I make things that go on the Internet. I live in Brooklyn and design at the Vimeo. Here's my life online:
We have 75 people in the Vimeo family now, and counting! Want to join our team? We’re actively seeking awesome folks like you. Check out our job listings here >
Find the topless man.
Such a big family
As I was reading, I came across this sentence: “It was as if a light had been Nookd in a carved and painted lantern….” Thinking this was simply a glitch in the software, I ignored the intrusive word and continued reading. Some pages later I encountered the rogue word again. With my third encounter I decided to retrieve my hard cover book and find the original (well, the translated) text.
Ocracoke Island Journal: Nookd
Sketchy, sketchy, B&N
I made a logo and it only took five years.
Western Monarchy is a name I came up with in 2007 when I first had the idea of putting all my personal work behind an alias. It’s stuck with me since then. I might even LLC that sucker.
My Evernote list of personal projects has been growing for years as I never find time to bring them past the planning stages. Last night I made my first browser extension (more on that later) and it needed a home. Thus Western Monarchy was finally born. Here’s hoping that the momentum keeps going.
I’ve always been fascinated by heraldry and I like this trend of quadrant logo design. The crown in the west represents, well, western monarchy. The moon in the north is my recreation of The Moon tarot card. The bear in the east is a bear, enough said. The brackets in the south are Inconsolata and are just nerdy.
The typeface is the great League Gothic. I messed around with a lot of serifs and didones but they didn’t do it for me. I’ve wanted to use a narrow sans-serif for awhile and this was my chance. The year is in Georgia small caps, whose numbers I’ve always loved…even though these are roman.
The page background on westernmonarchy.com is from subtle patterns which I darkened in photoshop.
Sign up for the newsletter if you want and I hope I’ll have a lot of cool stuff to show you soon.
Microsoft Launches Socl Social Network: A Look Inside
It’s confusing about why anyone wants to use this given how many other social networks are out there, much less Microsoft already having baked social sharing into Bing.
I wish Microsoft would give up on the Internet. It is painful to watch them stake claims like this.
Microsoft: makes social network…you sign-in to with Facebook.
Made in New York City
A map of NYC start-ups, incubators and investors. Also includes information about companies that are hiring if you’re in the market.
Wow, cool map. NYC is so busy!
This is a cool map but no one will get to Vimeo because the alphabet is an arbitrary and cruel mistress of sorting and privilege.
Kitty Pryde - Okay Cupid
I surprisingly don’t hate this. In fact, I think I might like it, albeit reluctantly. The video is a little grating and knowing, but if you just listen to the song by itself, it’s kind of interesting and the fact that I have listened to it three times in the past twenty minutes is surely testament to something. Also, “Shorty, you’re a ten,” is a refrain I can get behind.
(Disclaimer: According to iTunes, I have listened to Ke$ha’s “Crazy Beautiful Life” twenty-seven times, so you should probably take my opinions on music with a grain of salt.)
Just re-watched this video for like the 15th time and would love to make this girl my bestie. Everything from the x-men reference to the boba fett mask to budlight lime <3 reference to the angst ”get out of my room” shit is perfect.
p.s. Yeastie Girls t-shirt
I’m so terrified to be a father.
GREAT GATSBY Trailer (2012) Movie HD (by MovieclipsCOMINGSOON)
I question the casting. DiCaprio is too confident, I always saw Gatsby as just sort of barely holding on. He might pull off the sadness. And the darkness. At least he’s paired up with Luhrman again. I don’t think I buy Mulligan as Daisy, she looks too what I’d call ‘girl next door’ and harsher critics might call ‘low born’. Maguire will pull off Carraway but he never had much to do but react.
The opulence looks satisfying but hopefully will not be too jarring or distracting. Luhrman’s sets have a tendency to overact. The eyes of T. J. Eckleburg did give me chills.
There is something odd about seeing a movie in HD and believing it’s the ’20s and not actors playing dress up. Road to Perdition handled this well. I think it’s in the lighting.
I’m fully prepared for this to totally disappoint but some small optimistic part of me wants to love it.
All Eyes On You - St. Lucia
St. Lucia’s EP is rapidly becoming the album that will define my summer.
Instant summer classic
The results are almost in, ladies and germs — we’re proud to present the finalists for this year’s Vimeo Awards!
Narrowing the shortlists was no easy task, but with the help of our dream team of judges we’ve slimmed them into these doses of highly concentrated awesome. Each of the 13…
All of these finalists deserve recognition. Easily some of the best videos I’ve ever seen.
Game of Thrones theme song played on eight floppy drives. Love the timbre of the produced sounds.
Camp stove.
Know how.
On board with everything here, except the chintzy green Poulan chainsaw.
Next level shit
Vimeo Festival: Preparations now underway by Vimeo Festival + Awards
Andrea recently checked in with Josh and Vinny to see how preparations are going for their Vimeo Festival workshop, “Impossible Things On A Shoestring.” Let’s just say they still have a bit of work to do.
Learn more about their workshop and get tickets to the Festival + Awards right here >
Dudes. Imagine life here in the US — or indeed, pretty much anywhere in the Western world — is a massive role playing game, like World of Warcraft except appallingly mundane, where most quests involve the acquisition of money, cell phones and donuts, although not always at the same time. Let’s call it The Real World. You have installed The Real World on your computer and are about to start playing, but first you go to the settings tab to bind your keys, fiddle with your defaults, and choose the difficulty setting for the game. Got it?
Okay: In the role playing game known as The Real World, “Straight White Male” is the lowest difficulty setting there is.
“Then wear the gold hat, if that will move her;
If you can bounce high, bounce for her too,
Till she cry “Lover, gold-hatted, high-bouncing lover,
I must have you!””
- Thomas Parke D’invilliers
n. the realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own—populated with their own ambitions, friends, routines, worries and inherited craziness—an epic story that continues invisibly around you like an anthill sprawling deep underground, with elaborate…
always reblog
In researching fashion films for a story on… fashion films, I found this early Richard Avedon clip of Lauren Hutton c. 1973. Questions raised include: were models better actors then, or were they simply older, with stronger personalities? Was this maybe a beginning or a sign of the beginning to our obsession with the curated behind-the-scenes of fashion showdom? And why can’t I have that dress?
Justin Dickinson lives in Brooklyn and designs at Vimeo. Early in life Justin was frustrated when things didn’t work the way they seemed like they should. Thus began his life as a control freak — a future in interface design was obvious.
While designing Vimeo’s mobile and connected TV apps, Justin has worked to preserve a unified Vimeo experience across platforms of all shapes, sizes, and sometimes absurd limitations. Having a background in design and development allows Justin to pretend to know what people who are way smarter than him are talking about.
Helped make the Vimeo.
Part of the design team that created the New Vimeo. Also responsible for mobile and TV app design. I sling some front-end code too.
FiLife is a personal finance Q&A destination where people can get their financial lives straightened out. FiLife was recently named #27 Most Innovative Company by FastCompany magazine.
FiLife is an DowJones/IAC venture.
Designed and developed all digital deliverables for clients from banner ads to custom CMS systems.
flyosity: Photoshop CS6's most useful feature: turning shit into a hat. http://t.co/hCguRCvb
b6n: The new @vimeo is _really_ nice http://t.co/KU1O9swT
josephschmitt: If you use (or were planning to) the @Vimeo API, check out the new dev site http://t.co/bTmb2Cz9 Great work by @bdougherty and @jmdickinson
andrewp: Vimeo API: New Developer Site! http://t.co/FqRhXibQ
ErikReagan: New Vimeo developer site is really slick. Really great example of documenting your stuff. Way to go @vimeo!
Amyslysly: Just back from photographing a Maxim Gamer Girl casting call where hot chicks play 1st person shooter games. Interesting, uncomfortable.
BoobsRadley: If you ever need to interrogate a fish, why not put him in one of those French press coffee pots and slowly lower the plunger til he talks?
AndrewWK: PARTY TIP: Fold a dog's ear in half and gently enjoy its sweet velvety softness.
BoobsRadley: I bet if you escape a serial murderer's basement and he doesn't come after you, you go right out and get one of those sexy impulse haircuts.
BoobsRadley: No matter how subtle or expensive your cologne, you still smell like at least one person's unwittingly recovered high school handjob memory.
BoobsRadley: The term "Boomerang Generation" is less depressing if you pretend it refers to all the children lovingly conceived during Paul Hogan movies.
BoobsRadley: Strippers also have that nightmare where they go to school and they're not wearing pants, but only that first part is scary.
BoobsRadley: To scare off a mountain lion, try to make yourself appear larger with your clothing, or just shout "I LOVE YOU MOUNTAIN LION!" way too soon.
BoobsRadley: I hate when I'm just trying to see what the back of my iPhone looks like in a mirror and I inadvertently snap a photo of my beautiful eyes.
BoobsRadley: Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness repeatedly thrust into them by dudes who are super sweet at guitar.
BoobsRadley: "Rumors of my chemise have been greatly exaggerated." - Mark Twain, being all slutty again.
kellyoxford: One of the rudest things you can do is make eye contact with someone eating McDonald's in their car.
BoobsRadley: If you feed bears people food, they will come back, which is why I never make a bear breakfast after we have sex.
Horse_ebooks: I Have Always Been a Millionaire, it s Just I Haven t
badbanana: I would have bought that book about minimalism but I already own a book.