Webdesign, CSS, Social Media, Tech News

• Web 2.0 Badge Creator
  Collection of web 2.0 badges text and video tutorials, plus a neat Web 2.0 graphic generator
  
• Huge list of sites offering Photoshop Rescources and Tutorials
• Univers revolved: a 3-D font
  “The revolved letters create a new alphabet that recaptures the element of experimentation the Latin alphabet held in its early days. Encountering it for the first time, we re-experience the excitement of learning to form words from letters as children.”
• Retro Arcade Museum In Upstate New York
  If you can’t get to NYC here’s the blog version: the Retro Thing
• fractalsponge.net: 3-D space ship art
  This site is seriously cool as it shows highly detailed 3-D views of Star Destroyers, T.I.E. Fighters and a All-Terrain Shock Enforcer (AT-SE) i.e. They alsoprovide download links to the 3ds, maya, max6,  lw.8x project files.
• Building your own tiny URL with wordpress
• CSS Cheat Sheet
  The basics. One one view.
• Star Wars Fine Art prints
• Igarashi Design: Futuristic studies
  Radical and freaky studies of a helicopter, motorcycle and high speed snow mobile
• Cardboard Endoskeleton T-800
  Blogger made a  T-800  papercraft from the  Teminator films in the  scale 1:2, which looks really awesome.  Behold of the Judgement Day!
  

• Steampunked version of Noah’s Ark
• Flickr set “Alternative Histories” containing lovely, but armed steampunk ladies
• Lego steampunk yacht Radiant Kestrel and flyer Cantankerous Prospector
• Cool 3D steampunked Star Wars characters
• Rebel Attack! Star Wars diorama on flickr

Enjoy!

[Update]

Unfortuanately this great collection of Star Wars Pics is no longer available, cause Lucasfilm accused Mr. Heilemann of copyright infringement and had flickr.com delete the albums. Read the whole story here
This is a very sad and according to me not very clever move, though eexecuted technically correct, due there really was a infringement. But is this behaviour reasonable? The collection was loved by the fans, there was no commercial use and it was easier to watch as the legal source of SW pictures (No, I do not want to link, even mention it).
So does it make sense to anger the fans and delete their fanworks just cause you can do it and got the right to?

Shame on Lucasfilm!

Sheer awesomeness! A set of 304 Star Wars photos from the film set of the actors, George Lucas and the space ship models, of course! Featureing taking a nap, script drawings, Darth Vader on Hoth and laser sword fights!

Pure SW eye candy!

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The San Francisco LucasArts office announces the next sequel of the StarWars KOTOR series will be a MMORPG. All availaible information still is quite vague, but some statements can be found on kotaku.com:

Art Director Jeff Dobson says that Old Republic will not have a totally realistic art style; but neither will it be too cartoon-y. The idea here, he says, is that they want a distinct look for the MMO that sets it apart from all others – one that will run on as many machines as possible without sacrificing the quality of the graphics.

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