I recently completed a new site for Kate Howe using the Isotope jQuery Plugin. Sort the projects to see it in action.

Things I wish I had photographed:

• The scuba shop owner with the toe tag tattoo
• The “Africa” nightclub in Maputo
• The two sketchy guys who followed us around Maputo after the nightclub
• The old islamic teacher I met from Swaziland
• The border crossing
• Jane and Lu
• The green car

The lions were particularly spectacular. It was hard to photograph them, because we were instructed not to stand up in the game car, since that would be interpreted as a threat.

The main thing this gallery is missing is an audio recording of Jane’s niece Sophia and her continuing narrative about what candies would be available in her ‘paradise.’ She’s going to freak when she reads Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

Things I wish I had the presence of mind to photograph:

• John and Ray
• The Turks & Caicos National Museum
• John’s boat
• Nat and Lamar, my scuba instructors
• Anything, you know, underwater
• Air Turks & Caicos

Things I wish I had photographed:

• Mom and Jim
• Phil Austern coming to visit
• The huge dolphin that swam past me
• Thanksgiving dinner

Here’s another fun site I just finished up: Mood-Tuner for my friend Kate. It’s the companion site to an iPad app of the same name (App Store link).

Whereas my recent site for Ksenya scrolls horizontally, this has little modules that move around and expand and contract. It uses the amazing isotope jquery plugin by David DeSandro.

Here is a fun project I did recently for my friend Ksenya: a blog that scrolls horizontally. She did the design, I did the coding. It uses the open-source CMS we developed at Bureau Blank, and there’s some jQuery to make the columns and image popups.

It didn’t take too long either, which is great when it’s a freelance project. According to my notes, it was under 30 hours.

I’m having a going-away party because I’m leaving NYC. Please come! But also please RSVP!

Another really quite amazing video from Ok Go.

Ok Go – All Is Not Lost

Purchase from iTunes, Amazon

I’m looking forward to an official release of this. It sounds as if the mp3 below was ripped from the video, so it has the sound effects. They feel right in the video, but less so in the audio track.

Lana Del Rey – Video Games

Via The Awl.

UPDATE 7/29: See? Marina Diamandis likes her too. We think alike.

Could not handle @LanaDelRey’s beauty tonight. She is 1 of the true beauty queens. Listen to her music. Love u, gf.

Here are some pictures from my recent trip to the Alps with my dad and step-mother.

Please help me support Jessica and Erik’s amazing marionette project.

Only 24 hours left!

Austra is a band from Toronto that owes much to Siouxsie and the Banshees. I think you will like it.

Austra – Lose It

I saw this funny sticker on Forsyth Street yesterday.

Picture taken by Leah Lin at Music Hall of Williamsburg. The show was amazing.

Sleigh Bells – A/B Machines

Much respect for The Trevor Project, which has inspired these moving videos from companies such as Apple (above), Google, Facebook, Pixar, Adobe, Etsy, and President Obama, among others.

Trouble had to go to the vet, but he’s doing much better now.

Bureau Blank, the company at which I work, officially launches its new website today.

Excellent 3d artwork by Brendan Coyle.

Pulp – Common People