this blog is dead

i'll always love you, internet. but i love lots of other things more (now). thanks for the fun. xxx bye. xxx

the future is not now, not yet

10 future web trends of the read/write web.

groovle

Groovle is your Groovy Google Custom Search Homepage. Groovle was created so people can customize their Internet homepage with images ranging from favorite celebrities or sports teams to more personal images of friends and family etc.

With Groovle you can create a personal homepage using your own photos. Simply select the file from your computer, upload the image, and the custom homepage is created.

more photoshop beauty

animoto

move over 'death of the author', pretty soon editors will be redundant, too.

animoto - just upload, click, click again and you've made a short video. this is generative art if ever i've seen it.

here's a silly one i prepared earlier (well, sorta).

HBO ad magic

oh, i like this HBO ad. i could watch it for hours and hours.

how tall are you?

this graph has confirmed what i've always suspected - i am tall.

visumap

an online mind-map. quite cool.

i'm back

it's been a long time since i've blogged properly - at least 6 months, i think. and while i don't promise a return to form, i am trying to bring the love back to jo gray blogs. so enjoy these recent offerings and please accept my sincere apologies. your support has been noted.

feel free to poke me if i get lost again.

octopie

oh this is the cutest plush toy ever created.

gamers and their avatars

putting the first face to the second life.

rise of the deviants

a flash pop book animation game ad.

the evolution of apple

pictured below: my very first and most recent mac.

photosynth demo

i can't wait for the future .

try it yourself.

thanks jo

2 new things (oops, make that 4)

two great things happened this week.

i set up a book club with 6 other enthusiastic ladies and tim got a new job.

he'll be a roving reporter for channel nine news. if you're not in melbourne, you can still catch his national stories, so pay close attention!

i love this city, i love my husband... hopefully i'll love my book club!

UPDATE: Oh, and how could I forget? Myke and Mil and Jess and Pete got engaged! There must be something in the water...

running the numbers

from the site:

Running the Numbers
An American Self-Portrait

This new series looks at contemporary American culture through the austere lens of statistics. Each image portrays a specific quantity of something: fifteen million sheets of office paper (five minutes of paper use); 106,000 aluminum cans (thirty seconds of can consumption) and so on. My hope is that images representing these quantities might have a different effect than the raw numbers alone, such as we find daily in articles and books. Statistics can feel abstract and anesthetizing, making it difficult to connect with and make meaning of 3.6 million SUV sales in one year, for example, or 2.3 million Americans in prison, or 426,000 cell phones retired every day. This project visually examines these vast and bizarre measures of our society, in large intricately detailed prints assembled from thousands of smaller photographs.

typography

a stylish and informative motion graphic.

via ektopia

bikes and birthdays

i bought a bike on monday night and hopefully it'll be delivered tomorrow. i can't wait - it's been so long since i've been in the saddle.

big shout out to the special birthdayness people this week. three of my dearest turn 30, 31 and 33 - phew, i'm exhausted just thinking about it.

why am i so attracted to geminis?