The upcoming HTML5 standard is an exciting one for us designers & developers, and its being integrated into modern browsers like Webkit (Chrome/Safari), Firefox and Opera quite quickly. There are lots of people doing interesting things with this new standard, but Hakim El Hattab’s HTML5 experiments are really impressive.

Perhaps I’m more stalker-ish than most people, but I find watching how creative professionals work fascinating. It’s hard not to be inspired by the passion that creatives have in their work, and in their process.

My favorite resource for this is Pretty Cool People Interviews. A fantastic selection of video interviews from creative people in all industries, and constantly updated. I watch a lot of these types of things on YouTube but never bookmark them! If anyone knows of any similar videos please post links below.

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RELATED: While many people were critical of her best-selling book Eat Pray Love, Elizabeth Gilbert delivered a really special talk at the TED conference on creativity, and the pressures of success:

I’m a bit slow to get around to watching this, but the second series of Not Quite Art has been broadcast on ABC1. The show features various artists working outside of the mainstream art world, and how they are getting a global audience. Series 1 & 2 are available for download on the ABC’s website.

Here’s hoping the ABC commission a third season!

I’m totally in love with tilt-shifting, the photographic technique used to make everyday scenes look like miniature sets. Sydneysider Keith Loutit creates some amazing time-lapse videos of common scenes, such as beaches and harbors. The latest is a time-lapse of a monster truck rally:

After thinking how cool it would be to see this in a music video, I found Thom Yorke’s Harrowdown Hill video uses something similar (dubbed SmallGantics) to achieve the same effect.

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