Another 6 months in images

PrinciplesUp On The Roof...And An Overwhelming OneAn Uplifting Sight...One Hell Of A Mean BurgerAnother Hotel In Another Town In Another Country
Comfort TopDouble Whopper King MealThe Night Of The Jackknife On The 101Supper Club IISupper Club ILeaving 'Home'
A Horrible, Horrible ThingThe Dawning Of A New EraThe Work-A-ThonChocolate?Accidentally Ordering Too MuchChristmas At Last
The SignMaking The CallOlive The Christmas DogBeside Me At My BedsideI've Seen The Future And I Didn't Like ItEscape From New York
KimThe Greatest Municipal Building In The WorldLand Of The FreeCrampedHow Did They Do That?Crimes Against Architecture Part II
Brooklyn BridgeManhattanNew York, New YorkAirline Delays Do Strange Things To PeopleThe Top Of TownI'm Attracted To Interestingly Coloured Paint

Emily’s Wedding





The last 6 months in images

Patentgaten, StockholmThe Sun Never Sets in StockholmColeRodrigo's Last Night Part IVRodrigo's Last Night Part IIIRodrigo's Last Night Part II
Rodrigo's Last Night Part ISunnyvale Starts to Feel Like a PrisonSheraton SunnyvaleOakley CourtLife disappearing off into the futureThe view from the back of Rodrigo's car
Hotel AdagioCheap MeatLarkspur Landing HotelMy Canon 400D/Digital Rebel XTi Arrives!Selfish Parking by Selfish People.Slushpuppies on the Beach
Lost BoysDeep Fried TwinkiesSuper Burritos at 2amMoving in in StockholmClean SocksThe View from the Walk to Work
A Creative Use of FilthHoff Street, San FranciscoSilicon Valley LitterRoom with a View, Clift Hotel, San FranciscoMuir WoodMarc Davis Awaits You in the Mission
Running PS3s Accross the BorderPizza Bloat AftermathBest Western Silicon Valley HotelLeaving BrixtonAll Packed Up and Ready to GoAdidas in the Snow, Stockholm
Winter on the TunnelbanaRoom with a View, Sheraton Hotel, StockholmDrinking Free Champange on the Balcony (in the Snow)Alarming Computerised WelcomeAlarming Humanised WelcomeThe View from Twin Peaks
Look What the Tiki Bar did to GustavNow That's What I Call DonutsDesign's War on FearThank God I Wasn't HereCrowne Plaza Hotel, San FranciscoNever Eat Purple Chocolate
Double Meat at SubwayIn-N-Out BurgerIn the Interest of Science and Gustav's StomachHow Not to DriveLeaving the Hotel for WorkScandic Continental Hotel, Stockholm

Happy New Year

So 2006 is over, BlogRadio is still down and Apple never did fix my laptop (don’t ask) but on the plus side I’ve travelled more in the last six months than I have ever travelled before; I finally managed to visit my own personal Mecca, Silicon Valley, and now find myself employed by Yahoo! as a fully fledged Interaction Designer. If that wasn’t surprising enough, I’m also moving to Sweden to work in mobile with the recently acquired Kenet Works team. No, Yahoo! didn’t buy Chatsum, and no, we haven’t forgotten about it - we just haven’t had a chance to work on it what with commuting between London, Stockholm and Sunnyvale, CA. Once we’re settled in Stockholm we’ll be starting up the production lines again so if you’ve got any leads whatsoever on accommodation in the Swedish capital please let me know.

Oh, and one last thing. Please remember: All views expressed here are my own and do not represent the views of my current employer, Yahoo!

Public Service Announcement

Unfortunately, I have to announce that BlogRadio is going to be offline for as long as it takes Apple to fix my PowerBook. I’m having to use the Mac Mini it runs on as my main machine while I work out why my laptop has been incessantly whining and then turning its screen into tartan.

P.S. I’m not dead and will be posting about what’s been going on in my life for the last two months just as soon as I can.

Just heard on BlogRadio

I ♥ THE INTERNET

It’s been a long time

It’s been a long time since I last wrote here and I don’t have the energy right now to document all of the exciting things that have happened since (here are some). Tomorrow I fly to San Francisco for a week to show Chatsum and BlogRadio at Yahoo! in Sunnyvale. You can read more over on the Chatsum blog which is where most of my blogging energy has been going recently. I’m planning to get my flickr on while I’m away and I’m sure Matt, with his beautiful website, will be taking some photos too.

Wish us luck, we might need it!

Who knows where the time goes?

Preparing for the Summer Show

I’ve busily been getting some visualisations of Chatsum activity ready for the RCA Show and have completely redesigned them so they no longer look like a 1980s videogame. Above is a picture of the huge videowall monitors I’ll be showing them on.

For those that are interested, the visualisations are all made in XHTML and JavaScript. I’ve been using the Canvas tag a lot recently and I’m really in awe of how powerful the open standards of the web are becoming. It seems like JavaScript is being totally reborn and I just can’t get enough of positional CSS. It really is true:

I love Web 2.0

Chatsum is open!

Chatsum has gone public beta! Anyone can now sign-up and give it a go. Just click this banner to join:

 

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Yesterday we had a massive influx of Brazilians and boy can they chat! They generated over 15,000 posts in under 12 hours and for the first time there was more chat going on away from www.chatsum.com than on it.

Unfortunately though, with all of the activity came a single spammer who posted the letter A into the chat repeatedly, several hundred times, forcing us to ban them. We started by only banning them for half an hour but they came back later so we’ve had to ban them indefinitely. I hate the fact that we had to do it as we’re working on some really nice user blocking code that puts the power in the users’ hands but until that’s live I had to come over all moderatory and I don’t really like that. Chatsum is meant to be a totally public space with us only really wanting to moderate the chat that happens on our own websites (chatsum.com, imgeorge.org and pixelhospital.com) in the hope that others will moderate their own.

RCA Summer Show

Chatsum Global Overview.

If anyone would like to come and see Chatsum in the RCA Summer Show (as mentioned below), it’ll be in The Show: Part Two 23rd June - 3rd July. It’s always a really good show with lots of beautiful things to look at from lots of very different departments. Last year the Silversmithing and Photography blew my mind.

Let me know when you’ll be coming and if you need a place to stay and if you’re really desperate to come to the private view, let me know and I’ll see what I can do.