You have to check out the two south-park-esque animations about Kerry and Bush over at www.jibjab.com.
I’ve been told they were shown on prime time TV after last night’s debate. November 2nd should prove interesting…
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DHTML: Event Based Animation Demo
9 October 2004
At someone’s request I have set up an example demonstrating event based animations in DHTML. The "Toolkit" code is extracted from a Thirteenth Parallel project that never got completed, as such it is not all that stream lined or complete; however this example should illustrate a neat and quick way for developing complex animations.
To put the example into context: you could use an animation object and a 5-dimensional curve to animate an expanding panel while changing it’s colour (2d for the element’s y-position and height; 3d for the red, green and blue components of it’s colour). Also, because the animation object is not tied directly to any element or property, the on-animate event handlers could be used to animate anything from colours, widths and element positions, to frame sizes and window positions.
What’s your ecological footprint?
1 October 2004
Take the ecological footprint quiz and see how sustainable your current lifestyle is. I am embarassed to say that my footprint is currently 6, this is bumped-up by my international travel and regular consumption of meat, eggs and dairy. At the end of the quiz there are a number of links to information on how you can take action. Sustainability — in all it’s forms — is a serious issue at the moment, and in Honduras over the summer it was a hot topic for discussion. It’s definitely worth seeing how a little extra effort can make a considerable difference. I’m sold!
(anyone notice the irony of posting this with a picture of “big boy” on the same page?)
Update
30 September 2004
Things are starting to fall into place.
A hectic trip to London last week yielded some positive results. I found a nice room in a flat in Putney: the room is nice and big; has a door out onto the apartment block’s roof; and is conveniently close to the train line out to Windsor for work. I’ll be sharing the flat with three South Africans, I haven’t met all of them yet but one is a graphic designer and one of the others apparently works for e-bay. The only problem is that I can’t move in until the 11th, so I’ll be crashing on floors until then. I start for proper on Monday.
Yesterday, I got back from a week trip to the USA. Michigan is cool, if very flat and a little strange.
Things I want to do when I get down to London for real: start Spanish classes, join a gym, find a martial art dojo (Ninjutsu, Capoeria, or something new), renew my first aid qualifications.
Speeding Rhino
17 September 2004
Micha?l van Ouwerkerk, the co-founder of our extinct project Thirteenth Parallel, has set up a sweet looking portfolio site that he’s calling Speeding Rhino.
Flat hunting
16 September 2004
I’m currently sitting in Starbucks, on the London Embankment, using the wireless Internet. I’ve been back in the UK for a week now and I’ve fallen back into the real world with a crash. I came down to London on Wednesday to look for somewhere to live and meet the people I’m going to be working with. As of 1st October I’ll be working in Windsor with Tim Scarfe and Thomas Brattli, among other people. While I can?t discuss anything here, the project I will be running sounds very interesting. The only pain in my ass is trying to find somewhere to live; I?m looking for a flat-share in Putney FYI.
I’m still sorting out the 2000+ photos I took in Honduras, but rest assured I have plans to make a cool little mini-site to display them.
