I am going to build a large-scale (10+feet) sculpture. It is going to be like the Trojan Horse… but an origami crane.

Learn more about the project and pledge your support here on Kickstarter: (there are rewards for your pledges!)

I appreciate any and all support in order to make this idea a reality. The world needs the Trojan Crane. Thanks for all who have already pledged their support!

I’m in love with the newly crafted WordPress theme “twentyten.” The code is clean and the included functions are spot-on. So, I’ve decided to start making Child Themes based on twentyten. The one problem I would run into is in Internet Explorer 6. Now, I know that everyone hates it and that we all need to move on into the future.. but.. I have clients that I really need to continue support of that legacy browser. The problem that I encountered was with the drop down menu system. The code is so beautiful and perfect, but it just uses CSS… which IE6 can’t recognize. So I decided to write a plug in (with a bit of helpful advice from some awesome geniuses) that I can install whenever I make a child of twentyten and need it to support drop downs in IE6.

WordPress Plugin Page: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/twentyten-ie6-menus/
DOWNLOAD from WordPress: Twentyten IE6 Menus

Here is the plugin php file: (if you don’t want to use it as a plugin.. just steal the jQuery)

<?php
/**
 * Plugin Name: Twentyten IE6 Menus
 * Author: Sara Cannon
 * Author URI: http://sara-cannon.com
 * Description: Make the menu drop down in IE6 (if you care about that sort of thing)
 * Version: 1.0
 * License: GPL2
 */
function sara_twentyten_ie6_menus_enqueue() {
 wp_enqueue_script( 'jquery' );
}
add_action( 'after_setup_theme', 'sara_twentyten_ie6_menus_enqueue' );

function sara_twentyten_ie6_menus_script() {
?>
<!--[if lte IE 6]>
<script type="text/javascript">
jQuery(document).ready( function($) {
 $('#access li').mouseover( function() {
 $(this).find('ul').show();
 });
 $('#access li').mouseleave( function() {
 $(this).find('ul').hide();
 });
 $('#access li ul').mouseleave( function() {
 $(this).hide();
 });
});
</script>
<![endif]-->
<?php
}
add_action( 'wp_footer', 'sara_twentyten_ie6_menus_script' );

Feel free to download and use and let me know if you encounter any bugs.
-sara cannon

This probably won’t mean anything to you, but I wanted to document this for my reference. Here are some of the sites I visited when initially researching how to make this plug in. There are probably many more that I hit up in my research later on but I just thought I’d throw this in here considering it is on the same subject lines.

http://www.jdmweb.com/resources/jquery_to_wordpress_plugin
http://www.devlounge.net/articles/using-javascript-and-css-with-your-wordpress-plugin
http://www.lost-in-code.com/platforms/wordpress/wordpress-plugins/wordpress-build-a-thickbox-plugin/
http://www.noupe.com/tutorial/drop-down-menu-jquery-css.html
http://designreviver.com/tutorials/jquery-css-example-dropdown-menu/

Make sure to say hi to me if you’re there!

Hammock – Breathturn from David Altobelli on Vimeo.

Thanks Josh

thanks isaac.

I’ve been a bit quiet on this blog.. mainly because I’ve been in Berlin on artcation for a bit.. a vacation focused on lots of art. :) Check out my Artcation.com blog to see what i’ve been checking out in Berlin so far. I’ll be in france next week as well.

Tame Impala – Half Full Glass of Wine from Special Problems on Vimeo.

One part that I just adore is the pointillism heart beating to the baseline:

found via The Strange Attractor

Materials are: “Acrylic, cedar, cigarette butts, eurocast, fertilizer, foam, found plastic, garbage from Denver parks, insulation, lichen, moss, organic material from Denver, sponge, steel 55 gallon drum, wood lumber.”

On his website it says:

“Gregory Euclide has placed a set of sculptures inspired by the Rocky Mountain vistas over a floor-drawn map of Denver.The vistas’ positioning relates to the geographical site they have been extracted from, literally and figuratively. The sculpture are part of a series of captures Euclide has made by pouring paint or liquid adherent over a natural setting. Once dried, the materials capture dirt, plants, and pieces of the ground, which become canvases for sculptural landscape painting and miniaturized terrain–turning the natural land into an idealized scene. By hanging the captures over their original location, Euclide creates a multidimensional topography that makes both actual and idealized projections of the Rocky Mountain landscape.

Floating in isolation, Euclide’s sculptures reflect the growing divide between the human dimension and the natural world as an increasing number of people choose to live in urban areas. Because There’s a There, Here’s Just Fine considers how relationships with our surroundings are shaped, and invites us to reevaluate our experiences with nature by presenting a landscape where the notions of the fake and authentic collide.”

I have been using Typekit to render my web-fonts since the service became available. It is an incredible and takes away a lot of the headache in embedding, keeping up with browser/mobile compatibility, etc. If you haven’t tried Typekit out, you can get a free account to see if you like it – then upgrade if you decide you’re in love. <3

I’ve noticed that sometimes the fonts that I’ve chosen can end up so “crunchy” in IE that I would rather just stack my fonts to the closest system font, and disable Typekit for Internet Explorer.

Here is a way you can Enable it for just Mac: you can query the user agent header with php in a conditional statement that wraps around your Typekit js:

<?php if (strpos($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'], "Mac", 0) !== FALSE) { ?>
<script type="text/javascript" src="yourtypekitlink.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">try{Typekit.load();}catch(e){}</script>
<?php } ?>

Don’t want to exclude Linux? Disable it for Windows Only:

<?php if (strpos($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'], "Windows", 0) === FALSE) { ?>
<script type="text/javascript" src="yourtypekitlink.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">try{Typekit.load();}catch(e){}</script>
<?php } ?>

Here are examples of type crunch in a title:

LTC Bodoni Type Crunch in IE (eww!)

LTC Bodoni on Mac with Typekit (perfect!)

Typekit disabled on IE / reverts back to font stack

Here are some more examples with a different font:

typekit on mac: Ltc Bodoni and Proxima Nova (perfect!)

Typekit enabled on Windows (crunchy! Eeek!)

typekit disabled on windows (better than the crunch.)

Interested in browser-specific disabling? These methods might be interesting to look into: (but I haven’t done it yet)

http://davecardwell.co.uk/javascript/jquery/plugins/jquery-browserdetect/

http://rafael.adm.br/css_browser_selector/

PS: Firefox achieves the same screen-shots as IE. Interesting.