Archive for February, 2007
Kinetic Typography: typographic treatment of an audio sample
Feb 26th
kinetic [adj.] Of, relating to, or produced by motion.
typography [n.] The general character or appearance of printed matter.
I was browsing through the typography tagged bookmarks on Ma.gnolia.com over the weekend and ran into a video that I found extremely engaging to watch. The video was comprised of lyrics moving on screen set to music; the timing of the words appearing was synchronized to the vocals too great effect. See for yourself. Read the rest of this entry »
MSN Video Sucks
Feb 18th
Online video has now become a mainstay on the internet. There are hundreds of video hosting sites and literally millions of videos. Missed Jon Stewart’s latest headlines or that Bush zinger everyone at work is talking about? How about Stephen Colbert’s The Word segment? Don’t fret it is on the Internet. Read the rest of this entry »
Five things about me
Feb 4th
I was tagged by Megan (soon to be) McDerrmott. The idea is that you say five things that people don’t know about you and then tag five other people. I’ll get to my five things in a moment but first I wanted to share some analysis that I did of this current meme. Read the rest of this entry »
Blackberry MP3 Player Instructions
Feb 4th
I have previously commented on the Blackberry Pearl in an unfavourable but not totally bad light. I stand behind my position, this device will only satisfy a select market. That being said I wrote this up to give people a guide to using the media player on the Pearl as an MP3 player. By default it plays one file at a time which it not very useful.
Note: In order to use the Pearl as an MP3 player you must have added a MicroSD card to store the music on since the device memory is insufficient.