September 21st, 2010
I ran across the online portfolio of August Bradley a short while back and found myself captivated by his collection. He is a master of colorful and vivid conceptual portraits and fashion photography. Here are a few of my favorites:
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September 17th, 2010
Today I’m doing something different. I’ve created a new blog category called “Notes to Mom & Dad” just to have a place to reflect on my past and tell some of my ridiculously pointless life stories. Today’s story comes to you from 1986 – my teenage years. We took a family trip to San Diego that summer. I’m usually horrible with dates but this one is easy to remember because when we got there, we bought t-shirts that said “San Diego ’86” on them and wore them everywhere. All the pictures we took from that trip say exactly when and where we are on our chests. Honestly, I wish we had done that more often because we traveled a lot and I can never figure out when or where we are in our insanely huge collection of photos. But I digress…
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September 3rd, 2010
I feel I’ve now earned the particular distinction of having participated in a cage match with an XML file and beaten its bloody face in. Sure, they’re pretty nifty for storing collections of data and laying them out on web sites, but you don’t get the full experience until you have to create a web interface to edit, insert, delete, and sort said XML file. Honestly, it would have been easier just to store the data in a PHP array. But hell, I love a good cage match! My biggest problem was that anytime I would edit or insert an event element, it would appear in the XML file as the last node rather than in date order. I figured out how to sort the XML contents as they were rendered in HTML using an XSLT (EXtensible Stylesheet Language Transformation). This worked fine for one display but sadly, this XML needed to be displayed several different ways in different places and I wasn’t thrilled with the thought of having to create an XSL file for every variation. All I really needed was one XSL file to sort the XML data each time it was updated. So I wrapped rope around my hands, coated them with resin, dipped them in broken glass, and stepped into the cage.
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August 27th, 2010
After looking through her photo gallery, it’s hard to think of Magdalena Wasiczek (aka “nikx”) as just a photographer. She is a camera wizard! She was featured in an article on Digital Foto Video where she explains some of her techniques and experimentation. I don’t think I’ve ever seen bugs look more beautiful. Head on over to her website and see for yourself. You won’t be disappointed. I’ve put a few of my favorites on display here.
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August 25th, 2010
I was looking through my site stats over the past few weeks (nothing to brag about I assure you) and noticed a disturbing trend. Most of the hits on my blog are the result of searches for various topics. I realized most of those topics are related to blog posts which no longer display on my site homepage. I imagine most people are really confused as to why my site came up in their search results if the page doesn’t mention what they are looking for. I suppose I could have put a search box on my site, but I’m not particularly fond of them and besides, my site only has like 25 posts max so there really isn’t a lot of content. I currently only display the seven most recent posts on my homepage. I wanted a way to provide links to the posts which have fallen off the homepage. I couldn’t find a plugin that would do this for me, so I decided to write my own.
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August 19th, 2010
I stumbled upon this fun little video at vimeo.com the other day. I’m not sure how “scientific” it is, but it is certainly entertaining.
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August 10th, 2010
I was sent merrily off to this website via a link tweeted by Pat Cartelli (@shnoobles) a few weeks back. I can work all sorts of magic in Photoshop, but I’m not particularly good at drawing things by hand. Sara Blake is! Also known simply as “Zso”, Sara is an Interactive Art Director, Designer, and Illustrator from New York City. Here are a few of my favorites. You can view more of her work on her website www.hellozso.com.
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