Our site traffic increased 500% as our site has appeared on design inspiration websites across the globe.
About a week ago, I posted our URL to one of the many CSS design resource sites as a bit of an experiment. Over the last few days, we’ve seen our site traffic increase 500% as our site has appeared on design inspiration sites from here to China.
In the past, I ...
A few months ago the Alberta North chapter of the GDC hosted a talk by Stefan Sagmeister. We were there. There are few photos posted on Flickr, and a short YouTube video of a similar talk a few years ago. If you’re interested, you can watch a longer video on TED.
Sagmeister’s presentation really inspired me. A large portion of it was related to a new site called ...
Over the years we’ve tried numerous hosting companies – Alentus, Webfaction, Joyent, Rackspace, Media Temple – looking for that one perfect host, a host we could see settling down and spending the rest of our lives with. Finally, we got ourselves some slices from the fine lads at Slicehost. Their service, performance, pricing and setup is top-notch. Absolutely no comparison to anything else we’ve tried, especially for Django projects. I ...
I have a confession to make, I really like home decor. Micah and I have even talked (sort of joking) about doing interior design together. I’ll also admit I watch way to much HGTV. I just recently bought a vinyl cutter, which I have been using to decorate our walls (my wife says I’ve reached my quota for the living room). For more examples of what I’m ...
All of us at lift enjoy our photography (see our most recent pics here). Recently I have been experimenting with High Dynamic Range (HDR) images. Here are the results.
I have this print hanging in my office of a spark-plug advertisement by modern art master, Lucian Bernhard. I really like this picture – it actually makes me happy when I see it. Partly because I bought it on my first visit to New York as a souvenir from the Museum of Modern Art, partly because my dad used to call me the sparkplug of the family engine‚ (so it’s ...
This is probably the most amazing “remix” ever.
“Radiohead held an online contest to remix “Nude” from their album – “In Rainbows” This was quite a difficult task for everybody that entered, as Nude is in 6/8 timing, and 63bpm. ...Thom Yorke joked at the ridiculousness of it in an interview for NPR radio, hinting that they set the competition to find out how people would approach such a challenging ...
For those who don’t already know, Vimeo is quickly becoming the video sharing site of choice for the cool kids. In addition to being all-around prettier than YouTube, they offer full-screen HD streaming. I tried hooking my laptop up to my 36” LCD TV, and the vids still look unbelievable crisp. Here are a couple of my fave vids, courtesy of Jordan Clarke.