If you love photography and have a passion for capturing a moment in time consider entering CommArts Annual Photography contest. Although this year's contest has already rounded up it's winners you can prepare for next year. Unfortunately for most you won't find a category for best awkward Facebook pose, most unrecognizable as you or most fuzzy cellphone picture in the bathroom mirror. Don't let that stop you though as I am sure the judges will enjoy a good laugh.

This year's competition had 5,520 entries for the judges to review. "The competition was run extremely well," juror Robert Krivicich said. "The fact that we could review over 11,000 images in two days still astounds me." - CommArts.com

We've been busy creating. What else can be said? This site is now over three years old and even though the design and CMS system has held up well over time it is time to update the platform and the design to include more social integration, dynamic features and start scrubbing the site for areas to maximize it's SEO potential. We have always pushed these boundaries for our clients and in doing so we fell a little behind. Fortunately we have our new design ready to be developed. Stay tuned!

CommArts had 4,055 entries submitted to this year's competition which always amazes me even though they said this was a slight drop off from last year. The talent that arises out of these competitions inspires me despite my inability to find the time to enter myself. On their website they quote "I was quite impressed by the sheer volume of submissions in the first round, and while I did see some familiar faces, it was exciting and refreshing to see illustrators I didn't yet know," said juror Cara Llewellyn. "It was inspiring to see so much work that spans so many different genres, styles and techniques in one sitting," juror Brian Lambert added.

-Commarts.com

If you didn't play the first version of Clockbusters by Veer you are in luck. Not only is the first version available still but a new version "The Sequel" is ready. Now is the time to flaunt your pasty self and your uncanny knowledge of movies acquired over decades of watching them by yourself in the dark while the other kids played outside. Nobody gets you Johnny, nobody - except Veer! Veer understands you've sacrificed the development of social skills, interaction with your species, to fine tune your mind, develop a white pasty skeleton frame with a Cheeto and Dr. Pepper filled belly mimicking the third trimester in order to shine at this moment. So shine on crazy diamond, shine on.

Veer's Clockbusters - Play it!!!!

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Front-End Conf is an event dedicated to content, presentation and behavior and to the awesome people in the design and development community.

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"This year's winners were selected, by our distinguished jury, from a group of entries including Web sites, Kiosks, CD-ROM projects and mobile devices. The 35 winning projects are showcased below, and in further detail in the March/April 2011 issue of Communication Arts magazine."

- commarts.com

"Wake up to the smell of...Animosity..." says ThinkGeek. For those of us who already do thanks to the drudgery of another eight hours of work the Snuznluz clock gives you one more reason to. If you decide to sleep in and snooze it connects through Wifi to your bank account donates your hard earned clams to a charitable organization that, if you believe in Darwin's theory of Natural Selection, will tick you off like seconds in a minute. Next thing you know $10 or more will help fund an endangered species such as the panda who are too lazy to procreate naturally.

Start preparing your artistic type skills for next year folks. The Communications Arts has announced it winner for this years Typography winners have been announced.

"We were thrilled to receive 2,135 entries to our first Typography Annual. We were especially happy with the international submissions. We received work from 48 countries, 26 of which are represented in the 179 entries selected for inclusion by the jury."

Typography Annual

Word Lens a iPhone app which uses Augmented Reality and optical character recognition to translate real time text was released this month. Its applications are endless but most significantly it finally allows annoying American tourists the luxury of not having to learn another language. I mean who has the time to learn another language right? Its not like more than half the earth also speaks English along with their native tongue as we add Rosetta Stone to our garage sale table. Watch the Youtube video of how this amazing app works and book your next trip overseas.