I just discovered Coudal Partners’ Layer Tennis this week and it is awesome.   Layer Tennis is a competition of two artists.  It’s basically sending an image back and forth and changing it.  It’s starts with a ’serve’ image then continues for 10 ‘volleys’.  They have 15 minutes to return the volley and it has to either have something to do with the same theme as the last image (or movie.  Layer Tennis is also played with Adobe Flash and After Effects) or use the same imagery.  Then at the end of the competition a winner is announced.

Two of my favorite artists played this week, Cindy Li and Veerle Pieters.  A winner won’t be announced until Monday, but I’m thinking it’s going to be Veerle.  We will see.

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If you are working with block elements in CSS, you need to know about margins & padding. Margins are the space on the outside of the border and padding is the space on the inside. The most common block elements are divs <div>, but you can also use the display property to make other selectors block elements such as your links. Like this:

a {
display: block;
}

This is way useful to make imageless SEO friendly CSS buttons, but that can be a topic for another day. Now, margins and padding can be measured in the usual ways: pixles, inches, points, ems. Just make sure you remember that you can’t just write the number (margin: 5;) you must include the unit of measurement (margin: 5px;). You can use margin-left: or padding-top: to effect whichever side of the box respectively. You can also define all 4 sides under the margin selector if you’d like, just remember the sides go clockwise, starting at the top then right, bottom, and left.

Here is an example: (more…)

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