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Even if I’m a developer, I like art. Particularly Pop Art, Surrealism, and impossible structure from M. C. Escher.

These paintings are great. But for us, living behind a computer screen, we’d like to see animation and arts in many different ways.

This morning I discovered 3 videos that I’d like to share with you.

First, a 3D exploration of Guernica, Picasso’s painting:

Then, a short film animating a character from Guernica in other artists’ paintings:

Finally, maybe not the most artistic but the funniest:

I like to see these types of videos where old art takes life on screen.

Because Fluidesign it’s not only about design…

In current projects we working on, we’re using more and more modal windows to show data or login form.

But I experienced many problems regarding the customization and the debugging.

That’s why I developed a jQuery Plugin which provide many callbacks and the ability to redefine every animation functions.

Everything is documented and you can start use it in your own project.

Don’t wait, check it out and let your feedback here.

Want to know how well are your ears? Take the test.

A very good example how to draw the user’s attention.

via Stuff That Happens

Gap has release a great website about the sound of color.

They asked 5 musicians to create a music video about one color.

So, what’s your favourite -sounf of- color?

Mine is probably blue.

“Le Grand Content examines the omnipresent Powerpoint-culture in search for its philosophical potential. Intersections and diagrams are assembled to form a grand ‘association-chain-massacre’. which challenges itself to answer all questions of the universe and some more. Of course, it totally fails this assignment, but in its failure it still manages to produce some magical nuance and shades between the great topics death, cable tv, emotions and hamsters.”

More information here

Just look this great video. I like his english type!

NASA relaesed their new website:

It use Prototype for all the Ajax/Javascript stuff.

Take a look on the menu, the image gallery or the subnav here

Take some seconds to answer 10 questions about your prefered interface.

Then you can see the answer.

The 50-50 answer for this question is weird…

My first thouht is because the change between Windows and Linux/Mac in the confirmation box.

The solution is easy: Use small video for each products.

We can see a great exemple here:

http://www.davidsbridal.com/woman_return_bridal_online.jsp

It’s very interessant but maybe cost very much to realize all the video.

Then when you see the product page, you can see the video in a bigger size.