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Lego Matrix

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Just in time for its 10th year anniversary, “Trinity Help” is a frame-accurate stop-frame animation of the famous bullet-dodge scene from the 1999 movie The Matrix, all done in Lego.

By “frame accurate” we mean that we took all of the video frames from that part of the movie (that’s nearly 900 frames for just 44 seconds of footage) and reproduced them all in Lego.

This was time-consuming to say the least, taking us something like 440 hours to make the completed movie.

Amazing work! Not to mention that the part where Trinity says “dodge this” is one of my favorite parts of the Matrix. Visit LegoMatrix to see the videos. [via @jenmyronuk]

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Street, Yellow Line

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Google Chrome OS

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Google demonstrated Google Chrome OS for the first time on Thursday in Mountain View.

Google Chrome OS is an open source, lightweight operating system that will initially be targeted at netbooks. Later this year we will open-source its code, and netbooks running Google Chrome OS will be available for consumers in the second half of 2010. Because we’re already talking to partners about the project, and we’ll soon be working with the open source community, we wanted to share our vision now so everyone understands what we are trying to achieve.

Speed, simplicity and security are the key aspects of Google Chrome OS. We’re designing the OS to be fast and lightweight, to start up and get you onto the web in a few seconds. The user interface is minimal to stay out of your way, and most of the user experience takes place on the web. And as we did for the Google Chrome browser, we are going back to the basics and completely redesigning the underlying security architecture of the OS so that users don’t have to deal with viruses, malware and security updates. It should just work.

Read the full post at Google’s blog.  You can also download Chrome OS in VMWare, VirtualBox or USB-installable at gdgt.

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Creative Barcodes

You probably already know about my affinity for barcodes. These are particularly cool.

D-barcode specializes in turning barcodes into something fun and memorable.

In Japan, Even the Barcodes Are Well Designed

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Mockingbird: Wireframes on the Fly

As a UI/UX designer, I’m constantly looking for new tools and methods to allow me to more rapidly create initial user flows and to prototype an application.

Mockingbird is a new online tool that let’s you create and share wireframes quickly and with interactivity.  It uses a simple drag and drop UI library, gives you the ability to link multiple pages together by making elements clickable, and makes it easy to share your wireframes with clients or your team with a simple URL.

While I still see the need in many instances for higher fidelity wireframes, Mockingbird has a low-fi quality and ease of use that appeals to many scenarios.  If you’re working closely with a client and/or team, this is a great tool for those initial brainstorms.  Everyone can participate to quickly flesh out ideas and make iterations.  Best of all, everyone can actually click through and view it on the screen, instead of paper.  If you’re working solo on creating the application or user flows, this will certainly help speed up that process.  Of course, the product is new, but I do hope to see more UI elements added to the library in the future.

Via eHub

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The Punch Card

The Punch Card is a simple and fun example of personalization:

The three character say-whatever-you-want card. Punch out the perforated pieces to create your own personal message. Use letters, numbers, glyphs or design your own pattern.

Via PicoCool

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Twitter #140art

A simple experiment in Twitter art of my initials with symbols.  More Twitter glyphs @TW1TT3Rart

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UI Experiments by Andrey Yazev

Randomly came across these great experiments by Andrey Yazev of 389.com.

Fluid scrollbars: try it for yourself here (you’ll have to be on Safari 4 or Google Chrome to see it).

Continued…

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Red Pixelate: iPhone Adhesive Design

Red Pixelate is the second design in my pixelate series. This time, it’s specifically designed to scale for an iPhone.  I’m still working on the design scaled for a laptop.

Just got work that Red Pixelate is now up for voting at Infectious for the next 12 days. Products are made based on votes and community feedback so if you like it, please vote for it!

Citrus Pixelate, my first design for a laptop skin has 2 more days left in voting before it’s hopefully made into the real thing.  Thanks to everyone who’s already voted and commented. I really appreciate your support. <3

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