DDB is all about the message... so is it counter-intuitive that the one thing on their site that really makes you look is the blue and yellow "teletubbied" men running around in the background? Or is it clever ploy to keep you looking at different parts of the site to see what the b&y are up to? ...entertaing for sure (flash? yup.)
Take a reflective stroll through the CSS garden - and find your own style. How hard is it to actually separate content and design? How many results can you come up with? [currently 89 official design submitted]
And what do you buy and consume in a day, a week or a month? How many different items? Nice site, photogalleries from different shop - ie Target, with people and their carts. And naturally; detailed reports of what has been bought, week by week, during the 20+ months of the sites life.
...and the sun is setting, time to end for now...
Wednesday, March 31
More mindless (pt2)
Another photosite is schmidt - once more with flash-enabled portfolio. Nice use of keyboard for navigation (space for thumbnails, left/right to move between).
Daring is a series - or will be when the episodes are released, slightly Flash Gordon-esque, evil geniusese and dinasours mixed with blasters and henchmen. For now my favorite part was under the "Lab" tab - the test-animation of Presto (number 5 or 6 - keep pushing next...)
And finally - online paintings by Audrey. You guessed it - great mix of flash, showcasing some of her works and giving news and downloads (nice twist on wallpaper; a framed painting with wall and title around it - just like haning u a real piece of art)
So, why so many "visual" links all of a sudden? Well, a couple of days ago I did some reorganizing and cleaning up in the bookshelvees. I sat down with the "showcase" section from .net magazine - and finally spent some time typing up those urls that seemed relevant and interesting. Hence this is a third degree filtering - first by the .Net staff, then by my reading and now finally by actually surinf along - and adding some comments on the most interesting ones.
...and the sun felt really warm during lunch...
Daring is a series - or will be when the episodes are released, slightly Flash Gordon-esque, evil geniusese and dinasours mixed with blasters and henchmen. For now my favorite part was under the "Lab" tab - the test-animation of Presto (number 5 or 6 - keep pushing next...)
And finally - online paintings by Audrey. You guessed it - great mix of flash, showcasing some of her works and giving news and downloads (nice twist on wallpaper; a framed painting with wall and title around it - just like haning u a real piece of art)
So, why so many "visual" links all of a sudden? Well, a couple of days ago I did some reorganizing and cleaning up in the bookshelvees. I sat down with the "showcase" section from .net magazine - and finally spent some time typing up those urls that seemed relevant and interesting. Hence this is a third degree filtering - first by the .Net staff, then by my reading and now finally by actually surinf along - and adding some comments on the most interesting ones.
...and the sun felt really warm during lunch...
Tuesday, March 30
Mindless surfing (pt 1)
Fridge full of sticky notes with design shuffeling across the soft background.
down below for a new view... site for submitting your own pictures and viewing others. Might have been fun with a bit more comments, but the visual impact is still pretty nifty.
Planetary frog intropage to another photosite with a fullscreen flash site. Bit low on the content ("will update again in august") but high on funky interfaces and interludes. Go with the bouncing spirit and have a look.
...and the sun was really hot today, had to escape for an hour or so earlier...
down below for a new view... site for submitting your own pictures and viewing others. Might have been fun with a bit more comments, but the visual impact is still pretty nifty.
Planetary frog intropage to another photosite with a fullscreen flash site. Bit low on the content ("will update again in august") but high on funky interfaces and interludes. Go with the bouncing spirit and have a look.
...and the sun was really hot today, had to escape for an hour or so earlier...
Monday, March 29
flashing
intentionallies has a bit of fun with flash - letting you look at (as of now) 43 different projects they've done. Spread out as business cards on a table. You can sort them or throw them around, zoom in and open them for more information. Only let down is the lack of (english?) information on the actual cards - as well as manipulation ability (ie click on "category" to see others or explanation)... whatever you do the images keep changing.
was actually contemplating a similar concept for a flash/xml mp3-player - using draggable "singles" and a turntable as interface for selecting among different tunes. Guess I should take a couple of hours and try to knock it togheter...
was actually contemplating a similar concept for a flash/xml mp3-player - using draggable "singles" and a turntable as interface for selecting among different tunes. Guess I should take a couple of hours and try to knock it togheter...
Sunday, March 28
Sound off - with sound on
Ripp of a certain movie trilogy (soon on dvd...) to "inform" about meat-practices over in burger nation - aka USA. Really well put togheter and excellent use of moo-feus as our guide. No wonder a recent study shows that meat is "unhip", especially young girls find the look of red meat and blood rather un-appetizing... unlike a fish with scales and eyes hanging on?
On another note - but staying with the fish - finally managed to send off the underwater instant camera from Cayman last October, and got back some blurry and some really nice pictures of the stingrays with us as well... (not online but same theme as this one )and instapundit has put a diving vid [Note: link to high version, visit site for alternatives] as a change from the political commentary. Gotta love it! Bring on Nemo and the rest of the cast, I want warm weather and sun sun sun.
Music - after a short spell with the iTunes for windows I gave up and tested winamp 5 (the first software using fibonacci for sequence?) And I'm sad to say that it kicks a certain other programs a__ in terms of memory (5 mb rather than 20 for playing my good tunes - used EAC to backup my cd collection just for me me me, and now I finally listen to it a bit more often than before!) Any how, the iPod mini was preordered by the bucket - but with the original lasting some 18 months before the battery says "goodnight sweet love" I guess the field is open to alternatives such as g20 and the zen.
Guess I should jump onto the gadgetlab to stay more uptodate on gizmos. But do I really need one? Seem to remember getting myself an early discman and never really using it (interesting typo: suing it...) maybe because at the time my good old sony walkman was kickin' it good. Lasted for hours and hours, but the discman could perhaps play one whole disc at a time. Then there was the minidisc from the trip to hong kong - turned out to be a bit of a hassle to charge it with plug and power adapters making one BIG piece of hardware to stick in the socket. Besides, at the time I had five minutes of walking to get to class, so why bother? Besides with most of my 100 cd's right here on call I can multi-task them instead.
...and the sun jumped around as we went do daylight-saving or Summertime...
On another note - but staying with the fish - finally managed to send off the underwater instant camera from Cayman last October, and got back some blurry and some really nice pictures of the stingrays with us as well... (not online but same theme as this one )and instapundit has put a diving vid [Note: link to high version, visit site for alternatives] as a change from the political commentary. Gotta love it! Bring on Nemo and the rest of the cast, I want warm weather and sun sun sun.
Music - after a short spell with the iTunes for windows I gave up and tested winamp 5 (the first software using fibonacci for sequence?) And I'm sad to say that it kicks a certain other programs a__ in terms of memory (5 mb rather than 20 for playing my good tunes - used EAC to backup my cd collection just for me me me, and now I finally listen to it a bit more often than before!) Any how, the iPod mini was preordered by the bucket - but with the original lasting some 18 months before the battery says "goodnight sweet love" I guess the field is open to alternatives such as g20 and the zen.
Guess I should jump onto the gadgetlab to stay more uptodate on gizmos. But do I really need one? Seem to remember getting myself an early discman and never really using it (interesting typo: suing it...) maybe because at the time my good old sony walkman was kickin' it good. Lasted for hours and hours, but the discman could perhaps play one whole disc at a time. Then there was the minidisc from the trip to hong kong - turned out to be a bit of a hassle to charge it with plug and power adapters making one BIG piece of hardware to stick in the socket. Besides, at the time I had five minutes of walking to get to class, so why bother? Besides with most of my 100 cd's right here on call I can multi-task them instead.
...and the sun jumped around as we went do daylight-saving or Summertime...
Sunday, March 21
Read all about it?
I read in an opinion piece today that there are 584 bookstores in Norway - and 974 public libraries. Puts things in perspective. Twice as many place to borrow books as to buy them (well - certain books are sold a lot more place - newsagents sell bestseller paperbacks, large grocery stores sell food-related books etc.) And still, on Saturday we visited four different bookstores, and excluding holiday "curiosity visits", the last time I used the library was probably five years ago. Used to go all the time as a student and when I was a kid.
Why?
Well, as I've grown older and gained a "disposable income" it is a lot easier to subscribe to journals and magazines, and with a broadband connection a wee bit of suring and emailing is also going on. And then there is the fact that a regular paperback costs less than a double latte and a large piece of cake at a cafe... (give or take) or less than a six pack of beer at the store. In other words - dirt cheap. And it makes for excellent gifts - a book is a distinct item (ref. ISBN code), so if you say to somebody before x-mas; "gee, i'd love to read the new Neal Stephenson novel Quicksilver" - it is easy for them to figure out how to get it - wheras if you say "a new shirt would be nice" you stick them with the choices (size, fabric, color, brand, pricerange etc etc) and still might end up returning it.
On another note - "rule of thumb" - what does it mean, really? You can rule a distance with a thumb? You can vote "live or let die" at the Colloseum in ancient roman games? Or....? Google best guesses come down to:
Thumb hoax debunk and " the thumb as a convenient measuring tool, the distance to the first knuckle usually being about one inch"
Another answer - "knew their trade so well they rarely
or never fell back on the use of such things as rulers" ... and then pages of "feminist" discussion on the urban myth of wifebeating rulings.
Roman thumbs - way down, suggest that there is actually no evidence of thumbs up/down, just '' "with the thumb turned". No ancient source describes what exactly this signified''
So? The fact that it is in common use in the various Nordic languages as well might imply that some American law-rule is not all that appropriate after all... and as a Finnish guy wrote - the "norse" for an inch is "tomme" eller "tum" (with "tommel" and tummel" being the modern spelling of "thumb" in danish/norwegian and swedish respectively). But hey, why bother thinking about foreign languages when you can shout bloody murder?
...and the sun now stays for a whole 6 hours and then some twenty minutes more than three months ago ...
Why?
Well, as I've grown older and gained a "disposable income" it is a lot easier to subscribe to journals and magazines, and with a broadband connection a wee bit of suring and emailing is also going on. And then there is the fact that a regular paperback costs less than a double latte and a large piece of cake at a cafe... (give or take) or less than a six pack of beer at the store. In other words - dirt cheap. And it makes for excellent gifts - a book is a distinct item (ref. ISBN code), so if you say to somebody before x-mas; "gee, i'd love to read the new Neal Stephenson novel Quicksilver" - it is easy for them to figure out how to get it - wheras if you say "a new shirt would be nice" you stick them with the choices (size, fabric, color, brand, pricerange etc etc) and still might end up returning it.
On another note - "rule of thumb" - what does it mean, really? You can rule a distance with a thumb? You can vote "live or let die" at the Colloseum in ancient roman games? Or....? Google best guesses come down to:
Thumb hoax debunk and " the thumb as a convenient measuring tool, the distance to the first knuckle usually being about one inch"
Another answer - "knew their trade so well they rarely
or never fell back on the use of such things as rulers" ... and then pages of "feminist" discussion on the urban myth of wifebeating rulings.
Roman thumbs - way down, suggest that there is actually no evidence of thumbs up/down, just '' "with the thumb turned". No ancient source describes what exactly this signified''
So? The fact that it is in common use in the various Nordic languages as well might imply that some American law-rule is not all that appropriate after all... and as a Finnish guy wrote - the "norse" for an inch is "tomme" eller "tum" (with "tommel" and tummel" being the modern spelling of "thumb" in danish/norwegian and swedish respectively). But hey, why bother thinking about foreign languages when you can shout bloody murder?
...and the sun now stays for a whole 6 hours and then some twenty minutes more than three months ago ...
Photo-trip
Shadow and Light is both an inspirational use of Flash - allowing you to browse by country, by number or city - and a site featuring some very interesting black and white pictures on the subject of .... (duuh!) Light and Shadow - seeing things we don't normally look at, and looking at everyday objects differently due to the play of light (such as a simple wooden chair in a small-town churc.
I like it - so much that I might even have a go at some image manipulation afterwards - see if any of my cloud-shots look good in greyscale!
I like it - so much that I might even have a go at some image manipulation afterwards - see if any of my cloud-shots look good in greyscale!
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