Mandar Apte

UI/UX Designer from Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.

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  • Lovebirds – A Suspense Story A Marathi Play

    Yesterday I saw ‘Lovebirds’ Marathi Play at Gadakari Rangayatan at Thane.

    I was amazed with basic story line behind play & how suspense was well maintained in play throughout & how live motion video was used to evolve around story…

    This is the first time I was experiencing suspense story live in theater & happening in front of me.

    Live Video on Wall was vary well used to explain & illustrate story no second was lost or misused to or lost in Live Video & live Action, All sync in video & live action was perfect

    I would suggest all to watch this Marathi Play…

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  • A False Race That Man Never Ran

    There was one company…

    There was one designer…

    That one designer joined that same company & story started…

    One fine day designer was setting in company canteen having tea, he saw guy seating in front of him…

    Designer thought let’s talk & interact with fellow worker so he asked his name. The guy replied, “I am TG 4”

    & designer starts laughing… & asked himself what is that ‘TG’ Thing?

    The company was having ‘Technical Grade’ allotted to their employees

    Designer realize while spending few months in company that people that works here have no identity no name no value… Only people know each other by Technical Grade, they even ignore salary as they get greater salary with greater Technical Grade…

    So people with higher Technical Grade were running the race of Grade that has no value out side their company… It was false motivation of false realization…

    What if you want a Auto Rickshaw to catch to run to the place what you will tell the Rickshaw driver, “I am TG4, Let’s Go”, It doesn’t mean any thing to that rickshaw driver…

    What you will tell your kids in the morning when you are leaving for office & work,”bye, bye Kids your TG 4 is going” It will sound hilarious & you know what it is just stupidity…

    You can’t in cash & it doesn’t fetch value outside that company…

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  • My year or years long Affair with my Websites

    I was talking with my friend while we both were having coffee… we chatted a long & reference a came along about my website & I suddenly realized that I do had my own website in way back Year 2003 – 04 on Yahoo! Geocities…

    What a realization, at that time I had no web analytics so I have to had phoned a person to ask to check does he visited my website & they like it or not…

    No CMS so no WordPress…

    No Plugins…

    No Web Analytics…

    No Visitor Data…

    No Feedback form or any forms that matter…

    That time I had no knowledge of CSS So All website was done with tables… i.e. TD & TR

    Now I had crush on my own domain with my name attached with .com thing…

    My Friends get excited with thing my .com domain name & my presence on web…

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  • Art of Mandar Apte – New Page & New Beginning

    Hi All,

    I have introduced the new page called “Art of Mandar Apte” as Art of Mandar Apte category already exists under Art Blog section…

    Page “Art of Mandar Apte” will syndicate the category of same name… to the world…

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  • Types of Animation Students in India

    I found myself surrounded by few of this aspiring animation brats while I am learning animation…!!!

    Type 01
    “Clay Animation? How Cute!!!” An Aspiring Animation Brat
    One day I was seating in a animation class & I came across this exclamation thought…
    “tell me about Animation!”, “Who Does Animation”, “How He does it?”, “Where it Happens?”, It reminds me of Hindi Film ‘Dil To Pagal Hai…’
    And It was the same day I came across this thought, “Animation? How Sweet? How Cute?”, I never did & never will understand what is cute in doing in animation, It is a day’s of work…!!!

    Type 02
    “Tell me About 3D…!!!”
    I was explaining the one person the process of animation & how it is done & recommending some books to him, he said, “I am more interested in 3D Animation, I don’t want to learn from books or basics of animation, I just want to learn 3D… because 3D is the future because Pixar & even Disney is doing it… & Why I should waste my time in learning 2D or that matter other types of animation.”

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  • Designed on Mac & Designing on Something Else

    Few points that I recognize that are important while experiencing design process on Mac & Something else called PC… Those are as follows

    Designed on Mac

    1. Mac has factory Calibrated display
    2. Square looks Square & Rectangle looks Rectangle & not other way around
    3. 15% black has identity on display & which is recognizable
    4. It has world class Industrial Design working for you
    5. It’s a style statement while using it
    6. No compatibility problem while working in group
    7. You know your design will look exactly as it is on every mac
    8. ‘Designed on Mac’ is kind of branding itself for your work for quality
    9. You have full control on your machine not other way round
    10. Has kind of hardware insurance as an ‘Apple Care’ program
    11. Almost clean workspace
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  • One Designer’s Problems Having MBA person as his Project Manager

    1. MBA Person thinks he own all work & credit of the same work as his own not the artist… because he thinks by giving suggestions & corrections he owns the artwork as his intellectual property…
    2. Because of the earlier point MBA person thinks he owns the salary increment & not the artist for work done by the artist.
    3. Manager thinks he should get at least 7 options for design problem & Designer thinks what the F
    4. When Designer say to MBA guy we need specialist in development but MBA person thinks otherwise & ask’s then “What’s Your Use?”
    5. Designer thinks about himself as he is designer… & he has to learn a lot about design
    6. MBA persona thinks about himself as he is BOSS… & he knows everything about design
    7. Designer is Designer but MBA person is Boss + Designer
    8. MBA person thinks Photoshop can do anything I mean almost everything… but designer says I need Illustrator or CorelDRAW
    9. One fine day MBA guy learns about GIMP & he thinks our designer should adopt GIMP than investing lot money on Photoshop
    10. MBA degree earns the respect & Designer degree has do lot of work…

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  • CGTEXPO11 – Fool’s Paradise

    I attended this years CGTEXPO1,

    Sadly I was totally upset with content, management & arrangement of the program.

    Programs had no content to look at or learn from, I felt totally waste of money & time from point of view of a student or professional who is looking for learning opportunities…

    I don’t know why this people depend on foreign professional, It gives me the feeling of show off from money & status point of view…

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  • Integrating Social & Professional Networking Badges & Google Adsense Ads in WordPress Blog using Dynamic Sidebar

    Following method will work with both Social & Professional Networking Badges i.e. Scripts you get from Facebook, Flickr, Twitter, Likedin & Google Adesense Ads scripts to integrate it with your wordpress website blog’s dynamic sidebar.

    Few Important things that I considered here that you are ready with
    You have sign in to & have administrative access of wordpress blog
    You have badge code that you got from Facebook or Twitter or Flickr or Linkedin.
    You are ready with Adsense’s Ad code & Your account is active.

    Steps to integrate with Dynamic Sidebar with Theme Widget Support
    First if not integrate Dynamic Sidebar within your plugin
    here is the link to do that

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  • Balgandharva, A story of the era where Gandharva use to live in Hindusthan

    Just now I came from film called Balgandharva portraying life of Artist itself…

    Every frame of the film is well designed to era of the “Balgandharva”, No frame of the film is boring or any second of the story is wasted, Right characterization of every artist is unique…

    Even 30 second roll of Actor Angad Mhaskar in character of Freedom Fighter “Kanhere” is heart touching & gives different dimension & direction to the film…

    Today I can say I saw Today’s real Marathi Film, I may saw it three times but no money wasted or felt boredom…

    It is the era of Marathi Natya Ranga Bhumi, Where all female rolls were performed by male actors…

    Actor Subodh Bhave in the getup of Balgandharva is equivalent & By watching that you get the feel why that particular era was called The Gandharva era in Marathi Natya Ranga Bhumi…

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