August 15, 2009

(rt) Interesting Miscellany

• The Evolution Of Photoshop: 1988 – 2009: Splash screens, toolbars, & more.
• iPhone:
  • This augmented reality subway/tube app looks amazing. Check out a quick video demo.
  • iPhone apps for designers, listed by CreativePro.com. Tools for color palettes, billing, information architecture, & more.

• Museum of Forgotten Art Supplies (Did you know: Quick Mask in Photoshop is red to be like rubylith.)
• Gaussian Goat: “…if human vision could perceive all of an object’s possible quantum mechanical states” at once.
• This workstation “looks… designed to kill the occupant using the monitor, gravity, and some kind of release switch.”
• Slightly disturbing:
  • A 3,000-year-old Michael Jackson statue? (via @MediaStorm)
  • Most unnerving track lighting ever? (“I got a feeling/Someone is watching meeee…”)
• Neat: Google uses Flash to add perspective to maps. (via @jdowdell)