PrayStation

For those who call themselves designers and don’t know PrayStation you ought to be ashamed of yourself. I’m just suprised i did not add it to my inspiration links earlier, anyway its there now.

Does anyone know if we can use the “generated” designs? I could not find any copyright information on the site.

Fresh Styles, Generative Design

Yesterday, went to the bookshop with Pearl while we were in the city. We spent close to 2 hours in there and I found 2 books, which were really interesting, and I so so so must share it.

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Fresh Styles for Web Designers: Eye Candy from the Underground

Author: Curt Cloninger

ISBN: 0735710740

In a light and friendly voice, the author introduces the reader to new ways of styling websites. With specific examples for each of ten categories, he provides a wealth of techniques for the designer who wishes to apply these approaches in their own work. The styles are broken down into ten categories, which are:

  1. Gothic Organic
  2. Wireframe Icon
  3. Lo-fi Grunge
  4. Paper Bag
  5. Mondrian Poster
  6. Pixelated Punk Rock
  7. 1950s Hello Kitty
  8. HTMinimaLism
  9. DraftingTable/Instruction Manual
  10. Super Tiny SimCity

Further explorations in the book help designers determine which style choices would be most appropriate when changing the look of their own sites.

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4×4 Generative Design

Authors: Golan Levin, Adrian Ward, lia, meta
ISBN: 1-903450-47-0

Tools can control as well as serve. Across the web, pioneering artists and designers are recognising the exhilarating freedom and unparalleled control offered by programming. The 4×4 Project invited four influential and respected artists renowned for their stunning experiments with code and art, to work together on the theme of Life and Oblivion.

4×4 Generative Design requires no prior knowledge of programming, only an appetite to control your own creativity. The four authors provide the inspiration and information to allow you to create and to generate using different programming languages including: Java, DBN, Auto-Illustrator, Lingo, MAX and Nato. The point is not to follow or to replicate but to mutate, transform, hack and move on.

Angel eyes

Hey drink up all you people
Order anything you see
And have fun you happy people
The laugh and the drinks on me
Try to think that love’s not around
Still it’s uncomfortably near
My poor old heart ain’t gaining any ground
Because my angel eyes ain’t here

Angel eyes, that old Devil sent
They glow unbearably bright
Need I say that my love’s mispent
Mispent with angel eyes tonight

So drink up all of you people
Order anything you see
And have fun you happy people
The drink and the laughs on me

Pardon me but I got to run
The fact’s uncommonly clear
I got to find who’s now the number one
And why my angel eyes ain’t here

Excuse me while I disappear

words ~ Matt Dennis
performed ~ Earl Brent, Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Sting

busy busy

Silly me, i went to shift 3 websites to DifferentHost all at the same time and put all of them in “coming soon” mode. hiaz… my planning really sucks.

I’ve still got 2 sites for my part-time work, Vertical Rush’s new site which i can’t wait to do cuz its a band and i’ve never done a band’s website before. I also want to revamp my online resume.

Oh did i mention i got school assignments and projects too. darn i’m going crazy.

Cooking nickpan style

I believe I can cook, but when Pearl test me in the kitchen, I have never failed to be such a disgrace. My excuse is her kind of cooking is different from mine, my food just taste different and also look different, it’s a guys kinda food, but that does not mean I can’t cook. hmm… about 9 years together with Pearl in the kitchen and my skill level is still about the same. haha…

Pearl can’t figure out why, I can’t figure out why too. She say if I can follow instructions and install MovableType, she see no reason why following a recipe book is any different. haha… she has a point there. I think my brain just can’t develop that section that is needed for the kitchen. But I really love cooking and also the washing up.

If you have got a house and a nice kitchen (stainless steel everything, exquisite tableware, kitchenware from Crate and Barel) pls do drop us an e-mail and we would love to go over and cook. We can’t wait to have our own kitchen.