Just A Memo

How to Be More Interesting

Sherwin — Sun, 12 Jul 2015 06:47:56 +0000

Jessica Hagy offers the following advice, illustrations excerpted from her book “How To Be Interesting.”

Unskippable Labs – The Mobile Recut

Sherwin — Mon, 22 Jun 2015 15:56:58 +0000

Unskippable Labs—a series of experiments in content to understand mobile video advertising from Google’s Art, Copy & Code team. The Mobile Recut took a successful ad—Mountain Dew Kickstart’s “Come Alive”—and recut it three ways to see what we could learn about how storytelling changes on mobile.

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HHgzEGwil4[/youtube]

Quick take-aways below:

You can get the whole story here: http://goo.gl/KGJZPS

Opening Title Screens from “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty”

Sherwin — Tue, 19 May 2015 15:00:05 +0000

Simple, and nicely blended. I always rewatch this movie to refuel the travel bug, get inspiration, and have a nice, quality relax-time with visuals.

Inspiration — Ray Collins’ SeaStills

Sherwin — Fri, 03 Apr 2015 07:18:55 +0000

Ray Collins‘ landscapes… better yet, “seascapes” are an awesome experience to marvel at.

[vimeo]https://vimeo.com/95575113[/vimeo]

More selected stills from his work:

Source: LifeBuzz

Crayola Pop Icon Sculptures

Sherwin — Tue, 17 Feb 2015 17:14:48 +0000

These are awesome! Sculptures by Hoang Tran.

Johnson Ting’s Video Game Art

Sherwin — Mon, 08 Dec 2014 15:51:14 +0000

Johnson Ting got some crazy creativity.

You may see more of his work at his following pages:

Source: Kotaku

Awesome Fan Art From “Star Wars VII: The Force Awakens” Teaser Trailer

Sherwin — Sat, 29 Nov 2014 15:51:23 +0000

It’s all about that Claymore!

Source: The Verge

Shingeki no Kyojin (Attack on Titan) Live-action Movie Cast, In Costume

Sherwin — Thu, 20 Nov 2014 04:12:01 +0000

It’s getting pretty legit ^^

Source: Kotaku

Zomato’s “Two Kinds Of People” Illustrative Series

Sherwin — Sun, 28 Sep 2014 16:35:56 +0000

These are awesome, and puts a smile on my face. Possibly because the love for Food. Good job to the team behind them.

Source via Dose

How To Install Java 7 on Mac OS X

Sherwin — Thu, 18 Sep 2014 15:51:45 +0000

For most, this would come in handy with those using the latest browser extensions/add-ons that use Java, especially version 7 (in the time of this writing). There are two ways to go about this. First, for most users, they just need the JRE. The second are those doing development work and need the JDK.

Before we start the installation process, let’s start with some preflight check and do the following in Terminal prompt:

$ java -version

This will give you 1.6.x of some degree. Now, let’s start the installation.

If you just need the JRE:

Download the JRE here.
Follow the instructions, and install onto your OS X system.

In your ~/.profile, ((Or .bashrc, .bash_profile, etc.)) add the following:

export JAVA_HOME="/Library/Internet Plug-Ins/JavaAppletPlugin.plugin/Contents/Home"

Open a new Terminal window, and run the following to check you are running the intended version:

$ java -version

This should give you something like the following results:

$ java -version
java version "1.7.0_67"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.7.0_67-b01)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 24.65-b04, mixed mode)

For those that need the JDK, and running Homebrew, you may do the following:

Download the JDK here.
Install jenv via Homebrew: ((Be sure to brew udpate and run brew doctor before adding any new packages, always.))
```
$ brew tap jenv/jenv
$ bre install jenv
```
More info here.
Add the following in your Bash files by running these in Terminal: ((Again, these can be .bashrc, .bash_profile, etc.))
```
$ echo 'export PATH="$HOME/.jenv/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.profile
$ echo 'eval "$(jenv init -)"' >> ~/.profile
```

Configure jenv by running the following for example:

$ jenv add /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk17011.jdk/Contents/Home
oracle64-1.7.0.11 added

Last but not least, check that you are running the intended version in Terminal:
```
$ java -version
```

I hope that helps.