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new art july

By brooks • Jul 2nd, 2009 • Category: Features

I found this Egyptian 3d artist to be pretty cool. Nice stories Mohamed Abuyhia. View His portfolio with some other nice work, including a kitchen design idea, and middle eastern style interiors.



April Quick Post

By brooks • Apr 23rd, 2009 • Category: Lead Story

As usual, the month is almost over, so here is the quick post. I think I have some of the most social friends, they all beat me to the Facebook scene. I didn’t know what I was missing I guess. I have…



new web march/april/may

By brooks • Apr 23rd, 2009 • Category: Features

altx.com Time to catch up on some old literature. There are some pieces that are more recent on alt-x, but for those who have not checked on this in a while, a lot of information is relevant now. One of my favorites – http://www.electronicbookreview.com/



new art march/april/may

By brooks • Apr 23rd, 2009 • Category: Features

I thought this was pretty amazing, remixing youtube – thru-you. The visuals are quite nice, the audio is quite nice, that equals wellmmmm * quite nice overall i must say.



January Quick Post

By brooks • Jan 27th, 2009 • Category: Lead Story

It is a new year and the first month is over. So far this year I have been headed into interactive space more and more. I made a little headway back into Flash and 3D, using ActionScript 3 and Papervision. I also want to take a minute to check out Loworks website. I liked reading the thinking by Haruki Higashi in the winter issue of Computer Arts Projects. It is a good year for change and continuation.



Mobile Development

By brooks • Nov 16th, 2008 • Category: Lead Story

New at design is casual is a new macbook pro loaded with cs4 and an ipod touch, the makings of a great mobile studio. Before, I was tied to my desk for major development (And I still will be for many things). Now I have the ability to visit clients and show on screen demos, [...]



new web november

By brooks • Nov 16th, 2008 • Category: Features

I subscribe to the archinect newsletter, and found an interesting call for submissions. The website for the project is brkt.org (I like the removal of extra letters to keep the domain name short). The first issue is On Farming, and I have a small group that might be interested in creating a submission to bracket [...]



new art november

By brooks • Nov 16th, 2008 • Category: Features

The largest prize pool (over $220,000) challenge ever – Myths & Legends – is taking place over at CGSociety. It will be interesting to see what ideas are entered this year. The deadline for entries is February 3rd. To view winners of another CGSociety competition that merges 2d and 3d, check out the NVArt Design [...]



digital life

By brooks • Oct 24th, 2008 • Category: style

I can’t wait until there is a mobile HTML/CSS editor. Does anybody know of one? Preferably for iPod touch/iPhone? I can help test if anyone has one. copy and paste is nice.



web Ready

By brooks • Oct 12th, 2008 • Category: Lead Story

The time has come to unveil my new identity. I am not talking about an elaborate Halloween costume, I am referring to the new design is casual identity. Thanks to Ronald and the non-lethal guns at anonymousunited.com for creating a fine usage/arrangement of elements, and solidifying the first official logo for design is casual. A [...]