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  • AboutThere are a lot of things about me that you probably want to know. Unfortunately I know me so I don’t know what’s interesting to you, so I thought I would write down a list of things off the top of my head, based purely on what I can remember about myself. General I was born in Spanish Harlem in 1977 I went to public school all my life I was breast fed My mother is German and father is English They got married in the 70?s England in jeans I was adorable as a child I was a fat kid I am dyslexic I am artsy I have problems asking for what I want Things I love Burgers, except if you put them on an English Muffin. Fuck you too buddy. I prefer beer to just about every other alcoholic beverage, let’s not get fancy here people Music that sounds like the person singing it isn’t pretending they can sing Blunt honesty. Tell me what you’re thinking, guaranteed I’ll make fun of it. Weird English comedies. The Goon Show? yup. I dig incoherent ramblings. Relationships that don’t work. Right?! How much do I love these! Comedy. Got into improvisation…
  • ArchivesI started writing in this weblog after I graduated from college. I heard about blogs from my then grilfriend, who introduced me to the exquisite time wasting activity. The blog was on Blogger and then called Fun Time Tree House where I gained the nickname Funtime Ben.  I now have two blogs, this one and Improvoker.com. Going back through the archives I’m amazed at how hilarious I thought my writing was. It’s wordy, overbearing, and often gramatically incorrect, but it was where I was at 24 so I guess it’s a part of me. You may also notice some strange characters in the body of posts. Things like “Hi there”:http://google.com That’s because of an old formatting system Wordpress used to use in the olden days called textile. I’ve been going through the archives and getting rid of it, but there is still a lot of it left, so pardon that as well. Welcome to my time machine, hope you enjoy.
  • Amazing Web UI Designer

    Nov 15, 2012

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    Funtime Ben
    in Design

    While I have been a fan of UK based web designer Orman Clarke, I have recently become similarly impressed by the work of NYC based Vladimir Kudinov.

  • Pure CSS scrolling shadows

    Nov 15, 2012

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    Funtime Ben
    in Design

    Pure CSS scrolling shadows is a pretty ingenious way to achieve the slick UI effect with almost no overhead — of course earlier versions of browsers may have some trouble.

  • Time Remap

    Nov 14, 2012

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    Funtime Ben
    in Video

    [vimeo width=”624″ height=”360″]http://vimeo.com/7878518[/vimeo]

    I have no idea what a “Time Remap” is or what it entails, all I know is this is an amazing effect that makes people look like delicate dancing ghosts.

  • PechaKucha 20×20

    Nov 12, 2012

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    Funtime Ben
    in Design, Photographs, Photography, Technology

    An intense presentation style developed in Tokyo of 20 slides, each slide being on screen 20 seconds (hence 20×20). All PechaKucha presentations are over in 6.66 minutes.

  • Updated Collection of Free Fonts

    Nov 11, 2012

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    Funtime Ben
    in Collection, Design, Fonts

    Following on from my previous post, here are a bunch of free typeface resources to explore. A word of caution, some of the typefaces found in the wild are immature at best. Watch out for anything that looks a little too trendy.

    Free (or almost free) Font Foundries

    • The League of Movable Type (pretty prolific collection of text and display fonts.)
    • Lost Type (a pay what you want font foundry – some great fonts for as little as free.)

    Free Font Sites

    • Font Squirrel (has an absolutely essential @font-face generator to move type onto websites.)
    • Open Font Library
    • Free Typography
    • Free Font Manifesto
    • Google Web Fonts (has more fonts than you could ever use, although the quality of some is questionable.)

    Font Combinations

    • Just My Type

    Lists of Free Fonts

    • The 40 best free fonts for designers
    • The top 10 open source web fonts
    • 25 New Free High-Quality Fonts
    • The Best Free Fonts for Designers
    • New High-Quality Free Fonts

    Recommended Fonts to Try Out

    • Source Sans Pro
    • Open Sans
    • Junction
    • League Gothic
    • Oswald
    • Montserrat
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Funtime Ben, you know him, you love him, and you probably used to listen to his podcast in the early days of 2004. Designer, improviser, and educator. He loves games, technology, tinkering and trying to fix things.

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