• Not too Distant

    September 4th, 2008

    K. B. Peterson - Not too Distant

    Another month, another single. This time a somewhat IDM inspired track titled Not too Distant . Zip file comes with the song and high-res album art.

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    Posted in: Recreation / Entertainment, Work / Portfolio

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  • Django 1.0

    September 14th, 2008

    Django 1.0

    Django, my web framework of choice, finally reached 1.0 status earlier this month (although it’s been running enterprise websites for several years). Mostly it means forward-compatibility with subsequent 1.x releases. So, today I buckled down and installed 1.0 on my Dreamhost server. It went pretty smoothly except for a few issues with the new comments system, but it only took about 2 hours to rewrite the apps for my two sites (one being my father’s watercolor gallery) and get them running with the help of the 1.0 Porting Guide provided on the official Django website.

    Check out the new comment system. Now your name can have a URL attached that links to your personal website or blog and leave an email address (I won’t give it to anyone, I promise) so that I can respond to comments that warrant a response.

    Next up is porting over jennipotts.com so that subsequent Clickpop sites are all running the same version.

    Posted in: Assorted

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  • Polish Posters of American Films

    September 14th, 2008

    Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back

    Indiana Jones: Raiders of the Lost Ark

    Steph found these great Polish posters of American films the other day. All the American promotional posters were essentially thrown away in Poland while under Communist rule. Now they’re collectors items and are worth a ton. I’m definitely going to be looking to these for inspiration in future design work.

    Posted in: Inspiration / Scrapbook

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  • Syd Mead Concept Art

    September 15th, 2008

    Syd Mead - Blade Runner Police Car

    Concept art by Syd Mead. Found this after watching Blade Runner last night. He did visual design for Blade Runner, Tron, Aliens, and whole lot of other great films.

    More available at Michael Heilemann’s photostream

    Posted in: Inspiration / Scrapbook

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  • RSS Update

    September 16th, 2008

    RSS

    There’s been an RSS feed on this site for a while now, but I never really got it running properly. Now the Latest Entries feed has the full body text of the blog entry included for those of you that read everything right from your RSS reader. I’ve also added a Comments feed that’s simply a list of the 10 most recent comments on the blog. The links to these feeds can be found at the bottom of the sidebar to the right. Let me know if there are any problems.

    Posted in: Assorted

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  • Tax Plans

    September 19th, 2008

    Presidential candidates' tax plans

    Really nice infograph from Chartjunk about our presidential candidates’ tax plans. Now, don’t get me wrong, I’m almost making over $600k a year (just shy), but until I am, I think I’ll go with Obama and his plan.

    A .pdf version of the the chart is available on said site along with a comparison to the chart from The Washington Post (which this was based on). It’s interesting how the same data can be portrayed in dramatically different ways. This way is much clearer and easier to understand.

    Posted in: Assorted

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  • Otl Aicher 1972 Olympics

    September 30th, 2008

    Beautiful posters from Otl Aicher for the 1972 Munich Olympics. See the full catalog of design work.

    Strange that the background these were shot on is very similar to the background on this blog!

    Posted in: Inspiration / Scrapbook

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