Beauty in the brokeness
added on Friday, Mar 05, 2010 10:40 am
A beautiful glitch from my broken iPhone screen. See the closer view after the jump. ¬ Full Entry
Advent calendar 2009
added on Saturday, Dec 05, 2009 19:16 pm
24 pieces of candy, a framed canvas, colored paper, several hours of cutting, glueing and building: This is how the handcrafted advent calendar for my wife looks like this year. ¬ Full Entry
Elternzeit etc.
added on Friday, Sep 04, 2009 22:42 pm
Hello dear visitors. Things have been a little slow here. This is because:
- a) Tweets do not get through to this blog anymore, because of Gnip‘s spotty behaviour.
- b) I am on Elternzeit (parent time) now. That means that I do not work. Not at all. And I still get money from the german government. Neat, isn‘t it? For the time from August until middle of October, I will stay with my wife and baby Linn, which is obviously absolutely fabulous. And if I can find some time between pushing the stroller and enjoying the last days of summer, I will spend it on c)...
- c) I am building a new Content Management for this site in the back. I would like to be able to post faster and shorter and tie in the feeds from Flickr, Twitter and Del.icio.us. The current idea is to build on the very clever Sweetcron, create a custom theme and add all the functionality that I am missing by myself. Fortunately Sweetcron was done on the php framework CodeIgniter, therefore it is clearly structured and relatively easy to build upon. Still I don‘t know where this is going and if I can get it off the ground, but it‘s fun so far.
For a look at my offline activities, please drop by on my Flickr page. See you soon! ¬ Full Entry
Autogrid.js
added on Saturday, May 02, 2009 23:24 pm
Work in progress: A flexible javascript layout that arranges a sequence of div boxes in a grid. It also allows to break the grid horizontally and vertically. ¬ Full Entry
Windosill (+walkthrough)
added on Friday, May 01, 2009 22:41 pm
Windosill must be the best flash game I played so far. Brilliantly built puzzles and gorgeously animated vector graphics make it the perfect gaming experience. Highly recommended, even more so because you can play the first five of the ten screens for free. ¬ Full Entry
Adidas SLVR / Say Hi
added on Friday, Feb 20, 2009 13:07 pm
Adidas introduced a new sub-brand named SLVR, dedicated to timeless quality basics clothing. The minimal no-fuss approach fits the zeitgeist pretty well. I find it a bit too androgynely presented, but still I could imagine buying some pieces. If they are not too “exclusively” priced, which they probably are. More about SLVR on the Adidas website, also Images of the flagship store here.
More interesting still is the music choice for the mood video (coming after the jump): Angels And Darlas, Indie electro pop by Say Hi, a great band that I just discovered. Info and MP3s on their site and on MySpace. ¬ Full Entry
NIN: Ghosts I
added on Wednesday, Jan 07, 2009 9:57 am
ghosts.nin.com looks like a music release from 20 years in the future. Fully digital, great artwork for every track. Bought it for only 5$! And I did not even dig into the music itself yet … ¬ Full Entry
Linn's Birth Announcement
added on Thursday, Dec 25, 2008 21:40 pm
We put this notice of our new-born in the local newspaper. Certainly we were not satisfied by the off-the-shelf designs, so I did it myself. I’m pretty happy with how well the Mac OS font Zapfino goes together with the baby hair photography. The rest is Gill Sans. Bigger version: ¬ Full Entry
Linn Zitzmann
added on Wednesday, Dec 10, 2008 17:28 pm
Linn Zitzmann, born on Dec 10, 2008, 02:18 a.m.
(The smaller one on the image above)
49 cm long, 3.310 g, head girth 35,5 cm, parents super-happy. ¬ Comments
Resampled Space
added on Wednesday, Nov 12, 2008 15:40 pm
Interesting digitally altered architecture photography by Filip Dujardin. ¬ Full Entry
Banksy's Village Petstore & Charcoal Grill
added on Saturday, Oct 25, 2008 14:49 pm
Clever and funny art performance by Banksy. A make-believe pet store with animatronic animals that are—uhm—pretty unusual. Chicken McNuggets fledglings, fish fingers swimming in a bowl, etc. NOTCOT’s video gives a good idea, if you (like me) cannot make it to New York. See it after the break: ¬ Full Entry
Niklas Goldbach's Videos
added on Saturday, Sep 13, 2008 16:21 pm
At the Warriors we started working with a very talented artist from Berlin: Niklas Goldbach is into video art. He is taking “pictures with a video camera”. Beautiful, mysterious and haunting pictures. Check his website, the video tryptich Empire is a good place to start.
He did a video of a intersection in Berlin Mitte for a shop opening website we are currently preparing. ¬ Full Entry
Chronotopic Anamorphosis
added on Wednesday, Jul 02, 2008 9:25 am
A very simple video distortion leads to a unique and funny effect: This is a demo done by Andre Mintz in Processing. It just slices the video image in small horizontal lines that lag in time one frame more for each line. The result is a morphing of shapes and even bodies. Used on simple objects like a tape ring or a door you get something like warp-fields or super-heroes. Watch it through, it gets even better over time!
UPDATE: And if you have a webcam ready, you can try it out for yourself. Casey Pugh did a port of the same idea in Flash. ¬ Full Entry
Lightmark photography
added on Monday, Jun 30, 2008 21:48 pm
Cenci Goepel and Jens Warnecke take gorgeous photographies of foreign landscapes. But before they push the button, they paint with torchlights into the long-time exposures. Great feel for composition, beautiful and unique imagery. See for yourself ¬ Full Entry
Jason Santa Maria's new site
added on Saturday, Jun 21, 2008 23:00 pm
For me, the biggest hit in the web design world this week was the new design of Jason Santa Maria’s website. Top-notch grid layout, excellent typography and although the structure might not seem very innovative (articles, links, photos), the content shines with brilliance and charm. Worth a visit! ¬ Comments
Sunset on Mars
added on Thursday, Jun 05, 2008 13:42 pm
I just found this beautiful image on the Nasa site. On May 19, 2005, NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Spirit captured this stunning view as the Sun sank below the rim of Gusev crater on Mars. Look at those subtle colors! ¬ Comments