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<rss version="2.0"><channel><description></description><title>Mb. tumbling...</title><generator>Tumblr (3.0; @mattbalara)</generator><link>http://tumble.mattbalara.com/</link><item><title>Is this beautiful or what? Andy Gilmore’s illustrations...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://media.tumblr.com/E1CUzpYOPd00fnmhEaguTInK_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Is this beautiful or what? &lt;a href="http://kunstformen.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Andy Gilmore’s illustrations&lt;/a&gt; are pretty technical in the details, but the big picture reveals nature.</description><link>http://tumble.mattbalara.com/post/47107527</link><guid>http://tumble.mattbalara.com/post/47107527</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Aug 2008 18:48:20 +0200</pubDate></item><item><title>I was looking for this a couple weeks ago: a Photoshop file of...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://media.tumblr.com/E1CUzpYOPczz67wbLyyAEnnr_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;I was looking for this a couple weeks ago: a Photoshop file of iPhone interface elements, with all the layers y’need. Kindly provided by &lt;a href="http://www.teehanlax.com/blog/?p=447" target="_blank"&gt;teehan + lax&lt;/a&gt;.</description><link>http://tumble.mattbalara.com/post/47104525</link><guid>http://tumble.mattbalara.com/post/47104525</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Aug 2008 18:13:00 +0200</pubDate></item><item><title>Enjoying the loose lines of The Daily Figure.</title><description>&lt;img src="http://media.tumblr.com/E1CUzpYOPczz00qoBBSKbTHk_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Enjoying the loose lines of &lt;a href="http://www.thedailyfigure.com/" target="_blank"&gt;The Daily Figure&lt;/a&gt;.</description><link>http://tumble.mattbalara.com/post/47104098</link><guid>http://tumble.mattbalara.com/post/47104098</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Aug 2008 18:08:11 +0200</pubDate></item><item><title>Navel-gazing “who are we?” questions seem to be...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://media.tumblr.com/E1CUzpYOPcyi8avfrhnqZk2f_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Navel-gazing “who are we?” questions seem to be going around right now. I &lt;a href="http://mattbalara.com/2008/06/whats-design-mean-to-you.html" target="_blank"&gt;wrote about it&lt;/a&gt;, Jason &lt;a href="http://jasonsantamaria.com/articles/explain-yourself" target="_blank"&gt;wrote about it&lt;/a&gt;, Mathew &lt;a href="http://mathewpatterson.com/index.php/mp/comments/web_designer_or_html_css_developer/" target="_blank"&gt;wrote about it&lt;/a&gt;. And despite all of our blathering, this diagram explains it best.</description><link>http://tumble.mattbalara.com/post/46981078</link><guid>http://tumble.mattbalara.com/post/46981078</guid><pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2008 17:30:00 +0200</pubDate></item><item><title>My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-8-17)</title><description>&lt;a href="http://www.last.fm/user/mbalara/charts?charttype=weekly&amp;date_to=1218974400"&gt;My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-8-17)&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;ol&gt;
&lt;li&gt;
&lt;a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.last.fm/music/Ben+Folds+Five"&gt;Ben Folds Five&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;
&lt;a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.last.fm/music/Ben+Folds"&gt;Ben Folds&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;
&lt;a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.last.fm/music/Jenny+Owen+Youngs"&gt;Jenny Owen Youngs&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;
&lt;a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.last.fm/music/Darren+Hanlon"&gt;Darren Hanlon&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;
&lt;a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.last.fm/music/Damien+Rice"&gt;Damien Rice&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Imported from &lt;a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://joelaz.com/post/23488847/last-fm-tumblr-weekly-top-artists"&gt;Last.fm Tumblr&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://joelaz.com"&gt;JoeLaz&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://tumble.mattbalara.com/post/46407693</link><guid>http://tumble.mattbalara.com/post/46407693</guid><pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2008 15:36:38 +0200</pubDate></item><item><title>Free.</title><description>&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MbFeed/~3/364958945/free.html"&gt;Free.&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;p&gt;Today was my last day of over 7 years as an art director at Sinnerschrader.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;As &lt;a href="http://mattbalara.com/2008/06/rebooting-my-life.html" target="_blank"&gt;I’ve mentioned before&lt;/a&gt;, one of my main motivations was a unshakeable desire to return to Australia after over 10…&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://tumble.mattbalara.com/post/45976914</link><guid>http://tumble.mattbalara.com/post/45976914</guid><pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2008 20:26:53 +0200</pubDate></item><item><title>via:

ambivalence:


ffffound:

Nathan_Coley.jpg (image)
</title><description>&lt;img src="http://media.tumblr.com/JBy6l1Bb3ch6oq54mqrfGs0W_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;via:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://ambivalence.tumblr.com/post/45487960" target="_blank"&gt;ambivalence&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://ffffound.tumblr.com/post/45412045/nathan-coley-jpg-image" target="_blank"&gt;ffffound&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;a href="http://ffffound.com/image/f0d44f6ad654765e600a079071f9bafbb3b5956b" target="_blank"&gt;Nathan_Coley.jpg (image)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;</description><link>http://tumble.mattbalara.com/post/45639393</link><guid>http://tumble.mattbalara.com/post/45639393</guid><pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2008 09:19:52 +0200</pubDate></item><item><title>We designers and artists spend so much time and energy trying to...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://media.tumblr.com/E1CUzpYOPcizvmtqkph6K5s1_500.png"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;We designers and artists spend so much time and energy trying to create things of beauty, things of interest. I find it despressing, and at the same time strangely inspiring, to see how interesting and beautiful completely accidental, random compression junk can be.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;You couldn’t make an image like this if you tried. And that’s the magic.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://tumble.mattbalara.com/post/45571852</link><guid>http://tumble.mattbalara.com/post/45571852</guid><pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2008 21:00:00 +0200</pubDate></item><item><title>My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-8-10)</title><description>&lt;a href="http://www.last.fm/user/mbalara/charts?charttype=weekly&amp;date_to=1218369600"&gt;My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-8-10)&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;ol&gt;
&lt;li&gt;
&lt;a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.last.fm/music/The+National"&gt;The National&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;
&lt;a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.last.fm/music/Damien+Rice"&gt;Damien Rice&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;
&lt;a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.last.fm/music/Jenny+Owen+Youngs"&gt;Jenny Owen Youngs&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;
&lt;a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.last.fm/music/Darren+Hanlon"&gt;Darren Hanlon&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;
&lt;a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.last.fm/music/Ben+Folds"&gt;Ben Folds&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Imported from &lt;a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://joelaz.com/post/23488847/last-fm-tumblr-weekly-top-artists"&gt;Last.fm Tumblr&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://joelaz.com"&gt;JoeLaz&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://tumble.mattbalara.com/post/45529716</link><guid>http://tumble.mattbalara.com/post/45529716</guid><pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2008 14:59:55 +0200</pubDate></item><item><title>Finally! Now I know what CNN’s been trying to tell me all...</title><description>&lt;object width="400" height="336"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/wNwj7WLEqkY"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/wNwj7WLEqkY" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="336" wmode="transparent"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Finally! Now I know what CNN’s been trying to tell me all these years.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt; via &lt;a href="http://ambivalence.tumblr.com/post/45486837" target="_blank"&gt;ambivalence&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;via &lt;a href="http://bullshit.tumblr.com/post/45466274/the-breaths-in-are-the-best-part" target="_blank"&gt;bullshit&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;blockquote&gt;The breaths in are the best part.&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;</description><link>http://tumble.mattbalara.com/post/45497233</link><guid>http://tumble.mattbalara.com/post/45497233</guid><pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2008 08:42:00 +0200</pubDate></item><item><title>Wholly inappropriate, I know, and much harder to follow if you...</title><description>&lt;embed src="http://blip.tv/play/ih_F3GmJ5FQ" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="248" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Wholly inappropriate, I know, and much harder to follow if you actually understand German, but either way, bwahhahhahha! [via &lt;a href="http://twitter.com/trib/statuses/883618262" target="_blank"&gt;Twitter&lt;/a&gt;, of course]</description><link>http://tumble.mattbalara.com/post/45496751</link><guid>http://tumble.mattbalara.com/post/45496751</guid><pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2008 08:38:00 +0200</pubDate></item><item><title>What’s Design Mean to You? An Interview with Thomas Vanderwal</title><description>&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MbFeed/~3/361386383/whats-design-mean-to-you-an-interview-with-thomas-vanderwal.html"&gt;What’s Design Mean to You? An Interview with Thomas Vanderwal&lt;/a&gt;: Like a fool, I missed &lt;em&gt;both&lt;/em&gt; of Thomas Vander Wal’s presentations at Reboot 10. I heard they were good. So it was only coincidentally (and after the conference was over) that I managed to get this…</description><link>http://tumble.mattbalara.com/post/45457005</link><guid>http://tumble.mattbalara.com/post/45457005</guid><pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2008 00:21:07 +0200</pubDate></item><item><title>What’s Design Mean to You? An Interview with Kars Alfrink</title><description>&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MbFeed/~3/361350238/whats-design-mean-to-you-an-interview-with-kars-alfrink.html"&gt;What’s Design Mean to You? An Interview with Kars Alfrink&lt;/a&gt;: Interview number ten is with Kars Alfrink. How’s that for a cool name? On his own site, &lt;a href="http://leapfrog.nl/" target="_blank"&gt;leapfrog.nl&lt;/a&gt;, he describes his work so: “I design the dialogue between people and the products &amp; services…</description><link>http://tumble.mattbalara.com/post/45452614</link><guid>http://tumble.mattbalara.com/post/45452614</guid><pubDate>Sun, 10 Aug 2008 23:21:04 +0200</pubDate></item><item><title>"It still takes ten years to become a success, web or no web. The frustrating part is that you see..."</title><description>“It still takes ten years to become a success, web or no web. The frustrating part is that you see your tactics fail right away. The good news is that over time, you get the satisfaction of watching those tactics succeed right away.”&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; - &lt;em&gt;Seth Godin, &lt;a href="http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2008/08/the-secret-of-t.html" target="_blank"&gt;on patience&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;</description><link>http://tumble.mattbalara.com/post/45408431</link><guid>http://tumble.mattbalara.com/post/45408431</guid><pubDate>Sun, 10 Aug 2008 13:35:46 +0200</pubDate></item><item><title>What’s Design Mean to You? An Interview with Stowe Boyd</title><description>&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MbFeed/~3/360506924/whats-design-mean-to-you-an-interview-with-stowe-boyd.html"&gt;What’s Design Mean to You? An Interview with Stowe Boyd&lt;/a&gt;: The video series is almost at an end, and it’s approrpriate that we’ve finally gotten to Stowe. The seed of these interviews was &lt;a href="http://mattbalara.com/2008/06/whats-design-mean-to-you.html" target="_blank"&gt;a post&lt;/a&gt; I wrote a while back, which came from hearing Stowe and…</description><link>http://tumble.mattbalara.com/post/45339882</link><guid>http://tumble.mattbalara.com/post/45339882</guid><pubDate>Sat, 09 Aug 2008 21:19:54 +0200</pubDate></item><item><title>What’s Design Mean to You? An Interview with Cennydd Bowles</title><description>&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MbFeed/~3/360164694/whats-design-mean-to-you-an-interview-with-cennydd-bowles.html"&gt;What’s Design Mean to You? An Interview with Cennydd Bowles&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;p&gt;After seeing Cennydd’s presentation at Reboot 10, “&lt;a href="http://www.slideshare.net/Cennydd/beauty-in-web-design" target="_blank"&gt;Beauty in Web Design&lt;/a&gt;”, I knew I had to interview him as well. So in the ten minutes he waited on his taxi to the airport, we had a chat.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" width="437" height="370" id="viddler"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.viddler.com/player/626ca8a4/"&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://tumble.mattbalara.com/post/45298541</link><guid>http://tumble.mattbalara.com/post/45298541</guid><pubDate>Sat, 09 Aug 2008 11:19:36 +0200</pubDate></item><item><title>a softer world is pure genius. Disturbed and strange pure...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://media.tumblr.com/E1CUzpYOPcf1ox3gX3JeIYJz_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.asofterworld.com" target="_blank"&gt;a softer world&lt;/a&gt; is pure genius. Disturbed and strange pure genius.</description><link>http://tumble.mattbalara.com/post/45262838</link><guid>http://tumble.mattbalara.com/post/45262838</guid><pubDate>Sat, 09 Aug 2008 02:40:22 +0200</pubDate></item><item><title>How did human civilisation ever get so far without this? [via...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://media.tumblr.com/E1CUzpYOPcdfo5s2J3h2xNqW_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;How did human civilisation ever get so far without this? [via &lt;a href="http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/8/view/3526/wake-n-bacon-alarm-clock.html" target="_blank"&gt;designboom&lt;/a&gt;]</description><link>http://tumble.mattbalara.com/post/45119923</link><guid>http://tumble.mattbalara.com/post/45119923</guid><pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 23:36:08 +0200</pubDate></item><item><title>via sujay:

Amazing Slow-Motion Lightning</title><description>&lt;object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://www.collegehumor.com/moogaloop/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=1825827&amp;fullscreen=1" width="400" height="300"&gt;&lt;param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /&gt;&lt;param name="AllowScriptAccess" value="true" /&gt;&lt;param name="movie" quality="best" value="http://www.collegehumor.com/moogaloop/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=1825827&amp;fullscreen=1" /&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;via &lt;a href="http://log.isujay.com/post/45103076/amazing-slow-motion-lightning" target="_blank"&gt;sujay&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1825827" target="_blank"&gt;Amazing Slow-Motion Lightning&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;</description><link>http://tumble.mattbalara.com/post/45118796</link><guid>http://tumble.mattbalara.com/post/45118796</guid><pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 23:22:07 +0200</pubDate></item><item><title>[via designboom]</title><description>&lt;img src="http://media.tumblr.com/E1CUzpYOPcdf3vqwDeKZibci_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;[via &lt;a href="http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/10/view/3551/tell-a-lie-series-by-henry-ladlow-and-ed-cornish.html" target="_blank"&gt;designboom&lt;/a&gt;]</description><link>http://tumble.mattbalara.com/post/45118573</link><guid>http://tumble.mattbalara.com/post/45118573</guid><pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 23:20:00 +0200</pubDate></item></channel></rss>
