Posts tagged with “portfolio”
Who is Ross Brown?
This is the last micro-site I’ll make for myself for a while… I promise. View it in Safari, Chrome, or some other WebKit-based browser. Until everyone else catches up and implements CSS animations, transforms, and gradients as well as WebKit does, I’ll be happy to serve up a degraded experience to them.
Winterfresh Mint Style
I’m a big fan of Mint and use it to monitor stats on this site. During a span of free time yesterday I decided to create a new Style for it. The current native styles use a lot of images for rounded corners and shadow effects. As much as I like the Dark Pepper Mint theme, I wanted something lighter without being blinded by white.
There is heavy use of border-radius, border-image, box-shadow, and text-shadow CSS3 properties in the style. I also threw in some webkit-transition for tab background color animation and webkit-gradient for pane header backgrounds. I’m happy with how it turned out. Plus, Matt points out that using this Style on the iPad makes him feel like he works for NASA.
Tested in Safari 4, Firefox 3.6, Chrome, iPhone Mobile Safari, and iPad Mobile Safari. Webkit is a winner here. Internet Explorer untested and unsupported.
You can download the style from the Peppermill and fork it on Github.
I’ve updated whyisrossbrown.com with some direct linking/history functionality. Matt forked my repo and rejiggered the script to use sammy.js for back button functionality.
This means I can link directly to my Signal Chains project which loads that tape immediately. It’s one of the coolest things you’ll see all day.
Why is Ross Brown?
Matt suggested a while ago that, since I own ‘rossisbrown.com’, I buy the domain ‘whyisrossbrown.com’ as well. After about three minutes of laughing, I did.
I am now using it to point to a portfolio (or what I’m calling a Portfolio Machine) of both my web and music/audio work. Looking at it makes me think of a wood and plastic iPad. I built and designed the thing, with occasional input from Matt.
The page is javascript-heavy. The portfolio items, shown as VHS tapes on a shelf, are made up of markup generated by underscore.js, meaning I only have to update a nicely formatted javascript file to add new portfolio items. It also means search engines won’t crawl it, so there’s a trade-off. It’s a work in progress, but I think it’s a lot of fun. The next version will include direct portfolio item urls and back button functionality, provided by Sammy and Matt’s brain.
It’s open sourced on Github with very little documentation, so fork it and hack away at your own.
Signal Chains (beta)
Matt and I have been working on Signal Chains for a few months, and are finally somewhat ready for the public to see it. I’m going to create a crisis here to make what we did seem so much cooler:
The Problem: Audio gear is expensive. Few brick and mortar stores carry expensive audio gear and will let you get your grubby little hands all over it before purchasing. Conversely, when people post audio samples online, you’re not always sure what is involved. Is it really that mic that sounds that way? Or is the preamp they’re using coloring the sound?
The Solution: Signal Chains is essentially a way for audio engineers (or those who call themselves audio engineers) to share their signal flows through audio samples, documenting each piece and process involved. It does this by providing a somewhat standardized method of doing so.