This is the personal website of Dashiell Dunn, a South Australian student with an interest in technology and a song in his heart.
The powerful pork lobby has managed to get the WHO to call the current worldwide influenza outbreak ‘Influenza A(H1N1)’ instead of swine flu, because they believe consumers may believe pork products are now unsafe.
Instead of asking for a confusing and unnecessary name change, Big Pork should be actively trying to get consumers eating more pork. Here is my idea of a poster for such a campaign:
I made some Iron Chef wallpapers a few years ago, but they weren’t that good. These new ones are more stylish (click the thumbnails for the full 1600×1200 versions):
From a spectrogram of the end of Computer Love by Kraftwerk, which sounds like rockets shooting off into space and looks like it too.
I was watching clips of old Japanese commercials, news reports, and station idents on Youtube, as one does, and I saw a slide that caught my eye during a weather report:
It’s minimalist, I like it. The left side says it’s cold and dry and the right side says something about Russia. Or dew.
So, I decided to copy it and come up with a Photoshop version or two. Clean:
‘79 style:
Unfortunately my version is typographically lacking—I tried to find a nice round Japanese typeface but had no luck. I’ve put together some desktop wallpaper versions, to suit various aspect ratios:
Clean: 1600×1200 / 1280×1024 / 1680×1050
‘79 style: 1600×1200 / 1280×1024 / 1680×1050
Remixing (i.e. changing the text on) vintage World War II propaganda posters is just something I do. This time, they’ve got nothing to do with the 2007 federal election.
And, as special bonus for anyone who has never had someone look at them weird after seeing their desktop wallpaper, I present the 1600×1200 “That’s Corn” wallpaper.
Had a go at a little World War II propaganda. The rhyme is original (hopefully) and the blur is deliberate (because I drew it roughly).
BBC News: French Muslims promote ‘cool Islam’. The article doesn’t interest me particularly, but the title made me think. I could make some wallpapers based on the theme, but judging by the reaction to my Communist wallpapers and that whole Muhammad cartoons thing, it probably wouldn’t be a good idea.
