Cameron Moll's Blog, page 25
April 4, 2011
The Space Needle
Nobody does time-lapse like Philip Bloom. For equipment setup and commentary, including a discount code for Magic Bullet Looks, see The Making of the Seattle Timelapse.
Tron Legacy: The Making of UI/Visual Effects
Josh Nimoy:
In addition to visual effects, I was asked to record myself using a unix terminal doing technologically feasible things. I took extra care in babysitting the elements through to final composite to ensure that the content would not be artistically altered beyond that feasibility. I take representing digital culture in film very seriously in lieu of having grown up in a world of very badly researched user interface greeble….
In Tron, the hacker was not supposed to be snooping around on a network; he was supposed to kill a process. So we went with posix kill and also had him pipe ps into grep. I also ended up using emacs eshell to make the terminal more l33t. The team was delighted to see my emacs performance — splitting the editor into nested panes and running different modes. I was tickled that I got emacs into a block buster movie.
I still haven't even seen the movie, and most of Josh's programming jargon is beyond me. But his account of the software written exclusively for the movie is fascinating nonetheless.
Griddle.it
Like Placehold.it but for grid backgrounds. Add any dimensions after the griddle.it URL to get a background guide image in your site's design, such as:
griddle.it/[total width]-[number of columns]-[gutter size]
/via Tiffany Wardle
April 1, 2011
Do Lectures
An outstanding, responsive design by Trent Walton, Frank Chimero, and Paravel.
This is the first I've heard of Do Lectures, and it has the feel of a single-room TED. It wasn't hard to find myself caught up watching Rolf Potts' "Time = Wealth" lecture. (Note that even the videos are responsive.)
March 31, 2011
QuickBar: Gone.
Doug Bowman, posting to Twitter's company blog:
Rather than continue to make changes to the QuickBar as it exists, we removed the bar from the update appearing in the App Store today. We believe there are still significant benefits to increasing awareness of what's happening outside the home timeline. Evidence of the incredibly high usage metrics for the QuickBar support this. For now, we're going back to the drawing board to explore the best possible experience for in-app notification and discovery.
Media Queries, a Gallery of Responsive Web Designs
Fantastic. Only complaint: make the screens click over to the site.
/via @khoi
March 30, 2011
Hiring: Front-End Developer at Newism
This one's for all the Aussies in the house. A full-time role in Newism's Newcastle city office. They're seeking a front-end developer with a solid understanding of HTML, CSS, and JS. The ideal candidate, among other things, "signs up to every new web app known to man, just because they have a nice splash page."
Clément Beauvais: Solidarités International
A campaign spot of this caliber, created by agency BDDP on behalf of Solidarités International and World Water Day, is bound to have nothing but superlatives describing it. Absolutely fantastic.
Clément Beauvais — a young director, illustrator, musician and photographer — created the drawings and directed the spot for BDDP. That's some serious talent.
/via @olivierbon
Day One, a Recap
Paul Mayne:
It's been almost three weeks since the launch and in addition to the first feature, the app made it up to #10 in the overall Top Paid Apps, Featured in the 'What's Hot', and is currently featured as the top Showcase app on the front page and was also give a custom app page treatment. In-freakin-sane.
All the sales and features are great, but the most gratifying part is the feedback I've been receiving from the users. They really get it, love it and are using it to write about and remember their lives as they never had before now.
Success well-deserved.
Cameron Moll's Blog
- Cameron Moll's profile
- 4 followers
