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Recommended Viewing

• 300†
  Does exactly what it says on the (comic book) tin. Loved it.
• Little Miss Sunshine†
  Very funny, disturbing (the beauty pageant) and completely messed up -- but in a good way.
• Laputa: Castle in the Sky†
  Story great, characterization a little on the weak side -- though the big robots are cool.
• Porco Rosso†
  Stylish, funny, exciting.
• Grave of the Fireflies†
  Very sad, which was a little unexpected since I didn't know much about it before watching it. Can be a little too slow in places though, otherwise it's very good.
• Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind†
  The story can get a little dense at times what with the various factions, but still really enjoyable, inventive and engaging.
• X-Men: The Last Stand†
  Opportunity, talent, money - all blown. Over 3 films X-Men has hinted of something great that could have been, this last one says "No, sorry - not going to happen". Bah.

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Loretta Lux

I found this link on Kottke, the photographic works of Loretta Lux. I think her work is beautiful, a touch of the erie or ethereal about them, can't make my mind up. Anyway, my favourite is "The Wanderer".

Also via Kottke, the Graphic Design Olympics, gold medal to the pictograms for the 1972 Munich games.

0 CommentsAugust 24, 2004

Ruby On Rails

A few months ago I started looking at Maypole, a Model-View-Control (MVC) framework written by Simon Cozens. Most web sites can be modelled as MVC, any application that can build MVC apps, web sites, with less labour is therefore a fundamentally good thing for us, and the customer's wallet.

Maypole however turned out to be a little too rough around the edges, what we needed was something that a designer here could come to terms with. That's where Rails came in, via 37Signals and their Basecamp web app.

Within a couple of days I was able to put together a basic web app, with a product, details of the product and an inventory listing on the local server. It's pretty cool so far, the only small problem being a production environment. Our current host package with Dreamhost is a shared server, so we can't run FastCGI or mod_ruby. For now though, while we're not doing anything too intense, it's fine in plain CGI.

0 CommentsAugust 24, 2004

Version 2

This is version 2 of the company website, released today 24th Aug, 2004. Version 1 is kept here. Hope you like the new one. :)

0 CommentsAugust 24, 2004