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The Calvin & Hobbes Super-Stupendous Guide to Design

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Even if the only thing you’ve ever designed is a mashed potato volcano with gravy lava, you’re a designer. We all design in some way or other. The best of us get paychecks for their designs. The worst of us have to appreciate our elegant disasters for free. The best designs reach out and pull us in with their creativity, wit, and ingenuity. From the cardboard box of Calvin & Hobbes’ wisdom, five ways to better your designs: 1. Learn to see things differently: One of Calvin’s most powerful traits is his childlike ability to see things differently than the grown-ups around him. Where they see mundane reality, Calvin sees the fantastic, the monstrous, and occasionally, the downright weird. Like Calvin, designers must also learn to see things differently. Where others see text, designers see a typographical baseline. Where others see a photo, designers see the golden ratio. In everything, we should learn to see the underlying beauty that holds it all together. 2. Take time to educate y...

Random Thoughts of Day/Night-2

-Fractured consciousness knows no medical relief. -Most people have no knowledge of their history. They only live it. -Freedom of expression is the mark of a modern community, not buildings or technologies. -We are from a generation who don't know libraries but know what torrents are. -No man wants to taste lipstick when he kisses a girl. -What you did yesterday stays with you today--- existence precedes essence (Jean Paul Sartre) -To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. - Ralph Waldo Emerson -All things were together.Then the mind came and arranged them. —Anaxagoras -Violence is taboo, for not only does it produce answers to please, but it lowers the standard of information. - Col. Robin Stephens -People who give & are involved in a purpose that is greater than themselves are the happiest people & live the richest & most meaningful lives imaginable. - Cynthia Kersey

Moving Images, Blogging People !!!

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Courtesy to given blog for taking images without permission.For those interested in why not to twitter, read this blog entry ...

Chicken a la Carte

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Director:Ferdinand Dimadura Genre:Drama Produced In:2005 Synopsis: This film is about the hunger and poverty brought about by Globalization. There are 10,000 people dying everyday due to hunger and malnutrition. This short film shows a forgotten portion of the society. The people who live on the refuse of men to survive. What is inspiring is the hope and spirituality that never left this people. View this video at its original weblink .

Love Story

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I read blogs of thousand bloggers (mostly females) who write so beautifully about love that I envy them. They are so lucky for having love in the life. I never write about love in this blog because I don't have one & have no clue about my love. For a change on this blog, A love story from my favorite movie, Cinema Paradiso . .. A: --- Once upon a time, a king gave a feast. And there came the most beautiful princesses of the realm. Now, a soldier, who was standing guard, saw the king's daughter go by. She was the most beautiful one, and he immediately fell in love with her. But what could a poor soldier do when it came to the daughter of the king? Well, finally, one day, he managed to meet her, and he told her that he could no longer live without her. The princess was so impressed by his strong feelings that she said to the soldier: "If you can wait 100 days and 100 nights under my balcony, then at the end of it, I shall be yours." Damn! The soldier immediately w...