Love the elegant look and feel of Bowdoin College website. The Flash homepage is slick, attractive and usable. Furthermore, the random use of colors on the homepage is very clever. The secondary pages are clean and simple as well. Great job!
The illustration is hot. The colors are cool. The layout is clean. Tunapuff is off da hook.
Chinatown is classically brilliant. I love Jack Nicholson performance. Similar to One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (highly recommended), he knows how to go overboard. He convinced me to want to find out the truth. Who murdered Mr. Mulwray? He was in almost every scene of the movie; therefore, I only get to see his point of view. As a result, I think just like him. What shocked me the most is the woman role in this movie. Evelyn Mulwray is a beautiful and elegant woman who was raped by her own father then got shot through her eye at the end. Unlike most of other movies, the good girl died and the bad guy stayed free and wealthy. After she got shot, I was like, “Fuck no, that’s not the end.” I hated when director plays with your mind like that and Roman Polanski was good at it.
One of Hitchcock’s masterpiece, Psycho is straight up psycho. The music score alone is creepy as hell. Of course, everyone knows about the infamous shower scene; however, the clean up and the car sinks were my two favorite scenes. After Norman Bates cleaned up the room and put everything in the car, I was like, “What about the money?” Then he came back to the room, picked up the newspaper and threw it in the trunk. I love little details like that. As Norman Bates was hoping for the car to sink completely, the car stopped at halfway through. The expression from Norman’s face was like, “Oh my god, what am I going to do now?” About a minute later the car sank completely and he was satisfied. Hitchcock is great at teasing his viewers. Hitchcock was also playing with psychological multiple personality disorder which reminded me of Edward Norton extraordinary performance in Primal Fear. I am wondering if Primal Fear stole Hitchcock’s idea. Sort of like Sliver stole the idea of peeping at others people privacy from Rear Window. Ooops, I am going off the topic here. Let me stop.
My Linh latest album, which she has worked hard on for three years, might not be able to release due to the controversial of her album titled “Made in Vietnam.” They claimed her album title might misinterpreted the quality of the Vietnamese music. Big fucking deal. It’s only an album title. Imagine if Eminem made an album in Vietnam, his ass would have been locked up due to controversial lyrics. Better yet, they probably pissed the hell off to hear Heart2Exist expressed themselves in “25 Years, Who I am.”
Now the communist, are in control
The bloody flags are waving in the bitter cold
No freedom of speech, no right to vote
That’s why we left, in our fishing boats
No equality, no human rights
Forced to escape, we loss so many lives
So here we are, in the U.S. of A
To start a new life, it’s a brand new day.
Click here for full lyrics.
It feels like my great neighbor just passed away yesterday. I used to watch Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood everyday with Samantha. He was such a loving man and incredibly talented individual. His messages to children were full of caring and loving. At the end of each show, Samantha would give me a big hug and mumbling, “It’s always great to have a neighbor just like you.” It’s so sad that you had left us; however, your wonderful works will be remembered and lived on forever. Rest in peace, Mister Roger.
MA Young website is a collaboration project between George and me. The site was initially intended for internal use only but they had decided to open up to the public. It is a great pleasure working with George. He is a graphic designer here at Vassar. His works have always inspired me, especially his type treatments.
Joy Harjo and her band performances at Vassar were phenomenal. With the integration of her astounding poetry and the musical elements of Native American tribal music, jazz, rock, and reggae, it was an aesthetic experience. I really enjoyed her soothing and breathtaking sax performance. It was inspiring to see the audiences just get up and dance so freely to her music. That was magical.
No, not the movie, I am talking about me. It’s 2:00 am in the morning and I can’t fucking sleep. It’s getting worse and worse each day. My head is pounding all the time now due to lack of sleep. I need some kind of drug that would put me in a coma for at least a week in order to catch up.
The Studio Gallery is based on the existing design of the Art Department. Unfortunely, the designer that worked on the Art Department site is no longer working for Vassar and the original Photoshop files were gone with him as well. Thanks to Fireworks MX, I was able to edit the graphics right in Dreamweaver MX. It was a big time saver.
Digital Web Magazine has an article on GoLive 6 vs. Dreamweaver MX battle. Of course, Dreamweaver is the winner. While we’re on the software battles subject. Here are my picks:
Fireworks MX vs. Photoshop 7. Here is a tough call because I use them both. No doubt in my mind that Photoshop is the industry standard designers tool. Everyone uses it either for print, web, photography and multimedia. On the other hand, Fireworks focuses mainly for the web and it does an excellent job at it. One of the benefit of Fireworks is its seemless intergration with Dreamweaver and Flash. As far as popularity, I think I am the only one uses Fireworks in our web studio at Vassar. Everyone else has his/her copy still wrapped up on the shelf.
Freehand MX vs. Illustrator 10. Here is another tough call because I rearly use either one of them. As a matter of fact, the only time I use them is when I work with graphic designers/illustrators who use Freehand/Illustrator and I have to covert their artwork for the web or Flash animation. Since I can’t draw complicated vector artwork, Flash simple drawing tools work fine for me with what I need to do. However, I know a lot of designers prefer Illustrator over Freehand. Ask Keisha, she’ll tell you why. She is an expert in Illustrator.
Flash MX vs. LiveMotion 2. Obviously, Flash is way a head of the game with ActionScript. LiveMotion would be great if intros were still hot. Unfortunately, intros are history now.
Window vs. Mac. This is not a software battle but operating system battle. Came from Window background and hated Mac OS. Came to Vassar and was forced to use Mac. Fortunately, Mac OS X rocks and I am loving it. Although I use both but I prefer Mac now. However, I prefer Mac OS X and above only. I still hate Mac older versions. It’s such a pain.
Congratulations to the great team at VnExpress.net for doing an excellent job at providing the fast online news in Viet Nam and around the world. Keep up the good work and happy two years anniversary.
Clean and smooth portfolio of Jonathon Yuen. Love the typographic experimental.
My sister is six weeks pregnant. Oh yeah! Another baby will be in the family. Sammie will have someone to play with. I was kind of worried that Sammie might get lonely if she doesn’t have any brother or sister. But now, I am so excited.
The new Sitepoint is clean, organized, and most importantly, fulfilled W3C standards. The sliding navigation is nice but it distracts the contents. As I scrolled down while reading the article, the navigation jumped down which caused me to look over and lost my spot where I was reading. However, it’s nice that they give you an option to turn it off.
There is so much going on at db-db. The site is so much fun and I really like the pixels design. My only problem is too many cocks running around. Where are the punannies? Just kidding!
For your viewing pleasures: Pixod and Hookerdust.
Unlike her past layouts, which were filled with dazing graphical visual elements, That Bitch is going back to the basic. Like she said, “Sometimes the simple shit is way underrated.”
Higher education web designers, here is a great resource. The PowerPoint presentations are very helpful. If you come across higher education web design resources, please share with me.
Love the clean and simple design of Weblog Wannabe; however, it doesn’t display correctly on Mac IE 5.2. The right menu dropped.
My gosh! The piano performance for this song is incredible. Man, I wish I could play the piano. Thanh Thao sang this song beautifully.
“Dung hoi em vi sao vi sao! Hay quen nhau nhu da tung yeu nhau. De minh em lac trong hoang hon vang. Pho khong den tinh nhan chao nhau.”
“Don’t ask me why, oh why! Just forget each other like we loved each other. So I can be alone in a lonely evening. In the city without lights where lovers greet each other.” Does it make any sense? Well, it makes more sense in Vietnamese.
By the way, Thanh Thao new album “Can’t Get You Out of My Head” is fantastic. She is very creative. There are tracks that make you get in the groove and tracks that make you blue.
Although I don’t know Lele personally, I can relate to what she is going through. The story about her Ong Ngoai (grandpa) is an inspiration. He is a man of honor. Lele, we share your grief. Rest in Peace, grandpa.
Ok, normally I don’t post this kind of link but I thought this is a fun use of Flash. Check out Bouncing Boobs! Warning: nudity material.
The Grammy Award sucks. Norah Jones won almost all the awards. The performances were good but not outstanding.
The 45th Grammy Award is on tonight at 8:00. The Eminem Show is going win the album of the year catagory. I want to see Eminem performs Lose Yourself, Nelly & Kelly perform Dilemma, Dixie Chicks performs Landslide, and Norah Jones performs Don’t Know Why.
God bless Jesica Santillan and her family.
I am a daily reader of VnExpess.net. Accidentally, I typed in VnExpress.com and came to my surprised, I was landed on a Vietnamese dating tour site. Basically, the whole tour is around $3,500 and you get to choose a Vietnamese lady (out of 100) to take on a date and eventually going to married her. Isn’t that degrading towards Vietnamese women? It looks like they are selling them. Thanks to the Vietnamese communist, all the ladies from Vietnam want to get the fuck out of the country in any way they can. They would married any strangers for some money even though they can’t communicate to their foreign husbands. Meet Hanh, a beautiful 16 years old girl who married to a 57 years old Taiwanese motherfucker to be his third wife and eventually became his slave. She had to take care of his farm and house even when she was four months pregnant. If she rebelled, he would beat the crap out of her. After giving birth to her child, she had to leave her own flesh and blood and fled back to Vietnam because she could not continued to be living in hell. What a fucking tragedy!
Taxi Driver is a classic. One of Robert De Niro great performance. Saw it once a while ago but I really appreciate the details when watching it again yesterday. It’s bloody brilliant and psychological inspiration. It’s surely a masterpiece from Martin Scorsese.
It’s so crappy outside, dark and raining all day. Yesterday, I hanged out with Keisha at her crib after work. She made a blazin’ pepperoni pizza. It tasted so delicious with Alice White wine. After dinner, we watched Insomnia and drank some Alize. Although there was not a whole lot of action but the storyline of the movie was great. Al Pacino performance was outstanding as always. Robin Williams was also very good but I just can’t see him as a serious character. It’s not his acting was bad. It’s just that I had always see him as Mrs. Doubtfire. Same thing with One Hour Photo, his performance was superb but I just can’t put aside his comedic character. Anyways, thanks Keisha for invited me over for a nice evening. We should do it again some time.
I had been getting ads on my desktop every minute came out of nowhere. They were so annoying. I thought they were pop-up ads but even when I closed my browser, they still popped up. Until today upon visiting Dive Into Mark, I was prompted with a warning message that I have NewDotNet and FlashTrack installed on my computer without my permission. Thanks to DoxDesk for pointing them out and giving instructions to uninstall these devil fuckers.
Cuban President Fidel Castro visited Ha Noi, Vietnam to discuss trade and investment relations. According to spokesman, Nong Duc Manh, Castro’s visit will mark an important history of 43 years relationship between Vietnam and Cuba. In his heart, Fidel Castro is a great communist leader who fights for freedom and independent. Castro is also an important friend of the Vietnamese with his famous quote, “Vi Viet Nam, nhan dan Cuba san sang hien dang ca mau cua minh.” Translate, “Because of Viet Nam, the Cuban is willing to shed their own blood.” Obviously, both country admired each other because both shared a history of war with the United States. However, Americans are always my most important friends. During my 12 years living in the US, I find the Americans to be the friendliest people. I have always been treated with repect. Thanks American.
It’s a shining beautiful Friday. No more snow storms. It makes me want to get up out of here and go to Vung Troi Binh Yen (a peaceful place). Actually, Vung Troi Binh Yen is a title of a song, currently enjoying, performed by Dam Vinh Hung and Hong Ngoc.
“Buoc chan vui hanh phuc. Nam tay ta ve vung troi binh yen.” -Huu Tam
“Stepping together in happiness. Hand in hand, we’ll escape to a peaceful place.”
Updated to 10.2.4 last Wednesday and every time I boot up my Mac, it sets the time back to Wednesday, December 31, 1969. Does anyone else have that problem? Well, I am currently using network time right now until Apple fixes the bug.