Category: art
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Opening Titles for Web Directions South 2011 27 October 2011
See the in-browser opening titles Another year and another great Web Directions. Of course, for me, Web Directions isn't complete without frantic late-night coding sessions in ...
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SlashGlobe: A 3D CSS experiment 27 July 2011
See the neon-spinny-3D-globe experiment The third dimension isn't my strong suit; I'm fine with pixels but not with voxels. To start combatting this I thought I'd have a play around with ...
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Desktop Wallpaper: Space Frames 14 July 2011
I'm a big fan of a black desktop. It's easy on the eyes and icons are highly visible. But you have to have a dash of colour to add personality, so it's a fine balance between style and stark. ...
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Anatomy of a Mashup: Definitive Daft Punk visualised 12 May 2011
See "Definitive Daft Punk" visualised in realtime » I've always believed in the strong connection between sound and vision. Music videos are like little slices of ...
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HTML5 + CSS3 Title Sequence for WDS10 18 October 2010
See the WDS10 Title Sequence There's nothing that has quite the ability to sharpen one's creative process like a ridiculous deadline. In this case a 72-hour deadline to ...
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Daft Dock 23 April 2009
Russ asked what my dock looked like, so I made a 55 second video . (Turn your sound on.) Russ asked what my dock looked like, so I made a 55 second video . ...
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Dinosaurs and remixes 10 October 2008
I'm dropping in a little late, but I was a bit too frantic pre-Web Directions to get a remix done of Carla's cute cartoon . It's a Friday, so I thought I'd relax by drawing a ...
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Cubescape Highlights 19 May 2008
My great uncle Jeremiah once told me these wise words: "If you give a man a painting, he will enjoy it for one day. But if you give a man a canvas, he will draw a giant penis on it." It's that memory of old uncle ...
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Cubescape 13 May 2008
Cubescape: Your own digital landscape Sometimes I get a little obsessed. And that obsession takes me down a long, winding path. Some might even say a laborious and twisted path. ...
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Circtangles: A JavaScript art installation 25 April 2008
The thought only just occurred to me that I'd never used the newly emerging technology for creating rounded corners in CSS – border-radius . So to rectify this, I set about experimenting with abstract uses ...
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Pixelfest: group artwork 12 November 2004
» Pixelfest group artwork project « Here's the game: can a group of random people, each contributing a teensy weensy bit, make a coherent piece of art/design/garbage purely ...
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My Book: Simply JavaScript

Simply JavaScript is an enjoyable and easy-to-follow guide for beginners as they begin their journey into JavaScript. Separated into 9 logical chapters, it will take you all the way from the basics of the JavaScript language through to DOM manipulation and Ajax.
Step-by-step examples, rich illustrations and humourous commentary will teach you the right way to code JavaScript in both an unobtrusive and an accessible manner.