Catching Zebra is edited by Andy Taylor.
It is a collection of anything I think is worth sharing. Mainly related to design, photography, tech and internet funnies. I post my own photography to a photolog called Shots. I designed this Tumblr theme.If you like it you can install it here. Please direct questions about the theme to the Catching Elephant Tumblr. Sorry but I just won't answer them here.
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
iPhone 4 photography: how does it perform as a camera?
Xeni Jardin from Boing Boing takes the iPhone 4 camera for a test drive. I was pretty impressed with the shots Apple showed off when it was announced. But it’s good to see some non-Apple shots that still look – for a camera phone – top quality.
We Are Not Time Travelers by Alex Varanese
Imagine what you could do if you steal away some of the hottest technology from today, travel back to the mid 1970’s, rework it, and then market it. That’s what Alex Varanese has done with these series of totally rad anachronistic graphics that are, essentially, marketing lit for today’s tech dropped 35 years before its proper time. Here’s the whole series.
Making an iPad HTML5 App & making it really fast
About a month ago or so, Amy and I release a little (literally, it’s about 5k) HTML5 iPad App for looking up time zones. I don’t mean select-box wasteland like all other time zone sites (who likes select boxes anyway?!), I mean a nicely polished, touch-enabled UI that works offline, too.
Add this to your iPad’s homescreen and it looks and feels exactly like an iPad app. Their process is really interesting too. I didn’t realise that browsers essentially render CSS3 gradients as images.
What -webkit-gradient really does is construct an image bitmap, and to the rendering engine it’s exactly the same as if you would supply and externally loaded image (like a PNG file).
First, China. Next: the Great Firewall of... Australia?
TIME Magazine has a good go at the proposed Internet filter.
The Tote Lives Again – Mess+Noise
After months of negotiations, it’s just about settled. The iconic pub on the corner of Johnston and Wellington Streets in Melbourne is expected to reopen as “The Tote” tonight (June 10).
It’s a simple formula – have a beer, watch a band, chat with friends, moan about what should be on the jukebox. As Wally Meanie said, “It’s not rocket surgery!”
Hey, thanks. I’ve got a couple of half finished themes that may or may not ever see the light of day.
And nah, I don’t really want to customise it at the moment. But I don’t have a problem with people doing it themselves. If anything I think I’d probably update this theme to have more customisation through Customise. Or if/when I do another one I’ll try to make sure it has more customisable options. Seeing as everyone seems to want to change it anyway.
ABC News Theme (Pendulum Remix) vs. Jay Z - Encore (Press Play Dee Jays Mash Up)
Keeps getting better and better. Just needs a verse from Biggie to be mashup–magic™.
via Ollie
Ashes app
Found this on Dribbble. Native Fever iPad app.
My Google Reader is getting out of control. I think I’ll be installing Fever when this comes out.
Their Wiki, Wiki ways for all to see
In The Australian this weekend James Valentine looked at a few interesting/funny, Australian related things on WikiLeaks. This one was my favorite.
Personal email from: Jan Du Plessis, chairman, Rio Tinto. To: Jacques Nasser, chairman, BHP Billiton. Subject: Bloody Kevin Rudd’s Bloody Super Tax.
If the resources belong to the Australian people, maybe they’d like to head west and dig the bloody stuff up. Perhaps they’d like to negotiate with the Chinese government and risk a few years in Beijing Prison when they get it wrong. Perhaps the Australian people would like to live in the Pilbara in a small tin hut and stand behind a bloody great drill for 12 hours at a time. Are the Australian people free for a working bee next Sunday?
There’s still 40 bloody ships off Newcastle they could come and load some coal into. Would the Australian people like to come and take some of the risk involved in being in the commodity game? Zinc isn’t always rock of the month, you know.
From: Jacques Nasser To: Jan Du Plessis.
Don’t think that’s quite the tone we should take, but LOL. Make sure you delete it. See you at the World Cup.
‘Paramedic paparazzo’ tracks down surprise subjects after 30 years to recreate candid snaps
They were only fleeting moments in time. A kiss on a station platform… a ticking-off from the local bobby… a sip from a can of drink in the street. But the split second it took to capture these everyday images would allow them to endure for the next three decades.
None of the people in the pictures realised they were being photographed. The couple saying goodbye at the station clearly had other things on their mind. Had it not been for the curiosity of photographer Chris Porsz, they might have remained anonymous for ever.
But last year he became intrigued by the idea of discovering the story behind the pictures he had taken in Peterborough in the early Eighties.
Wired iPad app
If you have an iPad and you haven’t already bought this. Do it.
I read the half the magazine last night and it’s definitely the best digital magazine experience to date. Looking forward to seeing what they do with it in the future.
The Big Caption
Taking photos from The Big Picture and captioning them. Funny.
Sneek Peak at Reeder for the iPad
Looks amazing. Reeder was the RSS app I finally settled on for the iPhone. Although I never really used it a lot. I really want the ability to only sync certain folders/tags of feeds. I subscribe to too many feeds and all these Google Reader sync apps always seem to sync for the entire time I’m reading.
The ability to sync only my 10 favourite feeds would be brilliant.
