Posted on June 22, 2007
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Jason Santa Maria talks about designing your way out of a paper bag on day 1
The An Event Apart conference has been particularly inspiring and eye-opening in many respects. It’s definatly one of best conference’s I’ve ever been to in terms of really relevant information presented by really qualified individuals. I have thoroughly enjoyed the pragmatic approach to web design and web standards discussed by the presenters. We’re half way through day 2… just 3 more sessions left and we’re done. I kind of find myself wishing there was more. I guess I’ll have to make sure and hit the event again next year sometime.
Posted on June 20, 2007
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I’m still sitting here in the Seattle airport waiting on my friend Carl to fly in from Virginia Beach. We’re doing some of the tourist things today and getting geared up for the An Event Apart Conference at the Bell Harbor Convention Center all day tomorrow and Friday. The presenter line-up is great and I know I’m going to pick up some really good information. The trip came at a great time too, I was way ready to get out of the office for a few days and go somewhere new.
Posted on June 16, 2007
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For the Vader Project, 75 artists customized Darth Vader helmets for exhibition at the Star Wars Celebration IV in May 2007.
The Vader Project is presented by Master Replicas Inc. and curated by Dov Kelemer of DKE Toys. Kelemer gathered 75 of the hottest underground and pop surrealist painters, artists and designers to participate. Each artist was given a Master Replicas 1:1 scale prop replica of the actual Darth Vader helmet used in the Star Wars films. Each helmet served as a blank canvas for each artist to paint, design, mash up, and customize.
Darth Vader is easily one of the most recognized movie characters of all time, so the plan is for the exhibition to travel to museums, galleries, and events around the world. The helmets will then be offered publicly at auction.
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Posted on June 14, 2007
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It’s not like I really have any love for Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, but as a developer I am faced with making sure my sites work in all of the modern browsers. Microsoft, in their infinate wisdom built their browser to be so highly integrated into the operating system so it’s almost impossible to natively have 2 different versions of the application installed. The problem is that many people haven’t upgraded to IE7 so I needed to have a separate machine with IE6 (with automatic updates turned off) to be able to test for that sector of the market.
I ran across this page detailing how to install and run multiple instaces of IE on the same machine. Yes, you can run IE7 and IE6 at the same time this way. Mulitple versions of Internet Explorer… it sounds good but I somehow still feel dirty. If you just can’t bring yourself to install the others, maybe this handy web tool will bridge the gap.
Posted on June 7, 2007
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Okay, here’s another great productivity killer. I spent an hour just playing with all the facial combinations available at the Monoface website. It’s very similar to the idea behind the sterotypes site I blogged about previously. The facial elements are all put together very well so it makes the final result pretty seamless. I came up with some really weird combinations. Go ahead and spend some time making faces, unlike what your mom told you, your face won’t stick that way.
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