I love photography and it is something that I will do in my spare time.  Recently I have been looking at different types of photography and the different finishes you can achieve and I stumbled across high speed photography.  For those of you who are not sure what high speed photography is it is the ability to capture images with remarkably quick speed which most photographers use to catch images that otherwise wouldn’t be seen by the naked eye.  It is amazing what photographers capture and the different perspective you get from seeing a high speed photograph.

If you would like to try taking a high speed photograph, I really recommend giving it a go, you will need an SLR  camera, generally speaking an expensive camera can reach a much faster shutter speed and high speed photography is the game of shutter speed.

Here are some of my favorite high speed photographs:-

If you have taken some high speed photography and have some photos to share please drop a link in the post, I am going to try and take some this weekend.  I am hoping that I get some good quality images.

We love freebies here at DDA. So this week I’ve scoured the web to bring you the best Christmas icon sets. All of them are free to download from the sites they link to so get downloading and add a bit of Christmas cheer to your web site.

You can also download our new Christmas WordPress theme from Smashing Magazine here.

Sorry we have not been around much lately so much, we relocated offices which turned out to be a bit of a nightmare – people should realise that the internet is a priority. We are all settled now in our new offices and have the internet – which does help. It is a lot nicer than the ones we had before and now that we have some of the major projects out of the way we thought we would return to DDA.

I thought since we came back this week we would take a look at Typekit which has just come out of beta which is great news as it provides designers with a library of fonts which you can easily integrate into your designs and best of all you can currently sign up for free.

For those of you who haven’t heard of Typekit it is the “easiest way to use real fonts on the web”. The issue in the past has been that it has not always been legal to use some fonts as they are protected by copyright even some that are available for free. When you are limited with your typeface in a design it can be really frustrating and sometimes make you feel that you have compromised your design which is why Typekit works so well.

Typekit offers the solution, with its web only font linking license, hosting both free and commercial fonts whilst eliminating the problem of how different browsers render the font. Typekit also state that in most cases, the css and fonts will be served up faster than your own web pages.  Which is a huge step forward from what we have had to rely on previously.

We think Typekit is easy and simple to use which makes this a great tool for any designer and with the range of typefaces now available we should see some great designs/fonts appearing on the web.  Watch this space!

I’ve collected together a few examples of original Japanese v’s new release movie posters.

  Battle Royal :: USA Remake due in 2010
  Dark Water :: Honogurai Mizu No Soko Kara
  The Eye :: Gin Gwai
  The Departed :: Mou Gaan Dou
  The Grudge :: Ju-On
  A Fistful of Dollars :: Yojimbo
  The Magnificent Seven :: Seven Samurai

And with Battle Royale and Old Boy (South Korean) scheduled for a US overhaul in 2010, I’m looking forward to seeing their poster revamps as well.

What do you think? Are you Pro Original or Pro Remake?