Creative Community Bulletin 09 February 2011 Through 18 February 2011

These are the arti­cles, blogs, and resources I found inter­est­ing and wor­thy of shar­ing for 09 February 2011 through 18 February 2011:

  • How Tech Tools Transformed New York’s Sex Trade | Magazine | Wired​.com – sex work­ers were turn­ing to Facebook: 83 per­cent have a Facebook page, and I esti­mate that by the end of 2011, Facebook will be the lead­ing on-line recruit­ment space.
  • Thor and Captain America Visit Toy Fair | Toy News | News | Marvel​.com – The stars of “Thor” and “Captain America: The First Avenger,” Chris Hemsworth and Chris Evans, paid a vis­it to the Hasbro booth at Toy Fair yes­ter­day to check out their sig­na­ture acces­sories and action fig­ure likenesses!
  • Optimus Tactus key­board – Any part of the key­board sur­face can be pro­grammed to per­form any func­tion or to dis­play any images.

    Release date: 01.01.2008

    Cast:
    art direc­tor & designer
    Artemy Lebedev
    indus­tri­al designers
    Timur Burbayev
    Alfred Klomp
    modelers
    Alexander Pozdeyev
    Alexei Zalata
    contributors
    Dmitry Dolgikh
    Ilya Mikhailov
    Sergei Fyodorov
    manager
    Andrey Voronkov

    Typing mode

    Video mode

  • Transparentius road view trans­mit­ting sys­tem (con­cept) – Trucks on high­ways often appear to be an obsta­cle for oth­er dri­vers wish­ing to pass or change lanes. Transparentius road view trans­mit­ting sys­tem would allow them to see what’s in the blind zone before switch­ing lanes.
  • Free For All: Because We Love You | CreativePro​.com – Fonts, email newslet­ter tem­plates, InDesign scripts, and more are all yours free for the taking.
  • Explorer++ – A small and fast file man­ag­er for Windows – Explorer++ is a free multi-tab file man­ag­er for Windows.

    Available on Windows XP and above, it fea­tures the same famil­iar inter­face as Windows Explorer, while intro­duc­ing sev­er­al enhance­ments and improve­ments for a much rich­er file brows­ing experience.

  • Big Shiny Robot – Boba Fett Meets 300 – I came across this incred­i­bly detailed hand­made hel­met on The Dented Helmet’s face­book page and I just had to share it with every­one.

    The artist was a fel­low named Jon Wollack of Almost Dark Productions.

    This is a pret­ty com­pe­tent and beau­ti­ful­ly exe­cut­ed blend of Boba Fett and the sort of hel­met you’d see in an era like the one 300 was set in.

    I’ve been star­ing at it for an hour and it’s real­ly cost me a lot of time at work, but I want­ed to make sure I shared it with all of you, because it’s real­ly that cool.

  • Free For All: 623 Photoshop Brushes to Distress Images | CreativePro​.com – Distressing art­work is among the most pop­u­lar mod­ern design tech­niques. The style (also known as grunge) has­n’t yet become a cliché because dis­tressed design does­n’t nec­es­sar­i­ly look grungy: Most dis­tress­ing is sub­tle, adding tex­ture, depth, age, and real­ism.

    Used with restraint, the 623 brush­es below–all free, of course–can sub­tly improve many images; applied heav­i­ly, they can turn even the sweet­est image into a dark, insid­i­ous oppo­site. The end effect is up to you.

  • Steampunk Wallpaper » NEW: Top 100 Steampunk Wallpapers –
  • Epic Steam Punk Star Wars [Pics] – Princess Leia- Steam Punk Goddess