I wanted to stretch my photography and photoshop legs a bit, so with the help of my girlfriend, came up with this bad superhero image. The good superhero will turn up fashionably later and save the day.
Author Archives: phineas kibbey
HTML5 Freelance Work
July 20, 2011 – 1:30 am
Whilst recently working for a digital media agency, I was responsible for building bespoke HTML5 video players for Marks & Spencer, British Airways and Thomas Pink, as well as a mathematically complex HTML5 website showcasing the company’s respectable portfolio. Extensive use of cross browser HTML5 video, JavaScript & jQuery, CSS3 animation were used to create [...]
St Annes Wells Garden BBQ Collage Portrait
May 21, 2011 – 8:56 am
There are plenty more of these images, I just haven’t done one for a while. Perhaps I will upload the entire collection of these. They look good as a set.
Faster than the speed of light
January 17, 2011 – 7:49 pm
If the universe adhere’s to the idea of just being a big bang (and when we say BIG, don’t you think that’s a big of an understatement? Perhaps we should refer to it as the infinite bang from now on, until we can consider something larger than it to label with our words), then wouldn’t [...]
Blood Splatter
October 29, 2010 – 2:05 pm
It’s a tribute to Halloween, to Dexter, to assisted suicide, to the darker side of your personality, to blood, to death, to life.
Replacing the Executive Decision
October 28, 2010 – 12:59 pm
It’s going to happen one day. Humans won’t like the idea before it’s happened. But once it does, it will make our life easier. They’re going to fight it, and worry that computers will ruin their lives. As soon as we learn to trust the machine, and relax into it, we will have better lives. [...]
Stopping a train of thoughts
August 15, 2010 – 7:58 pm
You’d have to be superman to put the brakes on a locomotive. As much as I like to believe in the strength of my own mind; my birth certificate will confirm that I wasn’t born on Krypton. I read an interesting article today about how to not think. I liked it’s comparison to the habit of [...]
If you wait long enough, something strange will happen.
August 9, 2010 – 3:11 am
It’s some line from a book, so don’t get your hopes up. There were a few good ideas floating around in it. “If you wait long enough, something strange will happen” was one of them. And I truly believe that it will. You might be waiting a really long time for anything spectacular enough to [...]
Preaching to the Choir
August 3, 2010 – 11:48 pm
People I know don’t regularly talk about things that freak them out about life. Either they don’t ever feel that way, or they choose not to speak about it. If they never think that deeply about life, then perhaps either they suffer from idiocy or they are gods. If however they do worry, or panic, or wake [...]
I do X so you should do X
July 13, 2010 – 4:40 am
I confess to watching this years series of Big Brother. From a few too many hours of third-person social analysis, I started to wonder about how people place their expectations on other people. It seems to be based solely on how they do things themselves. There’s a whiff of pride in every decision that people [...]
London Games
June 4, 2010 – 5:15 pm
Whenever the need arises to venture into London, I play games. They’re mostly designed to keep me amused, but also produce the side effect of keeping me sane inside my own little floaty ego-bubble. The first; is to see how long you can survive in the concrete jungle without tutting, frowning or kicking anyone in [...]
Epinephrine
May 20, 2010 – 1:53 pm
Uncontrollable and irrational adrenaline. I don’t miss you when you’re gone, so why turn up in the first place? If it’s to protect me, I think you need to stop and look around. What kind of situation am I in where I need protecting? Perhaps you’re just bored and haven’t been out in a while, [...]
Pink Black Grey Cat
May 19, 2010 – 2:11 am
“Pink Black Grey Cat” - The last words uttered from my girlfriend’s sleepy mouth. A set of instructions to make a picture for her. They seemed to come out of nowhere; a place between sleep and not-death which was neither of the two. Yesterday, I decided that there was no such thing as random. I stole [...]
Jackie Diss Photoshoot
May 2, 2010 – 5:31 pm
I just finished reading “The Coma” by Alex Garland. It’s a wonderfully heady short story about consciousness. I want to thank the person at the library for alphabetising the item correctly on the shelf. Without their assistance, I could not have enjoyed this experience.
What makes me Me?
April 23, 2010 – 4:11 pm
Statistics are something we use to quantify something sloppy like soup, into something neat and tidy like people with OCD. Here’s one nugget of information I gathered recently; there are more bacteria in the human body than there are cells. So when someone lacking the proper authority dares to ask me who I am, the [...]
Brighton Boredwalk
April 11, 2010 – 10:02 pm
If the journey to productivity is made by treading down your own path; then taking a leave of absence is not going to do you any favours when it comes to finding your way again. So I write this message to my future self, so that when I finally invent a time machine, I can go [...]
Life Ionizers
March 26, 2010 – 1:31 am
Life Ionizers have asked me to work on various websites over the past few years, working on various sites using different CMS technologies such as; WordPress, Magento and Joomla. For this particular design, I was asked to create a landing page for a new product. The main feature being the special discounted price that the [...]
Life, the Universe and Everything (…else that we don’t have the ability to understand)
March 5, 2010 – 4:21 pm
My niece has started asking questions about what existed before the universe, at the tender age of 6. It’s a pretty early start, so by the age of 26, I figure she may have either found a way to break through the mile thick concrete cell that she’s just put herself in, or hopefully she [...]
Victor Dinaire
January 27, 2010 – 1:46 am
Victor Dinaire asked me to produce a single page launch pad site. The site had to look the part and have a video that played as soon as the page loaded. All this required was a few hours in Photoshop, some hand coded CSS & HTML and the integration of the JQuery powered Flowplayer. http://www.victordinaire.com/
Deleting Facebook
January 22, 2010 – 1:20 pm
A new theory that was presented to me, through a friends alcohol induced ramble; that the quality of your life is largely proportionate to the quality of your relationships. It may have come out a bit like; “….life…bleargh…. relationships… ga ga ga… quality”, but it was communicated well enough for me to understand the meaning. [...]
Neville Brody – Genius or Wanker
December 22, 2009 – 4:29 pm
The other day I went to a lecture and sat through an hour and a half of a ‘conversation with a designer’. For the most part, I spent my time wondering just how much he believed in the verbal bile that he was spewing all over the audience. The thing that disturbed me the most, [...]
The Ultimate Guide to Life
November 12, 2009 – 3:01 am
There is a vacant space on my bookshelf that awaits a book which is yet to be written. It contains a complete guide to every decision that I will ever make in life. A step by step manual of each choice that lead me to to take my final bow. Despite not being published yet, [...]
The future of the Internet
November 7, 2009 – 11:48 pm
The Internet seems to be mimicking the human brain; a network of connections between nodes (humans) that is evolving and refining itself. Are we trying to create a virtual mind the size of Earth? Once that brain exists, will it try to connect with other nodes (planets) in our solar system; sharing information and shedding [...]
Reality, or your own version of it
September 28, 2009 – 4:47 pm
I was sitting in a car today, spying on terrorists… or maybe I was waiting for my girlfriend to come out of the shops, it all depends on which one of us you asked. I started to wonder what was inside my realm of reality. The street sign was real, but the way that the [...]
Life without Social Networking
September 24, 2009 – 4:49 pm
I admit it, I am addicted to checking my Facebook page daily, if not on an hourly basis. It’s just so instantly rewarding… but in the depths of my mind, I can feel a swell of pity every time I log on. It’s the part of me that wonders why I find these status updates [...]
Why T-shirts can’t Time Travel
September 1, 2009 – 12:44 am
If I stepped into my magical time machine wearing my only green t-shirt, and went back to the time when I bought the shirt and killed myself…. The question that I ask to you is… what colour t-shirt would I be wearing whilst I was hanging about at the crime scene with my dead self? [...]
Insight into Passion
August 30, 2009 – 10:02 pm
In a my previous entry Searching for Passion, I propsed that passion was created by a continuous stream of reward. If this was the case, this would mean that one could become passionate from simply seeking out reward for whatever you wanted as a goal. In practise though, the world we live in doesn’t always [...]
Dealing with your self
August 24, 2009 – 1:13 pm
Over time, we develop the thought patterns in our minds so that we can be more efficient. For instance, if a vicious looking creature comes running at us with it’s teeth and claws brandished, it would probably serve us to have already decided what to do about this situation a few seconds before we noticed [...]
Being Selfish
August 21, 2009 – 7:59 am
When most people think of the word Selfish, I would imagine that they see it as having mostly negative connotations; “Stop being so selfish”… “You are such a selfish person”.. etc. But what does it mean to be a selfish person? I see ‘being selfish’ as a way to describe the motivation behind a person’s [...]
Perspectives
August 20, 2009 – 6:17 pm
Try as I might, to consider ‘everything’ about a particular subject; it never really seems to work. I can focus all my attention on a subject, use reason and even make educated predictions about the matter at hand. But all it takes is to approach the thought from an alternative perspective, and a trapdoor is [...]
Searching for Passion
August 19, 2009 – 6:34 am
Breaking down the ego seemed like a good idea at the time. One of the side effects that I was left with, was a feeling that nothing really mattered, which wasn’t so bad, because it didn’t matter that nothing mattered. So when thinking about what I would to have as the things that are important [...]
Randolph Quan
July 10, 2009 – 1:36 am
Creating a wedding photography site is all about the images. We agreed on using JQuery to create a custom Javascript slideshow on the homepage. The website was built with a few unique features in mind. Firstly, it interacted with the SmugMug API to allow clients to access a passworded area to view their photo set. [...]
IPM
May 5, 2009 – 3:12 pm
As well as producing mini-sites for the Burger King and Suzuki branches of their company, I single handedly saw through the redesign and build of their new corporate website. The brief was to create something that was professional, yet personal. The site didn’t need to attract any new business, it’s sole purpose was to strengthen [...]
Top Two Fifty
March 6, 2009 – 12:45 pm
As an avid film fan, I wanted to find a way to improve on the already existing IMDB Top 250 movies list. There is NO WAY that Shawshank Redemption would be anywhere in my list of top films, let alone number one! I decided to build a site in PHP and MYSQL that would take [...]
Tapping Course
December 14, 2008 – 1:42 am
For this project I was required to provide Photoshop documents which could be easily cut up and converted into CSS for a site running on Drupal. The site was used to display a set of videos so I decided to use the JW Flash video player. It had to be friendly, relaxing and easy on [...]
Didaskalia Films
March 5, 2007 – 2:56 pm
This website was built for a film company based in Montreal to showcase their work and to keep people up to date with their projects. It was a pretty simple site, built in PHP, MYSQL, DHTML and using Javascript to control the showing and hiding of elements on the site to keep it clean and [...]
Cereal Science
November 19, 2006 – 1:26 am
Cereal Science was a lot of fun to make. It’s basically a review site, for cereal, but with a difference. My friend and I are avid cereal lovers, so I decided to create a site that conveyed our passion for breakfast and my love of programming. I designed the site in Photoshop and then hand [...]
Fourthwish
August 9, 2006 – 1:24 am
This was an ultra-simple site that I built for an artist friend. He wanted something that conveyed his art, so I suggested that we break the mould of regular web sites and just have him draw the whole site out on the back of an old envelope. http://www.fourthwish.com/
Events Website
June 30, 2005 – 1:41 am
This was a personal project that never made it off the ground, but I was so proud of the effort that went in to all the planning and design, that I decided to post it here regardless. I worked with a friend who I studied Computer Science at University with and I remember feeling really excited [...]
Faceparty
June 14, 2002 – 1:30 am
Faceparty was the site that I worked on beginning in 2000 to my departure from the company in 2004. A friend and I put our sweat and tears into this site and turned it into one of the biggest sites in the UK, gaining over 3 million members in just a couple of years. With [...]