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…Disaster Dioramas are dangerous papercraft?

Disaster Dioramas Hindenburg

Papercraft, or the art of folding, cutting, shaping and taping paper into physical objects, is often a laborious and tedious process that results in an intricate, yet boring piece of desk adornment.

However, Spitefuls’ Disaster Dioramas are different.

Featuring the Titanic and the Hindenburg (with many more to come, including The Alamo), Disaster Dioramas help you to “spiffy up your cubicle and help alleviate work boredom through a fun activity using common office supplies!”

Disaster Dioramas Titanic

Simply print out the pieces, cut them out, and fold them into shape. Each comes with its own display stand, so you can easily show off the results to your quizzical coworkers.

Now get folding!

[Spiteful - Disaster Dioramas]

[Via: MAKE: Blog]

…Your screen needs to Calibrize?

Calibrize

If you’re doing any kind of ‘for print’ creative work, it’s important to calibrate your monitor so that what you see on screen is what you see on paper.

Calibrize is a new freeware app that’s designed to help you “calibrate the colors of your monitor in three simple steps. Just download the software and follow the procedure to generate a reliable color ‘profile’ and adjust the colors of your monitor automatically.”

Are you ready to Calibrize?

[Calibrize]

[Via: The Red Ferret Journal]

…Paper and plastic are bad?

Paper Or Plastic?

Which do you choose?

If you’re trying to save the world, then your answer should be neither, as both come with downsides that negatively (and drastically) affect the environment.

To see exactly what each choice is doing to the environment, check out the The Washington Post’s comparison; because small changes are needed if we want to make a big difference.

[Washington Post - Paper Or Plastic?]

…Facebookers aren’t MySpacers?

Facebook Vs. MySpace

Is there a difference between Facebook and MySpace users?

Danah Boyd seems to think so, and has written an entire paper about the socioeconomic divide that separates the MySpacers from the Facebookers. Which side are you on?

[Viewing American Class Divisions Through Facebook And MySpace]

…Paper cars are impressive?

Ecto 1

This Ecto 1 is impressive not for its attention to detail, but because it’s made entirely out of paper! Part of Paper Inside, a paper model blog, the Ecto 1 model is just one of the extremely intricate paper models that are featured. Other notable models include the Back to the Future DeLorean, the General Lee, the Mach-5, and the Mad Max Interceptor. Each one comes with finalized photos to give you an idea of the end result, and pdf printouts if you want to try it yourself. Small hand and large patience are definitely required for assembly.

[Paper Inside]

[Via: Autoblog]

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