Preview of an upcoming WordPress theme I’m currently working on.
Comments Enabled
That’s right, after my big post about why I should disable comments, how it will be better for me and the blog, blah blah blah… I’m re-enabling them. Honestly, without comments it’s not really a blog anymore… it defeats the whole conversation which makes blogs unique.
Anyways, I’m not going to talk to much about it, it’s my blog and I decided that disabling comments was dumb.
My mistake.
Original photo taken from the 6th floor of a parking garage at midnight just after seeing Bill Cosby perform at Benaroya Hall.
More post-process treatments in Photoshop.
My dog Teddy drinking some water. Trying out some post-process work.
Looks much better in higher resolution - check out the large size.
“Not That It Matters”
Not necessarily something that should affect your vote… but we already know some stories of John McCain’s past which strengthen the authenticity of his character. Here is such a story that gives you a small taste of Barack Obama’s character.
MacRabbit Espresso Preview
MacRabbit, the makers of the fantastic CSS Edit (and the lesser known but personal favorite DeskSahde) have just announced Espresso, their entry into the world of html editors.
My workflow currently uses Textmate and CSSEdit for some projects (usually work that I’m designing from the ground up) and Coda standalone for others (maintenance for sites already online). Espresso looks like it will blend the best of both into one app. Make sure to check out the preview site and see the feature set, a lot of simple stuff that makes you wonder why the competition doesn’t have it (the same way CSSEdit does).
No release date has been announced but they are currently accepting beat testers.
via Geek & Mild
Republican - A Party In Decline
Great revealing article by David Frum of the NY Times - ”The Vanishing Republican Voter” (nytimes.com registration required). If you consider yourself affiliated with the Republican party or have at any time, I highly recommend giving this a read. A self-proclaimed conservative (author of Comeback: Conservatism That Can Win Again), David details the drastic growth of economic inequality in America and the effects it has had on the Republican voter.
IN SHORT, the trend to inequality is real, it is large and it is transforming American society and the American electoral map. Yet the conservative response to this trend verges somewhere between the obsolete and the irrelevant.
Conservatives need to stop denying reality. The stagnation of the incomes of middle-class Americans is a fact. And only by acknowledging facts can we respond effectively to the genuine difficulties of voters in the middle. We keep offering them cuts in their federal personal income taxes — even though two-thirds of Americans pay more in payroll taxes than in income taxes, and even though a majority of Americans now describe their federal income tax burden as reasonable.
There is also the Republican dilemna of a political party which more and more cannot provide the best solutions for the people it historically has most represented.
Another dilemma the Republican party faces is that of a political party which no longer appears to meet the needs of its core voting demographic.
And so we arrive at a weird situation in which the party that identifies itself with markets, with business and with technology cannot win the votes of those who have prospered most from markets, from business and from technology. Republicans have been badly hurt in upper America by the collapse of their onetime reputation for integrity and competence.
This article does not focus on which party is wrong or right, nor does it try to sway your vote to a specific party. It is simply the analysis of (what appears to be) a declining political party and what obstacles need to be overcome to save it.
Smith and Nephew Commercial
Smith and Nephew from mate on Vimeo.
Very nice video with some amazing motion graphics. I’m just starting to learn some of this stuff, I’d love to one day be able to create something even half as sweet as this.
via ken.
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