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Review: Just Dance 3

Just Dance has just made its debut on the Xbox 360 with Just Dance 3. It not surprisingly features kinect support and one you try it out you’ll wonder how the game existed without it. It just makes so much sense and feels like such a natural fit. The natural feel is of increased importance in such a game too, since its all about dancing and having a good time, without inhibition. Any clumbsy interface or...

Pantone Wedding 2010

If  you’re planning a wedding and arbitrarily picking out ugly colours for your bridesmaids’ dresses is too inaccurate and random for you, fret not. Pantone has released a wedding colour guide (specifically for 2010) to help you through this process. These aren’t your normal colours either. These are wedding colours so you know you’re on the right track. Don’t you dare try using them...

Chain of inspiration

Santiago Calatrava bases a lot of his work on biology, fusing his engineering prowess and architectural sensibilities with bio-mimicry of naturalistic forms. Then he paints it all bone white. He makes no secret of this inspiration though some astute intellectuals would argue that nothing can be gained from attempting to mimic the beauty of a butterfly, for instance, since one can never succeed in actually coming out...

A very honored caterpillar

Yesterday in Massachusetts, Eric Carle’s Museum of Picture Book Art played host to Crayola who presented Carle with a crayon. But wait. Theres more. It was a 5-foot tall crayon. This wasn’t just any big crayon though. It was in a special edition Crayola color entitled “Very Hungry Caterpillar Green to honor Eric Carle’s celebrated children’s book which celebrates it’s 40th...

The Tiny Art Director

You might think your art director is tough to work with. There is a tiny art director out there which might give your a run for their money though. She knows what she wants and she wants it now. Maybe she wasn’t clear enough but you, as the artist, should be able to interpret the subtext well enough. Don’t do it wrong. This serves as a lesson to not work with family, and not work with children. Combining...
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