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• 01.04.10
  One year in 90 seconds "time lapse", Design, Media, video | (118)

  Please digg this story here. Link to the video in HD on YouTube. If you like these videos then follow me on twitter: @eirikso - and you'll be the first to know about other projects that I might do. The story All through 2008 I snapped still images from the same spot on my balcony to make a sort of time lapse video showing one year passing by. The video was hugely successful and has close to two million views on YouTube in addition to about one million on Vimeo and hundreds of thousands of views and downloads from other web sites. Last year I ...
• 01.24.09
  Visual thinking Design | (10)

  I like to read and I like to write. But I have admit something. I've always tried to solve problems and explain complex issues by using images and visual aids. I love comics and I love photography. I try to follow Seth Godin's rule of "no more than six words pr. slide" when making presentations. I try to tell myself: "don't tell it, show it". I'm also deeply fascinated by physics and mathematics. The first thing I did when I learned to code was to make software that visualized the mathematical problems we tried to solve at school. So I'm not ...
• 01.07.09
  Making miniatures of your images Design, Photo | (11)

  Tilt-shift miniature faking has been around for a while. But I hadn't seen Tiltshiftmaker before. And decided to give it a go. It's a web site where you can upload an image or give it the URL of an image. Then it adds a simple blur effect and adjust the color to make the illusion of a miniature model. Works pretty good. The miniature: The original: Pretty cool. And by the way. The image is from Ljubljana in Slovenia. Fantastic city. And if you want to do it with photoshop you can try one of the many tutorials out there.
• 09.26.08
  Recommended reading Design, Media, Presentations | (4)

  I'm currently working my way through these: Clay Shirky, Here comes everybody. I'm only half way through, but this book is essential. A very nice analysis of how the crowds of the internet turns into well organized groups that can solve tasks that traditional organisations can't solve. Dan Roam, The back of the napkin. A very nice book on how to use visuals to explain complex stuff. Garr Reynolds, Presentation Zen. Currently the best book about presentation skills out there. Period.
• 06.04.07
  Utterly cool alien lamp Design | (4)

  Lasse Klein has designed the coolest lamp ever. Period.
• 09.22.06
  Designing for television Design | (2)

  I just metioned that the big screen in your living room is something completely different from your computer screen. For the people that want to know more Lasse Klein recently did a very good article on how to design for the television screen. He promises to keep this article updated as well. Could turn out to be a very good reference for television design.
• 07.31.06
  Hybrid images Design, siggraph, siggraph2006 | (3)

  I'm at Siggraph 2006 and will try to post some of the stuff that I find interesting through the week. No particular order or focus. Just notes along the way during this highly interesting conference. You can read more about Siggraph over at the official ACM Siggraph site. To put it short, this annual conference is the world's biggest conference on computer graphics and interactive techniques. So for my first little note. I just finished a session by Dr. Aude Oliva, Antonio Torralba and Philippe G. Schyns. It was about what they call hybrid images. Images that change based on the distance ...
• 06.24.06
  Making a truly personal presentation Design, Presentations | (7)

  At the EBU Connect conference earlier this month I experienced an excellent presentation by Patrick Damsted. It was a very good example of utilizing one of the most important advantages of doing a presentation. The fact that the presenter is there in person. I have watched too many presentations where this advantage has been wasted. Presentations where a person goes on stage, reads through a bunch of bullet points and goes off stage. Why bother? Why spend your money and time travelling to the venue at all? If you are there to read some bullet points I can give you some valuable ...
• 06.22.06
  How to make illustrations even if you can’t draw Design, Presentations | (27)

  I really hate clipart. So much that I at some point decided to start making my own illustrations for my documents, presentations and my blog. Now I get all these nice compliments about my childish drawings. They seem to work well in my presentations because they add a personal touch. Doing presentations is a personal thing. The fact that you, yes you is there to present. People tend to appreciate the fact that you have spent the extra time adding your own special finish to the slides. One little problem when I started was of course that I can't draw. I made ...
• 06.19.06
  How to ridicule a bandwidth thief Design, blogging | (27)

  How a left wing blogger suddenly encourages people to vote right wing. You have a shop and the store on the other side of the road puts up this beautiful poster in their window. You can't afford such a nice poster but you get this great idea. You put a mirror in your own shop reflecting that particular beautiful poster from the other side. This is a great idea until the shop on the other side change the poster to something that you really, really don't want in your window. Recently I went trough the raw traffic logs of eirikso.com. The logs from ...

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