Five Dozen Ofazomi Sites! Yipes! Help!

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Potential Helpers:

Want to learn web admin and design? We will train! No experience required! Ofazomi.org has upgraded nearly every piece of web server infrastructure to deal with the ten-fold bandwidth increase over the last 14 days. Help us upgrade/screw-up our website and learn what ‘not to do’

Current Ofazomians:

Thanks for posting your portfolios here! Tell your friends! Let’s create a low-cost/free space for creatives, eh?

Ofazomi.org was a bit slow to reach for the last 48 hours while we served the many yourname.ofazomi.org sites and their traffic. Luckily, Ofazomi has upgraded nearly every piece of web server infrastructure to deal with the ten-fold bandwidth increase over the last 14 days. Thanks for hanging in there!

New instructions that tell how to put your freely hosted site under your own, personal domain name are in the works. If you would like to speed the process, please volunteer to help. This little free-bee/open-source project has grown and additional voices/hands are greatly appreciated!

Posted in Action!, Course Related, Education, Fiddling & Time Wasters, Internship, Opportunity, Shameless Plug, Technical Geekery, Vocation & Profession, Web

End Times

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Posted in Amusement, Cleverness & Wit

Inspiration Gallery #01102011

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Go check out the inspirations galleries of From up North. Worth a view. As a quick reminder the thing that pulls the best examples together are not the quality of execution, but the quality of concept. A few examples have been reposted below.

Posted in Color Theory, Design History, Drawing, Editorial, Repost From Cited Source, Typography, Visual Concepts

Barbershop Quartet Reimagined

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This cleverness is from svt.se. Download is here.

Posted in Amusement, Cleverness & Wit, Color Theory, Drawing, Fiddling & Time Wasters, Repost From Cited Source, Visual Concepts, Web

Drawing is a skill.

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Talent is a myth.

We are all wired a bit differently. Some paths are easier than others. If talent exists, it is the gate to the bridge that is practice. None of us arrive in this world able to draw. Skills are learned. People who improve their skills are people who love to draw and do it often. They practice drawing. You can too.

If you want to improve your drawing skills in a structured way check out the free tutorials at drawspace.com. The curriculum has been broken into bite sized pieces and includes color basics, perspective, and painting. You may pay for formal classes there as well. An online critique space exists. Overall this is a well-organized site that is worth a look.

Posted in Color Theory, Drawing, Education, Tutorial, Visual Concepts