A place for our creative musings on web-design, technology, and life.
Continuing the saga of interesting media I have found this week… I heard the song “Code Monkey Like Fritos” for the first time on TWIT.tv and just couldn’t help but track it down and add it to my blog. For all you programmer’s out there with day jobs you do not enjoy, this one is for you! It’s great to listen to even if only for a few laughs.
There’s a hilarious video titled “The Breakup” available over at Dailymotion.com that poses the question:
Are you communicating with your customers, or merely advertising to them?
Bring back the love!
I just spotted this advert on Youtube and I thought it would be worthwhile posting to the blog. Car adverts rarely stick out for me, but this one really was quite innovative and classy. Perhaps one day we could all drive to work like this. Introducing the new Nissan Qashqai.
Simple Station is proud to announce the launch of two new sites.
The first site was built for Rebecca Wellman who is a local photographer in Victoria. We’ve worked hard over the past few weeks blending her unique photographic style and artistry with texture, colour, and typography, and we’re thrilled with the result. The site utilizes a flash photo gallery that is tied to a back-end administration system that allows Rebecca to easily upload new photos to her homepage and portfolio.
The second site was built for the Canadian Christian Science Committee on Publication. The Christian Science Committee on Publication in Canada is comprised of Christian Science branch church members who are appointed to give accurate information to the media, legislature, and public regarding Christian Science and Mary Baker Eddy. The design features photography from across Canada, and is presented in such a way that as the browser window gets wider, the more you see of the photo. We love the look and feel of the site, and so does our client. Simple, intuitive, and sleek. Additionally we have integrated a blog into the site which will allow the Committee to post upcoming news and events. RSS feeds and Email subscriptions are also built into the blog so that individuals who wish to stay current with news from the Committee can easily get fresh news updates.
I was on Saltspring Island last weekend for a little camping and stopped at a local organic coffee shop for a cup of tea. While enjoying the company of one of my good friends I spotted a great quote on one of the walls that really caught my attention. With some digital enhancement I've turned it into a desktop background.
The earthen walls of this coffee shop were so cool! This quote hit home with 2 points for me.
First, in business it often seems to me that more of us could be challenged or pushed to prove our maturity over our own egos or wrong perceptions of others. More good in the world could certainly be done if we all demonstrated a little more humility and maturity in our daily tasks.
Second, with the growing concern about global warming I think this quote from Rachel Carson bears significant importance. I recently watched Al Gore’s movie “An Inconvenient Truth” that addresses a number of emerging climate crises. Interestingly, Al Gore states that we have all the technology, all the brainpower, and all the resources that are necessary to reverse the effects of global warming, but what we need most is a change in public thought. Rather than constantly striving to demonstrate our mastery over nature, we really ought to be exercising greater self–discipline and really caring for our environment in whatever way we can. Make time to do your part.
With this in mind, I just received my MEC (Mountain Equipment Co-Op) spring catalog. I was excited to see that they have just joined 1% for the planet, which is an organization of businesses that have agreed to pay 1% of their profits to benefit environmental organizations. Along with compostable shopping bags and many other neat ways to improve the environment, they're on the right track. Congratulations MEC!
