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three artists

Here are, in no particular order, my three favorite artists at the moment…
1. Jim Flora: His album covers for RCA are diabolically unsettling and beautiful. Reminiscent of a cross between Picasso and Aztec/Incan art. Great color sense as well, creating complex arrangements from a deceptively simple palette.

 
2 Charley Harper: Charley termed his style ‘minimal realism’ […]


css hack - conditional comments in IE

Here’s a neat hack. Using conditional comments in Internet Explorer to serve browser specific CSS rules.
Cool - No longer have to use the ‘html>body’ hack to bypass IE’s faulty box model implementation; Only rules specific to IE have to be in the extra file.
Uncool -multiple CSS files have to be maintained.
Overall, this simplifies development immensely.


the popular cavemen

Here’s a layout for a site I’m doing for another local band. Getting the white triangle and cross in place was a little tricky with CSS but I eventually got it figured out. I’m currently searching for a good image optimization program to try and bring the page weight down.


my superpowers

My younger brother Steve is a martial artist. He must be pretty good because he’s competed in tournaments in Hong Kong and China and even medalled a couple of times. He once said that he felt like martial arts were his secret superpower, an amazing hidden ability that no one around him was ever aware […]