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Every Frame A Painting: Drive (2011) – The Quadrant System

One of the many pleasures of Nicolas Winding Refn’s “Drive” (2011) is that the shots feel both tightly composed and weirdly unpredictable. Even though most of the images follow a simple quadrant system, Refn puts plenty of subtle touches within the frame. Let’s take a look. Related: Wes Anderson Centered → A filmographer’s POV →

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Designing Twitter Video

We wanted to be extremely careful about weighing down the experience with extra pro-user functionality. Even though we support longer videos, we don’t necessarily want to make people feel like they need to fill it up. As such, we landed on a simple interface for capturing multiple video segments without the pressure of filling up …

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Codrops CSS Reference

An extensive CSS reference with all the important properties and info to learn CSS from the basics Extensive reference sporting clear explanations, examples, live demos (using Codrops’ Playground), CSS compatibility tables (provided by Can I use…), etc.. The fact that Sara Soueidan wrote a lot of these articles gives away that they’re very – very! …

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Falsehoods programmers believe about time and time zones

Every day has 24 hours Every day without DST changes is 86400 (60 * 60 * 24) seconds long Every day in UTC is 86400 (60 * 60 * 24) seconds long Week one of a year starts in January every year If I know what time zone someone is in and they just tell …

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