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Dirty talk

Sam Dal Monte — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 22:17:06 +0000

My last project for Digital Imaging Essentials class: a booklet of graffiti found in Emily Carr bathrooms. Enjoyable, but it’s still nice to be done.

The booklet cover is below, and you can download a PDF.

Today’s Clément

Sam Dal Monte — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 18:49:19 +0000

“To find a job when you’re stupid, you have to be lucky.”

“Just Google ‘Tufte’. You will be amazed.”

“I can think about Jean-Paul Sartre, and Jean-Paul Sartre is not here.”

Vampire power

Sam Dal Monte — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 03:29:05 +0000

I think we’re all tired of the endless parade of desperate links to our Ecological Perspectives videos—certainly I am—but I feel it would still be somehow wrong if I chose not to join in. Here goes:

In nearly unrelated news, Thais so eloquently says what we’ve all been struggling to put into words.

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Scribbling

Sam Dal Monte — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 22:15:23 +0000

I think my fellow design students would agree this is a worthy cause.

You can download a PDF version of this poster. It’s licenced under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.

Real/fake images

Sam Dal Monte — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 23:57:53 +0000

So good to finally have finished all this.

Before:

After:

Fake

Sam Dal Monte — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 07:21:38 +0000

To prepare for faking it, I have been compiling tips and resources, both for my own benefit and to share with all of you.

How to mask fine details in Photoshop.

“You Are Beautiful“, by Daryl Waller. (via)

Shorpy, the “100-year-old photo blog”. High-resolution, public domain photography.

Compfight simplifies finding high-resolution, freely modifiable photos on Flickr.

Also: Kate Beaton has a prediction for tomorrow. Keep your doors and windows locked.

The Daily Figure

Sam Dal Monte — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 06:23:42 +0000

Beautiful, minimalist doodles by Kyle T. Webster: The Daily Figure.

Wednesday thoughts

Sam Dal Monte — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 20:29:01 +0000

Blogging is more difficult than expected.

Objectified trailer: