Ninja Obsession - Amon Tobin, The Cinematic Orchestra

Just had a look at Ninja Obsession, the Ninja Tune record label’s fan site, and read about some upcoming releases from:

The Cinematic Orchestra - Ma Fleur: Very pleased to hear that they’re still making music, it’s been like 4 years since the release of Man with the movie camera.

Amon Tobin - Foley Room: I’ve heard about this one since he put two interesting trailers on his myspace page. I’m bursting with anxiety for this one.
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Genius of noise manipulation and uncompromising musical auteur, Amon Tobin will shortly be releasing his new album for Ninja Tune, “Foley Room”. For this new project Amon and a team of assistants headed out into the streets with high sensitivity microphones and recorded found sounds from tigers roaring to cats eating rats, neighbours singing in the bath to ants eating grass. Tobin then took this wealth of source material and twisted it round into the haunting, muscular music you can hear for the first time here.

Famous logos redone Web 2.0 style, …and some thoughts

Came across this flickr page.

btw I hate that whole Web 2.0/Ajax hype. Not because of the concept, the concept is great, but these days everybody wants Ajax on their site, cause they’ve seen it on Gmail.

Everything’s got to be draggable. It’s all about minimalism, transparency, and you, your user expirience. Actually I plead guilty to the hype, I’ve got transparency on my site.

wow how did I get from a flickr page to this.

deviantART v5: where ART meets application!

deviantART: where ART meets application!
Great news,.. I think. DeviantArt recently announced their v5 to be released on August 7th; it’ll be their 6th birthday.

It can only be an improvement I think.

First and foremost, the layout. It’s the first thing you see when you visit a site, it’s the first thing you really gauge your opinion of a website on. Combined with the colorscheme makes it just plain ugly.
Navigation is a mess, deviations are nested inside multiple categories. I’m no expert but I think it would be better to use tags instead of categories, like Flickr.
Ads, the homepage doesn’t have ads below the navigation, but every other page has a big block of google’s adsense crammed in between.
I can’t really flame on ads because everybody’s got to make a little money and they got their servers to pay too. Although, I bet they make enough money off of the custom prints they sell.
Aside from the website itself, it’s a great community of talented artists giving away their creations for free.
I go their about once a week to pick out a new dual screen desktop wallpaper(not bragging or anything :-)). I always end up satisfied and astonished.

Here are some of my favorite deviants.(deviants=users, deviations=creations)…
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Dvorak: The Problems With CSS Code

Interesting article about The Problems With CSS Code according to controversial technology critic John C Dvorak.
Apparently Dvorak is bugged by css, because creating a new blogdesign is harder than he thought. Nothing looks the same in every other browser.
Although he has some good points, I don’t trust anything he says about webdesign, just look at his blog.

I totally pwned last night

I hate to brag but a 19-0 score on cs:s is pretty good, and I wasn’t on a n00b server. I was pwning them all up, then the fucker kidney-stone shot me in the back.

Counterstrike: source and Day of defeat are about the only online games I play and I’m lovin’ it.

Sorry for the l33t talk , it’s addictive.