buck, Saiman Chow created hundreds of illustrations for Nike’s presence at the World Basketball Festival in NYC.  The illustrated branding included more than 40 basketball players, pop legends, dozens of sneakers, NYC iconography and additional elements to capture the spirt of the basketball festival.

In addition to the branding Buck also produced, in collaboration with Cypheraudio, this Nike 30 sec TV spot and a number of other eye-candy bits that covered Times Square.

Source ventilate.ca

Aug
29

“Creativity is a double-edged sword. The more ideas we have, the less likely we are to stay loyal to one. So the creative mind ends up jumping from idea to idea, and none of them happen. There is no correlation between how great an idea is and the likelihood of it happening.”

— Scott Belsky

Founder and visionary of Behance and the 99 Percent.

Source Newsweek

The Art of Momentum: Why Your Ideas Need Speed

Excellent article from 99 Percent on the importance of momentum, carving out consistent time to work on your project, and working on your project every day.

It’s just like Newton’s First Law of Motion: The tendency of a body in motion is to keep moving; the tendency of a body at rest is to sit still. In other words, it’s a lot less work to keep moving once you have some momentum, than it is to start moving from a dead stop.

Personally do you consistently stay in a state momentum or always struggle to build momentum?

Aug
28

How Branding and Transparency Help charity: water Stand Out Scott Harrison from charity: water stopped by the new 37signals office to speak to the team about the unconventional ways that charity: water stands out from other charities through branding and transparency. Another key to CW’s success is that 100% of donations are used for direct water project costs. (A group of private donors, foundations and sponsors help pay for the everyday costs of running the organization.) CW even pays for the paypal and credit card transaction fees when people donate online so each penny goes straight to actually building a well. Read the post “How branding and transparency help charity: water stand out” on 37signals - signal vs. noise blog.

How Branding and Transparency Help charity: water Stand Out

Scott Harrison from charity: water stopped by the new 37signals office to speak to the team about the unconventional ways that charity: water stands out from other charities through branding and transparency.

Another key to CW’s success is that 100% of donations are used for direct water project costs. (A group of private donors, foundations and sponsors help pay for the everyday costs of running the organization.) CW even pays for the paypal and credit card transaction fees when people donate online so each penny goes straight to actually building a well.

Read the post “How branding and transparency help charity: water stand out” on 37signals - signal vs. noise blog.

Reblogged from jonathanmoore

Aug
27

“Inception” Sound for Film

This 6 minute profile of the sound production for the movie Inception is beyond fascinating.  It’s easy to watch a movie and appreciate the visual production, but the rich sound that makes any movie is easily overlooked.  The techniques used for capturing and layering audio for full impact of gun shots and dream-state explosions are incredible.

If you enjoyed this sound profile check out SoundWorks Collection similar profiles for SALT, Toy Story 3, Watchmen, Avatar, Where the Wild Things Are, and many others.

Reblogged from jonathanmoore

Aug
26