Archive for posts tagged ‘artsy’
i’m not cool enough in the cool way
Kevin Day, February 8th, 2010I don’t know why, but I can’t stop thinking about the redesign on thesixtyone. You have to go there to check it out. Do it, I’ll wait. There’s music, so if you’re at work… turn the volume up.
(waiting…)
It’s just so fun it makes me smile.
It’s made me rethink web design completely. There’s so many cookie cutter websites that have a header w/logo, navigation links, content in one column, sidebar in another, blah blah blah.
There have to be more types of sites that can be gutted and redesigned in a way that’s both useful and fun.
This format also is great a great candidate for Chrome’s “save web page as app ” feature. I now have an application icon that opens up thesixtyone in a chrome browser without a url bar. Just like an application. And it launches about 10x faster than Rhythmbox loads, which is a locally installed music app.
Right now I’m listening to My First Earthquake, “Cool in the Cool Way“:
They even have a link to a free download of the song, which is cool.
I’ve bought a couple other songs from Amazon MP3 from artists who don’t yet have downloads from t61.
Check it out and think about that design next time you put together a website layout. I know I will.
Colorstrology
Kevin Day, August 15th, 2008I’m working from Phoenix Coffee right now. I hadn’t been a believer in colorstrology before, but I flipped through the book while I was waiting for my dark roast.
The books says my birth color is lavender, which indicates that I possess the qualities:
Visionary, creative, builder
That’s good news. I’ve been doing a lot of those three lately, so I’m glad to have confirmation that I’m actually good at them.
How can you not want to be an artist?
Kevin Day, April 5th, 2008Despite enjoying other things in life such as technology, real estate, finance, or what have you, how can anyone not want to also do some sort of artistic endeavor like music, writing, poetry, painting, or drawing? These are the only activities that emphasize enjoying life and living in the moment.
I think the answer is that people (especially myself) get distracted with their primary interest but forget that there are other subjects that ultimately focus on simply enjoying life.
The weather is beautiful today in Cleveland after a dreary extended winter. I couldn’t help but stand on my street for a minute and look around me at the tiny details I’ve been too busy to notice. I’ve been missing a lot, but I plan to change that now.
