April 2007
53 posts
“Flip is a two-dimensional grid of squares, in each
of which can be placed an...”
– Flip Language
YEurope - Early Stage Venture Capital →
a venture capital firm specializing in funding early stage European ICT-Startups. We want to help founders by providing an environment that is supportive of working on startups, so that they can take the leap from idea to company.
WatchONEWORD is a social display of crowd moods and feelings during an event: people send SMS to a special number and the messages are then displayed with a tree-like generative graphic software. As soon as a new message arrives a new branch blossoms.
As the event unfolds layers of texts gradually build up a flowing foliage of collective memory.
Vimeo / ONEWORD - BMW Night Is One - 2006
more Joost invites
If you’ve mailed me recently about Joost invites then check your inbox, I’ve just sent off another batch.
If your still waiting to get into the beta then give me an email and I’ll see what I can do.
I’m now either the 5th or 6th most popular Tom Martin on Google, still has a way to go to be the most popular Tom, apparently some guy on MySpace shares the same name as me, weird.
“So I went ahead with Homogenic and got a programmer and just said OK,...”
– Björk: ‘I had a little bit of cabin fever’
“When i was working at a magazine, my mentor always said “make sure your...”
– [Fireside Chat] Icon designers (Part 3 of 3) - (37signals)
Tom Martin: Si: Yes (via Twitter / Tom Martin)
OttoBib - Free Automatic Bibliography Generator.... →
Creates a lis of references from ISBN numbers, use ALA for harvard style.
on lost
Proph: just how the hello, how the hell though does it all tie in? I mean really
Me: yea it is getting a bit, like why hasn't anyone just said to Julliet "What the HELL is going on?"
Proph: yeah yeah, I mean they'd surely butcher her, angry mob job
Tom Martin: Thinks wi-fi article in the independent is total rubbish (via Twitter / Tom Martin)
Wi-Fi: Children at risk from 'electronic smog' →
I am no longer reading The Independent because of this front page rubbish, boo for the independent.
Tom Martin: watching clips of Helvetica film (via Twitter / Tom Martin)
“fluid time (event time)
Kairos - allowing activities to transpire according to...”
– http://conferences.oreillynet.com/presentations/et2004/steenson_molly.pdf
BBC Motion Gallery - Home Page →
Like Veer but for motion. via. f-studio
Joost Invite
I’ve got a few Joost invites left, if you’d like to try the beta give me an email: tom at devart .org
just invites are now gone, sorry
Tom Martin: Hmmm tasty Coors … (via Twitter / Tom Martin)
Tom Martin: finally doing some work on how non-designers are having more influence on the web (via Twitter / Tom Martin)
Pleasure Gardens
Went along to the new Wolverhampton Art Gallery today, the fresh gallery space is impressive and really well designed. At the center of the redesign is the triangle Pop Art gallery, with lots of important British popart. There’s lots of interactive stuff running on sexy iMacs, here’s something I “created” earlier, the gallery even published it to flickr somewhere (when I...
“One of the most difficult things to find is someone who is actually willing to...”
– [Fireside Chat] Icon designers (Part 1 of 3) - (37signals)
Tom Martin: Having lunch at the yardbird, birmingham (via Twitter / Tom Martin)
Tom Martin: drinking frappe-style 70% vodka and rasberry (via Twitter / Tom Martin)
Joost
Just been playing with the new Joost beta, it’s really fast which was suprising because my MacBook hasn’t got great graphical power. The interface is very smooth which is great considering it’s still a beta (product)
Joost is a game changer because:
- It’s a hybrid of on-demand and tradtional TV. It follows the same SKy/EPG/channels paradigm which is easy to understand...
Tom Martin: just got a Joost invite, woweeee UI is very slick, content isn’t that bad either (via Twitter / Tom Martin)
Tom Martin: eating Lindt bunny, drinking Tea and doing portfolio (via Twitter / Tom Martin)
“I think if you do something and it turns out pretty good, then you should go do...”
– Steve Jobs - Wikiquote
Tom Martin: writing essay, trying to justify that I’m as much of a designer of MySpace than the original author (via Twitter / Tom Martin)
Text of Wired's Interview with Google CEO Eric... →
A lot of people have been speculating about Google’s master plan but from this interview it’s clear there just a product company. They want fast, free, internet for everyone because it’s helps the experience of Google’s products.
Tom Martin: been shopping, now work can begin (via Twitter / Tom Martin)
dreamweaver 8 and insert record
say you have a database with three rows, id, name and price.
Your use Dreamweaver and it’s fancy Insert Record function, which builds you a nice working form. Well if you’ve accidently ticked “NOT Null” in phpMyAdmin and keep forgetting to fill out say price when testing. Dreamweaver will give you no feedback that this is the problem. Infact it just generates a server 500...
Tom Martin: drinking Tea and eating Rolos (via Twitter / Tom Martin)
redoing
Just working on this resturant website, it’s actually the third time I’ve started the assignment, first was quite rubbish, second was good but got lost in Dali and hopefully the third I will hand in.
Because I’m doing this for the third time now it’s really progressing quite quickly. Just finished off the sexy Photoshop comp and now I’m into Dreamweaver land,...
Tom Martin: restarting my lost web project for the third time, after reboot my Mac feels more snappy (via Twitter / Tom Martin)
death to Dalí
Today my MacBook hardrive croaked. I’ve lost a lot of stuff don’t remember I having, but was obviously useful some some reason or another. I’m in the process of getting things back, Mail, Passwords, Files etc and most importantly music.
It’s not really the mp3s that I miss, more of the stuff in my library, who else would have an obscure Nathan Fake remix, blended into...
Tom Martin: Just been in Birmingham getting a replacement drive for my MacBook, urges everyone to do backups! (via Twitter / Tom Martin)