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Welcome to Red Slime, the personal journal of Ben Iwasevic aka Orange Claymore. This site contains work I have done over the years, audio and video. Things i like to do are as followed: interrupting people, skateboarding, computers, video games, listening to bad music, my speedy motorcycle (’71 Yamaha R5) and creating music (check noise section). I also pass live feeds of interesting and related topics, which can be found below. Explore and have fun.

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100 Ideas That Changed Graphic Design [Design]

100 Ideas That Changed Graphic DesignSteven Heller and Veronique Vienne have written a book about the 100 ideas that changed graphic design, which can be taken as a sort of chronological history for graphic design as a whole. The book makes consideration for everything, from body types and teen magazines to sexual taboo busting and designer websites, it’s a great look at the roots of design.

You’ll need to buy the book to get a deeper dive on some of these ideas that’ve changed graphic design but the full list is below.

1. The Book
2. Body Type
3. Rub-on Designs
4. Rays
5. Pastiche
6. Pointing Fingers
7. Vanitas
8. Clenched Fists
9. Monumental Images
10. Female Archetypes
11. Colour Blocks
12. Ornamentation
13. Decorative Logotypes
14. Naive Mascots
15. Entrepreneurship
16. Metaphoric Lettering
17. Swashes on Caps
18. Text as Images
19. Visual Puns
20. The Square Format
21. Primitive Figuration
22. Propaganda
23. The Object Poster
24. Paper Cutouts
25. Manifestos
26. Graphic Design Magazines
27. Botanical Geometry
28. Calligrams
29. Loud Typography
30. Asymmetric Typography
31. Red with Black
32. Supergraphics
33. Supreme Geometry
34. Funny Faces
35. Expression of Speed
36. Corporate Identity
37. Dust Jackets
38. Found Typography
39. Ransom Notes
40. Design Handbooks
41. Avant-garde Zines
42. Collages
43. Riddles and Rebuses
44. Photomontage
45. Pictograms
46. Floating Heads
47. Abstraction
48. Triangulation
49. Extreme Close-ups
50. The Provocative Gesture
51. Motion Graphics
52. Night Spectaculars
53. Shadow Play
54. Good Design
55. Forced Obsolescence
56. Vibrating Colour
57. Strips and Panels
58. Frame by Frame
59. Perfect Rectangles
60. Abstract Graphs
61. Dynamic Diagonals
62. Stencil Type
63. Comic Lettering
64. Parody
65. Sustainable Packaging
66. Public Service Campaigns
67. Branding Campaigns
68. Layering and Overprinting
69. Design Thinking
70. The Grid
71. Brand Narratives
72. White Space
73. Less is More
74. Mono-Alphabets
75. Film Title Sequences
76. Big Book Look
77. Nostalgia
78. Illegibility
79. Scan Lines
80. Teen Magazines
81. Culture Jamming
82. High Contrast
83. Psychedelia
84. Split Fountain
85. Underground Comics
86. Record Album Covers
87. Street Slogans
88. Sexual Taboo Busting
89. Self-Promotional Publishing
90. Tags
91. Universal Pricing Code
92. Vernacular
93. French Theory
94. Do It Yourself
95. The Fine Print
96. Magazine Coverlines
97. Guerrilla Advertising
98. Pixellation
99. Ambigrams
100. Designers’ Websites

A lovely, lovely book. Design has more reason than you think. [Laurence King via Kottke]

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Very NSFW: What Happens When You Visit an Internet Stranger Who Wants to Drink Your Pee? [Nsfw]

Very NSFW: What Happens When You Visit an Internet Stranger Who Wants to Drink Your Pee?When last we spent some video time with Vice’s interent love pioneer Karley “Slutever” Sciortino, she had hopped over to London to meet her anonymous online sex slave. But while in the neighborhood, why not meet up with one more?

We asked Karley to give us the deets on this golden rendezvous, and she was happy to spill. She’s really the kind of online dater everyone hopes to come across while trawling the wasteland: open minded, friendly to the point of bubbly, and willing to fly across the Atlantic Ocean. Unfortunately, you’re probably a little tame for Slutever’s taste:

Sissy Sarah is a 54 year old cross-dresser from London. I met him on the internet, where I meet all my friends. About a year ago, I got an email from him explaining that he has a secret fetish for dressing up in womens clothing. So like baby doll nighties, lingerie, the occasional flirty chiffon skirt, etc. He told me that whenever he’s alone he transforms into his alter ego, Sissy Sarah, and that apart from his late wife, he has barely told anyone about kinky obsession. However he regularly fantasizes about being discovered and publicly humiliated. (“Sissy”, in the world of BDSM, is a male submissive who is subject to forced feminization for the purpose of erotic humiliation.) Sarah’s wife died about five years ago, and many of the vintage dresses that Sarah saunters about the house in once belonged to her.

Another thing Sarah confessed to me was that he has a fetish for drinking pee. In one of his emails he wrote, “One fantasy of mine is to be out to dinner with a beautiful woman. We are both wearing pretty dresses, and we have a wine glass each. Her glass contains wine, but mine contains her pee. Yum!”

Meeting internet friends in real life, especially after you know so many intimate details about them, can be sort of awkward. Like I’d seen about 30 pictures of Sarah’s erection, in about 30 different outfits, before we’d ever met, ya know? So it felt strange saying stuff like, “Hello, nice to meet you.” Still, our meeting turned out to be really fashion forward, enlightening and glamorous! Also, I got a chance to make my first ever pee cocktail! (Tip: pee cocktails are best served warm and with a splash of lemon!)

P.S. After the episode aired online, Sarah emailed me a list of all of his email contacts, presumably because he wants to revel in the humiliation that would ensue if I sent all of them a link to the show. Should I do it??

I think we all know the answer to that question. [Vice]

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Building a 6502 in Minecraft

We’ll admit that we haven’t been following Minecraft like we used to; its been a while since we’ve seen something amazing in Minecraft, but [eloraam]‘s 6502 emulator (part of her RedPower Minecraft mod) takes the cake.

The RedPower mod adds a lot of industrial technology to Minecraft. Pumps, solar panels, and pneumatic tubes to move blocks around are the staple of this mod, but with the addition of a fully emulated 6502 computer, Minecraft moves from an anachronistic medieval-themed steampunk aesthetic to a full-on machine age, mainframes everywhere style.

The heart of the 6502 portion of the RedPower mod are three craftable blocks; a CPU, a monitor, and a disk drive. All these blocks are connected together with ribbon cables and can interact with other blocks in the Minecraft universe. The CPU is an emulated 6502, with a few instructions borrowed from the 65816 and the addition of MUL and DIV. It’s possible to program this computer in assembly, but [eloraam] a Forth interpreter with the OS to make programming a little easier.

It’s been almost two years since we first saw the beginnings of a CPU made in Minecraft, but this mod takes everything to the next level. In actuality, this isn’t very different from the game [notch] is currently working on; both feature an emulated 80′s era computer that can do all your in-game bidding. We can’t imagine anything better to get us hooked on Minecraft again, and we’ve got to commend [eloraam] for some seriously awesome work.

After the break is a 23-minute tutorial on the functions of the RedPower CPU, as demonstrated by Minecraft aficionado [direwolf20].

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Zuckerberg Just Got Married [Facebook]

Zuckerberg Just Got MarriedMark “IPO” Zuckerberg just dropped a Facebook status update bigger than the NASDAQ bomb: he and longtime girlfriend Priscilla Chan are married, only a day after he became one of the richest men on the planet. He wore a suit!

As far as anyone can tell, the news of the marriage between the notoriously secretive couple—about whom we know only of a shared dog, lavish vacation, and tense standoff between her vegetarianism and his staunch chicken-killing—was broken on Facebook. Of course.

What can we tell about the ceremony, which after IPO-looza could’ve been held inside a crystal palace atop Mount Everest? It looks downright modest, and tasteful by billionaire standards—HuffPo’s Ethan Klapper says “Zuckerberg’s wedding was in his backyard, before fewer than 100 guests, who thought they were there to celebrate Chan’s [medical school] graduation.” The AP reports “A source authorized by the couple to speak said Zuckerberg designed the ring featuring ‘a very simple ruby.’” When you’re a billionaire, even a ruby is simple. But between med school graduations, temporarily breaking the stock market, and a surprise wedding, this has been quite a zany week for the two!

Zuckerberg Just Got MarriedThe only question is, aside from the obvious pre-nup joke, seems to be this: since Zuck doesn’t list his relationship status on his profile, when will the marriage be Facebook official? Nevermind! Chan lists herself as “Married to Mark Zuckerberg” (swoon), which means the marriage is 21st century consecrated. Now we can proceed with pre-nup speculation.

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You Did What? Idiots Teach Robots How To Build Their Own Tools [Video]

You Did What? Idiots Teach Robots How To Build Their Own Tools Well, this is just fantastic. We’re all for the advancement of robot technology so that one day they can cater to our every beck and call. But researchers at ETH Zurich have foolishly designed a robot that can create its own custom tools to complete tasks.

In this particular case the robot was tasked with transferring water from one bowl to another, which it accomplished by creating a small cup using its HMA—or Hot Melt Adhesive—dispenser. Which is a fancy way of describing a glue gun. The cup the robot created was pretty crappy, but those bastards learn fast. So what if it autonomously decided that ‘stabbing all humans’ was a more important job than pouring water? We’re trying to be optimistic about our inevitable future living side-by-side with robots, but it’s mistakes like this that could cost us control of our planet. [ETH Zurich via Automaton]

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Making real-life portals with a Kinect

[radicade] wanted to know what real life portals would look like; not something out of a game, but actual blue and orange portals on his living room wall. Short of building a portal gun, the only option available to [radicade] was simulating a pair of portals with a Kinect and a projector.

One of the more interesting properties of portals is the ability to see through to the other side – you can look through the blue portal and see the world from the orange portal’s vantage point. [radicade] simulated the perspective of a portal using the head-tracking capabilities of a Kinect.

The Kinect grabs the depth map of a room, and calculates what peering through a portal would look like. This virtual scene is projected onto a wall behind the Kinect, creating the illusion of real-life orange and blue portals.

We’ve seen this kind of pseudo-3D, head tracking display before (1, 2), so it’s no surprise the 3D illusion of portals would carry over to a projected 3D display. You can check out [radicade]‘s portal demo video after the break.

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Insanely Detailed Lego Land Rover Even Includes Working Disc Brakes [Video]

If you needed yet another reminder that you’re far from being a Lego master builder, check out ‘Sheepo’s’ mind-blowingly awesome 1:8.4-scale Land Rover Defender 110 built from over 2,800 pieces. It could probably endure an off-road adventure better than your compact car.

As with any Lego creation that’s worth its weight in bricks—in this case almost seven pounds—Sheepo’s Land Rover is even more impressive underneath its detailed body which can be easily removed with just four pins. It has fully functional steering, a five-speed transmission with reverse, two-wheel and four-wheel drive modes for serious off-roading, full suspension, and working disc brakes on every wheel. It even has a top speed of almost two and a half miles per hour, which, admittedly, would probably seem more impressive to Lego scale drivers.

And even though it’s a custom design, Sheepo has posted it on Lego’s Cuusoo site where there’s a chance it could be made into an actual set if it receives 10,000 votes. So if you want one to call your own, head on over there and add your support. [Sheepo's Garage via Autoblog]

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Drinking from this Stemware, You’ll Be Less Apt to Spill [Design]

Drinking from this Stemware, You'll Be Less Apt to SpillPrague-based Boad Design‘s “Izolator” collection of stemware is more than just a quirky take on an every-day item. These ridged wine stems are ergonomically designed to fit comfortably and securely in your hand—meaning few spills and shattered glasses.

Which is lucky, because good-looking glasses like these would be a shame to break or crack. [DesignBoom - Images via BoadDesign]

Drinking from this Stemware, You'll Be Less Apt to Spill

Drinking from this Stemware, You'll Be Less Apt to Spill

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