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Artist Spotted!

June 4th, 2010

While traveling through Jerusalem, at the new Mamilla mall outside of the old city I saw these most remarkably alluring paintings. A playful surrealist rendition of metaphorical and faintly familiar images makes these painting fascinating to look at and I always find a sight smile brought to my lips. Painted by Israeli artist Orna Ben-Shoshan, the works have a wonderfully youthful energy and unique character. Learn more about her, view and by her work at her website http://www.ben-shoshan.com/. Sure the site is not anything spectacular, but her work is definitely worth the time. Enjoy!

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Yo, dude I left my instrument at my mom’s, can I borrow your Tesla coil?!?

June 3rd, 2010

Okay, so maybe this does not really have all that much to do with Design, the Graphics or Web Dev, but this is pretty ridiculous! Check it out.

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IAmCaplan Gets a Facelift

May 19th, 2010

And not a moment too soon. Well, I have been talking about doing this for way to long and at last I have it finished…or at least I have come close as I am going to get. Since the minute I launched the IAmCaplan version 2.0, I have been talking about wanting to redesign my site. Well now I have. God only knows when it will happen again, but I am pretty pleased with how it turned out. I guess what they say is true, I truly am my worst client. I had all sorts of delays due to bugs and arduous process of redeveloping my content.

Anyway, I tip my hat to the old IAmCaplan and say hello IAmCaplan version 3.0. Seeing as the the site is brand squeaky new, there may be a few little bugs or glitches here and there. If you see anything, let me know so that I can polish it up. The new IAmCaplan comes loaded with all sorts of fun new features including: a much more contemporary design, custom jQuery, social media, some fun resources, all new content (including a case study-esque portfolio style), some new works and of course the blog is back! Oh yeah, I also stopped supporting IE6 (rest in peace old…er…friend?!?).

I hope that you enjoy the new site and I look forward to your feed back. :-)

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Incase you did not want the iPad before…

May 1st, 2010

Okay, so maybe I’m lusting after the super sick over sized iPhone, but common, tell me that that is not cool! Legality and death trap aside (I can only imagine first time driving teenagers around the world surfing the web while driving–texting and driving in overdrive), an iPad car dashboard console?!?! While this has the potential to be extremely abused, it also has the potential to be very awesome, especially with the new GPS enabled iPad 3G. Why does technology always have to look so good?

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HTML 5, the return to HTML and Fall of Flash?

April 30th, 2010

On January 22nd, 2008, W3C published a working draft for HTML 5, with the latest (4th) draft having been released in March of 2010. There are lots of cool new features that have been added and sweet modifications to HTML in HTML5. Many people will argue that HTML5 will lower the demand for flash in websites and eventually cause flash to fizzle out. I’m am not sure that I am willing t0 jump on that band wagon yet, but HTML5 does seem pretty cool.

The new HTML defines a syntax that is compatible with HTML4, XHTML and XML. There have been several tags that have been deprecated or changed as well as new tags that have been added. Many of the changes are most notable with respect to their use with JavaScript (most notably the CANVAS tag), but there are also some that will effect general HTML coding as well (like the VIDEO and AUDIO tags). While many of the tags are not yet working and it will still be a bit longer before HTML5 is fully accepted, it will be fully accepted as AOL, Apple (big time to cover their butts with the whole Flash terms of service 3.3.1 article), Google, IBM, Microsoft (a bit ironic as IE is the death of all new web technologies), Mozilla, Nokia, Opera, and many hundreds of other vendors are all in full support of HTML5. Taken right for the W3C website “HTML 5 is not a W3C recommendation yet!”, so don’t pitch the HTML4 or XHTML that you have been coding with. This said, learn it now because it will break out soon. But enough banter, what is new and what is better? Read the rest of this entry »

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