Things I find...

"Suppose there’s an evil bastard out there who hates the web and all who sail her. This person..."

Tue, 06 Jul 2010 12:08:00 +0100

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Suppose there’s an evil bastard out there who hates the web and all who sail her. This person probably doesn’t care that it’s incredibly rude and stupid to embed and audio file that plays automatically…

If you ever use the autoplay attribute in this way, I will hunt you down.

”

- Jeremy Keith, author of HTML5 for Web Designers on the HTML5 Audio Autoplay attribute

A documentary about New York advertising painters keeping an old...

Mon, 28 Jun 2010 09:09:00 +0100

A documentary about New York advertising painters keeping an old trade alive.

"You don’t think about your toothbrush being designed until you put a badly designed toothbrush..."

Fri, 11 Jun 2010 06:52:06 +0100

“You don’t think about your toothbrush being designed until you put a badly designed toothbrush in your mouth”

- The Genius of Design | Ghosts in the machine

What's the point of running?

Wed, 09 Jun 2010 10:51:35 +0100

Recently, Luisa and I have started to walk to work, to help save pennies and get a bit of exercise at the same time. Luisa gets the train from Halifax to Leeds and each morning I wait with her on the platform until her train arrives. When leaving the station, I’m always met with people racing to catch the train. It’s at this point every morning I see something strange…

The people I see running suddenly stop to pick up a Metro, which might sound like nothing but Halifax station is so small that if they carried on running rather than wasting 5 seconds, they might actually catch the train.

It doesn’t bother or annoy me, it just makes me giggle.

itsfullofstars: Photography’s Longest Exposure Six months....

Fri, 28 May 2010 22:01:23 +0100

itsfullofstars:

Photography’s Longest Exposure

Six months. That’s right. This dream-like picture shows each phase of the sun over Bristol’s Clifton Suspension Bridge taken during half a year.

The image was captured on a pin-hole camera made from an empty drinks can with a 0.25mm aperture and a single sheet of photographic paper.

Photographer Justin Quinnell strapped the camera to a telephone pole overlooking the Gorge, where it was left between December 19, 2007 and June 21, 2008—the Winter and Summer solstices. (That’s a 15,552,000 second exposure.)

(via HouseholdName)

iinspire: This is The Daily Stack, a little device that helps...

Fri, 21 May 2010 07:32:57 +0100

iinspire:

This is The Daily Stack, a little device that helps you keep track of your workflow in a tangible way.

richardshepherd: Man alive, this is clever! (From observando)

Thu, 29 Apr 2010 11:14:36 +0100

richardshepherd:

Man alive, this is clever!

(From observando)

Unbelievable

Wed, 21 Apr 2010 17:00:54 +0100

Unbelievable

“Holy fuck that is awesome” comes to mind…

Wed, 21 Apr 2010 09:49:33 +0100

“Holy fuck that is awesome” comes to mind…

kylesteed: PIXELS by PATRICK JEAN gives me hope that my mission...

Thu, 08 Apr 2010 16:48:35 +0100

kylesteed:

PIXELS by PATRICK JEAN gives me hope that my mission isn’t in vain.

"…there is more to see on the printed page than a mere sequence of letters. In fact, it is the..."

Sat, 03 Apr 2010 16:32:26 +0100

“…there is more to see on the printed page than a mere sequence of letters. In fact, it is the qualities that distinguish the document from a simple accumulation of letters which might finally be described as typography.”

- What is typography? By David Dury ~ p72

I found this years ago and forgot to blog it…

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 10:09:33 +0000

I found this years ago and forgot to blog it…

agreenfocus: Here’s the official poster for our upcoming hack...

Sun, 07 Feb 2010 10:03:53 +0000

agreenfocus:

Here’s the official poster for our upcoming hack day. A huge thank-you to Cole Henley for helping us out with its design.

Introducing a.green:focus

Fri, 05 Feb 2010 08:26:12 +0000

trovster:

From agreenfocus:

Hello! My name is Paul Lloyd, and I’m a visual designer at Clearleft and founder of a.green:focus. With the help of my friends and peers, I’m hoping to build a coalition of web developers who, by working together and sharing our knowledge and ideas, can help reduce our industry’s impact on the environment.

Ours is an industry occupied by some of the most talented, creative and empathetic people on the planet. We craft interfaces that are easy to use, design experiences that push the boundaries of a medium and build websites that are accessible to all. We’ve developed social networks that allow us to communicate with each other in ways never thought possible. We are in the business of creating the future.

Yet we are equally to blame for putting this future at risk.

I announced my idea for this campaign at the second ‘Multipack Presents…’ event in Birmingham last April. Given the situation we face with regards to our warming planet and endangered rainforests, I was appalled to see the continuing trend in which web conferences ply their attendees with bags full of useless—and often swiftly discarded—‘schwag’. SXSW, I’m looking in your direction. Furthermore, I felt that travelling great distances to conferences was not only seen as glamorous, but necessary. Yet the reality is that we have a wealth of great conferences and local community events right on our doorsteps.

We also habitually upgrade our computers, phones and other gizmos to the latest bits of kit—often when we have little need to—and regardless of the amount of energy and raw material required to create or power them.

I’m not exempting myself either. In fact, I’m possibly one of the worst offenders. I’m better than this. We are all better than this, and with our shared talent and skills, uniquely placed to change the world for the better.

The Multipack Presents… Hack The Planet

Almost a year has passed since I announced this idea to a small yet responsive audience, yet the problems haven’t gone away. So now I’m actually doing something about it, and I hope you will join me in doing so too.

It all starts with a hack day on Saturday 20th February, kindly hosted by One Black Bear at their swish offices in Birmingham, and supported by the lovely folks at Campaign Monitor.

During the day (and Sunday if necessary), we hope to create a web site, application or viral campaign that will encourage people like us to reduce our impact on the environment; be it in the office, at home, or on the road.

With SXSW taking place just a few weeks later, perhaps we could create a campaign to encourage attendees not pick up the infamous ‘Big Bag’ (and furthermore ask for them not to be provided at future events). Maybe we should think longer term. Maybe we should build a website that allows users to create a carbon pledge (and then help them stick to it)? Or possibly develop an application that combines the recently released public sector information available at data.gov.uk with AMEE and popular social network APIs. The possibilities are endless.

As a community of designers, information architects, developers and user experience practitioners, I would like to see all specialisms represented. Even if you don’t know your HTML from your Haml but care about the environment, I would encourage you to join in and help out.

Hopefully this post has given you a little introduction to our project. Keep reading for news about the hack day, as well as any future events, campaigns and projects we may run. Follow us on Twitter for tips on becoming a greener web developer. And please join us on Saturday 20th February.

Paul

sushimonster: mxvltr: ckck: Brooklyn Terminal, Brooklyn, New...

Sun, 17 Jan 2010 08:50:12 +0000

sushimonster:

mxvltr:

ckck:

Brooklyn Terminal, Brooklyn, New York, 1903.

sushimonster: parachuteshark: Coney Island, 1903.

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 14:41:31 +0000

sushimonster:

parachuteshark:

Coney Island, 1903.

Checkout this guys videos they’re really awesome

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 17:51:23 +0000

Checkout this guys videos they’re really awesome

Watch at full screen with headphones. Awesome

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 13:41:58 +0000

Watch at full screen with headphones. Awesome

Video

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 18:59:50 +0000

(via trovster)

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 19:01:13 +0000

(via trovster)