David Emery OnlineCombining Cufon and @font-face
Everyone wants @font-face to work everywhere, but as it stands, it only works in Safari and the upcoming versions of Firefox and Opera. In this article I’ll show you how to use Cufón only if we can’t load the font through other, faster methods.
This looks like a very good solution, and could probably be adapted to work with sIFR as well if you so wished.
Visit ➔Now That's What I Call Unrecouped
Common wisdom has it that the artists who get record deals then go straight to the bargain bins are by definition not very good. But this is myopic. Quite often they aren’t very good, it’s true, but some of them are there due to bad timing, bad luck, wrong single choice or simply that Jo Whiley’s producer decided they didn’t like the record.
Brilliant stuff. There are quite a few bands that I’ve worked with over the years that I’d add to this list, but I’m not going to name names as I think for some it might be a bit soon (the wounds are still fresh…).
Visit ➔The Veils at the ICA
Back in the tail end of deepest, darkest January I had probably the busiest day I’ve had for quite some time. I’d like to think that ‘busy’ is something I can deal with reasonably well, but the schedule for the day was pretty punishing:
11:00 – Go to the ICA where The Veils are filming a video to take some photos
14:00 – Hot-tail it over to Ladbroke Grove for a project meeting.
16:00 – Back to the ICA for more photo taking.
19:00 – Go straight from the ICA to see Blue Roses play St. Giles church (and take photos).
20:45 – Go to the BFI for BUG hosted by Adam Buxton.
Phew.
Luckily, all that running around has actually achieved something; yesterday saw the release of the new Veils album ‘Sun Gangs’ – which is really rather lovely – and if you look inside underneath the CD you’ll see a photo from the video shoot taken by me:
You can see the original photo here.
Isn’t that nice? Typically enough they picked a completely different photo to use...
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Posterous – The place to post everything. Just email us. Dead simple blog by email.
I’d checked out Posterous a while back but forgotten about it for being maybe a bit to simple (I forget exactly why, to be honest) but they seem to be rocking a pretty good service at the moment. You just email them at post@posterous.com and they take care of the rest – setting up a blog, hosting the images/audio/video attachments you send, the works basically.
The key for me is that they also let that data be sucked out again as well, either via RSS or direct via the MetaWebLog API which means they’re a perfect (free) backend service to power post-via-email onto pretty much any site. Incredibly handy if – like me – you look after 50+ Textpattern sites that need to be maintained by a bunch of people that can’t necessarily be inclined to deal with logging into a CMS on a regular basis.
Visit ➔No Rock And Roll Fun: 25,000
Music. It’s bloody brilliant, isn’t it?
No Rock And Roll Fun is one of my favourite music blogs, and one of the few UK based ones at that. Well worth reading if you’re not already.
Visit ➔Girls - Lust For Life
One of the best things I've heard come out of SXSW - more please! Via abeano.com
Visit ➔God Help The Girl
The new project from Belle and Sebastian’s Stuart Murdoch, which we launched yesterday. Contains my first use of the new CSS 3 ‘column-count’ property to have multiple columns of text, which was so crazy easy (and degrades nicely to one column in IE) that I’m probably going to use it all over the place now…
Visit ➔The Archives
As some of you may know I have a rather severe case of redesign-itis – this site has hardly kept one design for more then 6 months since I started writing here. Total design itchy fingers.
Don’t worry RSS readers, I haven’t redesigned again – you can rest easy. However, my css-tourettes has finally paid some dividends. If you were at SXSW Interactive (oh how I wished to be there… maybe next year!) you may have caught Paul Annett’s presentation entitled ‘Oooh, that’s Clever! (Unnatural Experiments in Web Design)’ which was all about interesting and unusual tricks, gems and easter eggs hidden in websites:
It’s very much worth a listen to – if you don’t have time, at the very least skim through the slides and open up all the referenced sites as there’s a lot of really inspiring sites in there. You’ll also notice that Paul very kindly referenced a couple of the versions of this site (thanks Paul!) which is very flattering – the goal of every redesign I do it to try and elicit an ‘Oooh, that’s Clever!’ type of...
Read more ➔Celebration Electric Tarot
We as Celebration, have felt the continual growth of web culture’s need for barrier-free exchange. We also feel that the traditional methods of releasing music have put too much distance between us. As we see it, the current music business model is crumbling. The birth of the MP3 has dreampt the death of the CD, and so all across the board Cd sales have dropped. What has given way is something so magical and evolutionary, that we have only begun to understand the cultural impact of this sharing. So, past the piles of broken CD cases and badly scratched, polycarbonate, rainbow discs, there lies a fantastic world of freedom—freedom to share instantly with little or no impact on the evironment, in a seemingly infinite, eternal and virtually cost free universe of the World Wide Web. This is our emancipation. Without the need for manufacturing CDs and the danse macabre of the promotional corporate machine, we can be free to release our music when and how we want—no waiting. we know nothing of the marketing world and don’t care about the vampires anymore.
Our plan and experiment is to post new songs monthly, as we create and record them. Under the creative commons attribution non-commercial share alike license, all of our new music will be free to download on our new website. When we have enough music for an album, we will release it on vinyl for those who want to have something to hold. As artists we can only stand for our music, our art, our creation. So here it is—laid bare.
Good luck to them – I’m a big fan. If you have the means, making your music free like this could have some interesting repercussions artistically (free of the shackles of the album format, ‘hit singles’ and the like).
Visit ➔Department of Eagles - No One Does It Like You
A simply lovely video for one of the best tracks of last year.
I particularly like the singing ghosts:
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