Hot on the heels of Minute, here comes Hedgehog, my first song in English for 1 mot, 1 chanson. I was reading Harper’s Weekly Review when I stumbled on this story of a new-zealander who was arrested for throwing a hedgehog at a 15 year-old boy. There was nothing I could do. I might just…
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1 mot, 1 chanson: Minute
I’ve just posted a second song on the 1 mot, 1 chanson site. I wrote this one soon after the first one, but it took a while to convince Pamela to sing it (the story is told from a woman’s point of view). She’s horrified by the result and has been wearing earplugs while I’ve…
Synchronization
Here’s one that’s been all over the net recently, and understandably so. It is quite magical, even though there is no magic involved.
1 mot, 1 chanson: Design Notes
I wanted a grungy looking site for 1 mot, 1 chanson. With textures, and torn paper edges, and dirty scotch-tape, and ink blotches, and fingerprints, and coffee rings, and, well, you get the idea. So I went scouring the WordPress web looking for inspiration, and ended up using Modicus by Upstart Blogger. I couldn’t be…
1 mot, 1 chanson
I’m launching a new musical experiment today: 1 mot, 1 chanson (a word, a song). Here’s the pitch: I like to write songs around lyrics. But inspiration doesn’t always come running when you call. So when the muses are playing hard to get, why not pick a word at random, tell the first story that…
Vista Rocks
Apple and Pixar aren’t the only cool and creative companies around. Take Microsoft for example. They went to the trouble of producing the following mesmerizing video (by Bruce ServicePack and the Vista Street Band, I’m not making this shit up) to motivate their own troops. I think I’m going to have to rethink my assumptions…
Amazing Incestuous Teleworking News
A while back, I started a blog on teleworking, télétravail 2.0 (in French). I don’t update it that often, but it has garnered a little interest, judging by the comments and questions posted by readers on the site. Meanwhile, on the English-language Web, the teleworking blog of reference seems to be Web Worker Daily, which…
ABC3D
This video presentation of an amazing 3D pop-up alphabet book by French designer Marion Bataille has been popping up all over the design Web, and I can’t resist linking to it any longer. Beautiful, clever, inspired.
Ironic Sans: Idea: The Bulbdial Clock
Ironic Sans: Idea: The Bulbdial Clock Pretty cool design idea, which brings the sundial into the 21st century…
Spacer
I’m not inspired to write much these days, especially since I’m done cataloging the decline and fall of murka (except occasionally in the Google Shared Items list over there on the right, and frogblog does it better than I ever did), and because I’m working on things that I can’t or don’t want to divulge.…