These minimal movie posters were part of my application for my communication design studies. I tried to reduce each movie to one single object… Have fun. Feel free to comment!

All posters are ©Grischa Stanjek

Feel free to reblog this (with reference to this post) Thanks! Comment if you are interested in a movie poster print.

Update

I’ve set up a small shop were you can buy prints for a reasonable price (with 30 day money back guarantee). You can buy the prints here: Alternative Movie Poster

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Have you ever tried to downloada great track (mp3) from soundcloud.com? There are several ways to download a track from soundcloud… I show you how it works.

Please check first if there is small tiny “download” button at the top of the soundcloud player:

If yes, simply click download and wait. That’s it. Your track is now on your hard drive.

If not, you have to use a simple tool called JDownloader. It’s a great download manager written in Java. You can download it here: jdownloader.org (~ 15MB) . Choose your Operating System (OS) and click on one of the links. You probably have to wait around ten seconds before you can download the file because the files are hosted on file hosters which offer premium accounts for users who don’t want to wait. NOTE: you don’t have to buy or sign up on any of these sites. Simplye wait a few seconds and click on “Free Download” and download the installer…
After that click through the installation process. If everything is installed correctly, launch the JDownloader. Now go to soundcloud and copy the URL of the track you want to download. If the JDownloader does not open automatically after a few seconds, open it manually and click the tab “Linkgrabber” and then “Add URL(s)”. Paste the URL and click on “Parse URL(s)”. Finally you have to click on the play Button at the top to start the download.

The mp3 file is now downloaded to “C:/Program Files/JDownloader/downloads/” (if you are using Windows).

Make sure that you also have installed the latest version of Java if you have problems running the JDownloader. You get it here.

NOTE: The downloaded file is only the preview file (128 kbps). It’s not the best quality available. For this version you have to buy the track…

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The Internet Explorer (IE) is acting strange when it comes to transparency, for instance transparent iframes like the retweet button from tweetmeme. I’m using the great Tweetmeme Plugin for Wordpress, but the problem with the transparency appears no matter which way of implementation you are using.

In IE 6, 7 and 8 it looks like this (ugly white background):

But is should look like this (transparent > black background):

Here is the workaround: Go to “Appearance > Editor > Header (header.php)” and paste this snippet before the </head> tag and click on “Update File” to save the changes:

<!--[if IE]>
<script type="text/javascript">
onload = function()
{
	var theframes = document.getElementsByTagName('iframe');
	for(var i = 0; i < theframes.length; i++)
	{
		theframes[i].setAttribute("allowTransparency","true");
	}
}
</script>
<![endif]-->

Thanks to the _Aerospace_Eng_ who posted this snippet here.

This will add transparency to all iframes in the Internet Explorer (IE) and removes the white section between both parts. That’s it… Did you succeeded? Let me know!

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This error appeared every time I wanted to install a theme automatically, even in the current version (2.9.1) of Wordpress:

Downloading install package from http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/download/sample-theme.zip.
Unpacking the package.
Installing the theme.
Could not create directory. /var/www/html/web999/blog/wp-content/themes/sample-theme/
Theme Install Failed.

This is caused by an error when running the php function mkdir() under safe_mode on certain versions of PHP (I’m using PHP Version 5.2.5). The bug is already tracked and probably will be fixed in the next version of Wordpress…

There are two solutions to fix this by your own

1. Solution – Edit class-wp-filesystem-direct.php
   Add the marked lines in your wp-admin/includes/class-wp-filesystem-direct.php (Line 281):
   

   function mkdir($path, $chmod = false, $chown = false, $chgrp = false) {
      // safe mode fails with a trailing slash under certain PHP versions.
      $path = untrailingslashit($path);
      if ( empty($path) )
         $path = '/';
   
      if ( ! $chmod )
         $chmod = FS_CHMOD_DIR;

OR

2. Solution – Turn safe_mode off
   I do not recommend this solution! But you can use it e.g. temporarily if you want to install a few themes in a row and turn safe_mode on again afterwards. If you are using Confixx you can edit these settings easily. Otherwise you have to edit your php.ini manually. How to do this? Check that: Customizing PHP Safe Mode

Now your Theme installation process should give you a response like this:

Downloading install package from http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/download/theme.zip.
Unpacking the package.
Installing the theme.
Successfully installed the theme Sample Theme.

Did this work for you? Tell me!

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1. Wordpress: Could not create directory – Plugin Install Failed

This error appeared every time I wanted to install a plugin automatically, even in the current version (2.9.1) of Wordpress:

Downloading install package from http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/sample-plugin.zip.
Unpacking the package.
Installing the plugin.
Could not create directory. /var/www/html/web999/blog/wp-content/plugins/sample-plugin/
Plugin Install Failed.

This is caused by an error when running the php function mkdir() under safe_mode on certain versions of PHP (I’m using PHP Version 5.2.5). The bug is already tracked and probably will be fixed in the next version of Wordpress…

There are two solutions to fix this by your own

1. Solution – Edit class-wp-filesystem-direct.php
   Add the marked lines in your wp-admin/includes/class-wp-filesystem-direct.php (Line 281):
   

   function mkdir($path, $chmod = false, $chown = false, $chgrp = false) {
      // safe mode fails with a trailing slash under certain PHP versions.
      $path = untrailingslashit($path);
      if ( empty($path) )
         $path = '/';
   
      if ( ! $chmod )
         $chmod = FS_CHMOD_DIR;

OR

2. Solution – Turn safe_mode off
   I do not recommend this solution! But you can use it e.g. temporarily if you want to install a few plugins in a row and turn safe_mode on again afterwards. If you are using Confixx you can edit these settings easily. Otherwise you have to edit your php.ini manually. How to do this? Check that: Customizing PHP Safe Mode

Now your Plugin installation process should give a response like this:

Downloading install package from http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/sample-plugin.zip
Unpacking the package.
Installing the plugin.
Successfully installed the plugin Sample Plugin.

If you still have problems with the installation of a wordpress plugin, read this.

Did this work for you? Tell me!

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1. Wordpress: Could not create directory – Theme Install Failed

Wordpress is converting two dashes, called double dash, (“–”) into a en dash (“–”) automatically. It’s possible to hack the formatting.php to prevent this, but this is much more easy:

Simply use the html code -- …this is the HTML escape sequence (twice) for a dash or hyphen or minus sign and creates two dashes (double dash) like intended.

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It’s not possible to create a backup from a MySQL database with phpMyAdmin which is bigger than 2 MB. If you are running MySQL on a Linux based system, try this:

1. Login to your web server with Putty (Windows) or any other SSH client
2. Type in your console:
   

   mysqldump -uYOURUSERNAME -pYOURPASSWORD DATABASE-NAME > dump.sql

   (Note: there is no space between “-u”/”-p” and the MySQL username/password.)

   You can create simply all database at once by using –all-databases insted of database_name

3. Copy the newly created backup (dump.sql) to a safe place via SCP or FTP

That’s it!

More information:

• mysqldump reference manual

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Wordpress strips / deletes automatically all <p> and <br> tags. If you want to have more than one line break, paragraph or spacing between two lines you’ll get problems. But there are three different methods to bypass this:

1. Simply add a non-break space. Wordpress then thinks there is content so allows the spacing:
   

   &nbsp;<br />

or

2. Use an empty paragraph tag:

<p align=”none”>&nbsp;</p>

or

3. Install the TinyMCE Advanced plugin for Wordpress. This adds a more complex WYSIWYG (“What You See Is What You Get”) editor to your Wordpress. After installing and activating, the option to enable line breaks can be found in the Settings->TinyMCE Advanced panel:

Now you should be able to add extra line breaks

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20 different Blood Brushes for Photoshop:

Click here to download (372KB)

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