Recently, a new program grabbed my attention. Its stunningly beautiful way of presenting common social networking sites all together definitely took me by surprise.

“Skimmer℠ is an Adobe® AIR™ desktop application designed to streamline, beautify, and enhance the experience of participating in your most frequently used social networking activities. It improves upon your day-to-day interaction with multiple social networks, removing distractions and providing a rich experience that is particularly suited to multimedia content.”

Skimmer

Personally, I’ve never been a fan of Adobe Air applications, its too out-of-the-way. But I’m definitely going to get Air for this program (even though I only use a few of the offered social networking sites). Even just the screenshots are stunning:

“Any update in the aggregated feed view can be expanded in one click to reveal the content of the post. A Flickr set, for example, can be viewed in its entirety without ever leaving the feed view.”

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This web app has been around for a couple of years now, but I still feel its a great site to take a look at. We Feel Fine is a web crawler that searches blogs for the phrase “I feel” and then records the data about the sentence. Design-wise, it has a nice and very usable UI, and it presents its collected data in 6 different ways. Personally, I find it to be an aesthetically pleasing antidepressant. Anytime you feel down, just look over on we feel fine, under murmurs and you can easily find many people who feel a lot worse than you (helps to select “sad” or “depressed” from the list).

I think I should try to get a category made for you so here it goes.
I feel aargh.
I feel zygomorphic.
There, that should be the first and last options alphabetically. Tell me if I get on the list.

Anyways, check it:
Website: We Feel Fine

Intrinsic Nature Art Group consists of 13 artists who created a highly inspirational exhibition. Full of vibrant color, stylized technique and various themes, this gallery is definitely one to check out. If this doesn’t inspire you, I dont know what will.

Check it out:
Website: Intrinsic Nature

Kevin John Gomez, a web designer from Brooklyn (Fancy Labs web design studio), has both an inspiring website and portfolio (And in my opinion, a good taste in music too).

Check it out:
Website: Kevin John Gomez
Fancy Labs: Fancy Labs

One artist I have followed recently started a project called One And A Hundred.

He describes it as: “His intention was pure, plain and simple - to capture the beauty of panorama pictures using only a simple mobile device - the Sony Ericson Walkman, W880i handphone.

In his thoughts, many have oversees this function which has been laying silent and faithfully in the device, waiting to amaze their users. Hence, this project aims to showcase 100 panorama pictures captured using this single mobile device, which in this case, gave rise to the title of this project - One and a Hundred. “

Take a quick look, while he still may only be at 23 pictures, many of them incorporate great contrast and composition. It makes you wonder how he shot these photos with a camera phone.