jcksn

I love getting font foundry emails.

FontFont recently sent me one with these two gems (oldies but goodies):

Ayres Royal

New Standard

It’s been a long time since I remember someone talking about the cite element. It’s my favorite HTML element…

So, lets revisit:

Valid examples of the element:

<blockquote cite="http://yourreferencesite.com" title="Article, title, author, date">
<p>This is one paragraph</p>
<p>Yet another paragraph</p>
<p>Says: Your Source<a href="http://yourreference.com"><cite>Your source:</cite>
</blockquote>

Aside: technically shouldn’t forum software use something like:

<dt id="n33"><cite><a href="/profile/">Author Name</a></cite><br /><strong>12.12.12 00-00-00</strong><br /><em>Title</em></dt>
<dd>
<blockquote cite="#n33">
<p>comment goes here</p>
</blockquote>
<p><small>Forum signature</small></p>
</dd>

Muxtape has been the popular thing lately (for a while now, to the coolest kids, anyways).

You can see mine here: http://jcksn.muxtape.com

Brilliantly cool idea. It’s really simple and fun. The one thing missing is the ability to do an automated upload (API) or mass uploads (a flash uploader would be rad, like what wordpress is doing

I’ve been following Erik Natzke’s blog Jot for a while now. He’s an extremely talented artist. Check out this post about the NIN Ghosts community videos:

Trent Reznor is inviting people to contribute visuals to audio from his latest release, Ghosts. These are a few contributions I came up with today using some reclaimed footage.

Only really unfortunate thing is that it the videos need to be published to You Tube.
Here and Here are links to versions of them in much better quality.

We finally redesigned our own site (and launched a blog).

We realized something was happening (under our noses) that Zeldman brought up at FOWD 2007. He said it in the eloquence of a visionary, but it went something like this: if you forget what got you where you are, you’re doomed.

We forgot about “the people,” the world at large, our customers, friends, and colleagues. Our personal blog got stale and this site never actually launched a blog. We just kept ourselves bottled up designing in a corner.

No one likes stale things. What happened to the ever changing site with projects and thoughts on design? That’s what got us interested in web design in the first place. And along the way, we forgot about what made us really happy and successful. We’re going back to our roots.

We looked through the looking glass, and promptly redesigned.

A theme we designed for Automattic was uncovered at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco:

Mullenweg’s “one last thing” was to show off was an upcoming theme called “chameleon” that will change the color scheme, and look and feel of your site based on what photos you post. Themes, which have become a veritable commodity with their own store have proven to be a huge success among Wordpress.org users. This marks the first time a company theme has taken such a high level of automatic customization–something that third-party theme-makers have been making money off with their own efforts.

[via Webware: WordPress founder talks traffic, new features to Web 2.0 crowd]

Another excellent video found via Music Thing

I just absolutely love the sound and the use of color and design. It’s really a beautiful synergy.

A ridiculously spot-on video, found randomly on YouTube.

Via Music Thing:

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I would so buy this if it was available in the US.

Long time new MINI followers will probably remember MINI UK’s Flip Colour options that debuted in 2004. They featured multiple layers of metallic paint that actually gave the finished car a different color depending on the angle viewed from. In photos they looked merely interesting. In person however the effect was almost jaw-dropping.

[via motoringfile]

Happy Earth Day. Reduce, reuse, recycle. Save water. Walk more. That’s all.

The pixel is the celeb’s ticket to fame these days. Retouched by myself in 2005. View the full size here.

I plan on posting one of these every few weeks, till I run out.

A photo I took during the beginning of a storm outside my apartment.

My life is changing. I’m growing up, in a pretty accountable way. I’m getting married.

It’s amazing. I never knew I’d be this astonishingly happy to be “getting married.” I found someone, that is so indescribable, that it makes me forget what time of day it is when I think about them.

I’m so lucky.

But that’s not all. Lots of things in my life have changed. I went to school, aged 4 years, and started two companies (selling one of them off – that had attained Condé Nast contracts in under 6 months of business, and also, my latest venture, eight6).

So, since my personal life is changing, I think that my personal domain should to.

leavesrustle.com is now jcksn.com

Live redesign commences.

The Open & Closed Project is a new research project aimed to improve quality, by setting standards for accessible media.

They’re going to create, develop, and test, captioning standards; as well as train pactitioners in the area of standards for captioning, audio description, subtitling, and dubbing.

We helped them create a “microsite.” It made an immediate and long standing impression with the visitors, by using bold design (that engages, and also hints at the correlation between bad captioning and questionable design).

• Sakura, is what the Japanese call cherry blossom trees. Jeff has a gallery of his adventures during Sakura season over on his blog.
• Matt alerted me that the myth about the slow-boild frog, is false.
• 

  Zombie Strippers! [trailer] An advertisement on the back of the actually pretty good comic book release, Jenna Jameson’s Shadow Hunter (seriously, it’s not bad, maybe even good), advertised a non porn film, starring Jenna Jameson, titled Zombie Strippers!

• You can now find all of Daft Punk’s live sets all in one place.
• You Work For Them, the people who brought you “Black Sabbath”, have a really nice blog.
• Apple FINALLY updated the Airport Express to be 802.11n! No more dropped tunes!
• Some insane RC helicopter action:
  

Wow.

This week in the magazine, Nick Paumgarten writes about the lives of elevators, and tells the story of Nicholas White, who was trapped in an elevator in New York City’s McGraw-Hill building for forty-one hours. Here is a condensed look at White’s ordeal, as captured by the building’s security cameras.

The way it’s presented leaves you feeling as though it was a case of accidental Art. Just wonderfully sad.

A rich and hilarious take on the actual real life Wii Fit:

“With exciting titles like: roll the ball in the hole.” [via diveintomark

Weren’t video games supposed to be Matrix-esque by now, with jacks in the backs of our heads? All we’ve got is a plastic panel with sensors on it.

BTW: The music on this page, is super fresh. Just let it repeat… over and over again. ;)

Portishead merges video and sound so separately but synergistically, in this cool studio performance.

[via Dean, who ought to blog]

I am a very busy and important man. I don’t need to tell you this. The shit I have to deal with every day would make your pubes turn white. Check it: While dictating that last sentence I did something complicated in Excel and pleasured my ex-wife the way that makes her cry and call her mother. OK?

Two Minutes and 42 Seconds in Heaven by Joshua Allen – The Morning News