Robot Violinist

I know this video is over a year old but I only found it just a few weeks ago. I think it's amazing! I know he's only playing the violin..... but thats just for now! Think what he could do!!!..... I couldnt believe this was a real robot when I saw it, at first I thought maybe it was someone dressed as one, but no! Maybe our lecturers might be robots in a few years!! ^_^

Ah, Memories!

Yesterdays internet authoring class brought me back to the good ol days! searching on altavista and chatting on ICQ! I too had one of those cringeworthy homepages Ruairi was talking about!not as bad as Homer Simpson mind you! ^_^ It was an account I had with angelfire.com(same idea as geocities) an account i thought had long since deceased as it always showed up as a broken link anytime I checked if it was still there. Alas! During the week I found a search engine that retrieves old websites, I put my old link in and low and behold there I was sitting infront of a webpage I created over 10 years ago, Madness! :) If you look at how websites have developed over the past few years it's astounding! e.g. daft.ie - there page in 1999 or apple's page in 1997

Try it out for yourselves!

Internet Archive - Wayback Machine

Freeware V Shareware - Taco

I know there's not many mac users in the class but if anyone knows any good alternatives to Taco HTML editor please let me know! I tried a few others like smultron but they're not as nice to work with! My trial period is just out for Taco so need new one! When i went searching I noticed that Taco used to be freeware and now is shareware, someone on a board commented that it was like a drug dealer getting you hooked, then you have to pay loads of money! How very true! And how very scary that these free products we use day in day out can so easily become fee paying products. the only profile i've paid for online is my flickr page. Everyday though I use my gmail which I use to hold massive amounts of photos and songs etc. without really thinking that they could charge me for this..hhmmmm..... i shall be backing up more often!

FedEx Logo

In my Research Methods Assignment I chose how typography effects the success of advertising. An interesting logo I came across while researching was the FedEx one. Here's what logo blog have to say about it : "Behind the FedEx logo’s simplicity, lays an arrow located in the negative space between the ‘E’ and ‘X’ pointing rightwards. While the arrow in the FedEx logo becomes quite obvious when pointed out, it sure is neglected by many. This arrow in the FedEx logo has been used as a form of subliminal advertising of the brand, symbolizing forward movement and thinking."



The FedEx logo has won many distinctive awards and is often regarded as the best creative design ever.

Heroes

my new favourite emoticon is cheerleader *\o/* hehe.

So I thought I'd make a little graphic for heroes! :p

Blindness

I was looking at the omniplex website and came across this film that's coming out i a few weeks. It was the poster that caught my eye! I think it's really clever how they've taken the idea of blindness and encoprated an eye chart into the movie logo. It's simple, yet very effective.