I proudly present this HTML5 logo on my site which is completely written from scratch in HTML5 (I won’t include the logo in the footer, that’s way to much 1999). Only thing we now need is a better browser landscape (i.e. banish Internet Explorer).
HTML5, CSS3 and webapps are all popular terms nowadays on the Interwebz, and on the other side is the interest of ‘old’ media to step in the world of new media, with the iPad as their new portal. But shouldn’t the internet and its content be open (meaning you can access it on every internet device, using a browser)? That’s why I’m quite surprised that The New York Time webapp (promoted as Chrome app, but it’s just a website) isn’t picked up. It’s basically a wrapper for the normal The New York Times website, but it’s more like a remodeling of the online newspaper, providing a very pleasant reading experience, using latest HTML5 and CSS3 goodnesses like webfonts, animations.
My last post, New Trees made me think about the Prada Marfa store in the middle of a desert.
Photographer Robert Voit was wondering what those funny trees were standing next to electric installation boxes. It turned out that those trees were cell phone antennas. He documented quite a few. Probably interesting to mention here that health complaints about those antennas are made when they’re installed, not when they’re actually switched on…
As a kid, I loved to disassemble things like radios, RC cars orb bikes just to see how it works. Most interesting were the things that were designed (as in engineering) very clever. Probably one of the reasons to study mechanical engineering. I remember radios with ingenious ways to transfer the rotation of the knob to the translation of the dial. Nowadays, I rarely take a device apart, but watching some photos of it can still be interesting, e.g. teardown of an iPod Shuffle, Nano
or Touch