Beautiful login page showcasing CSS parallax effect

Heroku.com

Resize the screen to see parallax in effect

Javascript clock

from Raphaël—JavaScript Library

Smooshy brain, branding time

I’m worn-out from a heavy work week, looking for a brain escape. Exactly the perfect time for me to stumble upon your bright, cute video with soothing electro music!

(from MCM – Mode Creation Munich)

Animated gifs my first love

"Los Angeles, November 2019, Part III (I, II)" Blade Runner (1982)

“Why do you smile that way? l never know if you’re judging me, absolving me or mocking me.” 8½ (1963)

From If we don’t, remember me, via BoingBoing

JoeMcGinty.com

Officially launched www.joemcginty.com today! The launch coincides with the video premiere of Joe’s cover of Mike Oldfield’s Tubular Bells, which features his vast vintage keyboard collection played by a bunch of rad NYC girl keyboardists. I’m in there somewhere!

I was inspired by the woodgrain detail that many of those old keyboards have. I wanted to give his site the same vintage feel, like a Southern California den from the 70s.

Thanks to George Miguel for all his excellent backend work on the project, steadfastness, encouragement and general loveliness.

Christine Rosamond’s Women

Recently my friend Ce Ce Chin, creative director of the awesome shoe line 80%20, turned me onto the works of Christine Rosamond when she guest blogged for The Daily Knickerbocker.

Rosamond’s work is affecting because of its spareness and sureness of line, soft color palette, use of negative space, and most compellingly, the direct, unflinching gaze of her subjects. Ce Ce calls her women “beautiful, defiant, free spirited and yet vulnerable. They are both knowing and longing.” The duality of knowing and longing strikes a deep chord. I love the languid mood that her drawing style evokes.

Rosemary

Asia

Rosamond’s life story is rife with themes of identity-seeking, self-doubt, rebellion, intense passion, destructive insecurity — themes universal to many women. Her mother was controlling and violent, and stifled her nascent talent in favor of her brother’s art; the women in her work shuck off any hint of the retreating doormat that might have formed from such repression, and instead radiate confidence, sensuality, sophistication, and power. Even a woman sitting in her car in the path of a steam train blithely smokes a cigarette, showing no apparent concern for her imminent demise. No wonder Rosamond outsold Norman Rockwell and Salvador Dali in the 70s, when women were experiencing liberation and wanted visual totems of their new-found freedom.

Summer Mood

Rachel

self–portrait?

The Crossing

Rosamond died by drowning in the Pacific Ocean in 1994. She was swept away in the undertow. Interestingly, there doesn’t seem to be a Wikipedia entry for her.

Last Work (1994)

Christmas windows

It’s supposed to snow 5 inches tonight in New York….now’s a perfect time to revisit the fantasy windows from Bergdorf’s while sipping hot cocoa.

Our intrepid explorer always dresses appropriately for space travel

‘Where shall we go tonight?’

Her trusty sidekick Davina always at her side

‘Davina, that nebula system looks just like my Swarovski clutch!’

Her oldest and best friend 'Suitcase'...

...and sweet but shy 'Ocho' keep them company on long journeys

Not to be outdone, her baby sister prepares for a journey to the center of the earth

Which ocean will provide the shortest route?

Maybe the constellations can be her guide

Of course they both plan to be back in time for the holiday ball

Who will wear the ostrich?

The fastest way back from the earth's core is giraffe-necked antelope...

...and this, bien sûr, is the swiftest way back from space!