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There are so many cool people doing so many cool projects these days. The people over at Untitled Magazine seem to be a bit cooler than the rest. Except for the girl in the video below, she is hot.

I can't put my finger on it but there is just something mysterious, a bit confusing and whole lot intriguing about this Untitled Magazine and it's creators. I can't put a name to the feeling I get when I look through the pages of Untitled magazine, but I know I like it. ???? What? I don't know? Call me. What's your number? Ok, call me! I don't get it?

Stumbled across the Boutique Cycles website yesterday and thought it was pretty cool. For a bicycle novice like myself this site is a great way to peruse pictures of unique bikes and gather information from what seems to be a very knowledgeable community. The clean design of the site itself is the first sign that the Boutique site and community that supports the site put a lot of emphasis on aesthetics which is a nice change from most bike sites that focus on performance. I like most people ain't no race cyclist.(even though I am tough as fuck and would smoke all you gym types in any sorta out door activity) That being said I think that the boutique will interest a lot of people out there looking for a cool and practical craft to get you to work and back.

www.learnsomethingeveryday.co.uk is a web site dedicated to cute drawings and interesting random facts that is updated daily. It's pretty cool.

I stumbled on the "Reasons to be Pretty" web site while looking for production stills today an was very inpressed with the site design. I love the large readable text, great use of flash and poppy colors. Good stuff!

The blog over at Swiss Miss provided hours of entertainment for me today! Actually more like 15 minutes, but that is a long time for me in todays hyper-fast-information-over-load-world. Here is a list of some of the cool stuff I look at on the Swiss Miss blog and that you should also look at: Playlist io | the universe in '09 | New Mediadouche bags | Cameras left on city benches

The Reality blog sent me a link to a new Coen Brother directed short that pokes fun at the coal companies and their quest to sell coal as a clean energy source. The video was mildly entertaining but what I was really impressed with was the site sleek design, engaging animations, and (oh yeah) the large amount of information regarding coal consumption had never bothered learn about. I would recommend checking out this site if you have a couple minutes if you don't something cool about keeping our planet clean at least you will see a bit of cool design. The bird logo is cute too.

I was pretty excited when I saw that flash CS4 would have a z-index property. I was further excited when I came across a cool navigation that uses the z-index property. I am now furthering the excitement from me to you by further telling you to look further at this exciting z-index flash navigation project. Work like this could take us even further into the exciting world of complex web interfaces.

P.S. I would be worried about how confusing this post is becoming but I know nobody reading this cares about flash cs4 properties. Have a nice day.

Jason Santa Maria has a good website. Jason Santa Maria has great design skills. Jason Santa Maria has a neat photo a day blog. Jason Santa Maria. Jason Santa Maria. If you can't tell I am trying to hypnotize you into going to Jason Santa Maria's web site. Maybe I just like saying the name Jason Santa Maria; it kinda rolls off the tongue.

Perfect web design can be found here.

Working with video-film-movie-creative-developer/madman Iain Harris is always a fun challenge. The first challenge is dealing with someone who is a lot smarter than most people but who thinks everyone is on his same level. That usually means long planning conversations that go late into the night and where everything is repeated at least twice. The second challenge is narrowing the creative flood of ideas that poor out of these conversations into a single stream. A stream that is recognizable as a stream or at least the concept of a stream, or at very least a blurry interpretation of water all running in the same direction. This narrowing process usually takes place in the dark corner of an all night coffee shop. Steps in the process are create, evaluate, remake, take a break, masturbate, innovate, again evaluate, the work is second rate, rejuvenate, elevate...I know that made no sense. The third and final challenge comes when the creative genius steps away from the project that you have been tirelessly working on for the last 8hours and then returns with a clear head and a taste for a clean slate. So without hesitation you clear the table only leaving scraps of your previous toil remaining and start a new. This time you work faster. The design comes naturally, Small fixes to help usability are discovered while programing, and all of a sudden the site is done.

Anyways, Check out the XLCollective site...it was a challenge.

If you are like me and you have watched every bit of video currently streaming on the web you may want to check out the behind the scenes shows over at vogue.tv. while you wait for MTV to upload the newest "Hills" episode. I just finished watching an episode of "Model.Live" and was both entertained and impressed with the show. I have no doubt that I will burn through the ten or so episodes currently posted on Vogue's site faster than Lindsey Lohan can snort an 8ball.

Web Designer Wall's list of JavaScript must haves is amazing. The article lists JavaScript resources to aid in the building of photo galleries, Carousels, sliding effects, or validated forms. I just recently went though a big process trying to get the Thickbox and Coda slider plugins to work and would have saved a lot of time if I had the resources from Web Designer Wall earlier.

One of my first projects for Variety was a micro site for one of TNT's shows, The Company. Thanks to my awesome co-workers and a lot of time this site came out wonderful. Check out The Company micro site.

Variety.com has been covering the movies they predict to be summer blockbusters very thoroughly this year. Variety has gone beyond the typical one page article format and included multiple stories, images, and video to give their web audience as much info about these select movies as they can handle. Check out the blockbuster movie page here. Oh yeah, I built these page.

All I know is that this super cool digital art project is a monument to modern art. Beyond my hyped up recommendation I really don't have the knowledge or the words...so here is a paraphrase from the WeFeelFine.org site.

Super cool huh!