There’s nothing better on a warm sunny day than going out to a park with some chalk and create art. The following pictures in this post were all done by myself and three good friends.
In this first picture, justin was being made fun of by a little black kid. The black kid said the eye looked like a fish. When it was clearly an eye.
Justin’s finished eye, also shows creation of a universe.
Another picture of the eye.
Collage of everyone’s work.
Justin’s Fireworks tag.
My Triangle Mural with added hearts on the bottom.
Well I’m done with my first quarter of college, imagine that. All my final projects/exams went well, I think I finished out with 2 A’s and 2 B’s. Now I’m off school for a month and I go back on July 14th.
I made up a todo list of things I have to do for the month off and I’ve got a bunch of stuff I’m going to do for fun as far as web projects go. I’ve started doing design work for Taboo and I’ll have a new project coming up with MindLog.org. All in all it should be a good month.
Oh and I turn 18 on friday.
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Here’s the first draft of the Taboo ui redesign (click to see full size):
One of the things that has kept me away from developing in the past is the difficulty of accessing, contributing and sharing of code. Given my limited ability in programming has prevented me from contributing anything of much use but there has always been somewhat of a barrier keeping me from going forth and working towards something of use.
But ever since Jesse got me started with Git I’ve been all over the place screwing around with all different types of code. Github makes it all easy. All you do is fork a current project, clone it, and then you have your own repository of code to work from, and that anyone can fork and use for themselves.
Its a lot easier than downloading source via svn, and having to create a patch or something, and then sending that to the software publisher; forcing them publish the patch into the actual software. Its been a constant barrier, and now its gone.
I have a feeling that as my knowledge grows with programming, there will be a limitless supply of open source contribution.
It has been a long week or two. My first quarter at school is winding down, only one more week to go and then I get a month off. I’m really looking forward to the long break.
I’m going to be learning a lot of things involving code while on the break. I’ve been screwing around with javascript pretty frequently and over the last week I’ve been toying with python on appengine.
I expect myself to come out of the month break with at least two learning projects, which may or may not be entirely original. Either way I’d like to release some open source stuff for shits and giggles.
Also my friend chuck has been making music for a little while and I’ve yet to post any of his music. He made this song the other day and it really hits the tone of the way life has been going lately. I’m really not a fan of the first section but once the song kicks in its great through the end.
(feel free to leave feedback for the song in the comments, I’m sure he’d appreciate it)
The song is called Gold Plated Tints by Old Will Brown[download]
