We just launched the site for Brooklyn-based singer/songwriter, Luke Gyure, and his new independent label, Life Science Records featuring an animation we choreographed with the amazing Kim Hui.

Keeping with our recent trend of breaking outdated news, we’re announcing that we finished the coding on the new interactive map for the third season of Around The World For Free.

The season is coming to an end actually but you can still go click around the interactive map and see what Parvati has been up to.

As always we give thanks to Anthony and Brian for all their hard work on the project and many thanks as well to Bright Red for bringing us this project and managing it. And last but certainly not least, the custom CMS that powers the map was done by Grail Interactive!

You’d think having the developer toolbar set to disable cache would keep it from caching but that doesn’t seem to do it. You need to go into your browser settings and also disable cookies. You probably don’t want to disable cookies for all domains which might make it impossible to log into a lot of sites like the WordPress backend for instance, you’d click the exceptions button (in Firefox anyway) and add the site you’re developing and click block.

So then you’ll only have problems logging into that specific site’s backend and you’d probably just need to use a different browser for that while you’re in development.

If anyone has a better way I’d like to hear it.

Just read that John Resig, the creator of jQuery, quit Mozilla to work for a company we’d never heard of called Kahn Academy. Can the internet change the way we educate children? Well duh of course it can – with Resig and Kahn working together looks like Kahn Academy might have it all figured out already.

AlterBrook was started by Daniel Alter, an architect living in Park Slope, Brooklyn. He expanded his business to include renovation of hand picked townhouses and needed a way to publicize the properties and find buyers.

We created a site for his latest renovation which will also be used as a template for future listings as he renovates other properties.

Also check out the site we created for Daniel’s Architecture work.

From the beginning we were very excited about designing Kris’ website because she started off by telling us how awesome our work is and how she wanted us to come up with original animated art to be the theme for her site.

As inspiration Kris showed us a book by Eric Carle. We made a bunch of paintings and cut out pieces to bring into flash, where animation superhero, Kim Hui, brought them to life. Check out the finished animations by clicking the screenshots below:

JOBS: Computers are actually pretty simple. We’re sitting here on a bench in this cafe [for this part of the Interview]. Let’s assume that you understood only the most rudimentary of directions and you asked how to find the rest room. I would have to describe it to you in very specific and precise instructions. I might say, “Scoot sideways two meters off the bench. Stand erect. Lift left foot. Bend left knee until it is horizontal. Extend left foot and shift weight 300 centimeters forward …” and on and on. If you could interpret all those instructions 100 times faster than any other person in this cafe, you would appear to be a magician: You could run over and grab a milk shake and bring it back and set it on the table and snap your fingers, and I’d think you made the milk shake appear, because it was so fast relative to my perception. That’s exactly what a computer does. It takes these very, very simple-minded instructions—”Go fetch a number, add it to this number, put the result there, perceive if it’s greater than this other number”—but executes them at a rate of, let’s say, 1,000,000 per second. At 1,000,000 per second, the results appear to be magic. That’s a simple explanation, and the point is that people really don’t have to understand how computers work. Most people have no concept of how an automatic transmission works, yet they know how to drive a car. You don’t have to study physics to understand the laws of motion to drive a car. You don’t have to understand any of this stuff to use Macintosh—but you asked [laughs].

This one was driving us nuts for a while. We had two images that were identical in size and resolution, yet one looked pixelated (aliased) on the iPhone while the other was sharp. Looking through the code didn’t help, everything was identical…

Luckily we had saved the original Photoshop files as templates and were able to go back and figure out that when saved for the web, the pixelated one had the progressive box ‘unchecked’ and the sharp one had progressive ‘checked’…

We haven’t found this mentioned anywhere on the Google. If anyone else has experienced this please comment. Also it may be more complicated than this maybe a combination of things, but just changing this checkbox seems to have fixed it for us.

* Disclaimer: The cat image above is a dramatization, we fixed the problem on the iphone before taking screenshots, but this is pretty much how bad it looked…