I’ve come under the influence of Cameron Moll and Jason Santa Maria:

This is really a bit of a knock-off of Cameron’s example and there’s definitely room for improvement. Choosing white for ‘wasabicube’ is not particularly realistic given the hammering the tag has obviously undergone – looks like it’s been dragged through gravel.

The worn effect is in part based on Cameron’s first tutorial – giving the notches and crease – followed by a couple of judicious applications of Corel PHOTO-PAINT’s Weather effect, set to Rain, for the scratches.

Elsewhere, Dan Cederholm has been caught up on the fringes of the current redesign trend with some tweaks to his site; Jon Hicks has taken the Textpattern route, rather than the CMS darling du jour WordPress; and I really love this photo by Jeremy Hedley – it’s like the subject is in a world of his own, all the while within some sort of giant clockwork mechanism.