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- March 8, 2005
Tim Brisko Toy Photography
March 8, 2005Read more
When I first started drawing, I drew things like planes and spaceships. When I stopped drawing, it was some kind of spaceship. The depiction of things seems to be my thing; a lot of the photos I take seem to be in this category. Thus, I find the photography of Tim Brisko highly appealing, despite my poor familiarity with the japanese toy robot scene. I was just browsing Tim’s site again for the first time in a couple years, and there’s lots of great stuff there to look at. If you love die-cast, you owe it to yourself to check it out.
- March 7, 2005
Baseman
March 7, 2005Read more
I’m enjoying the temporary website of illustrator Gary Baseman at the moment. Baseman is awesome, of course…I saw him lecture once at an AIGA meeting, and his process and trueness towards his own work was very inspiring.
On the interactivity side of things, I love the way that the rollover cursors work on this site. They’ve been transformed into informational resources (“still loading”) and invisible-but-clear navigation buttons (check out the Works section’s use of “forward” and ‘back” buttons). It makes so much sense, and is a lot of fun. Every rollover becomes a kind of fortune cookie. I like it! The site credits Loopmedia75 for design.
- March 4, 2005
Header Image Slideshow
March 4, 2005Read moreI hacked in some code that allows you to click the main header image to see the next one in the sequence. This is more convenient, I think. I set a “cookie” that holds the current image number, and your browser will remember it for 30 days. Sordid technical details follow!
- March 3, 2005
A Cheesy Paint Effect
March 3, 2005Read moreStart up Photoshop with a hi-res (4MPixel) photo! Duplicate the base layer twice, for a total of THREE layers!
- On the bottommost layer, apply the Artistic Palette Knife Filter
- On the middle layer, apply Artistic Drybrush, then Artistic Watercolor. Set the layer mode to SCREEN
- On the top layer, apply Gaussian Blur, then set the layer mode to OVERLAY
Voila! A really cheap and cheesy painted effect. Ba da bum ba da bing!
- March 3, 2005
Java Alphabet Soup
March 3, 2005Read moreThere’s a whole world of “enterprise class web development” that I’ve succesfully avoided for the past several years. As a result, my mind is a verdant pasture filled with happy thought and harmless conjecture. But today, I leased some of this virtual property to Java, which apparently has become quite the awesome development environment for web applications; the last time I really did anything with Java development was in 1996. So J2EE, J2SE, JDK, JRE, JavaBeans, Servlets, and Eclipse have rumbled into my headspace, bought up some primo locations, and have set up shop in a new development.
