Sean Snyder INK Blog

Almost forgot.

Monday-Tiki, god of back-breaking-labor day.
Just when you thought your body was feeling better after a nice weekend off …

So I made these icons to represent the various days of the week.
Today (technically yesterday) is Sunday, so bellow, you will see an icon for Sunday-Tiki, god of the the simultanious event of the week begining and weekend ending

Each day this week I will put up a different Tiki-style day-of-the-week god for you to worship and leave fruit based sacrifices for… Enjoy.

In all seriousness, I am heavily influenced by North West, Native American and Pacific Island art and culture, so combined with Graphic Design, this is what I came up with.

I took this a while ago, when I was downtown with a camera, circa anytime ‘06.

I just thought it was very well placed

When building (websites or what ever), we take one of two perspectives, or possibly both.

We are either looking down at a project and try to organize from a global perspective, or we are looking up, building brick by brick trying to get to the next level.

Once you realize this, you start to understand there is always a global level higher, or a brick made of other smaller blocks.

Working on this: SoundManager 2
(here’s a link to the base demo)

It seems really cool, especially if you can totally cusomize the look (which I will find out shortly).

Similar project, possibly using the same code
Open Tape

I did have a bit of trouble with Open Tape though, it wasn’t very flexible. I’m hoping sound manager will be better.

(props to Web Appers for Sound Manager2)

I just heard of these guys, Orishas, but so far I’m really digging their sound
Check out their website for more info, including a nicely produced music video circa 1960’s Speed Racer.

You can practically find this entire concert on YouTube so here are some other videos from this 2006 Rio concert… After the break (more…)

So my mom sent me this

http://www.wisdombook.org/

It is an awesome piece with some seriously inspirational people dropping some seriously inspirational soundbites. I think work like this is important, considering the state of our economy and the rising number of layoffs.

Work like this makes the optimism surrounding the election feel like it might turn into actual determination  for rebuilding our way of life. Let’s face it, we haven’t felt the full effect of this yet so it’s still going to get worse before it gets better.

Alright, I’m off my soap box

Enjoy

“…Like to hear it? Here it goes.”

I just finished a project with ArtsBoston, launching
www.mayorsholidayspecial.com,

The content was all pulled together by ArtsBoston staff and the city, and I designed and built the rest.
(on the headier side, it’s all built in lists with various list item rollover states).

Yayyyy

Now in reference to the post title:

If you are one of the two remaining individuals on this planet, not constantly bombarded by MoveOn.org then this post is for you. Otherwise you must have something similar sitting in your inbox next to the email from that stupid social networking for cat lovers site you joined, but never acknowledge.

Anyway, Move on is giving out some pretty legit stickers by artist Shepard Fairy (OBEY, the guy who made the Obama poster) to commemorate this pivotal and historic election.

It looks like this

and you get it here

This video was created by Varelsen studios in Sweden (I think that’s where they are) and the music is by Minilogue off their latest album, Animals

I really dig this video, maybe because it reminds me of my own blended illustration-photography style, but I particularly dig the use of depth focus and zoom.

Check it out

Minilogue - Animals from ljudbilden on Vimeo.

(props to Soulclap)