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Warhammer photography

Hold the door. Nov. 2017

Almost one year ago. (Story will be later:)

Sunset view from the first rented flat. Oct 2016

Culture and attention to deails

Billions TV series fragment

Русский дубляж:

Итог: Смысл ролика хорошо сводится к японской пословице:

Из-за незабитого гвоздя потеряли подкову,

Из-за потерянной подковы потеряли лошадь,
Из-за потерянной лошади гонец не доставил послание,
Из-за недоставленного послания проиграли войну

Result: The sense of scene points to famous proverb:

For want of a nail the shoe was lost.
For want of a shoe the horse was lost.
For want of a horse the rider was lost.
For want of a rider the message was lost.
For want of a message the battle was lost.
For want of a battle the kingdom was lost.
And all for the want of a horseshoe nail.

Choice or Illusion of choice

Gatsby-Matrix

Pills are also not usual:

Justice vs soilerosion

The allegory of the long spoons In hell the people are unable to lift food to their mouths using such unwieldy cutlery, and are starving. In heaven, the diners feed one another across the table and are sated. The story can encourage people to be kind to each other. The story suggests that people have the opportunity to use what they are given (the long spoons in this allegory) to help nourish each other, but the problem, as Haim points out, lies in how the people treat each other. Given the same level playing field one group of people who treat each other well will create a pleasant environment. Whereas another group of people, given exactly the same tools to work with, can create unpleasant conditions simply by how they treat each other.

Document print protection

One of the client had a problem with lack of basic print protection with presaving copyright details. Several protection 'watermark' elements and their properties were designed and applied. Here is the demo image.

Design process of my personal logo

Finally I found a little time to write about my personal logo-trade mark which had been created ~ month ago.

I needed it as watermark for my works, for several social accounts and for business cards.

First, I've had an idea that the main graphic part should be similiar to Teseract graphic representation, as my degree and the main professional business activity was still a System analysis. A little more background for everyone: Any system is "Tesseract" and person can research and describe it only by making projections of this system.

Animation of tesseract (the four-dimensional analog of the cube)

There is also static image:

But first task for me was to simplify it and connect with my Cyrilic initials (УМИ) to personalize it.

I made several sketches:

The simple version looked like Gmail icon even with changeble line types. The struggle was real:)

Then I took a pause and continued on the next day in the morning during breakfast right in the kitchen with papers for shopping-lists. I just left the initials inside the tesseract "form":

After several minutes of sketching with available means I saw one appearnce which I need.

Time to "digitize" using Illustrator:

Building from simple forms, slicing and connecting to each other:

Chosen with Sharp corners:

And maybe with gradient:

Инвестируем в Лего

Уже в детстве у меня проявились отличные навыки к инвестированию. Набор Лего купленный за $100 в 1998 за 19 лет поднялся в цене почти в 3 раза.

Но учитывая инфляцию считаем:
Start with the CPI inflation formula:

CPI in 2016CPI in 1997 * 1997 USD value = 2016 USD value

Then plug in historical CPI values. The U.S. CPI was 160.5 in the year 1997 and 240.007 in 2016:

240.007160.5 * $100 = $149.54

The "purchasing power" of $100 from 1997 is $149.54 in 2016.
Так что только в два раза:)

Tocomo koizhy photos

Just look at these colors on the photos by tocomo koizhy by https://500px.com/tocomo It's the real blossom of photography.

Leaves and colors

Recently, I've faced with strong necessity of using colors to open the good mood and positive reaction of the customers that using some service. I've made a test with several images and checked that unusual colors can focus and attract attention for longer time. Maybe it's because of brain processing time, confirmation of the fact: the file-size of the right image is 4x time bigger than left:))

Left image is one of the first photos I've made with my first digital ultrazoomcamera ~ 10 years ago. Taking the photo from the sofa that was 12 meters far from window with the ficus on a sill. Right image is a product of photoshop curves, preapred several days ago for the test:)

As all of the graphic designers are using photos and different color schemas in their work across-the-board, we should also consider colorblind people which are ~ 4.5% of the entire population. With my experience, I've only seen the changeble option once for colorblind mode in the software product.

Main difference

P.S. Two more things:)

My first digital camera. Still works.

Personal business-postcards I've made after main test

There were time...

The idea of this blog is to create my own wikispace of thoughts which I can share: sending the links to other buddies, co-workers and clients, so I will not have to copy-paste and update the whole text with images and send it via email. Time/money economy and a bit of science:)

Mythbusters – Adam Savage, season episode 14 - Titanic Survival