Catching Zebra is edited by Andy Taylor.
It is a collection of anything I think is worth sharing. I post my own photography to a photolog called Shots. I designed this Tumblr theme.If you like it you can install it here.
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
Spencer to Flinders
I’m basically just posting this to see what Tumblr’s new native video uploading is like. But it’s a movie I shot on my train ride to work a while ago.
That would be awesome, because I have a tumblr with just photographs (http://falconeye.tumblr.com/) and I'll like to have that functionality on it.
I really love your theme, all my pictures look awesome on it! =)
Yep. Almost definitely in a future update. Just working out in my head the best way to implement it. It’s all good to have one that just zooms an image with no click through link. But I think I’d like to be able to zoom any image. Also, some ‘original’ images are massive. Which would make a lightbox too big for any screen size. I’ve tried using max-width with one particular lightbox but it still made the lightbox huge. Just the image was the correct size.
Short answer, I’m thinking about it.
It’s not exactly broken. Comments work perfectly fine. It’s just hard to click the share on Facebook and Twitter buttons.
If you ask nicely I might try and work out how to fix it. But honestly, it’s at the bottom of the list of future improvements. I don’t really see it as much of an issue.
Gravity Hook HD
New, similarly addictive game from the Canabalt guys.
I didn’t. These are answers to questions on Tumblr not Formspring. Like the one you just asked. You turn it on in the Community tab in Customise.
The Vasco Era - Oh Sam (Off Lucille)
2007’s Oh We Do Like To Be Beside The Seaside is one of my all time favourite albums. So I had high hopes for The Vascs Era’s second LP Lucille. Often bands either rush their second album, struggle to match their first or both. But this certainly isn’t the case with Lucille.
Another concept record, this is a story of a stripper called Lucille and her partner Sam. As explained by Ted O’Neil:
Basically, this is a story about Sam and Lucille. They are a loving couple, Sam is a conservative, religious man. Lucille is making ends meet by stripping. It is based on a conversation Sid had one night in the casino in Melbourne. They were completely in love but Sid could see that the girl’s occupation was driving a wedge between them. After the conversation, Sid began thinking about the emotions that this would bring up between them, so he created a conversation between the two. That conversation is our new album. By the way, that’s not their real name either. The real couple probably don’t even remember Sid.
The whole album is a bit slower and more complex than Beside The Seaside. The first three singles; For No One, I Am the Chosen Vessel and Oh Sam didn’t let me down.
There really isn’t a dud track on the album but along with the first three singles; Lucille, Casino, Rest My Head, Be There Tonight and Already Won are all massive winners.
Highly recommended. Go grab it from your local record store or from iTunes.
I love this theme though! Keep up the great work Andy!
It’s working fine for me. Although it needs to pull the data from Twitter. So if Twitter isn’t responding it’s possible it will fail occasionally.
It also won’t work if you have a your tweets set to private.
If you still can’t get it to work, send me an email to hello@andytlr.com with more detail and I’ll have a look at it.
Wired Reread
If you haven’t seen this yet, check it out. Pretty funny, but not quite as good as actually reading old Wired issues and taking the piss out of them yourself.
I love Wired. The other day, I was re-reading some of the old back-issues of Wired I have. Flipping through the pages, looking at the old ads and articles, I realized how much you can learn from exploring these pages from the viewpoint of today - and how fun it is to see them again.
This blog is not intended to be just a point-and-laugh central, picking apart the mistakes of the past and ridiculing those who got it wrong. You won’t have to look long for posts that do that, of course… but the main purpose of this blog is to put the past into perspective. In the fast paced world of tech, we often lure ourselves into believing that everything is different now, and old rules don’t apply. Well, quite often they do (if not always) and checking out our collective tech-past can help us get a perspective on the present.
So, will this blog tell you if the iPad is the next big thing? Or if Twitter is dead in 3 years? Nah. But hopefully it can shed some light on what similar ideas of the past worked out, which didn’t and why.
I made the decision that most images would be in the 400–500px range. So I decided to stretch smaller images to 500px wide, so that all images are the same width. It’s an important part of the layout and I don’t recommend turning it off.
If you want to post small images you could put them within Text posts.
Featured and over 1000 installs
Thanks so much to all the people using my theme. And to the Tumblr staff for featuring it. A couple of days ago it jumped over the 1000 installs mark (excluding custom HTML). And this morning I was pleasantly surprised to see that it had been featured.
Ok, I’ll stop posting milestones now.
State of the Internet by Jess3
A motion type presentation by the Jess3 agency of mostly mind-blowing statistics from the big social networks during 2009.
Facebook’s stats are the most mind blowing. Imagine how many people would use it if it were actually good.
