It’s time for a heart to heart. This place hasn’t seen serious action in a long while, it verily is embarrassing. I could soliloquize about the preoccupations that kept me away, but I’d rather move forward and announce that the Reflections are being retired. The format felt laborious, I just wasn’t comfortable. Twitter and Tumblr [...]
Jean Cocteau, among the many things he is famous for, said the following:
“Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.”
I believe his statement relates remarkably to the Web 2.0 phenomenon and the monstrosity it has spawned within the [...]
My recent work on the Effervescence zenphoto theme got me in the mood for a little CSS coding but I got somewhat carried away and wrote up an entirely new version of the blog. Despite concerns regarding the light on dark format, I decided to take this route because it is one I have seldom [...]
After the thugs from the zenphoto forums coerced me in a back alley and took turns beating me with a golf club, I wholeheartedly agreed to release this theme. So here it is.
Effervescence is a rather simple theme which I originally created for my own use, deriving the work I had done on my blog. [...]
Of the many special logos created for Google over the years the version displayed at Google.fr for the Quatorze Juillet (Bastille day) is the first that clearly read “Gongle”. Gongle. It sounds a bit naughty.
Yesterday I put the finishing touches on my other creative project on the web, what I now call Effervescent Gallery. My goal was to take what previously was disjointed addendum to the blog, and infuse it with a certain continuity. I decided to retain Effervescent Reflections’ color scheme and font structure but reshape it to [...]
If you’re a perspicacious individual, you may have noticed some changes in the menu bar - notably the introduction of a new section which I have dubbed “Currently“. In an effort to separate my activity elsewhere on the web from the musings I propose here, I have created a page that groups my latest conceptions [...]