Music is a pretty integral part of my life on a day-to-day basis and I consider it a public service when those around me create a Top 10 list of anything that has inspired them throughout the course of a year. So, keeping that in mind, it is without further ado that I present my top 10 albums of 2009 in no particular order:
My Top 10 Albums of 2009
28 December 09 — No Comments
Panasonic Lumix GF1 Field Test
18 December 09 — No Comments
Pretty amazing photo journal supplementing an excellent camera review. Money quote:
Memory of travel is fleeting at best. Photographs serve as road-markers for returning to those experiences.
HTML5 Video: Cooking With Fire
17 December 09 — 5 Comments
I recently had the good fortune of working on a small project that lent itself to some experimentation with newer technologies. The goal was to create a simple landing page with some light graphics, pictures, and a video. I had the option to let it live inside the existing ecosphere of the site (using PHP to include site-wide JS and CSS) or opt for a leaner, more agile output. I took the latter route as it was something I’ve done a lot of reading on and eventually wanted to do with my site for either screencasts, general portfolio work, or both. I dove headlong into HTML 5 and was pleasantly surprised by the results. I now present you with the process, the pitfalls, and other considerations.
What Is Design
28 October 09 — No Comments
From the late, great Paul Rand:
Design is the method of putting form and content together. Design, just as art, has multiple definitions; there is no single definition. Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that’s why it is so complicated.
Poetically Perfect
22 October 09 — No Comments
Dan Lyons as Fake Steve Jobs on the limited-run Windows 7 Whopper (pictured):
It’s kinda sorta poetically perfect isn’t it? I mean as a visual image of what Windows is — a big giant pile of grease and fat, served up cheap.
Apparently, BK has had this sandwich for years in Texas, which makes sense because you know the old saying: “Texans are slobs”.
