» March 2006 (10 posts)

Sentido Web es la nueva publicación creada por Blogs Media dirigida a los desarrolladores web e internautas apasionados por la programación, diseño, negocios y todo lo que ocurre en Internet. Considéranos la revista que siempre has deseado comprar en el kiosko con la diferencia de que somos gratuitos y de publicación diaria. Ésta es la razón por la que he andado más liado estos días. A disfrutarlo.

Sentido Web is the new nanopublication created by Blogs Media Team for web developers, internet geeks, software addicted people and programming pasionate people, with the latest news over the internet. Consider us as the magazine you buy in the kiosks with a slight difference, we are FREE and we publish DAILY. This is one of the reasons why i have been so overloaded this week. More to come. Enjoy.

Let me copy & paste some text from Paul, well that's the actual Paul link, not the original Paul. My honest opinion is that Paul has changed a lot within the last 2 years, since he sold the dying CssVault as i mentioned in one of my last projects. But he explained better than me what i think about minimalism, just when he was the original Paul.

A website design should give users some kind of experience when they visit it. The design itself should give the site a personality all on its own. This personality however should not get in the way of the true purpose of a site, which is for the users to use. Minimalism allows users to use the site. It allows users to use the site through great usability and really does not cause the user to put much thought into what he has to do to get the job done. Once you add the word "design" to minimalist then you are taking things to a higher level. Minimalist design does not mean white backgrounds or two column layouts. Minimalist design means that everything on the page serves a specific function without hindering the users experience or getting in the way of the message that the site is trying to deliver.

The absolute most challenging thing is to do something simple. Because simple has to be perfect. If it's not perfect you see it a mile away. It's easier to create something complex.

And this can be also implemented using Flash, and that's what i have tried to do in this template. Cause i think white is the purest thing out there for design purposes. Enjoy.

Being married with a fashion designer is cool. Normally i do not have to worry about the way i dress. I am ugly, the ugliest in the world, i am sure about that. I wear anything i find in the wardrobe 20 minutes after waking up and having a shower, there is no problem, there is always something there that "mixed nonsense together" is cool for her. You can mix all the colours you want without being a queer popstar. That's the general rule.

Same as i have my AVN Awards, she has her NewYork Fashion Week. Same as i watch porn when i can, she does with fashion stuff with our satellite thingie. She understands fashion like this, i understand fashion like that. We love each other, that's completely true. She is for sure (forget about mothers, sisters) the most important woman in my life. 3 years married next 29th, and still loving each other as 10 years ago.

So here are two new flash designs as templates i have finished recently, her fashion taste above against mine below. Judge yourself, and go and get them before they vanish.

Buf! Normalmente los amantes del porno tienen que esperar a más de la mitad del año para poder difrutar de un gran título de Wicked Pictures, por eso esta release ha sido una gran sorpresa para lo pronto del año en curso, algo tan bien hecho necesita ser citado aquí en Nv30. Para aquellos que no lo sepan como curiosidad, ésta es la última película en la que Kaylani Lei es protagonista antes de abandonar el estudio de Wicked Pictures como Contract Girl. En éste título, Kaylani es la reina egipcia Neferkala, cuya tumba estuvo sin profanar durante cientos de años hasta que Randy Spears la descubre nada más empezar el título.

Curse Eternal ha sido escrita y dirigida por Brad Armstrong, y tenemos que decir que está muy bien hecha (cómo casi todo lo de Wicked Pictures), muy bien rodada, muy cuidada y muy orientada al sexo en pareja. Si tuvieramos que hablar de algo malo tendríamos que decir que el argumento es demasiado serio (Ahahahaha, a mí todos aquellos que no se creen que en una producción porno hay argumento); habría sido mucho más entretenida si de las 2 horas y 34 minutos que contienen los 3 discos no se pasaran hablando casi 53 minutos.

El primer par de DVDs son la película en sí con un total de 2 horas y 34 minutos como comentabamos anteriormente, con 9 escenas de sexo (10 si contamos las 2 tomas de la orgía de Jessica). El DVD está en formato widescreen anamorphic con 5.1 Dolby y la opción de escuchar o bien los diálogos o bien música de esas que todos conocemos (ritmo acompasado, etc, etc, etc ... todos la hemos imitado alguna vez entre los colegas). Con 2 opciones más de idiomas, español y alemán.

Curse Eternal es de largo la mejor release en lo que va de año 2006, y una película obligada para los fans de Kaylani ya que probablemente sea la última vez que la vemos enfrente de las cámaras. Anoten éste título para los próximos AVN Awards , yo ya ando convenciendo a mi señora esposa para estar allí. Hueso duro de roer.

In the old nv30, i already talked about Simpleviewer from the guys at Airtightinteractive.Now they are back with Autoviewer.

AutoViewer is a free Flash image viewer. It is designed to display a linear sequence of images and captions, and it is an easy to use tool with your images (see example below). Take your time also and give a try to Postcardviewer.

Wanna be like Joshua, yeah, the header splash in my portfolio section ; that's one of the gurús i respect the most. I respect him just because things like his webpage and the amount of things he has been working or is working with. An example, BMW Z4. That's why i want to be like Joshua.

I do what i can in flash. Some of my spanish friends call me Nachito, some others call me Joshua Cañí. For the spanish readers, you all know what Cañí is, and probably for the rest, who Nachito is. I do what i can in the porn business and I do what i can in flash; i have done what i could in my last flash design above. Enjoy.

With the vast combinations of monitors and video cards that are available at a range of different resolutions, sizes and prices, it is not surprising that there is a large degree of variance in the general marketplace but graphic designers need to work to some reference standards just in the same way that audio engineers work within fairly strict specifications for their recordings. Apple Macintosh computers have been used within the print industry for many years and they have colour management built-in at system level. At the heart of every Mac is something called 'ColorSync' which allows input from scanners and output to colour printers to be viewable with a high degree of confidence on any attached monitor and, although not 100% foolproof because of the fundamental differences in RGB and CMYK, what you see on the screen is more or less what you get when you go to print.

Windows PCs are primarily designed as office machines for word processing, spreadsheets and database work. They are also very price-sensitive. So, there is very little standardisation of colour on monitors. An office PC is not a suitable tool for graphic design simply because you can't trust what you see on the monitor. That's not to say that you have to use a Mac to get accurate colour, in fact a Mac set up for print work is not really suitable for Web design at all. Properly adjusted, any computer and monitor can be used for Web design.

Regardless of the screen size or colour depth, a monitor should display a wide range of colours as predictably as possible, but colours are not always as they seem. If you look at a picture of a zebra in your living room at night and outside your front door at noon, you see the same black and white zebra. If you used a measuring instrument (a colourometer or densitometer) to read absolute values of black and white in these two situations they would be vastly different in colour value and intensity. In the indoor light, the white would warm because it is being illuminated by an incandescent tungsten lamp. Outside in daylight, the white would be much purer.

If you were to take photographs of the picture of the zebra under both conditions on slide film, the difference would be very apparent. When you look at it with your eyes, your brain compensates for the differences and you are almost unaware of the comparative warmth and coolness - called 'colour temperature'. Think of colour temperature as being the colour of a piece of metal heated in a fire. As the heat increases, it goes from dull red, to bright red, to yellow and finally to 'white hot'. There is another big difference in the readings taken from the zebra picture indoors and out. Outside the white will be very much brighter than indoors, in fact, the difference in brightness between the black and white will be many times greater. Black, is just the absence of light, it doesn't change as much as the intensity of light. The difference in intensity between white and black in any given situation is called the 'dynamic range'.

Okay, forget about zebras now and let's consider monitors. The black on a monitor can only be as black as the colour of the screen when it is switched off. You can't shine 'negative light' on anything - or bank robbers would have a field day! So, if your monitor is sitting in a brightly lit room, the colour of the screen - your black - will be brighter than if it were in a dark room. Sometimes you have no choice of working environment, but a dimly lit room is better for making colour and tonal judgements. The brightness of the white on your monitor depends on many factors, the type of tube, the efficiency of the phosphors and the monitors age. A new Sony or Mitsubishi-based tube will be very much brighter than an old shadowmask tube.

Unfortunately, a computer monitor doesn't behave the same way as the human eye when it comes to showing relative tonal values. If you were to display what you knew to be a 50% grey on the monitor, you would expect it to be exactly half way between the black and white in brightness, but it wouldn't be. To get it to appear to be exactly half way between black and white, the monitor has to have something called 'gamma compensation' applied. Instead of a graph plotting brightness between black and white being a straight line, it has to be a curve for all the intermediate tones to have the correct visual relationship.

The W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) has decided that, for Web design, an intermediate gamma of 2.2 should be used. It is a good compromise between the 1.8 used in traditional graphics computers and the 2.5 of office machines. It is also the standard used for television production which hit similar problems many years earlier. So, in terms of W3C, to reach some kind of standard for viewing Web graphics on a monitor, we have to consider the Black, the Brightness and Colour Temperature of the White, the inter-relationship of the colours in-between, and the neutrality of the Grey.

Now guess, my last flash design above, has it been done considering all this?. GO and grab your own source of the files in the portfolio section. I am happy to have read it.

Laurent Sky’s Porno Revolution isn’t a home run, but it’s a solid ground-rule double, that’s for sure. It scores a lot of points just for being different. It may not have the best sex I’ve seen in a release so far this year, but it did provide some of the best visuals and downright originality I’ve seen in a porn title in a long time. The movie is a mish-mash of different things, with the parts not really adding up to a whole. It’s part feature, part all-sex and part vignette movie – with only four sex scenes in all, but scenes that are well-shot and fun to watch.

Porno Revolution doesn’t even begin the way you think it will...it starts off with a rap video that seems to have little to do with the movie that follows. Then, after the opening credits roll, there’s a bit about a group of Chinese scientists who have done an MRI on Laurent Sky in order to find out why his porn movies are so creative. We then go to a scene where Randy Spears (who cameos throughout, but doesn’t engage in any sex) has been kidnapped by Bolivians and is being held for ransom. The movie also has a number of segments where blonde Samantha Ryan is commenting on what is going on (sadly, Samantha doesn’t engage in any sexual activities, either).

At first glance, extras seem on the slim side, but the behind the scenes is quite entertaining and runs about 26-minutes in length. The DVD also includes a slide show and a chapter selection. The video quality is quite sharp, and the movie is presented in the full-frame format. Audio is in 2.0 Dolby. With an almost music-video feel to the whole production, Porno Revolution isn’t going to appeal to the hardcore raincoaters out there. However, those looking for something a little different and something that’s definitely a lot more creative than your typical porn title will want to give Porno Revolution a look.

Maybe you've dreamed of gliding down the catwalk in Milan, flashbulbs popping all around, hundreds of people focusing their attention on your grace and beauty. The closets of your Paris apartment are stuffed full of expensive designer clothing, and tomorrow you fly back to New York just in time to catch a party attended by your good friends, Kate Moss, Keanu Reeves, and Ben Affleck. Nice dream. Now wake up.

First things first: you've taken the trouble to do a little research, so you're not a moron. That's good. Regardless of prevailing stereotypes, you need smarts to break into modeling. Those same smarts will also help you realize that your chances of becoming the sort of supermodel who lands multimillion-dollar endorsements are only a little better than your chances of being killed by a charging rhinoceros - even if you're beautiful. The success stories are few; even models represented by the best agencies in the world often take other work to supplement their income. Now, if you're still reading, congratulations. You aren't easily discouraged, and you're gonna need that kind of pluck to endure the rejection which is part of every model's stock and trade. There are several different types and levels of modeling, and if your expectations are realistic, you needn't feel discouraged.

There are many different kinds of models, including child models, plus-size models, and parts models (whose hands you see in all those diamond ring ads). Fashion models must usually conform to rather rigid physical criteria, but there are others models called "real-life models," who are often also actors. They are just what the name suggests: ordinary looking people used in catalogues and commercials to represent someone the average consumer can identify with. The white-haired guy with the potbelly on the Golf Resorts billboard is a real-life model. If it turns out that you aren't quite what they're looking for in a fashion model, consider this sort of work (or consider becoming a character actor). There are other paths to the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.

All right, so let's assume you've got all of these qualifications. You are, for example, a willowy 16-year-old girl who's on the basketball team, could squeeze her body through a set of prison bars, and causes old men who shouldn't be ogling you to stumble over their walkers. That's great. On top of that you have clear skin, perfect teeth, and your own brand of je ne sais quoi. Fantastic. Now is time for you to contact me and get for a few bucks a book of photos translated into flash. Enjoy what you see above.