Up the Tree

  • 2 Letters from Steve (Jobs) a touching story.

  • The Fox is Black

    The Fox Is Black is by far the best thing I read each day and today the site turns 6 years old. It has even inspired me to use my own blog more. The best reststop on the information super highway.

  • As with all things on the web, I was surfing around, minding my own business, when I came across some sweet, sweet typographic web design that blew my socks off. Blew them right out the door. I could just give you a few links, but wouldn’t it be better if we followed the links down the rabbit hole?

    ALRIGHT!

    First I was looking for a website which explained a little better hyphenation on the web. I hate hyphenation at wide column widths and couldn’t for the life of me find any documentation on the hyphenation CSS tag. But then I found:

    CSS Hyphenation | Trent Walton

    CSS Hyphenation was pretty slick. I was like “who made this site?” because it is responsive as HECK!

    Trent Walton

    Trent Walton, WOW! I thought rubbing my eyes. How did he do that with the type? Is he a warlock?! Let me sneak around, I thought. Then I found the answer:

    Lettering.js - A jQuery plugin for radical web typography.

    Lettering.js is a website I had come across before, but I always thought it was unnecessary for my web design purposes. Now I’m intrigued. Looking over the case studies I found this:

    Paravel

    Paravel. And who runs Paravel? That Trent Walton dude. Pretty great landing page. Finally looking over their portfolio of projects, I found this project which made me very happy.

    Lost World's Fairs

    Lost World’s Fairs. Amazing! Especially the Atlantis one. I seriously have never seen anything like it before. Anyway I was so impressed I decided to tell all of you… because we are best friends.

  • MAMP stands for Mac, Apache, MySQL, PHP. What does that mean right? Well lets say you want to install WordPress on your computer to create pimping websites without uploading junk to the internet? DONE! Simple and elegant. Best of all, the free version is all most people need.

  • [vimeo width=”625″ height=”400″]http://vimeo.com/60397402[/vimeo]

    Animated Dragons fly over the tables at Miss Ko, a paris restaurant designed by Philippe Starck. While I thought this concept would be horrible, in execution it actually seems pretty well done and not as garish as one might think.

    Apparently they can also change the video on the tables to suit any event at the restaurant.