Willow - Sweater

This makes my head hurt. Everything was shot in one studio with 3 beamers projecting on a floor and two walls. By Filip Sterckx.

It reminds me of a ride I went on when I was 14 in Universal Studios Hollywood. I think it was called Avalanche, or something. You sat in a kind of sledge on a track, which was completely surrounded by an almost translucent plastic tube, which was in turn surrounded by a white tube made to look a bit like snow. The outer tube rotated in one direction, the inner in the opposite, which made you think you were tumbling over and over in the snow. It totally and utterly did my head in, as in white-knuckle-gripping-the-sides did my head in. I'll never forget it. 

Facebook History Timelines

How do you make history more appealing to students? Stick it on a Facebook timeline. Pretty smart.

Check them out.

Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union

Fashion 1950 - now

Inventions of the 20th Century

Magellan's Voyage Around the World

Skeu It

Skeuomorphic design. It's a funny old thing. "It’s visual masturbation," says one former senior UI designer at Apple who worked closely with Steve Jobs. "It’s like the designers are flexing their muscles to show you how good of a visual rendering they can do of a physical object. Who cares?"

Now that's a good quote.

The best example is the shutter sound on your mobile. It's a weird habit we have of clinging on to old design when it serves no purpose whatsoever. Apple are big fans of it (although there are rumours of a rift) and it'll be very interesting to see what they've done with the iPhone that's coming out later today.

Anyway, here's a site dedicated to skeuomorphism, called, suitably, Skeu It!

Thanks to Jonas.