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Friday RoundUp: Workspaces

Beyond desk with windup of the day

We are fond of little creative workspaces of all kinds. In this issue's editorial, I talk about the two small rooms that help us carry out the work of Beyond. We'll show you some of the things that float around Beyond spaces in the coming weeks. Meanwhile, here are a few spaces and studio ideas that make our hearts all a twitter.

On My Desktop: Creative Folks Share the Stuff on their Desks.

A Collection of Cool Workplaces

Spaces for Writers: The Office (L.A.), Writer's Room (Boston), Workspace (Vancouver  co-workplace)and Writer's Rooms (The Guardian)

and for perspective, Sad Cubicles.

Friday Roundup: brains

The All About feature in our issue on Beauty with an illustration by our friend Aaron Leighton.

Neuronatomist Jill Bolte Taylor talks about the insights gained during her own stroke. (18:44)

Games for the Brain

Savant Drawings (5:12)

Friday Roundup: Papery things.

You'll probably catch us putting many a paper-y thing on the Friday round up since paper arts are near and dear to our hearts. Here's just a few bits that we've gathered this week.

Avri's photo above comes from  a giant flckr pool - over 11,775 and counting - called pasted paper.

Robert J. Lang origami . One of the presenters at 2008 TED.

Timelapse of 72 hours to create Howl's Moving Castle (thanks John.)

Papercraft and downloadable models at Flying Pig (I think I thought of this because someone at lunch was talking about roasting a pig and then having to clean up the carcass including the head which was "warm and heavy".)

Friday Roundup: Title Sequences

I love title sequences. Sometimes more than the movies themselves.

Someone has re-imagined the Star Wars opening in the style of Saul Bass. And of course, if you check that one out you have to take a look at Bass' Anatomy of a Murder and It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World, a family favorite that we used to stay up to watch every New Year's Eve. Yes, I lived in the age before VHS. And fire. And the wheel.

I only wish we could have see these in better quality. We heartily agree with David Lynch when it comes to watching these things on the small screen.

Much more at Forget the Film, Watch the Titles where I have watched Lemony Snicket's closing sequences over and over until I realized it is time to buy the film simply for the end.

And much much more on Saul Bass titles here.