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Really cool video of a presentation by Dr. Ariel Shamir at this year’s SIGGRAPH conference where he demonstrates a new image resizing software application

Seems like this will give heightened meaning to “photoshopping” an image, or at least make it that much easier to perform certain potentially shady operations. Are photos even allowed as evidence in courtrooms anymore? If so, probably not for long.

Speaking of the ‘Creative Class’, Behance is an interesting site I just found. They’re stated mission is “to help creative people and teams make ideas happen”, based on their theory of “Productive Creativity. ” They do interviews with various notable creative professionals, and make some nice-looking productivity tools to boot.

This is leading to my own trend speculation - the productivity trend (I’m not in the trend game, so maybe that’s old news). There’s various blogs out there devoted to productivity/efficiency that are gaining in popularity, notably 43 folders (run of course by a ‘BGM’ and true ‘Guru Joe’ - Merlin Mann) and lifehacker, that cover (if not create) techniques for out-smarting the bewildering array of systems we now live with and in. From my limited forays into the area, the book Getting Things Done (known as GTD to devotees), is a sort of prime mover in the field. This feels to me like a facet of Web 2.0 and the DIY movement in general, with it’s air of subversion and self-empowerment.

It looks like some really useful tips breaking on those sites. I can definitely use this one: Get Human.