Happy Boxing Day

Boxing Day Morris Dancers from JP Sykes on Vimeo.
A large part of me, will always want to be in Swithland on Boxing Day. To anyone who can get to a small country pub, sit by a fire, drink hand pulled beer and then watch Morris Dancers, I wish you one and all and Happy [...]

Posted at 7am on 12/26/08 | no comments | Filed Under: video | read on

Jingle all the Way

i wish I’d had time to put together some sort of monome remix. I spent a couple of hours the other night trying something out on the arduinome, but I couldn’t find a decent way to save the audio and didn’t really have time to finish it off.
So in lieu of something I made, [...]

Posted at 3pm on 12/23/08 | no comments | Filed Under: Personal Projects, video | read on

Awesome 404

Gotta love the confidence that you know your demographic that well.

Posted at 4pm on 12/05/08 | no comments | Filed Under: Design, etail, funny | read on

Need help with Python webkit2png script

Apologies for the begging post, I’ve been using the awesome script from Paul Hammond that allows you to take screen shots using a non visible webkit (including the flash content).
I’m using this for a weekly trawl of a series of ecommerce sites, so I can build a reference source for ecommerce design over a period [...]

Posted at 12pm on 11/17/08 | no comments | Filed Under: Back End Code, Personal Projects | read on

Japanese Isometric PSA Infomercial

Awesome public service announcement, apparently covering the topic of Japanese food supply issues. I’ve always loved this style ever since the Royskopp music video.

Via Infosthetics.
Thanks to Kottke for the HD youtube tip.

Posted at 3pm on 11/14/08 | 1 comment | Filed Under: Design, video | read on

Twitter Regression

After weeks (if not months) of not seeing the Fail Whale, today it seems Twitter has gone back to it’s old ways. I’ve been getting a constant stream of notifications from isbackonline.com. At first I was concerned that there was some sudden influx of traffic - huge spikes in traffic usually accompany some [...]

Posted at 6pm on 11/13/08 | no comments | Filed Under: Observations, Social Web | read on

Why do you have accounts on all those sites

When I built usernamecheck.com it was partly to show how silly it is that you have to signup and register accounts and user names on hundreds of sites individually across the web. Really it’s very silly.
Joseph Smarr (Plaxo) has an amazing hour long talk that he gave at Google I/O. I highly recommend [...]

Posted at 4pm on 11/13/08 | 2 comments | Filed Under: Observations, Social Web, video | read on

Sneakers

Sneakers from Heikki SlÄen on Vimeo.

Topi Tateishi is a half finnish, half japanese urban dancer and owner of a small sneaker store in Helsinki. He got into sneaker culture through urban dance as he started as a young b-boy 18 years ago and he has been dancing ever since. Sneakers mean the world to him [...]

Posted at 2am on 11/13/08 | no comments | Filed Under: Design, video | read on

Anatomy of Lego Man

Anatomy of a Lego Man

Anatomie of a Gummie Bear

Anatomy of a Balloon Dog
All by the very talented and immaginative illustrator and artists Jason Freeny.

Posted at 1pm on 11/12/08 | no comments | Filed Under: Design, funny | read on

McDonalds goes No Brand

Amazing news from McDonald’s Japan, who have launched “No Brand” stores. I say “No Brand” since it does have a brand, in fact it’s very branded, it’s just not branded as McDonald’s, and it’s lack of obvious clear branding is in fact part of the brand effort. Someone has clearly spent a lot [...]

Posted at 11am on 11/12/08 | no comments | Filed Under: Uncategorized | read on

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