Entries Tagged 'Art / Design / Comics' ↓

The creator of my favourite web comic EVER – Beaver and Steve – has just submitted his first Threadless submission which I imagine has something to do with this moth story arc. Anyway, vote for him, it’s all in a good cause (so I can get a Beaver and Steve Threadless tee!).

I love xkcd comics, they are so cool, cute, beautiful, profound and/or just really funny. What’s also really cool is he has released them under a Creative Commons license which means you’re free to copy and share them as long as the use is non-commerical and you attribute where they came from. Brilliant! But one good thing about going to his website is if you mouseover the comic, some commentary comes out (for this one, it was “It slowly dawns on us that our parents knew exactly what they were doing”). There’s heaps of good stuff in the archives, I may get round to posting some of my favourites one day…

At some stage, when I get round to making up some productivity templates, I’ll need a place to store then as I don’t want huge hosting bills. Anyway I wanted something free, that allows free public downloads (that’s a paid extra at box.net … stupid! immediately they lose all that free publicity), that doesn’t delete your files after 30 days if they haven’t been accessed (eg savefile.com) and has a nice community. Good design would be just an added bonus. Well I found all that at eSnips:
eSnips.com – Get 1GB free storage to upload and share files, photos and videos

I love the little birdy logo and the fact that the CEO is a woman. You set up folders which can be public or private, public folders have their own static (and short!) web address. You can link directly to a document or create cute little “widgets” buttons.

The fellow eSnippers all seem like a nice bunch, it’s not as daunting as the bigger players. Pigment is my favourite. He’s an English artist and here are some widgets linking to his paintings: