Twelve crucial elements your homepage shouldn’t go without.
Looks like I might have a little work to do. :D
Tags » how to •
Posted 27 January 2012
Posted 23 January 2012
North by Northwest: The Vandamm House
Or how Alfred Hitchcock and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer put a Frank Lloyd Wright house on top of Mount Rushmore in spite of common sense, Frank Lloyd Wright and the United States Government. Sort of.
To understand how the Vandamm house came into “existence”, you have to understand the main point of “North by Northwest”. The complexities of the famous plot aside, it is about a man who is surrounded by the trappings of wealth, power and prestige - none of which are of any use to him whatever in his incredible adventure.
“North by Northwest’s” hero, Roger Thornhill, is a Madison Avenue ad man who is abducted when he is mistaken for a spy. He’s kidnapped from the least likely place on the planet - right out from under the Everett Shinn murals in the Oak Bar of the Plaza Hotel. Having made the point that even the safety of the most famous hotel in New York was useless to his film’s hero, Hitchcock went on to surround Roger Thornhill with example after example of late-1950’s luxury, and kept hammering the point that none of it did Thornhill any good. The assassins take Thornhill to the Phipps Estate on Long Island in a Cadillac limousine. He’s nearly killed later in a Mercedes roadster. He escapes back to the Plaza, then to the new United Nations Building. His adventures take him to Chicago via the Twentieth Century Limited, where he meets a female spy who possesses a Bergdorf Goodman wardrobe, a ruby necklace from Van Cleef & Arpels, and a new 1958 Lincoln Continental Mark III convertible. From there, Thornhill’s adventures culminate in a visit to Mount Rushmore, where he finds the mastermind behind the assassins in a luxurious Modernist eyrie built almost on top of the monument.
The Vandamm house was a problem - or, rather, multiple problems. First was that it had to fulfill the recognition requirement; the house had to reek of sophistication and luxury. Second, it almost had to be a Modernist house; the rocky hills of South Dakota didn’t lend themselves to traditional architecture. And third, it had to be a Modernist house that was obviously in the same class of expensive good taste as the Plaza and the ruby necklace and the Lincoln and the Twentieth Century Limited. Hitchcock knew that there was only one way to fill these requirements - a Frank Lloyd Wright house. He ran into trouble almost immediately.
The biggest was that Frank Lloyd Wright was expensive, even by Hollywood standards. read more
(via pod313)
Tags » film • howto • how to • hitchcock •
Our latest post shows you how to integrate cohesive platforms to build a digital strategy. But what’s a cross-platform approach without equivalent metrics?
Search Engine Watch has a great piece today on cross channel analytics thats worth checking out.
Also here are some basics for measuring ROI on your content.
Tags » how to • howto • social media • marketing •
Posted 19 January 2012
A List Apart: Articles: Building Twitter Bootstrap by Twitter’s Mark Otto:
Made by myself and Jacob Thornton, Bootstrap is an open-source front-end toolkit created to help designers and developers quickly and efficiently build awesome stuff online. Our goal is to provide a refined, well-documented, and extensive library of flexible design components built with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript for others to build and innovate on. Today, it has grown to include dozens of components and has become the most popular project on GitHub with more than 13,000 watchers and 2,000 forks.
Here we’ll shed some light on how and why Bootstrap was made, the processes used to create it, and how it has grown as a design system.
(via pod313)
Tags » how to • howto • technology • Twitter •
Very important that this still be circulated. Both The House and The Senate seem to have not given up on attempting to pass SOPA and PIPA.
Please contact your Congress Critter.
Tags » sopa • pipa • protest • legislation • how to • howto • technology •
Posted 17 January 2012
![thedailywhat:
How To of the Day: Ready-to-mix portable hot-chocolate sticks, complete with mini-marshmallows. Just dip in hot milk and stir!
Easy-to-follow instructions ahoy.
[dudecraft.]](http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxx1obx0Ef1qzpwi0o1_500.jpg)
How To of the Day: Ready-to-mix portable hot-chocolate sticks, complete with mini-marshmallows. Just dip in hot milk and stir!
Easy-to-follow instructions ahoy.
[dudecraft.]
Tags » howto • how to • recipes • food •
Shoot. I wish I would have posted this sooner for everyone that overdid it last night :)
Tags » how to •
Source: cr8rec.com via Brian on Pinterest
At the current gig, I am researching the best shopping cart / ecommerce solution. This entails lots of documentation and forum reading - not every one’s cuppa, but not the worst thing. It also allows me to come across some great-looking ecommerce websites. But none have grabbed me like Creative Recreation site.
It is a clean, uncluttered design that reminds me of James Perse (only the best feeling t-shirts, polos and bedding ever). But the design also has three things I love and that I think create a connection:
The site steps back a few paces from what should really be the focus; the shoes. No feeling that the screen has just assaulted you with tons of info with no clear separation (yes I am complaining about you, Piperlime). Just a clear view of some great items. This certainly facilitates the exchange of credit card info for cool stuff - the main goal of any ecommerce site.
You are currently on page 1 of 2 pages of postings.
Archives
Random
Email
RSS
