Fakepilot: NYC to Tahiti nonstop
link Monday 7th of July, 2008
Love the single line intro — not sure what the main site was for though...
Jaymo and Tomb Crew Mixes
link Monday 7th of July, 2008
As I'm still finding my voice a bit with this site, I wasn't sure whether to post music links. There's something pretty scary about recommending music to people you don't know — it's a very different proposition from sharing design or web links. But I've really been loving these two mixes (courtesy of the excellent Trash Menagerie) so much that it would be rude not to...
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Michael Bay's 'Dark Knight Returns'
link Saturday 5th of July, 2008
Got to love this — excerpts from a 'rejected script' written by Michael Bay for the new Batman movie:
“ Then they unleash even bigger missiles, which whizz past both of the helicopters, destroying the highway on the ground below. The action's not over yet though, because in the distance there are still five more highways and, on top of them, a bridge. ”
Let's hack the internet!
Type + Walls
link Wednesday 2nd of July, 2008
Beautiful typographic wall decals.
(Via Typophile)
Oh, hello
blog Wednesday 25th of June, 2008
Writing a 'welcome' post is the same as writing the introduction to anything else — fucking difficult. Starting an essay in school or college is exactly the same. Write a sentence, realise it's terrible, hold down backspace until you're back to square one. Repeat.
There are, of course, several major differences between a welcome post on a new site, and a college essay. For one thing, when I wrote my dissertation, I knew that at least one person was going to read it. More importantly, I didn't even think about the introduction until I was at least halfway through the body of the text. An essay is presented fully formed, refined out of sight over a period of time. To some extent, the same is true of this site — this is the third redesign of semiBad, but the first to be released for public display. I even managed to avoid starting at the beginning when it came to the content.
The whole thing, of course, is a matter of first impressions. When you meet someone for the first time, you get one shot — a moment, then it's over. Over time, you may change that impression, for better or worse. But in a blog entry, the possibilities are endless! You could spend your entire afternoon testing first impressions! You could spend the rest of the day, or weeks — or however long it takes to realise that you're sick of the layout, functionality, and sound of your new site, bin it, and move on to version four.
Matt Brown recently wrote about the difficulties of finding a voice online, more elegantly than I could. The alternative is to just publish, say hello, and accept that you might have some work to do changing people's impressions later.
Hello, I'm Andi. Welcome to semiBad.