We have God on our dollars, God in our pledge of allegiance, God in our Congress… We have God in our public schools […] and we have major presidential candidates who use God […] as cornerstones of their campaigns.

Yay for clear separation of Chruch and State!
A courageous OpEd by NYT’s Frank Bruni.

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It’s an aPOOPalypse!
Everybody Poops!… But Can It Last?
A very serious infographic for a very serious topic.
No, seriously.
Via http://www.fastcoexist.com/

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Hurricane Sandy in NYC
Around 5pm, at Williamsburg Bridge. East River level has risen a good 4-5 feet. A few trees uprooted, FDR blocked off, and 100s of seagulls seeking refuge in open football field.
Only in NYC!

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What The What???
Police drone dropping bomb on NYC’s Union Square residents?
Missing Unicorn?

Only in #NYC, folks

It’s fantaaasteek!
@Getcheckmark: Awesome explainer video for…
Explainer? No. Much more.
Awesome short film for a an iPhone app.
Just signed up. Feeling fantaaasteek!

The right way to online translation

Online translation, a headache no more, with mytranslation.com.
Check out another fun video explainer.
And because it’s about translation, it’s naturally available in at least two languages. Duh.
More delicious info here

Documentary NY On Set for Turner Classic Movies FR/UK/DE

Martin Scorsese, Spike Lee, Keitel, Burstyn, Aiello, Rappaport, and more participated in this hour-long documentary about NY as it relates to cinema.

We finally got around to putting together this trailer (profanity included, because it’s more fun). Check it out.

A bit more info here: http://bit.ly/KgxRja

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Tobias Wong:

Art + silliness + design + commerce + good taste + attitude = very 21st century.
A nice slideshow from the NYT, and more here.

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2012, The Year Of The Fan?

The Spanish fan, that is.
The magic of Spain is contained in this one simple object…

Now our friends at IS Creative in Madrid offer their tastefully colorful version, the useful Fantone.
There is also what I call the Mantone, by Pierre David for the Museu de Arte Moderna in Brasil. (via @bloginNYC)

And then there is Karl.

PSD trick: Change view size, don’t get getting angry anymore

Know how annoying it is in PSD when you change the view size, say going from 100% to 200%, and the whole window resizes along with it, forcing you to reorganize your palettes, and getting them out of the way every time?

Well, no more: just randomly discovered cool new PSD shortcut that will resize the canvas WITHOUT changing the window size.

Instead of Cmd-+ (or -) just use Opt-Cmd-+ (or -), and voilà!

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Stand up for your beliefs (Taken with Instagram at Brooklyn)

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Special Effects, Before After Effects

What would Orson Welles have done with AfterEffects?
One wonders… Old Hollywood
via @scottlava

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French and poetry fluency a plus…

via Olivier

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Yoyoi Kusama Exhibit: Look Now, See Forever

1-Start with pristine white
2-Release a zillion kids armed with color dots
3-Watch results
(and consider it’s all upside down, as it’s in Australia.)

Link
via @juicyagency, @popsci

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… and merry fêtes!
Or joyeuses holidays!

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