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Adam Lisagor on The Pipeline
Tuesday, July 27th, 2010 | Tom Carmony
Photo courtesy of Lucius Kwok
Our pal Dan Benjamin, who continues to cement himself as a “Dick Cavett for the Internet Age” with his engaging Pipeline interviews, has a gem in his latest episode, talking shop with Adam Lisagor. Many people may know Adam from the hilarious You Look Nice Today podcast, but he’s now making a name for himself crafting memorable, one-of-a-time promotional videos for products such as Square and Flipboard.
Adam discusses his dissatisfaction with his previous work (doing graphics and visual effects for television and film) and what it was like for him to take the leap of quitting his job and venturing out on his own commercially. It’s absolutely worth a listen for anyone having done (or planning to do) the same.
Hear Adam Lisagor on The Pipeline »
Cheap plug masked as full disclosure: We designed the 5by5 Studios website.
UPDATE: Merlin Mann hits the nail on the head in his post about Adam’s interview:
“I don’t know how you could listen to Dan’s swell interview with Adam without feeling at least a teeny bit inspired. Inspired to pick your new projects more carefully, to dump the less gratifying old ones more buoyantly, to give your latest draft just one more line edit, to start noticing the well-disguised opportunities that are lurking in the shadows of inconvenience and loss—to at least briefly double-check that the trendline for whatever stuff you’re making that theoretically matters to you is moving in a sustainable direction you can be proud of.”
Seriously. Check it out. Now.
Links of the Week: July 23rd
Friday, July 23rd, 2010 | Tom Carmony
Campaign Monitor Downloads, Plugins & Extensions
A wide-range of useful apps and plugins that allow you to tie your current CMS, online store and more into an existing Campaign Monitor mailing list account.
Using Dropbox to Sync Things to Multiple Macs
Sharing the same database for the Things task management applications between multiple Macs.
Eventbrite – Online Event Registration
Sell tickets online and manage RSVPs and user registrations. Integrates with The Event Calendar WordPress plugin.
PatternWall
Free seamless pattern graphics.
10 Tips for Designing Mobile Websites | These Days Labs
Not a lot to add here; a great primer on important factors to keep in mind when designing for mobile devices.
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The Reality That Is Facebook
Thursday, May 27th, 2010 | Tom Carmony
The queasy blend of friends and “friends” is central to the Facebook experience. People who might get some sane use out of Facebook are advertising something, a business or a service or something. Facebook might have originated as a means of personal connection, but now it seems like strictly business disguised as personal connection, and the rhetoric of it is just as horrible as that sounds. Everybody writes in ad-sized bits, everybody “likes” a million products and services, everybody affirms things and exclaims over things like TV pitchmen. It’s as if everyone you know is turning into those horrible shills who blog about things they pretend to like for company kickbacks.
Eileen Jones nails it (via jimray)
Crunching Numbers
Monday, May 24th, 2010 | Tom Carmony
We may have to hire this one to do our taxes next year.
Links of the Week: May 21st
Friday, May 21st, 2010 | Tom Carmony
Google Font Directory
The full listing of Google’s newly embeddable webfont selection.
Pictaculous
Generate custom color palette from a image upload (link courtesy of Dan Benjamin).
Linear Gradients
One of a number of excellent tools on the site for generating CSS-based visual effects.
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