December 15
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Sting - Fields of Gold (Live from the Labyrinth)

So here’s the deal, I’m not a huge Sting fan by any means, but in an episode of “Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip” he performs a version of this classic tune on a lute and it is one of the most beautiful things I’ve ever heard. Last year I searched high and low to track down a performance of it and found it. I want to share it with you.

Get the tissues ready. If you’re not at least somewhat moved by this, you have no soul.

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Someone tell the Photoshop team that Fireworks already exists, no need to replicate it.

adobegripes:

Why must Adobe keep investing time in trying to make Photoshop a UI design tool… I know some misguided designers like to make their UIs in Photoshop but they’re wrong to do so, its a horrible tedious tool for UI design. Don’t believe me? If a shit how PS user and a shit how FW user both had to change the layout and sizing of the same form controls I bet the Fireworks user would be done in a fraction of the time.

How can you use a UI design tool that doesn’t even have a button to center an object on the page?

And as for adding special features for iPhone UI design? WHY??? how is iPhone UI design any different from regular UI design other than its a fucking buzzword? You can totally see the Adobe marketing team at work here because the App Store is big money at the moment they’re hoping to tack all this extra pointless crap onto CS5 so that the stupider people in charge think they’ll need CS5 to develop better iPhone Apps.

Mike in the blog comments summed it up nicely

Adobe popular product + Current technological hype = more profit!

So for god sake Adobe why don’t you put some extra time into Fireworks, make the basic tools work better, make it more stable and stop adding dumb Flex or other gimmicky crap that time should never have been wasted on in the first place.

I don’t know much about Fireworks but I tend to agree with the general sentiment:

Stop adding so much shit and just make the basic tools work.
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Coldplay - Billie Jean (Stripped Performance)

Is there anything better than your favourite band performing your favourite song by your favourite solo artist?

Probably, but if there is I cannot think of it!

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Okay… so this might be the best thing I’ve seen all night, other than that Up/Gran Torino trailer. (via iremembermjj)

Okay… so this might be the best thing I’ve seen all night, other than that Up/Gran Torino trailer. (via iremembermjj)

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Poutine Cupcakes (via thisiswhyyourefat) As Robert Downy Jr. said in Zodiac, “This can no longer be ignored…” Not going to lie, it DOES look appetizing.

Poutine Cupcakes (via thisiswhyyourefat)

As Robert Downy Jr. said in Zodiac, “This can no longer be ignored…”

Not going to lie, it DOES look appetizing.

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December 13

The West Wing - Is This A Hazing?

“Is this a hazing?”
“I swear its not a hazing, it’s real! It’s real.”

I love those two women so very, very much.

But especially Mary-Louise Parker.

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The Power of Holly Hunter

  • Harriet Hayes: Ill give you two choices.
  • Harriet Hayes: I can do more Holly Hunter.
  • Danny Trip: Or?
  • Harriet Hayes: I can teach you how to pray.
  • Danny Trip: Teach me.
  • Harriet Hayes: God always wins.
  • Danny Trip: Nah, its just... Your Holly Hunter is unbearable.
  • Harriet Hayes: Whatever.
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MCFly - I Kissed a Girl (Cover).

If you have yet to discover the Radio 1 Live Lounge series you really should. Artists come in and perform (generally) acoustic versions of songs, be they there own or covers (which tend to be my favourites).

One of my all time favourites (which sadly hasn’t been released on any of the compilations) is this cover of Franz Ferdinand from those wacky Scissor Sisters.

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December 12
curvedwhite: Forest Prints by jef designs

curvedwhite:

Forest Prints by jef designs

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December 11
curvedwhite: Seriously Pink wine bottle Designed by Frank Aloi, Australia Honestly, I could look at wine labels all day long. Then drink it…

curvedwhite:

Seriously Pink wine bottle Designed by Frank Aloi, Australia

Honestly, I could look at wine labels all day long.

Then drink it…

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