by Nadya Arnaoot on October 5, 2009
David Hockney has been using the Brushes app for recent paintings.
Just gorgeous.
“People from the village,” he says, craning back over that shoulder, “come up to me and tease me, ‘We hear you’ve started drawing on your telephone.’ And I tell them, ‘Well, no, actually, it’s just that occasionally I speak on my sketch pad.’”
– David [...]
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by Nadya Arnaoot on May 23, 2008
Hi everybody,
I’ve just finished up version 1.0 of Salome, a theme which allows you to run a magazine website using WordPress. I’m pretty excited about it; I love the format of blogs, but there are different advantages that magazines provide. Years ago I used to help produce an online magazine, and we needed to code [...]
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by Nadya Arnaoot on September 28, 2007
I’m very excited about posting my first instructable– it walks through how to make a booksafe case for an iPhone, so you can read it in public without looking highly muggable.
Here’s the link: http://www.instructables.com/id/Top-Seekrit-iPhone-Book-Safe!/
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by Nadya Arnaoot on September 21, 2007
My dear friend Kim just alerted me to the fact that today is Park(ing) day. Last year Park(ing) day fell on a summer day when I was between jobs; I read about it on boingboing in the morning and wandered over to a coffeeshop to lounge in the parking spot that had [...]
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by Nadya Arnaoot on September 19, 2007
I wanted to quickly jot down what I’m thinking about this morning: the similarity between the WordPress theme I pulled together for this site and mash-up music. Mash-up songs are made by splicing together different pieces of songs; the fun is in the combination of surprise and familiarity. You vaguely recognize the [...]
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music,
net
by Nadya Arnaoot on September 18, 2007
This is a new design for my website. I’ve been playing with WordPress lately, and decided to use a WordPress blog for my site– it makes it easier to update regularly, which is important in establishing a Google-able presence, and the functionality is sophisticated enough that it looks like I’ll also be able to [...]
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