Living My Life Faster

Nearly 5 years ago I linked to a fellow freelance interactive designer, Jonathan Keller, who was taking a daily self-portrait and archiving it online as A Daily Photo Project, which appears to now be titled “The Adaption to my Generation”.

His links page offers similar obsessive … view full post

You know you have a good idea when…

You know you have a good idea when you lie awake conceptualising it for hours, and it still sounds good when you wake up the next morning. That’s all. :)

If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.

- Albert Einstein

Makosi … view full post

Abandoned bicycles

Joe in New York has done exactly what I was planning to do last year August – to take photos of the abandoned bicycles, but in London obviously. I started in Hammersmith with a couple of photos.

I guess it interested me so much because … view full post

Stereo Wiggle

Here, here and more here.

This method of presenting stereo images uses animated .gifs to rapidly switch between left and right images. For most of us the brain will impose a crude sense of dimensionality on

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26 Things completed

I finished my 26 Things photography project, finally, almost a month late, after stalling (I just got kinda lazy) on the last photo. I’ve submitted it to the project site, so if you’re visiting from there please leave your thoughts by adding a comment.

And while on the subject of comments, … view full post

Felicia encounters

Myth2 is an interactive story of sorts, you read the story and make one of two choices on what to do next, this continues until you come to a dead end, at which point you have the option to add to the story: check out Felicia encounters.

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The International Photographic Scavenger Hunt

sh1ft.org presents 26 Things | The International Photographic Scavenger Hunt.

the aim of this photographic project is to make us open our eyes and get creative with the things and people around us, to see how we each interpret themes.

Sounds really intriguing, I’ll be participating and will be posting my photos here every day for … view full post

Phlogger

I thought the other night, it would be a nice challenge to clean up the code behind the weblog parts of my site, write a basic install script, and publish it all as a PHP blogging tool. I even came up with a name, albeit pretty weak: Phlogger (which as it turns out, is … view full post

IOL converted to a standards-compliant CSS layout

A small project I started a while ago but never quite got around to publishing was my conversion of the large IOL news website homepage into a W3C standards-based, table-less, CSS layout. Not because I had nothing better to do with my time (although I was sick with flu), … view full post

Minotaur

Introducing Minotaur, a project to create a stand-alone mail client based on the Mozilla suite’s Mail & Newsgroups component.

Read the full release and check out the mozilla.org project page – they desperately need contributors with UI experience to build a decent theme, … view full post