Apparently it’s RSS Day. For all those people who don’t know what RSS is, it’s the internet’s best kept secret (still amazes me how many people don’t know about this). Go the site and change your internet habits forever.
3 CommenatriosI was listening to Gruber’s podcast the other day, and they mentioned the blue screen that appears for Leopard users after an upgrade. They attributed this to a bit of software that might have been installed (can’t remember what the name is) which can get itself installed so that it can be used by another programme, like the Logitec mouse software. Not sure if anyone knows what I’m talking about, but if anyone’s got any links or whatever regarding this could you please drop by and tell me what the deal is, because it’s really annoying to have to wait 10 minutes sometimes for the system to get itself going again. I don’t have a Logitec mouse (although that’s another post for another time) so that’s not the problem.
1 Lone RangerSkine.art is an awesome blog of moleskin contributors from around the world. Of note are some awesome illustrators from Sweden and Brazil.
2 CommenatriosContinuing my mini reviews for the last Battlestar Galactica season, I’ll be reviewing each episode the fourth being ‘Escape Velocity’ (you can read my thoughts on the previous episode as well if you haven’t done so). So if you’ve not seen the episode yet, I suggest you stop reading and come back once you’ve done so. I guess you can consider this your SPOILER WARNING (that’s for the entire post in case you were wondering). Continue reading this entry »
There is definitely something to be said about a slow burning design. At least from where I’m sitting. I started redesigning the ‘Kode last week but the deal I made with myself was that I would limit myself to doing one small thing every day. One element of the design. Be it the typography, or some colour changes or implementing how the asides look. Nothing drastic, just small increments.
The honest reason for this approach is that my life doesn’t allow me the luxury to come in every single night and just hack away and try and sort the code out test it make sure it’s all pucker both locally and online before I unleash it in one big fell swoop. I’ll average 3 nights a week (usually less) when I’m actually at home at a reasonable time and I guess in part I was also suffering from a bit of design fatigue.
Trying to get to that final result seemed pretty daunting at first. Soo many pages that I want to sort out, so many elements that need to be designed for and implemented that when I’ve tried in the past year to deal with them, I just get overwhelmed and often they just live in an electronic graveyard on my computer.
So my tip for all you hobbiest blog designers that do have a bit of redesign fatigue, I would definitely recommend this approach of breaking the pie into smaller slices. Don’t get too upset if things are not there. Start on a solid foundation (I started from my favourite coding base from a previous design) and add to the design in a slow but controlled and consistent fashion. It might not get there as fast, but you’ll definitely enjoy the process more, at least I can claim that I am enjoying this tweaking a lot more than I’ve ever enjoyed sorting out my site.
Maybe it’s because you’ll have moved the design forward, maybe it’s because there’s something fresh to look at every day, maybe it’s both.
Continuing my illustrators you should look at theme comes the awesome work of Jake Parker. I really like his pen and ink stuff more than his painted work, however both are all shades of great. Definitely going to pick up that little illustrated book of his.
Speak Up!Ian Kim based out of LA is definitely a rising talent to watch in the illustration work. His stuff does have that James Jean quality to it.
1 Lone RangerFrakking toasters by Jeanette Atwood is in many ways the best commentary on Battlestar Galactica I’ve ever read (the fact it’s a comic is just icing on the cake for me). Shame there is no RSS link. C’mon Jeanette, sort it out.
Speak Up!Interesting 9rules case study. My favourite part is
‘And as good bloggers do, they blogged on why they left 9rules.’1 Lone Ranger
So the title of the new X-Files movie was released at the New York Comic Con that was held this past weekend and it’s ‘I want to Believe’. Which alludes in some respect to that poster on Mulder’s wall in the first season…not sure if was on the wall in other seasons as well. The thing is that when I found out about this, my first question was, ‘Does anyone give a shit?’ I was a massive X-files fan for the first 3 or so seasons and then I effectively gave up completely on the show. Apparently it went on for 9 seasons in total and had that movie (which I might have watched, or not,…obviously memorable).
So seriously is this movie something people have been clamouring for? But then again does Hollywood ever give you stuff that you’re clamouring for?