Category: Weekend Web
WEEKEND WEB: Hand Made Font
If you’ve ever struggled to find a font with a unique design for a project and ended up just picking the same ol’ font and covering it with Photoshop bevel, glow, and drop shadow effects, then you might want to check out…
Hand Made Font
I just found Hand Made Font the other day and am extremely tempted to just buy everything on it. While that would cost a small fortune, the uniqueness of the fonts featured on this site would be worth it.
Each font is seemingly made from everyday items, like dirt, paint, or even toast:
They’re not the type of font you’d use for body text but instead seem to be wonderfully eye-catching and great for headlines or advertising. The site has quite a few usage examples like these:
So go check em out.
TweetWEEKEND WEB: World Digital Library
Last week, I brought you to the Newseum where newspaper front pages from around the world are displayed. This week, we take a step back further in time to a place where historical documents live on in digital form in the…
World Digital Library
At the time of this post, the World Digital Library features scans and photographs of 1,170 historical documents from all over the world. These documents range from the United States’ Declaration of Independence to African rock paintings from thousands of years ago. This digital library is full of world history, featuring entire books, portraits, photographs, maps, and much more.
It can be broken down into location, time period, topic, and type of item to allow for the most flexibility in browsing through it all. Of course, it’s all searchable as well.
Each item also features a brief description and as much information about its creation as is known.
Browsing through the site feels like wandering the halls of a museum, but offering a chance to get close up with and leaf through paper items that would likely be untouchable in real life.
TweetWEEKEND WEB: Newseum Offers Newspaper Front Pages from Around the World
Ever wonder what’s front-page news in another state? How about another country? There’s a Web site for that…
Newseum Offers Newspaper Front Pages from Around the World
Newseum.com features a handy map that easily displays the front page of newspapers from all over the world by simply rolling over dots on the map. Clicking on the dots then pulls up larger, legible versions of the front pages.
While many believe that newspapers are slowly dying (and they might be), killed off by the speed of online news, there’s still something to be said for finding out the day’s top stories by glancing at the front page. Newseum seems to have found a great way to merge the worlds of print and online news by offering these images in an easy-to-browse format.
Much in the same way that it’s fun to surf through YouTube watching quick video clips, it’s a unique experience to flip through newspaper front pages from around the world, getting a quick sampling of what stories are popular in areas that you don’t live in. For example, upon rolling over the map’s dots in Spain, I gathered that there was some kind of historic soccer victory that Spain appears to be proud of.
If you don’t like the map interface, Newseum also offers the covers in gallery and list views. In addition, important front pages are archived, such as those that ran on Sept. 12, 2001, the day after the terrorist attacks on New York.
I don’t believe that newspapers will ever completely die. They may eventually stop being delivered to millions of households, as generations that grew up with the Internet instead of the daily paper get older, but there will always be an important place for “front page news” documenting moments in history.
TweetWEEKEND WEB / MONDAY MEDIA: MC Hammer Asian Style at DanceJam
I’m being slightly lazy at the beginning of this week and combining two daily posts in one. So this week’s Weekend Web and Monday Media post both revolve around the idea of showing off your dancing skills online (or potentially making a complete fool out of yourself)…
MC Hammer Asian Style at DanceJam
DanceJam.com is a site all about dancing. You can upload videos of yourself dancing, learn new dance moves, and even check out a few dance competitions/battles. If you’re into dancing, you’ll love this site. This concludes the Weekend Web portion of this post.
Now onto the best part about DanceJam, which comprises this week’s Monday Media… Asian MC Hammer:
I can’t decide what’s more awesome about that video: the fact that there’s an Asian dude in Hammer pants dancing to “U Can’t Touch This” or the fact that there’s a woman casually sitting behind him knitting, completing ignoring what’s going on in the room. Either way, the video is great.
If only this guy had been there when MC Hammer pulled Universal Studios guests on stage during his recent performance there.
TweetWEEKEND WEB: Free Movie Screenings
I rarely go to movie theaters anymore. Prices are too high, seats are often uncomfortable, people are rude, and there are far too many technical difficulties to be found that ruin the movie-watching experience. However, I might put up with (some of) that if I receive offers for…
Free Movie Screenings
Thanks to @JeremiahDaws (Twitter link), I am now signed up on these two sites:
Both of these sites claim to provide free movie screening offers to their members, some even in advance of the films’ nationwide release dates.
In college, I used to receive free movie screening passes in my campus mailbox from time to time. I have no idea why, but I took advantage of them. Now, I hope that these two sites allow me to start seeing free movies again… as long as movie theater owners (and patrons) can clean up their acts and make the whole experience enjoyable.
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