CSS Variables
April 17, 2008
I don’t like talking shop but look, I couldn’t care less for most of the utterly pointless features proposed for CSS3. Animations (super useful interface shit like wobble and bounce), transitions (fade everything on the page at least once you utter noob), gradients (oh, for fuck sake) and web fonts! (god help us)
Now take note. A proposal for CSS variables. This idea is so excellent that on it’s own it makes up for all the other petty proposals. This is something genuinely useful.
The presence of David Hyatt (Apple, Inc.) and an Apple Copyright on the document is also somewhat encouraging but if you can’t wait for the actual implementation you could start with Shaun Inman’s CSS Server-Side Pre-Processor implementation on which, it would appear, this proposal is based.
Matt Stuart
April 17, 2008
It all happened so quickly that I wasn’t exactly sure what I had got but something felt right.
A fascinating insight into the thinking behind the photography of Matt Stuart.
Up and then down
April 16, 2008
I will never ride in it… I don’t have a fear of dying in an elevator, or of the elevator losing control—I have a fear of being stuck with my mind.
A fascinating article in the New Yorker about Nicholas White who was trapped in an elevator for 41 hours. Read it here.
Things for Sale That I Will Mail You
March 25, 2008
If you give me $1,626 I will go to the small Okinawan island called Iriomote and send you an envelope filled with star-sand (don’t worry, I’ve been there before, I know where to go). I will send it from there.
I’m loving the work of David Horvitz. If I had a spare $1,626 burning a hole in my pocket I’d spend it on star-sand for sure.
Photo { David Horvitz }
Hot on Your Trail
March 25, 2008
Anyone who draws attention to himself is almost certainly innocent. It’s ordinary people who do strange things.
“How might you tell you’re being followed? Don’t bother looking for men with turned-up collars, who peer round corners or keep tying their shoelaces. Real surveillants will never be seen doing anything odd.”
Interesting article from INTELLIGENT LIFE magazine, Spring 2008
Photo { Kapungo’s ’Footsteps on the Wall‘ }
Face Your Pockets Project
March 20, 2008
“Things that are living in the pockets of your bag, jeans or jacket: travel and pay checks, old cigarette pack that just looks interesting, sugar lumps and all the stuff that has found home in your pockets. They are all the treasures our project is looking for! Our goal is not only bring all this objects into light but show the owner of them.”
Face your pockets! via the inspirational Monster Munch
A unique photography experience
March 20, 2008
“MethodIzaz is a unique photography experience. Subjects are unaware of the exact moment they will be photographed and of the photographer’s identity. Instead, the subject is photographed completely naturally, living life as normal.”
Nice idea.
MethodIzaz via swissmiss
Flashy Lights: Taxi Illumination In Japan
March 20, 2008
Prowling the city of Tokyo are hoards of taxis… each company from every region set themselves apart with their own special logo and shape.
“How practical, since, from far, a passenger can see what type of ride they are in for that night!”
iTunes by the numbers
March 18, 2008
A little idea I spotted on Clusterflock and out of intrigue thought I’d try.
Total Length
» 1729 items, 4:17:22:46 total time, 9.83GB
First and Last Songs (by title)
» “A-Ab-E-B-F#” - Smashing Pumpkins, Billy’s Gravity Demos
» “2080” - Yeasayer
Shortest and Longest Songs
» Ask For Janice - Beastie Boys
» Rhymin & Stealin - Beastie Boys (now that’s a freaky coincidence!)
First and Last Albums (by title)
» Aglio E Olio - Beastie Boys
» 3 Song 7’’ - Japanther
First and Last Artist (by name)
» Amon Tobin
» Zwan
Top Five Most Played Songs
» Japanther – Challenge
» Autolux – Subzero Fun
» The National – Fake Empire
» Bombay Bicycle Club – Open House
» Thurston Moore – Wonderful Witches
Search for the following words. How many songs show up?
» Sex: 2
» Death: 11
» Love: 56
» You: 169
» Home: 7
» Boy: 208 (that’ll be the Beastie Boy‘s again!)
» Girl: 22
First five songs that come up on Party Shuffle
» Easy Muffin - Bonobo - It Came From The Sea
» The 224th Day - Working For A Nuclear Free City
» 10 - British Legion - Kasabian - Empire
» These Are Our Children - I Monster - Neveroddoreven
» Ghost Moves - The Octopus Project - Hello, Avalanche
Now I know.
A Conversation with Stephen Shore
March 18, 2008
There seems to be a greater freedom and lack of restraint. Here’s a tautology: as one considers one’s pictures less, one produces fewer truly considered pictures.
“If an artist doesn’t work with conscious intentionality, sometimes no amount of editing helps.”
Taken from a wonderful discussion about digital photography in ‘A Conversation with Stephen Shore’ by Jörg Colberg.
Anti Photography Propaganda Campaign
March 14, 2008
It’s part of a counter-terrorism campaign and one element is the camera element.
No, it’s just fear mongering propaganda. I’m incensed!
And, for a humorous look at the whole thing, learn to shoot like a terrorist here.
Save Shoreditch
March 12, 2008
I’ve said so before. London is changing. Ken Livingston has big plans for this city and it’s going to be sky scrapers everywhere. Personally I think he’s going to fuck it up, but what do I know. I’ve got this and this to remind me how it was.
Japanther - Live at Barden’s Boudoir
March 09, 2008
...the operating manual for life on earth is sadly neglected.
Look carefully and you’ll see me in the crowd. One of the best gigs of my life…
Through the viewfinder
February 13, 2008
Over the weekend I decided to experiment with a popular ’through the viewfinder‘ technique. I bought myself a beautiful old Duaflex II on eBay and sliced up an old cardboard tube to cover the viewfinder. I dusted off my 10D and took a few test shots. The results were quite rewarding.
Today I discovered a great tutorial of the method by Russ Morris.
Now all I need to do is pluck up the courage to venture outside with this strange contraption.
Marvin
February 04, 2008
I‘ve been listening to the relentless party punk rock band Marvin all evening. They are a french band due to tour the UK in May. I think they are absolutely amazing!
You can download their awesome album from here
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