jazzsequence

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  • thinking about redesign…again…

    So now that Museum Themes is up, WordPress 3.0 is out, and web fonts have made huge strides in browser-integration, I’m thinking about redesigning jazzsequence.com.  Again. Okay, yes, I am fully frakking aware that I redesign my site more frequently than a hooker gets checked for STDs, and even the Browncoat theme lasted longer than the current…

  • vision of the future

    I just finished reading Nicholas Carr‘s The Big Switch in anticipation of getting a copy of his new book The Shallows.  This troubling excerpt towards the end of the book hints at where he takes The Shallows and gives a less-than-utopian view of our dependency on all things web-related: The printed page, the dominant  information medium of the…

  • Another BP logo interpretation

    The BP Logo: A Symbol of Disaster via @DesignYouTrust

  • BP Oil Spill Visualized by the Unreal Engine

    This is pretty cool. Also, incredibly nerdy. via @10TimesOne via @GOOD

  • amnesty international: death to the death penalty

    This new Amnesty International ad is gorgeous and inspired.  Gets the message across while being appropriately eerie and unsettling.  Which, given the subject matter, it should be. The folks who did this ad also did this crazy dog short (also awesome): “birds” (pleix) from pleix on Vimeo.

  • oil spill…but not in the gulf of mexico

    Look familiar? While this looks like it might be a bird that got it easy in the gulf oil spill, or maybe just got lucky (at least compared to these poor animals), this duck, in fact, lives no where near Louisiana.  Instead, it was living right where I live. You know things are bad when you can…

  • BP’s Coffee Spill Disaster

    via @HuffingtonPost The Great BP Coffee Spill (VIDEO)

  • Shrinks Diagnose Darth Vader’s Inner Demons

    As much as I love a good romp down Let’s Psychoanalyze Fictional Characters Lane, can I just point out the incredible waste of resources in a team of psychiatrists (that’s right, not just a guy, or some friends at the bar, or even a single, Star Wars-obsessed psych student) diagnosing Darth Vader with borderline personality…

  • …and in other news: obama kicks bp’s ass

  • Humble Oil (now Exxon) Predicts the Future in 1962 Ad

    “EACH DAY HUMBLE SUPPLIES ENOUGH ENERGY TO MELT 7 MILLION TONS OF GLACIER!” “This giant glacier has remained unmelted for centuries. Yet, the petroleum energy Humble supplies – if converted into heat – could melt it at the rate of 80 tons each second! To meet the nation’s growing needs for energy, Humble has supplied…