Animation – QuantumTom

Re: The “Venture Bros.” movie

I just watched the new Venture Bros movie. Here are my thoughts.

Walt Disney World deadly industrial accident near Pop Century

Whoah. “All of us at Walt Disney World Resort are deeply saddened today by the loss of one of our Cast Members,” said George A. Kalogridis, president of Walt Disney World Resort in a statement to WFTV. “This is a tragic accident, and we are providing resources and care for those impacted and are workingContinue reading “Walt Disney World deadly industrial accident near Pop Century”

A jQuery Plugin Design Pattern

I’ve been using jQuery quite extensively and I recently started encapsulating my code using the jQuery plug-in design pattern. I really like the way it reads and it’s already starting to make my code both safer and more reusable. One thing I find myself wanting to do quite frequently is to wire up the hoverContinue reading “A jQuery Plugin Design Pattern”

Beautiful Ogilvy Mather animation

Laughing Squid just turned me on to this beautiful ad for, of all things, Scrabble. I’m a big fan of the board game, which only makes me predisposed to appreciate what I think I’d nevertheless consider this to be a phenomenal bit of animation. For some reason (animated boobies?) Youtube might require age verification.

Text-to-Movie: it’s like DIY narration – by a WoW avatar

Just found this funny little service – some of the web 2.0 stuff makes me want to scratch my head more than housing prices circa 2007. This is definitely kinda sorta neat, but I’m not sure how much I’d use this. It’s certainly great to know this app is exposed as a web service, andContinue reading “Text-to-Movie: it’s like DIY narration – by a WoW avatar”