Well that was certainly unexpected :) A Rock Anthem based on the Golden Mean. The Internet is so left-field. I love it.

Lovely A Chicken Coop made in the shape of a Fibonacci Spiral I wouldn’t mind living there myself… if I was quite a bit smaller, and feathery etc.

The reason why the blogging has been on a bit of a back-burner of late, is that I’ve opened a digital fabrication lab… in Wellington, which has meant (in a round about sort of way), I’ve shifted town. The photo above is the street outside… The Wellington Makerspace. So I’ve been living out of a suitcase in the since March… and have been doing A LOT of renovating… but now have a brand new facility to make calipers in. It looks a bit like this:   The other news is that I have a new partner… Lee Bennett… … a formidably talented engineer (who has hitherto been making antique fighter-planes for Peter Jackson) who has taken a look at the calipers… and said “ok, we need to do this, that etc etc” – so we now have a couple of other caliper projects in the pipeline… … this is iteration…

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Further to that other one from a couple of months ago…

I’ve been meaning to write this for ages – so long in fact, that a fair few people have beaten me to it, and covered the ground I would have… … so I’ll run through the outstanding ones, mixed in with all sorts of hare-brained opinions of my own. The people I’m talking about here are proper designers. I’m a programmer who is occasionally forced to do design. Their word carries more authority than mine. All of the examples below make this site look like a shambles :) – I’ve actually done the redesign already, it’s just that it’s dependent on having a video… which I have yet to get around to making. 1) Nice detailed article by Jarel Remick over at net.tutsplus.com This gives a fairly good run-down of the structural makeup of a web-site – although although this is how the majority of web-sites “look”, and it is…

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