Congrats to Stryde Hax!
So I came across the Stryde Hax page on the Olympic gymnast age controversy a few days ago via Reddit, and thought it was pretty intriguing. Didn't really think much of it other than Stryde had done some slick searching. Then I saw it on the news. Then the Olympic Committee said they're investigating the claims further. Wow. It's not the first time bloggers have broken major stories, but in this case the reaction...
posted on 08.22.08
Gap Kids Video Wall
WINNER - American Advertising Foundation, Gold Addy Award, 2005 A silent video wall created for Gap Kids stores for the 2004 holiday season. Production Notes This piece was commissioned by Gap Inc. to serve as a video wall for their Gap Kids stores during the Christmas 2004 shopping season. Because we could not interfere with the store music, the piece was entirely silent, though for demonstration purposes I've added an ambient score to the...
posted on 07.07.08
Grooveeffect Relaunch
It's been a long time since our last redesign, and a few weeks ago we finally launched the new look. Designed by Six, a UK based agency, and coded up by your very own new media whiz based in San Francisco, we soft-launched June 1 and have been working out the minor bugs over the past few weeks. All seems to be well now, so in anticipation of a more 'formal' launch on July...
posted on 06.25.08
Mozilla essentially DDoS'ed themselves with record attempt
As many of you probably know, June 17, 10am PST is the drop date for Firefox 3, and they're attempting a Guinness World Record of most downloads in one day as a kickoff promotion. I'm writing this at 10:11am PST, 11 minutes after the new Firefox 3 drop date, and the site has been down for the past ~15 minutes or so. In effect, the Mozilla foundation essentially DDoS'ed themselves with their record attempt (for...
posted on 06.17.08
Democratic Primary Votes by Demographic
This is an amazingly intuitive interactive chart from the NY Times that dynamically breaks down the votes by age, race, income, and gender for the Democratic primary. It's amazing to see how different we really are. The young, educated, wealthy, and blacks clearly leaned toward Obama, while the old, less educated, lower income, and women clearly leaned toward Clinton. It's also somewhat surprising to see just how severe the split was in some places -...
posted on 06.05.08