Classic house mix I did a while back. Mainly because I wanted to try out the awesome MixCloud beta.
I’m trying to find a plain text tracklisting now but if you press play on the swf below it will show you.
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Jackinfunkacidclassics – Classic House Mix
Thursday, March 18th, 2010
Interacting with sites by Email
Friday, February 19th, 2010As if email wasn’t great enough already over the last year or two more and more sites have been offering users the chance to interact with their sites by email.
The first one to catch my eye was the fabulous Topify. While not part of Twitter Topify’s service is definitely worth a look.
Think of it as Twitter email notifications on steroids. It gives you more information and actions straight to your inbox allowing you to save time by giving you all the information you need. As you can see from the example above this isn’t someone that I want to follow. I can easily block, follow or report as spam by simply forwarding the message onto a Topify email address or simply click the link in the email. They offer a similar service for direct messages where you can reply from your email client by just replying to the email. Pure bliss.
Aardvark, Recently acquired by Google offer something similar with their email notifications.
Aardvark also offer an incredible service for interacting with the site using instant messaging. Honestly A-M-A-Z-I-N-G, maybe I’ll talk about it later.
Why isn’t everyone doing this? Are there any other good ones that I should know about?
Negative Space (less of a discovery more of a realisation)
Friday, February 5th, 2010Ladies and Gentleman, negative space is my new favourite thing in the world. Even more then turtles.
My biggest influence on the way I draw was my mother, who is an artist. She taught me to look at negative space. The lesson came one day when I was frustrated that my drawings of trees never really looked like trees. They just looked like a bunch of lines. I could not get a feel of the shape or structure of a tree. She taught me to draw the shapes between the branches instead of the branches themselves. When you do that, you quickly come a lot closer to actually drawing something that resembles a tree. When I am drawing letters I use the same approach. I am drawing the white shapes, not the black strokes. So the relationship between the white shapes on the inside of the character and the outside of the character is something I am very interested in. Cyrus Highsmith, Type Designer
It’s funny how these things happen. I read the above quote, from the My Fonts Creative Charachters mailout, on Sunday afternoon in work. It’s not that negative space is new to me, just until now I haven’t really explored it. It’s always been there, but it has never been my focus.
Then today I got this tweet
I Googled the song and found this…..
and in the comments…..
11albinogiraffes I agree. Negative space rocks.
Then I remembered an interview I saw with Benga.
Jump to 1:42 for the quote
I try to create a lot of space in my music. I’m always low cutting things… hi passing things….. that’s how I create space in my music Benga, Dub Step Artist
All of a sudden I’m surrounded by negative space, I see it everywhere. I’m off to explore!
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