Brett bought a gorillapod for his camera and we spent a little while playing with it deep in the Forest of Dean a week ago. He then spent an eternity re-learning how to edit video. None of us is on a par with Luke Strobel, but I reckon it came out pretty well!
We rode in the same place this weekend. It was like riding an entirely different trail: Dusty, grippy single-track gave way to mud, deep puddles, slimy roots and a lot of sideways action. It’s still brilliant fun, but it’s a whole different kind of challenge.
Lake District, Easter 2013, a set on Flickr.
Me and Andrea spent the Easter Weekend in the Lake District. It were bloody marvellous!Life is not a game and people are not playthings for you to mess with.
I love Mr Chimero’s writing style. Little things like “an iPhone app is about as timeless as an ice cream cone given to a chimp on a hot day” and “The past wasn’t better, we just forgot about all the shitty shit” make for a very enjoyable read. He makes a very good point, too.
‘Shave It (Kaskade Remix)’ by Zedd. This one reminds me of Whistler bike park. And that I’m going back again this summer! :D
Learning to design is learning to see, an adventure that gets more and more captivating the further you go.
Learning to See by Oliver Reichenstein. It’s quite a long read, but well worth your time.
(via Jeremy Keith)
This is insanely clever. The website grabs a stream from your webcam (via the getUserMedia api). Then a very clever bit of javascript it figures out how far you are from the screen and it resizes the text on the screen accordingly: Roll your chair backwards and it gets bigger. Roll towards the desk again and it shrinks.
You’ll need a very new browser (one that supports getUserMedia) and a web-cam to see it in action.
Olly Hodgson is a mountain biking web designer dude from Cheltenham, England.
He often discovers amusing, inspirational or otherwise interesting things lying around on the internets and places them here for safe(ish) keeping.
He blogs properly (albeit sporadically) over at Think Drastic.
