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Amir Beitollahi, mhmazidi, Hernan Garcia and 26 other people liked this
cool，how long does it take?seems drawing a western girl more simplier than an Asian one.
- kelvin
This took about 1.5 hours. It was easier because I was working from a black & white photograph. I find Caucasian faces easier to draw than Asian faces because the features tend to be more pronounced / less flat -- more shadows and highlights to work with.
- Jess Lee
Wait, don't you do this all with software?
- j1m
Draw me! Draw me!
- Rob Schonberger
I really like the eyes -- a bit of the Keane in them.
- Ginger Makela Riker
Dang, I cannot even draw stick figures with any aesthetic beauty whatsoever.
- Adam Lasnik
beautiful
- Steven Hodson
Very nice!
- Vince DeGeorge
I've been pretending that I could learn to draw. Even dabbling at doodling. Your portrait reminds me that it takes talent which you obviously have in spades. Great job.
- Seek Ground
Very good job!
- terry radford
It is a perfect art，espeically as if the eyes could speak.
- Zhang Zaoyang
Wow - very impressed by the hair looking natural & not distracting.
- Joel
jess you for sure captured true beauty in this peace :)
- Kyle Weller
Google Confirms Plans To Put Display Ads On Google.com - Silicon Alley Insider - http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008...
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Bradley Lautenbach, Jordi De Groof, terry radford and 5 other people liked this
"We've argued that a full load of display ads on Google.com could add $3-$4 billion in annual revenue." Holy Cow.
- Elliott
This is sad. One of the differentiators of Google is its advertising. Now they just are going for the profits. Sigh.
- Robert Scoble
Like they're not making enough money. What they're doing is working. Why change?
- David Risley
do no evil, indeed.
- Chris Hollander
they have sooo many other avenues to produce income. why that? they need to be more creative.
- SolidSmack
from twhirl
I wonder how they put them on iGoogle. Honestly, though, a couple half banners surrounding the logo wouldn't really bother me. Everyone's got the right to earn a few billion more. :)
- felix
Scoble - don't you hate it when a site gets loaded down with ads? Even after the person said they wouldn't run them?
- Dave Hodson
If the display ads from google are every bit as intelligent as the link ads, they'll be fine. I'm disappointed by how this will likely effect the page load times on Google (which are the primary reason I use Google over Yahoo or MSN anyway)
- Adam Posey
lets see how this *pushing envelope* ends up... I guess this is classical case of big company taken over by mediocrity step by step, described so many times that it should be recognized without effort
- A.T.
i wont believe this until i see it.
- Chris Farrugia
Isn't this the same as with Wordpress ads (only for Internet Explorer?). Power-users probably never see the Google homepage.
- Meryn Stol
Really bad idea.
- terry radford
I guess it was only a matter of time... As long as it's unobtrusive in terms of pageload &&,|| client-side processing I'm fine with it. Could probably add rule(s) to ipfw...
- RandaL Hicks
the display ads might be put on Google image search which is all about images anyway, not main .com text homepage
- Kevin Gough
If Google manages to get advertisers to clean up their act and create ads that don't slow down/break web pages, then everyone wins. If they let the same ads run on Google that run everywhere else, then Google loses bigtime.
- Jason Wehmhoener
Personally, I think the article is trying to stir up unfounded attention. It talks about display ads in general raking in cash for Google, but then the quote from the Google rep talks about ads in image search only. If that's the case, what is the big deal?
- Jason Dettbarn
Agree w @Jason and add that people had the same sort of reaction when text ads were introduced. It's not like you're going to wake up one day and it's going to look like the old TW Pathfinder site.
- Erik Dafforn
I'm not sure how I feel about this...I mean, if Google can display ads that are in fact relevant to me, then I might be interested. I also think that while this idea does suck - it is important to remember what Google is...a public company that has to make profit. Sometimes I have a hard time understanding where all their money comes from....(i.e. who clicks on all those ads anyway?)
- Elliott
I also agree with @Jason. The reference to Google.com is like saying "Google.com properties" - (i.e. Image Search).
- Elliott
Is Google trying to be the next Yahoo!? Do not like.
- darnell
I hope Yang doesn't cave to angry shareholders. Yahoo needs to be independent to protect pipes, YUI, etc. Microsoft won't be a good steward.
Surferbill, Cesar Cardoso, Wolfman-K and 10 other people liked this
I couldn't agree more. The street is wrong to try to force them together.
- terry radford
All the street sees is Yahoo revenue coming from search advertising. All the great apps like Pipes don't make a dime for Yahoo. That's why the street doesn't care and probably shouldn't. Yang & the rest have failed to justify the value of most of the non-search related portions of Yahoo.
- Kevin D. White
I agree--they need to get their house in order and fight, fight, fight! Their #1 in traffic FGS!
- Paul Salzman
The street is too emotional. The mood swings are fun to watch. Next week they'll be holding hands with Yahoo in the park.
- Bwana ☠
We need a free Yahoo!
- Arturo Servin
I've been using Yahoo since 1998. They have the best services on the web by far.
- Nao Faz
Who Kicks More Ass: Batman or Iron Man? [Bitchfight] - http://feeds.gawker.com/~r...
Great!!!!
- terry radford
Who Will Tell the People? - New York Times - http://www.nytimes.com/2008...
Author and globalization guru brings up some good points.
- terry radford
How to Buy a Digital Camera and Ignore Expensive Hype [Digital Cameras] - http://feeds.gawker.com/~r...
Pretty interesting.
- terry radford
Just buried my cat out in the yard where I found her 10 years ago. She'd been sick for months. Mood = weepy. Good night all.
Ontario Emperor liked this
That sucks. One of my cats is getting up there in age. I think she's 13 years old now.
- Beau Liening
I am sorry to hear that Rafe! I send my thoughts and well wishes.
- Maurice Draggon
Condolences, in man years our cat is now 95 ...via AlertThingy
- paul terry walhus
I'm very sorry. I know how you feel man.
- terry radford
I'm really sorry to hear about your cat. We had to put our family cat to sleep a few weeks ago. It hurts even when you know it's for the best.
- Mary Reagan
Ugh, I've done this too before, my friend. They become just another member of the family.
- BrandonS
Sorry for your loss, Rafe. ...via twhirl
- Mike Lewis
Sorry to hear about the loss of your cat.
- Ontario Emperor
I'm sorry for your loss.
- Mitch Wagner
I'm so sorry. We lost a dog on Friday. Unbelievable how much they matter, those ams
- Francine Hardaway
Sorry to hear about your cat... My best wishes for her in cat heaven.
- Mitchell Tsai
So sorry
- Dorian Benkoil
Lost last night was pretty amazing. Ben is my favorite character on the show now, for sure. What did you guys think?
Seth and terry radford liked this
Ben is Great!!! Gotta like the James Bond moves. Really manipulated Sayid.
- terry radford
Ben has mastered the art of getting people to do what he wants them to do
- Jarod
Holy Sh*t - Amazing New Poster for The Dark Knight! - http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r...
Joel Alenchery, Matthew Freeman, Will DeLuca and 4 other people liked this
Very Cool!!
- terry radford
I can't wait to see this movie, especially for Heath Ledger's performance. I read it's brilliant.
- Alejandro
The movie I'm looking most forward to this summer...
- Chris Reed
This is a good year for a comic book geek like myself.
- Vince DeGeorge
firefox is worse since last upgrade- thinking of installing 3.0- can I keep 2.0 as well?
You may lose some of your extensions. They don't all work with 3.0 at this point.
- terry radford
Wait for 3.0 RC1. I'm beta testing B5. Getting better each week!
- Charlie Anzman
I overwrote my old version. Then reloaded everything to get my extensions back. I think there is a way to run both versions. I just moved back to Version 2
- terry radford
Brand New: Can Ford Afford a Redesign? - http://www.underconsideration.com/brandne...
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krug, sebmos, Daniel Schildt and 16 other people liked this
I don't like the new logo at all, personally.
- Bret Taylor
this is the stupidest design change I have ever seen in my life. FORD is a brand people trust. The logo looks like a supermarket chicken company or worse. Pathetic.
- Noah David Simon
Everybody wants a swoosh now.
- Jack (a.k.a. Jeber)
=Noah, looks like a food company logo
- j1m
I would not mind the logo if they would put out some sweet multi fuel hybrids.Looks like it was an April fools joke :)
- Christian Burns
That's... something. Ford - now with wings.
- Jason Shellen
I like the declaration of before & after on the image... Just in case I forgot what the ford logo looked like...
- Ross Miller
Here's the Forum Snowboards logo for comparison: http://www.milosport.com/CustFil...
- Mitch
It's so... Greyhound. http://www.adapt.org/images...
- Richard Chen
Eiiike ! no way !
- Ben Borges
No like. The problem isn't the logo. It's the product and the company's approach to innovation and communication.
- Robert Scoble
run run away!!! WTF
- John Anthony Hartman
OMG - that's bad..why would you kill a classic like that....scene kids must or penetrated marketing dept - with a copy of Paint Shop.
- martin ollman
Another ugly new reborn logo! I can not even imagine the new one on the car!
- Selim Yoruk
It's the car, not the Logo. They're awake in Japan and Toyota is laughing all the way to the the bank?
- Charlie Anzman
Um, guys? Check the date & comments :-).
- Rafael Noboa Rivera
Ha! I was totally fooled. Mainly by the execution - the detail and different forms of the logo were so convincing :)
- Bret Taylor
ford should never change there logo, they should work on more hybrids and energy efficient vehicles...
- Kyle Weller
The best April fools day jokes are (1) the ones that aren't recognized as being jokes and (2) the ones that could be for real, but nobody's sure (think Gmail-announcement)
- sebmos
Gmail April fools 'announcements' are well recognized as such (at least by me)
- Dmitriy Kopylenko
Then you probably forgot that Gmail was announced on April 1st 2004 and was initially considered a April fools day joke.
- sebmos
yikes, not sure how I feel about that thing
- Chris Jones
Too much equity already.
- Bill Bittner
Epic failure, Ford. Epic failure.
- Cesar Cardoso
who cares...it's STILL just a Ford.
- tourman1
Ugly..Bad move for them
- terry radford
Well, at least I got to know a pretty interesting website.
- Rodrigo Jaroszewski
I think most companies should never change the logo. A logo tells when the company was started. Not to mention not changing solves the problem of rebranding.
- Nicholas Helke
Very corporate. The logo used to say "Hey look, every car personally signed by Henry Ford" even if it wasn't. This suggested new one says "Each car personally ignored by up to 200 people"
- Slippy "WildBeard" Lane
April fools, but a GREAT website nonetheless. I just found it recently and find it very interesting.
- Vince DeGeorge
Hideous
- Mike Reynolds
apart april fool part, who cares about Ford nowadays? i thought Ford ceased to be car company since it became brand company ;) and, in general, brand stands for "sales when you do crap and can't win competition in your business" ;)
- A.T.
Hey I hate fords as much as the best of you... but the Ford Focus ST is super fun to drive! I like this new logo, as it reminds me of the Forum Snowboards Logo! (its prob an april fools anyway)
- Jez Arnold
Why risking a new logo when EVERYBODY knows the current one?
- Charles Nadeau
I love FORD. I thought the Taurus in the 90's was a trendsetter that everyone in the industry took que on. This Rebranding won't work though
- Noah David Simon
It's a lot less iconic than the original. A lot more boring. Ooooh, infinity. Sigh.
- felix
Thank goodness that was a joke because the new logo would have been hideous...
- Emily Miller
It's funny how logo changes almost always invoke feelings of negativity. Some brands often carry emotional attachment with individuals that when changed will always draw criticism. Almost every new logo I see has me going WTF...but then I get used to it. Same with this one. Every time I look at this one I think facebook!
- Phil Ashman
The eye is drawn to the top of the logo not the word ford = bad design
- Mitch Baldwin
Mitch, I agree. Also there's a nasty visual artifact where the f's crossbar meets its vertical stroke.
- Phillip Kast
that is a seriously ugly logo... IMHO. :)
- vanessa
Eww! They can stick with what they've already got if that's the case.
- Corvida
omg that is awful . . . looks like a Comfort/Sleep Inn logo
- Jeremy Raines
It's not that bad. Actually, they might even end up using it. ;)
- Daniel Schildt
I was thinking about the logo of Facebook when looking at the new logo
- Tina K.J
it looks like an A they cropped wrong. I give it a D
- Jason
looks like the old Finnair's logo to me. ACtually, I got confused. It looks more like the logo of the Italian public train service. See it at http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki...
- Davide D'Incau
Wow, 6 days later and still getting comments. Bret gets the prize for "most discussed link to an april fools 'gag'"
- Slippy "WildBeard" Lane
Great Nature Photos by Nick Brandt | The Funny Web - http://www.thefunnyweb.com/2008...
Fantastic!!!
- terry radford
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