In a recent comment here on KrazyDad, Daniel Piker shared some flash variations he made recently of the John Whitney-inspired “Incremental Drift” animations used in my Whitney Music Box. These are all visual eye candy, without music, but they demonstrate some great flash animation techniques! One with semicircles One very colourful one – The complementary […]

I’ve moved KrazyDad and Coverpop to a new private server at Dreamhost, in hopes of improving performance. Performance does indeed seem to be better and so far everything seems to be working okay. However, this here is a big complicated website, and I may have missed something. Let me know (by commenting on this post) […]

It suddenly occured to me as I was driving to work yesterday that the songs “Crack that Whip” by Devo, and “Breathe” by Pink Floyd are oddly similar (did I mention it’s a loooong drive?)… So I downloaded the demo version of Ableton Live last night and came up with this mashup at 2 in […]

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I’ve been playing with making these puzzle-style animated mosaics this week, for a Topspin-related project. The final image is made by reassembling parts of the original image. Here’s a larger Obama/McCain mosaic. And here’s the first one I made, featuring David Byrne and Brian Eno. UPDATE Here are some more I made on Saturday. Flag/Obama […]

Have you noticed that both Obama and Biden’s names have five letters apiece? If you stack them on top of each other, you can draw various paths to spell out such things as “BO BI DA ME NA” and “O BIBA DE MAN” I don’t know if this is actually useful, but then, utility is […]

A few days ago, Ian Rogers mentioned that his company, Topspin, is adding “four more rock star engineers in the last two weeks of this month.” At the risk of seeming immodest, I appear to be one of said rock stars. I’m joining Topspin. “Damn. Look out. Look out.”, wrote Ian. Heh… Hope Ian doesn’t […]

This new interactive mosaic, from my Coverpop website, shows the most interesting photos on Flickr, based on Flickr’s mysterious “interestingness” metric, which I assume has something to do with kittens and/or babies… One thing I’ve noticed is that Flickr’s interesting photos tend to look compelling at very small (i.e. thumbnail) sizes, which makes sense, when […]