Distracted Sanity

Walk away,
Lower your brow,
It’s too late,
Your decaying mask,
Can’t hide you now.

I was mucking around on the comp a bit today, when I got this idea. I powered up Photoshop, and this whole thing just fell into place, more or less…  Without further ado, I present my finest bit of art to date:

Decaying Mask

In my mind…no. But you should here what some guys think. In this article, the author describe four possible scenarios of Google's future. Here's an excerpt of scenario 2: 

But the real genius of Gbrowser was to make the operating system irrelevant.[3] Few people know or care today whether their computers run on Windows, Linux, or the Mac OS. It's simply part of the plumbing. Gbrowser handles just about everything you use a computer for, especially since Google adopted the Linux-based OpenOffice software and bundled it. The Justice Department's investigation into whether this made Google an illegal monopoly closed five years ago; it might have made more headway had the charges not been brought by Microsoft.

I'll write some good prose or poetry sometime… Meanwhile, I thought I'd let you know that I'll soon be releasing a WordPress theme. It's called Elegant Grey and it's currently in the coding stage.

Here's the preview: Elegant Grey 

I did a little work onmy redesign of The-Glitch to make the content spiffyer.

The-Glitch Redesign v1.5

I made mention of some work I was doing for a wierd client in my last post. I decided to show you how it's coming along so far:

Cell Network Thingie

Comments are appreciated.

Once in a while you get those really wierd clients. For example, I'm doing some work for one who is starting a cell phone network thing… which isn't wierd at all. The wierdness came when he asked me to make a logo for his other business venture: scuba diving for golf balls and selling them for 1USD each.

I honestly did attempt to make the logo, but in the end, I sent him this e-mail. 

Hey Dude,

I'm sorry, but I've never worked on a project like this before. I sat down to make the logo for you, but no ideas came to me. I just don't have the needed creativity for this particular job, as I'm better at corporate design. I'll finish the work I started for the cell network thing, but I can't make the logo for your other business. You might try JK89.

cya around,

Z

Everything I said is true. But here's how the e-mail would have looked if free speech was truly free.

Hey,

I'm sorry, but I can't make the logo for you. Why? 'Cause your business concept sucks and it won't last the summer, so it frankly isn't worth my time, even if you are paying me.

cya never,

Z

The wonders of free speech.

Ok, so it's not an official redesign, but I made a mockup just for fun. Tell me what you think, guys.

http://www.deviantart.com/view/34774199/ 

My best writing often seems to come with bouts of manic depression, anger, and other such symptoms of insanity. Seeing as I can't come up with anything to write, I must conclude that I am having a good day.

So I don't leave all my dedicated readers [snicker] without their fix, I've created a new category for nerd stuff, where I'll be telling you about all that amazing computer stuff that nobody can figure out. And my first nerd post is dedicated to: sIFR.

As a web designer, it's kind of annoying to have to use the default Micro$oft fonts for everything. It's fine for the main text on a page, but for headings, quotes, and other random pieces of text, it would be nice to be able to use a special font, sometimes. sIFR 2.0 is the solution for that.

Here's an explanation of how it works, blatantly ripped from: http://www.mikeindustries.com/sifr/

How it works

sIFR is meant to replace short passages of plain browser text with text rendered in your typeface of choice, regardless of whether or not your users have that font installed on their systems. It accomplishes this by using a combination of javascript, CSS, and Flash. Here is the entire process:

1. A normal (X)HTML page is loaded into the browser.
2. A javascript function is run which first checks that Flash is installed and then looks for whatever tags, ids, or classes you designate.
3. If Flash isn't installed (or obviously if javascript is turned off), the (X)HTML page displays as normal and nothing further occurs. If Flash is installed, javascript traverses through the source of your page measuring each element you've designated as something you'd like "sIFRed".
4. Once measured, the script creates Flash movies of the same dimensions and overlays them on top of the original elements, pumping the original browser text in as a Flash variable.
5. Actionscript inside of each Flash file then draws that text in your chosen typeface at a 6 point size and scales it up until it fits snugly inside the Flash movie.

Looks interesting to say the least, but I have yet to test it.

As of today, Salt of Earth has launched its website, and its album. Some time ago, the redesigned Wordstock Rocks was launched, giving a new look to the Wordstock music festival.First off I'd like to thank Jeremy Yamaguchi (who designed SOE's website) and my friend Oli (the driving force behind the Wordstock site) for all of their time and effort. You guys spent hours of time, and tons of effort making these sites. You rule.

However, I have something to say to the Wordstock planners, and the members of SOE: An e-mail would have been great.

For everyone's information, both of the above-mentioned parties requested web templates for their sites. They were sent the following templates:

Original wordstockrocks.com template

Salt of Earth template

In the case of Wordstock Rocks, the guys in charge stripped altered the design: Click here. I honestly would have preferred it if you hadn't used the design at all, as opposed to using it like you are.

In the case of Salt of Earth, the band decided not to use the design at all.

If you guys don't like my work, I understand, and am fine with that. I'm not even happy with either of those templates right now. I just wish I had been contacted, and maybe given the chance to change things.

In the future, just e-mail me… please.

Here's one for all you RPG game fans. It's a list of cliches that you're bound to find in almost every RPG game (or so the authors say).

Here's the link.

Here's the best item on the list: Every problem in the universe can be solved by finding the right long-haired prettyboy and beating the crap out of him.