Jonathan Moore

Joshua Tree Under the Milky Way Timelapse video of the Perseid...

Sun, 05 Sep 2010 09:25:45 -0700

Joshua Tree Under the Milky Way

Timelapse video of the Perseid Meteor Shower and the galactic core of the Milky Way as seen from Joshua Tree National Park.

Shot by Henry Jun Wah Lee using a Canon 5D Mark II, EF 16-35mm L. at f/2.8, 6400 ISO with 20 second exposures.

Building a Custom HTML5 Audio Player with jQuery

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 07:57:18 -0700

Building a Custom HTML5 Audio Player with jQuery:

Ben Bodien, who also masterminds a lot of the jQuery, HTML5, and CSS3 material for Authentic Jobs, explains what it took to make Tim Van Damme’s audio player design for The Box a reality.

Via Cameron Moll

Abandoned Six Flags New Orleans This is probably the riskiest...

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 11:02:39 -0700

Abandoned Six Flags New Orleans

This is probably the riskiest location we’ve been. Before we decided to take our chances and journey out to this iconic location, we took notice of all the stories we had heard of others trying their luck at getting in. There were rumors of a guard tentatively watching the perimeter and grounds. Other stories said that people were caught by workers or police. And it seemed to be a consistent critique. So we took a gamble and decided to go. Only, to our surprise, it was relatively easy to get in, completely vacant of any guards or watchmen, and we were pleasantly greeted by two other groups of young guys who were just exploring the park for fun. We stayed for a couple of hours and had a blast. It was an unusual feeling being in an entire rotting amusement park (almost) completely alone.

See the entire shoot by Brynne Chalmers on Flickr.

Via Soup

BonBon Buttons I first spotted the experimental CSS3 buttons on...

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 10:33:34 -0700

BonBon Buttons

I first spotted the experimental CSS3 buttons on Dribbble last week, and now the interactive designer, simurai, posted a demo of the buttons on his site. Overall the implementation is well done and all it needs is a few hacks to get it working on older browsers and IE. The buttons also feature Drew Wilson’s font-face icon set Pictos.

"Online video creators, advertisers and producers have an unhealthy fascination with viral videos,..."

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 12:18:07 -0700

“Online video creators, advertisers and producers have an unhealthy fascination with viral videos, and that obsession is dragging down the entire industry. Why? Because viral videos are, at their core, no better than a fluffernutter white-bread sandwich, delivering little or no value to anyone.”

- Screw Viral Videos. You Heard Me. Pass It On via Wired

Idea Shaping

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 12:12:16 -0700

Idea Shaping:

One idea at a time. Preferably one you love.

The 26 year-old serial entrepreneurs Spencer Fry—creator of Carbonmade—shares his thoughts on focusing on one idea at a time and fighting off entrepreneur A.D.D.

Thankfully, there is a cure for “Entrepreneur’s A.D.D.” and that’s to fall in love with a single idea, what I like to call an “I’m in Love Idea”. You’ll know it when it happens.

Over the summer I have been actively turning down client work in an effort to focus on my “I’m in Love Idea”. During this shift from running a consulting and service based digital studio to creating and selling digital goods I will be sharing my ideas and thoughts about the process—tag: shift.

PATTERNS - Design Insights Emerging and Coverging

Tue, 24 Aug 2010 16:29:11 -0700

PATTERNS - Design Insights Emerging and Coverging:

Before concepts or ideas become trends patterns begin to emerge.

PATTERNS are how we capture and share some of the common insights we see bubbling up across projects, as well as out and about in the world. They are a foundation for intuition. A way to elevate insights to the level of cultural impact. And a way to tap into IDEO’s collective intelligence to do better work for our clients—even faster.

Read their current issue on Advocates In Bloom as well as the 28 other archived issues.

Arcade Fire Tour Posters Designed by Ben LaFond and Dan Black,...

Tue, 24 Aug 2010 09:46:42 -0700

Arcade Fire Tour Posters

Designed by Ben LaFond and Dan Black, the new Arcade Fire tour posters are fantastic. From the color pallet to the design details they managed to visually capture the sound of the new album—The Suburbs.

Via Kistune Noir

Nike - World Basketball Festival Working with Nike, Buck...

Mon, 23 Aug 2010 13:53:21 -0700

Nike - World Basketball Festival

Working with Nike, Buck directed and produced one 30 sec spot for TV and a plethora of other animated goodness that coated multiple screens in Times Square for the World Basketball Festival in NYC. Character design by Saiman Chow, sound design and music by John Black / CypherAudio.

Vintage Technology Collection of 100+ 1970s Vintage desktop and...

Mon, 23 Aug 2010 13:43:30 -0700

Vintage Technology

Collection of 100+ 1970s Vintage desktop and pocket calculators.

Via Cool Hunting

Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the...

Sun, 22 Aug 2010 22:14:32 -0700

Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive.
- Andrew Grove

It must be the paranoia, because I’m sitting down at 10pm on a Sunday evening in order to launch out a new project early this week.

Reblogged from Startup Quote

How Branding and Transparency Help charity: water Stand...

Fri, 20 Aug 2010 09:19:29 -0700

How Branding and Transparency Help charity: water Stand Out

Scott Harrison from charity: water stopped by the new 37signals office to speak to the team about the unconventional ways that charity: water stands out from other charities through branding and transparency.

Another key to CW’s success is that 100% of donations are used for direct water project costs. (A group of private donors, foundations and sponsors help pay for the everyday costs of running the organization.) CW even pays for the paypal and credit card transaction fees when people donate online so each penny goes straight to actually building a well.

Read the post “How branding and transparency help charity: water stand out” on 37signals - signal vs. noise.

Vimeo HTML5 Video Embeds I just updated JonathanMoore.com and...

Thu, 19 Aug 2010 11:44:51 -0700

Vimeo HTML5 Video Embeds

I just updated JonathanMoore.com and the Inspire Well theme with the ability to support Vimeo HTML5 videos. Now both work perfectly on the iPad or browsers without Flash installed.

Inspire Well Tumblr Theme:

Earlier this week Vimeo updated their universal embed code to support HTML5 video. Any new Vimeo videos you add should already support HTML5, but if you have quite a few old videos on your site you can now select “Use HTML5 embeds for Vimeo” in Customize > Appearances to update the videos.

See the full change log and download Inspire Well.

This site is using Matthew Buchanan’s jQuery rewrite of Vimeo’s embedenator.js file. Some time next week I will update both Inspire Well and Backburner with the jQuery implementation.

Is Consumerism Killing Our Creativity? How much time do you...

Thu, 19 Aug 2010 10:56:30 -0700

Is Consumerism Killing Our Creativity?

How much time do you spend consuming knowledge, inspiration, or creative stimulation in a day? This drive to consume comes at a price, and research shows that satisfaction found in the search and consuming process stimulates the brain in a similar manner as acting on real creative activity.

Are you getting your “creative rush” by simply searching and consuming, or are you creating which rewards you in the long term?

Go ahead and take a few minutes to consume the full article at The 99 Percent.

Canon 5D Mark II Aerial Drone This by far has to be one of the...

Tue, 17 Aug 2010 07:23:00 -0700

Canon 5D Mark II Aerial Drone

This by far has to be one of the coolest accessories for your DSLR, an aerial drone with perfect stabilization and ”autonomous GPS position hold” that locks the drone into place even in high winds. This would be an amazing tool for journalism for safe flyovers of events or disasters.

Perspective Aerials posted an additional video showing off all the features of their new aerial drone system. The only potential downside would be the loud buzzing from the flying drone if you’re recording the audio at the shoot below.

See more at Perspective Aerials to get your rental drone ordered.

Via Planet 5D

Pictos @font-face Icon Font

Tue, 17 Aug 2010 07:06:01 -0700

Pictos @font-face Icon Font:

Pictos by Drew Wilson is one of my favorite sets of icons that have made their way into virtually every design project over the last several months—including the Inspire Well theme. Converting the icon set into a font file seems like a genius move that lets you embed the icons as @font-face type. This allows the designer to have far more control over size, color and appearance of the icons with CSS text styling. The only downside I can think of would be random letters used for the icon font throughout your HTML.

Reblogged from Cameron Moll

Fifty of Fifty Photographer and designer Rick Nunn is getting...

Mon, 16 Aug 2010 16:39:38 -0700

Fifty of Fifty

Photographer and designer Rick Nunn is getting close to completing his Project 50—50 days, 50 photos with a 50mm lens. Best of all he is posting videos of the setup involved in most of the shots.

I get asked a lot — “Why are you doing this?”, generally my answer is — “Just for the sake of it”. But let me expand on that a little more. To me the value of this project is completely inherent in the act of doing it or, more importantly, the act of completing it at a level of quality with which I am happy — I’m doing it to prove to myself that I can.

Follow Rick Nunn on Tumblr.

"It’s not rocket science. It’s social science—the science of understanding people’s..."

Mon, 16 Aug 2010 09:39:01 -0700

“It’s not rocket science. It’s social science—the science of understanding people’s needs and their unique relationship with art, literature, history, music, work, philosophy, community, technology, and psychology. The act of design is structuring and creating that balance.”

- Clement Mok

His name: Christian Owens. His age: 16. He made his first...

Fri, 13 Aug 2010 12:47:36 -0700

His name: Christian Owens. His age: 16. He made his first million dollars in two years, “inspired by Apple’s CEO Steve Jobs”. This is how he did it.

Reblogged from soupsoup

Pulling the Cheese Ever wonder how they pull off those long...

Fri, 13 Aug 2010 11:41:31 -0700

Pulling the Cheese

Ever wonder how they pull off those long stringy cheese shots in pizza commercials? Apparently it involves screws, blow torches, q-tips, skilled hand models, and patience. Dominos put together this interesting look into the food styling that goes into shoots as a part of a user generated content campaign for customers to submit what their pizza really looks like.