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My First HDR

adam — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 22:33:14 +0000

Following this tutorial, I set-up a Nikon D50 I’ve nicked borrowed from a mate and snapped up a few pics to create ‘My First HDR™’. It doesn’t really scream HDR, but it is a single object composition; not much to play with. Besides the fact that I’ve probably done it all wrong, I think I ought to be a bit more adventurous next time.

Next stop, Greenwich Park!

R Kelly’s Trapped in the Closet again!

adam — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 18:48:00 +0000

Robert Kelly’s epic hip-hopera returns! ‘Trapped in the Closet’ is quite possibly, a work of comedic genius. It’s been parodied by South Park and watched by billions (probably) and if you’ve never seen it, do! The new series is to be released on Doovdé in America on 21 August, which means everyone in the UK will forced to resort to Torrents or YouTube to obtain their latest fix of midget bashing, oh well… Click Here for the preview.

Eco-Car design hits all time low.

adam — Thu, 17 May 2007 15:15:01 +0000

Is it me or does every new eco-vehicle look like an even bigger pile of shit than its predecessor? This grotesque green pustule will probably have eco-mentalists clambering over each other at showroom forecourts, all in the hope of saving the planet, one ugly car at a time.

Just a rant, not much else. Oh, and not only are they offensive to the eyes, they’re deadly too.

For blogging sake

adam — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 19:09:18 +0000

It’s been roughly four months since this blog launched and after a short-wave of regular posts I abandoned the site altogether in pursuit of work and everyday life, but moreover I just couldn’t think of any real purposeful reasons to blog. Now that I’ve achieved my new year’s goal of gaining employment and settling down, I’ve decided to make use of this site before it goes to waste completely. There’s still plenty more I could be doing to improve this site structurally and content wise. For starters, I’m going to get my Flickr API on; which is something that’s eluded the site from the outset. Iron out some code bugs here and there, and eventually get a more extensive portfolio running.

As for blog content… well this should hopefully get the ball rolling.

Death to the Mosquito Banner!

adam — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 19:55:27 +0000

I’m sure many can relate to this scenario:

All is calm and peaceful as Timmy happily browses sites of ’suspect legality’ looking for something to entertain, when out of nowhere… “BUUUUZZZZZZZNEEERRRRR!” penetrates his eardrum like unsuspected anal rape. He quickly darts the cursor to kill the heinous virtual inset, but fails to neutralise the unbearable noise with the first few rapid clicks of the mouse button… eventually after a very stressful few seconds, the noise is extinguished by muting the speakers or by successfully zapping the bastard - Ultimately loading the promotional webpage and slipping more change into the owners pocket.

Today, I refused to be like Timmy any longer, after months of Mosquito torture I decided to try and find a solution for myself. This proved to be more difficult than I had first thought, because no single plug-in seemed to kill flash banners effectively. Adblock is a good solution, but it doesn’t stop sound from flash banners, which is pointless. So I turned to something called Flashblock, which blocks flash indiscriminately, allowing you to click on the flash elements you do want to view. This seemed like a good’un at first, but I soon realised that the plugin isn’t adaptable enough to live with.

So, the solution at this point, is that there isn’t one. I’ll just have to keep zapping the lil bastard until someone makes a viable Flash banner Killer.

The Fortune Tellers

adam — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 19:00:14 +0000

Full Site Design/Development

The Fortune Tellers are a group of Drum & Bass artists who required a website to promote their activities and to communicate with fans. This project was my first attempt at building a website in many years and also at using a blog platform.

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Visit:

The Fortune Tellers.co.uk

Note* Unfortunately The Fortune Tellers disbanded shortly after the launch of this website, hence the lack of content and updates.

Rendezvous

adam — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 03:41:32 +0000

Site Re-launch Design/Development

Rendezvous; a successful Events Management & Promotions Company, required a fresh and vibrant aesthetic to re-launch their existing site. For this I created a new site brand, a site skin/template, implemented an upgrade to their existing gallery and constructed a new homepage on which they could display news and promotions.

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Rendezvous-life.com

Eat my penalty

adam — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 01:57:58 +0000

If there is a God, then this will be reproduced by Arsenal this Saturday against Spurs.

Far too funny

Awaking Life

adam — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 21:38:39 +0000

In this day and age, there literally just aren’t enough hours in the day, and as most designers will know, sleep can be a demon loathed for its lack of flexibility. The student years taught us to tame the beast with overdoses of Pro-Plus and Redbull, but those methods are both costly and relatively ineffective in the long-haul. Now it seems the future is going to make pulling off an ‘all-nighter’ all the more easier.

According to this New Scientist article: Get Ready for 24-hour living, we can start popping pills like Modafinil, which will give the power of 8 hours sleep in half the time, without any side-effects, not even the shakes! But first you’ll have to feign Narcolepsy symptoms before your GP to get a prescription. The future, however, will be a different story. Why, even now, monkeys are being forced into pulling off monkey all-nighters, probably being pushed into the old Typewriter/Shakespeare theorem, to test new and improved drugs before they hit the shelves. Even the US army is running test-trials of the lively pills to combat their high friendly-fire/ITN reporter fatality ratios.

Of course, once you have your Modafinil prescription and all the free time you need to catch up on work, you might find there isn’t enough daytime to satisfy your waking binge. The Solution: Stretch time by flying. Or you could just move to Alaska for the summer months.

Fashion Enter

adam — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 14:47:56 +0000

Front-end Design/Development

Fashion Enter was built from the ground up by myself and lead project manager Jeremy Chow (of Creative Karma). As a new initiative, Fashion Enter required a great deal of development; I was responsible for designing the brand identity and for formulating a style to promote across the site.

I constructed the templates specifically for Movable Type integration, with an emphasis on web standards and optimised for cross-browser compatibility.

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