Feet Want Out
Mondays can be a bit drab so here the world by a dreamy foot, a colorful animation by The Three Legged Legs (cool name). Not only did the Legs animate one of three fantastical spots, but they also directed all of the live action counterparts for the BBDO + Havaianas campaign. So yeah, big deal, it's a commercial, but a good one, a happy one.
Gosh, how I miss summer.
Scoop: The New Zooadventurer Design?
Though I can't confirm it, reliable sources say this will be the new design of this site, Zooadventurer. Lots need to be done (as you can see yourself) but the general feeling is there. It's sorta back to an earlier one, which was kinda grayish too remember, but sure more polished, more refined. Well, I guess we will see the final result soon.
Or as someone already pointed to me: Let's hope so cause the present one had it's momentum, but is getting a bit boring don't you think? I mean 'corn?', jeez...
English Language Works
Ah well, another website design by me, my first corporate one, and yes, this week it went online. Englishlanguageworks is the language course site of David Maytum (based in the Netherlands), and not only is he a nice guy, he excels in his job too. Check it out for yourself.
Showcase
The day that heaps of people rush out to down todays top story ( Will Harry die or not? Will there be life after the story ends? The suspense...), my little surprise moment was less global, awaited with fewer anticipation, nah, on hindsight is was more like a sudden (but sorta friendly it turned out) tab on the shoulder with a grumpy morning temper me turning around, "Yeah, wot?".
The deal, I did make it to the Rapidweaver Showcase page. That is, the design of zooadventurer did. Yeah, they have started pampering me with vanity, put me on a pedestal. And oh boy, I hadn't even started yet, this all just in bloody beta stage, and what is worse, kinda intentional too. I mean my ideas are not moulded in bronze, I always prefer to present myself as jelly.
Ok, ok, I am sort of pleased, uhu, I can be, surprisingly. But still, the idea of becoming a kind of rolemodel, me, jeez... It scares the shit out of me. I mean, instead of just bumming around, pleading guilty, I excel in that too, suddenly it feels like the world wants me to live up to some sublime standard, and maintain on those glorious heights. Sounds impossible.
So is this a warning? Is this is what they mean by growing up, the hard way? Perhaps. I should have known. Damn, it was meant to happen one day, 'being thirty' already chilling for a while on the beach of time. But even though, me?
Freelance Switch
Ah, the amazing world of backlinking.
Last week I participated in the Freelancer Survey held by the excellent Freelance Switch site. This survey (which is still going on, just click this or the logo to have your try) aims to compile the collective knowledge for the benefit of freelancers everywhere, and gosh, as big as that sounds, they even give away some prices, like a desksitter screengazer dream the wii. Anyway, it took, just as promised, about 10 minutes. After that I put the logo in my sidebar, and then sort of forgot about it.
Until this morning. Sipping coffee, doing my regular blogs, getting my brains to work, I also went through my Google Analytics, and wow, the visitor count had skyrocketed from an average of 10 to a stunning 84! All of a sudden the Himalaya showed up in my usual Dutch mountain graphs. What happened? Did a busload of fans crash down on my site? Did I write something funny, remarkable, unique (all as in stupid)? Well duh, brilliance as ever a faraway dream, as it turned out Freelance Switch had linked back to my site on it's blog. I got a present, a reward for the effort so to speak, that's what happened.
So how does it feel you may wonder, visited so many times? Well, I had a good laugh. And, as important, I finally had a not so beside the point subject for this blog. That's something, not?
Play For Today
Remember JD Salinger's 'The Catcher in The Rye' 
, that coming of age book that at least a zillion teens read in the old days? Excellent. You did like it?
Anyway I just reread it and look now, another redesign of my website. Is it what I had in mind? Or more important do I like it? Well, hate to say it, but no, in both ways I feel I let myself down. So, guess I will start all over again in the next couple of days. The reason I did publish it here is for some vain reason of showing of my non-skills, which is also the perfect description of my metal state of mind. At best this is a work of progress, a pepertum mobile of right steps in the wrong direction, or the other way round, beats me.
Fade To Grey
Anyway, for whatever reason then to be, Gingerbread Man is falling (flying for the optimistic ones), the background color remains 3b3b3b, at least for a while, and while i was cutting webshapes, I enhanced the visual comfortzone, yes i still love to please, so pictures with a border of 3px are expandable (it looks neat, not?), the 1px ones do not.
Further, well its obvious, all changes do not guarantee anything for the future. Ok? Ok.
From A Balance Beam
Anyway, finally got part of my FAQ's posted, the mini one. Also put on this neat hover effect over the blog entry titles, making restless mouse movements so much more rewarding. In short, its all about cosmetics today. All about looking good..
So, yes, do i have to remind you to get rid of Explorer 6.0? Coz really, that browser puts this all thru a grinder; why settle down for mashed potatoes while you could have a mouth drooling dinner? Get Firefox, or if you still wanna remain a Microsoft affiendo, update it to 7.0. Ok?
A Nomad World (1)
Some are wondering what's this new thing in Zoo world? What is he up too? And above all, will he not get bored with it, drift away again?Ok, time for some answers. First Conrad is not alone in his, uhm... dreams. A whole community is behind this. For instance, lets call her Emma, a pleasant name to go around. Don't know her, but I guess she's in the same league: independence on own terms, money (income, flatscreen tv, ipod, fancy clothes) not the goal but just a means to go around pleasantly. Maybe she likes to travel just as much as Conrad? Maybe she likes to share her knowledge while doing so with others - and get a living with that too? Check her website (about Cypress, lovely place) and you know what Conrad is doing.
Yip. Luxury is doing what's in your system.
Waiting Room aka Lounge
It seems that I have changed the link 'Travels' into 'Lounge'. Anyway, eventually this part of my site will be the main part of this website. In time I will split it further into 'Arrival' and 'Departure' (which will be part of the entry page as well). It seems like a logical thing to do thinking of all the possibilities to make this effort going on with The Airport analogy, which is in the visuals already, as stated yesterday. Ah well, see what happens. Probably it will turn out to be something completely different, losing interest, or that other personal weakness, boredom.
So what do ya think. Leave a comment. You will be the first. It's nice to be the first one, isn't it? So go ahead.
Black box
Anyway, life without symbols is kinda boring aint it? Think of Leonardo Di Caprio in Spielbergs 'Catch me if you can'. I am my own captain over here.
Also, I like the color schemes. Lifting off or chrashing down, it's all a orange and blue frenzy, a visual blast.
ps. the contact form (About-Contact) doesn't seem to work cause of a bug in the app I am using. Hope this will get solved soon.
ps. solved, working now (02-08-06)
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