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Straightened Trees

Using custom code, the natural curvature of each tree is "corrected." Manufactured objects, i.e. buildings and power lines, twist and contort around the artificially plumbed tree. Each photo is shot on large format film, the only medium that captures enough detail to straighten the tree without pixelly artifacts…

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Deus Ex – Alpha Terrain

Three years ago, while playing Deus Ex: Mankind Divided , I noticed a nice little trick and tweeted about it – today is the day when I finally release it as an article. Do you guess, what’s this about?

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Hyphenation in CSS

Automatic hyphenation on the web has been possible since 2011 and is now broadly supported. There is however far more control available to designers than just turning on hyphens. Updated January 2023.

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Making holograms with a pen plotter

I have a pen-plotter! It’s great. It’s like having a printer but slow and it breaks more often. I got it on eBay and it came sorta broken and I immediately spent the difference between what I paid and the price of new one fixing it. Now it’s fixed!