Someone did a real version of Buzz Lightyear, just in time for Toy Story 3. And to spook me once again, like Real Mario and Untooned Homer. Christ. Why don’t they stick to folder art? [Raoninery - Thanks David Keyes!]

Originally from Bristol, Tennessee, Skottie moved to Chicago soon before working for Marvel Comics. He now hosts a podcast ‘The Devil and Me’ with his long term girlfriend Casey McCauley, they have moved to a Ranch in Illinois, after living with her parents for a period. They own a St Bernard puppy called Emma.

Young has penciled several Marvel titles including New Warriors, Human Torch, Spider-Man Legend of the Spider Clan and New X-Men. He’s done covers for Cable & Deadpool and Marvel Adventures Iron Man as well. Until recently, he was a regular on the Around Comics podcast and he’s currently working on an adaptation of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz for Marvel Illustrated.

* Current Residence: Princeton, IL

* Favourite movie: Labyrinth

* Favourite band or musician: Clutch

* Favourite genre of music: Rock, Hip-Hop

* Favourite artist: Bill Sienkiewicz, Norman Rockwell, Nic Klein, Bill Watterson, Tommy Lee Edwards, Stuart Immonen

* Favourite poet or writer: Charlie Huston

* MP3 player of choice: iPod

* Favourite game: Oddworld games

* Favourite gaming platform: Ps3

* Favourite cartoon character: too many to name

* Tools of the Trade: Anything that makes a great shape

* Website: http://www.skottieyoung.com

* Deviant: http://skottieyoung.deviantart.com/

Early one foggy morning, an AT-AT patrols the streets of Dubai, surveying the construction of grand new buildings and shiny spaceships. Cédric Delsaux’s latest Star Wars mashup series suggests it’s a perfected plausible image against Dubai’s science fiction stage.

We’ve featured Cédric Delsaux’s mashups of Star Wars figures against urban settings in the past, but here he focuses particularly on Dubai. While many of Delsaux’s photographs juxtapose Star Wars extraordinary visuals against a more gritty urban reality, the Dubai series is actually meant to show how utterly consonant Dubai’s setting is with these science fiction elements. It invites us to ask whether the Dubai, for all its faults, is a truly modern city moving into the future, or a piece of urban planning fiction, every bit as contrived as the planets and space stations we see in the movies.

Go to the link below to see the Full Gallery

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The Empty Quarter Fine Art Photography Gallery

in association with acte2galerie

proudly presents

The Dark Lens – The Dubai Invasion

by Cedric Delsaux

December 8th – 31st, 2009

An opening reception will be held on Tuesday December 8th from 7p.m. – 10p.m.

“..perhaps one might only half-jokingly suggest that people build cities today in order to live inside science fiction films.”

Geoff Manaugh, BLDGBLO

LUCIA from diluvio on Vimeo.

Want your Twitter profile to stand out and clearly communicate your personal or company Brand?

You’ve probably noticed that Twitter comes with some standard backgrounds patterns that you choose from to customize your Twitter profile’s appearance. But if you want to really want to make an impression and clearly communicate what your brand is all about, you’ll want to create a unique background for your Twitter profile.

Here we’ve pulled together a collection of how-to articles, advice, resources and tools to help you create a unique background for your Twitter Profile. At the bottom, you’ll find some very useful online pattern/background generators that you can use for your Twitter background as well as your website or blog.

Read more: http://www.interactiveinsightsgroup.com/blog1/how-to-create-a-unique-twitter-background/#ixzz0SoBdRmRd

Read this great article from sohtanaka.

I have been reading more and more about jQuery for the last 3 months. It’s insane all the things you can do with it. I’ll admit it’s kinda scaring me since I have no experience with javascript at all, but slowly but surely I am getting there. This article helped a ton and there are some great bits of info throughout this whole site.

Learn more here

A well rounded web designer’s day is spent immersed in multiple graphic design programs and writing front end code. All of this moving from one environment to another can make it hard to memorize such things as hot keys and shortcuts for each. This is where cheat sheets come into play. A cheat sheet is simply a printable reference or guide to a particular software package, language, framework, etc.

Here are 14 of my favorite cheat sheets.

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When used correctly, jQuery can help you make your website more interactive, interesting and exciting. This article will share some best practices and examples for using the popular Javascript framework to create unobtrusive, accessible DOM scripting effects. The article will explore what constitutes best practices with regard to Javascript and, furthermore, why jQuery is a good choice of a framework to implement best practices.

Click this link to learn more.

About the author

Alex Holt is a professional interactive designer and web developer who has worked successfully for a variety of clients in Australia, UK, USA and most recently Spain. His blog can be found at: soyrex.com, where he writes sporadically about a wide range of design and development topics (as well as the occasional off-topic rant).