Here’s a site I designed (developed by Dan Nixon and Matt Mayers) that is super bad-ass. One of the really interesting features is the header. It is designed to change as per the time of day (right now looks especially cool cause it’s dark). It also will change to show the weather, yes - rain snow sleet and hail. Okay, maybe not sleet and hail exactly but rain, snow and sun for sure. The header also incorporates a rotating billboard with a picture of the day. Matt and Dan rigged up a super cool app that attaches photo’s geocode and places them on a map so one can see where the photos were shot, pure awesomeness.
I’m really happy with how this one turned out. Another great design concept by Josh, and all the credit goes to Matt for the kick ass photo maps.
For anyone interested in the gory details of my front end work, I’m really enjoying marking up sites with HTML 5. The spec is changing so fast that even though I just finished this up a couple weeks ago, there are already things that I’d do differently (the recent redefinition of the <aside> element, in particular). Either way, it’s liberating to be able to use modern markup and CSS for a job every once in a while! rgba = rgbAWESOME.
Well done guys!
This movie looks awesome. I wish that it was showing somewhere close to here.
Here I am with Jay Leno and gal pal Connie at SEMA 2009 for a Camaro Tweetup. Tweet, tweet!
Heard about the event. Sound damn cool! Oh good picture too.
One of the slides in my deck I’m presenting this week. This might my new favorite quote.
Great quote and def best presented without fluff. Well done!
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ALL I REALLY NEED TO KNOW I LEARNED IN KINDERGARTEN
(a guide for Global Leadership)
All I really need to know about how to live and what to do and how to be I learned in kindergarten. Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate school mountain, but there in the sand pile at school.
These are the things I learned:
Share everything.
Play fair.
Don’t hit people.
Put things back where you found them.
Clean up your own mess.
Don’t take things that aren’t yours.
Say you’re sorry when you hurt somebody.
Wash your hands before you eat.
Flush.
Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you.
Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.
Take a nap every afternoon.
When you go out in the world, watch out for traffic, hold hands and stick together.
Be aware of wonder. Remember the little seed in the Styrofoam cup: the roots go down and the plant goes up and nobody really knows how or why, but we are all like that.
Goldfish and hamsters and white mice and even the little seed in the Styrofoam cup - they all die. So do we.
And then remember the Dick-and-Jane books and the first word you learned - the biggest word of all - LOOK.
Everything you need to know is in there somewhere. The Golden Rule and love and basic sanitation. Ecology and politics and equality and sane living.
Take any one of those items and extrapolate it into sophisticated adult terms and apply it to your family life or your work or government or your world and it holds true and clear and firm. Think what a better world it would be if we all - the whole world - had cookies and milk at about 3 o’clock in the afternoon and then lay down with our blankies for a nap. Or if all governments had as a basic policy to always put things back where they found them and to clean up their own mess.
And it is still true, no matter how old you are, when you go out in the world, it is best to hold hands and stick together.
[Source: “ALL I REALLY NEED TO KNOW I LEARNED IN KINDERGARTEN” by Robert Fulghum. See his web site at http://www.robertfulghum.com/ ]
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ALL I REALLY NEED TO KNOW I LEARNED IN KINDERGARTEN
(a guide for Global Leadership)
All I really need to know about how to live and what to do and how to be I learned in kindergarten. Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate school mountain, but there in the sand pile at school.
These are the things I learned:
- Share everything.
- Play fair.
- Don’t hit people.
- Put things back where you found them.
- Clean up your own mess.
- Don’t take things that aren’t yours.
- Say you’re sorry when you hurt somebody.
- Wash your hands before you eat.
- Flush.
- Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you.
- Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.
- Take a nap every afternoon.
- When you go out in the world, watch out for traffic, hold hands and stick together.
- Be aware of wonder. Remember the little seed in the Styrofoam cup: the roots go down and the plant goes up and nobody really knows how or why, but we are all like that.
- Goldfish and hamsters and white mice and even the little seed in the Styrofoam cup - they all die. So do we.
- And then remember the Dick-and-Jane books and the first word you learned - the biggest word of all - LOOK.
Everything you need to know is in there somewhere. The Golden Rule and love and basic sanitation. Ecology and politics and equality and sane living.
Take any one of those items and extrapolate it into sophisticated adult terms and apply it to your family life or your work or government or your world and it holds true and clear and firm. Think what a better world it would be if we all - the whole world - had cookies and milk at about 3 o’clock in the afternoon and then lay down with our blankies for a nap. Or if all governments had as a basic policy to always put things back where they found them and to clean up their own mess.
And it is still true, no matter how old you are, when you go out in the world, it is best to hold hands and stick together.
[Source: “ALL I REALLY NEED TO KNOW I LEARNED IN KINDERGARTEN” by Robert Fulghum. See his web site at http://www.robertfulghum.com/ ]
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If you haven’t seen The Brothers Bloom, I highly recommend it. It’s the second movie by Rian Johnson who wrote and directed Brick.
Here’s a little extra that we couldn’t put on the DVD.
This is a very crude animatic of the opening childhood sequence from The Brothers Bloom (COUGH now available for rental on DVD and BluRay COUGH) that I created early in the pre-production process. As will be immediately and humiliatingly evident, I did all the voices myself. The artwork consists of storyboards by the very talented Daniele Auber, and it was all put together on my laptop in Final Cut Pro.
Minimal resources, very slapdash, but it ended up being an invaluable tool in showing both business and creative folks we were courting how the whole thing would come together.
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Beautifully shot and edited. Love the color temperature and desaturated style. So crisp. (and if you think it’s moving slow, wait ‘til about the two-minute mark)
Yeah, this is so worth watching. And I concur with turboclaw.
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OBVIOUS CANDIDATE FOR BATTLE OF THE BLADES — MOONWALKING ON ICE
And for the thriller remake…
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I won the Chelsea Dental pumpkin carving contest for the 2nd year in a row! Here’s my winning entry from Where the Wild Things Are.
Well done Jason!
“From the discovery of the 1898 International Dictionary to linotyping the entries to printing the last print on the vandercook to cutting the fingertabs of the deluxe edition, this video gives a quick overview of the process of creating the Pictorial Webster’s fine press edition.”
This is no small project, but very interesting.
That is fascinating, makes you appreciate an old leather bound book that much more.
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About Me
Director of Strategy and Innovation @ Hart Associates, avid hockey player, mountain biker, thrill seeker and tech geek.This is my personal blog. I post completely random thoughts, inspirations and whatever else strikes me as clever.
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