Ten Things I Am
#1: Listening to Trentemøller's The Last Resort, I absolutely love this album -- beautiful mixing, very subtle textures and soundscapes weave throughout. #2 Contemplating Macbook Pro. #3: Still recovering from a lower back injury, next physical theraphy session -- Tuesday. Reading about Ostheopathy. Invited to a wedding this coming May. Websurfing timehole, timehole, timehole. Where are we? oh: 8: In need of more hard drive space. #9: Sleepy...yawn. #10: Trying to keep my cool.
Photoshoots hot off the digiSLR
Just unpacked my camera upgrade: Canon EOS digital Rebel XTi, which is more like a side-grade from the Rebel I bought last year. I'm fearful they'll successfully sell us on the idea of, well, selling us: upgrading cameras as we've been doing with computers and software. Whereas film camera (speaking of the bodies, not lenses here) had 10, 20, heck even 40 year useful lives, it's clear we'll be upgrading digitals for the foreseeable future. Can't seem to find an upside to this, so... time to show some pics (I'm tweaking the flash gallery at the moment, so using Buz's Javascript photo gallery at the moment). Vacation, friends, family, and stuff photos, in no particular order.
Playing with Adobe Lightroom, check out this dandy Flash photo gallery of Europe '05. Just scratching the surface, stay tuned.
Sites I can't live without
Overheard this the other day: "it's one of the sites I can't live without". In queue at the Coffee Bean downtown, the one atop the 7th & Fig Metro station. So naturally my ears piqued at this claim, at "sites I can't live without". First, it speaks to how far the internet has come, that it already has folks staking their mortal existence to some files living on a computer in some anonymous location. Second, made me wonder, are their such sites for me? Sure, boingboing, if that was gone I'd be sad. AListApart and StyleGala? I'd feel those losses, too, but happily, I can live without them, can't I? Boy-howdy-yeah. Phew! Close call. So what was the person ahead of me's sites? Heck ya! You guessed it: eBay and iTunes. So, if you need a reason to live it should be this: you aren't the poor sod who was in line ahead of me.
“people tend to skim content on the Web, and pull quotes help draw attention”
You don't say!
If you need to break the space on a page, perhaps p-a-d it out a bit, well, do what magazines and newspapers have been doing for over a century: invoke a pull-quote. Float it, box it, pad it, style it... (re-read that with Daft Punk's technotronic in your head and it'll seem somehow far less trite -- don't be fooled; it's every bit as banal, though now danceable).