Happy St. Pat's! Mar 17, 11, 12:49 p.m.

Liquid lunch followed up with a beer meeting!

Feeling pretty good right now, what are the rest of you sayin'?

FMT 030411 Mar 3, 11, 10:50 a.m.

Zeus - Say Anything

http://www.mediafire.com/?1q4jkv…

This is a seriously good rock album and the dudes just won 2011 Verge Music Award(XM Radio's version of The Polaris) for Album Of The Year.

ShoeZeum Dec 17, 10, 8:02 a.m.

I'm doing it all wrong:

Ten years ago I started selling shoes on eBay when I stumbled upon a bunch of vintage Nikes at a local swap meet. I emptied out my checking account (a whopping $300) and bought as many pairs as I could afford. I rushed home to my one-bedroom-apartment and listed the shoes on eBay. Week after week, I went back to the swap meet and bought more Nikes. Eventually, the swap meet vendor disappeared, never to be seen or heard from again. So I had to figure out where I was going to get my inventory of Nikes from. Over the years, I have bought and sold hundreds of thousands of Nike Shoes. My business grew from a one-bedroom-apartment, into a two-bedroom-apartment, into a storage locker, into eight storage lockers, and eventually into the warehouse where I am presently. I decided that the best use of my giant warehouse and my profits that I have worked so hard for, was to build the most comprehensive collection of Nike shoes and put them on display for the world to enjoy. So one by one, I built this amazing collection. All of the shoes are in my size (11-12). All of the shoes are deadstock with their original boxes. And all of the shoes have been professionally shrink wrapped for their protection. The shoes have been placed on display with toys and props that are meant to bring the collection to life. The shoes were mainly purchased on eBay and Flightclub, as well as at Footlocker, Sportie LA, Niketown, and Nike Outlets all across the United States. The toys and props were all purchased at the same swap meet where my business got started.

________________________________...

Me:

Montreal Hotel/Accommodations Dec 13, 10, 11:43 a.m.

Benfal and my other QBN Québécois brethren and anyone else with the knowledge I am seeking. The GF and I were look for somewhere to stay in Montreal that isn't your standard hotel, something with a little more posh or style. A boutique hotel experience, I suppose. Something more memorable than your Hilton's and Delta's of the world.

I thought http://www.hotellecrystal.com/en… looked cool/stylish, but still a bit too hotel like possibly. I really like http://lofthotel.ca/en/ , if there's something similar to this, that'd be amazing. Basically something equivalent to The Drake here in Toronto, http://www.thedrakehotel.ca/hote… or The Gladstone http://www.gladstonehotel.com/ .

Thanks so much!

FMT 110510 Nov 3, 10, 7:03 a.m.

Black by popular demand(see what I did there, Ukit?):

http://hotfile.com/dl/79895608/b…

Artist: Electric Wizard

Album: Black Masses

Released: 2010

Style: Stoner Metal

Format: MP3 320Kbps

Size: 133 Mb

Toronto 2015 Pan Am Games Branding Sep 29, 10, 12:43 p.m.

Toronto PanAm Games 2015 branding unveiled, co-created by Endeavor and Trajectory —

http://bit.ly/9FT9LX

Brand Guidelines:

http://is.gd/fAJwn

Site:
http://www.toronto2015.org/

Reminds me of the London Games for some reason. The logic:

"vibrant, curved design...inspired by the figurative styles of pre-Columbian aboriginal art forms throughout the Pan Americas. It also draws on ancient sport traditions—specifically the Mezzo-Americans [sic] (including Aztec and Mayan cultures), which are linked to the first use of rubber balls in sport as early as 1600 BC."

It's a tough job to please everybody and I don't hate it, but I can see why many would. Like others have said, it's kinda blubbery.

Microsoft Sharepoint, how customizable is it? Sep 24, 10, 6:31 a.m.

Hey, I've done some recent identity work with a company that uses a separate company for Web Dev. I wanted to integrate the work I've done into their site and redesign some elements of the site to better suit the re-branding.

I'm sorry that I can't link anything (NDA and all that), but the Dev company is saying that I can't do any of the updates to the site because it will fuck up what they've done using Sitepoint and that Sitepoint doesn't allow for this change.

I'm calling total bullshit on these hacks and think they might be after the work I've done with said company.

I'm not very knowledgeable about Sitepoint, but what I've read seems like the things I wanna do are possible and the case is that the dev company wants more of their business and me outta the picture. Thoughts? How can I tell my client that what they're saying is a pant load and what we were proposing can in fact happen.

Happy friday to you all and cheers in advance!

FMT 092410 Sep 22, 10, 7:16 a.m.

Well, figured I'd get things started with a bunch of old farts getting together to make a new album:

Bad Religion - The Dissent Of Man (2010, 160Kbps)

http://hotfile.com/dl/70952210/7…

Twitter Redesign Sep 14, 10, 5:15 p.m.

I just refreshed my screen and got this:

Pretty sweet update. Post all your hate, beneath the line. ;-)

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Ryeberg @ Drake Hotel Toronto Jun 1, 10, 11:48 a.m.

RYEBERG LIVE
Tuesday, June 1st 2010
Show starts @ 8PM (doors @ 7PM)
@ The Drake Underground
1150 Queen St West, Toronto
416. 531.5042 -- get directions

$8 at the door ($5 for 32 years or younger), or try and get on the guest list.

Please click on one of the share buttons below and tell your friends. Or go to the Facebook Event Page.

See you then! See you there!

http://www.ryeberg.com/ryeberg-s…

&feature=player_embedded

Anybody going to this? I think i might hit it up tonight. What's $5, eh? (For those 32yrs and younger, what's up with that?)

Happy B-day, Ideaist! May 12, 10, 11:33 a.m.

Homie turns 27 today!

Build Redesigns Their Site Mar 1, 10, 1:38 p.m.

http://wearebuild.com/ (Did a filter and couldn't find anything, hopefully this isn't a repost.)

Thought it was a pretty nice redesign, show's their work well and the jquery showcase section is nice and smooth. Simple and put's the work upfront.

Thoughts?

XML Help Nov 15, 09, 11:29 a.m.

Hi, I think I've been staring at this too long, for some reason the second < linksitem > isn't showing up.

I'm not sure if it's an error in the code or maybe the text is too wide for what I've allowed in the .fla, but some of it should show up in that case.

Here's the XML: http://pastebin.com/m2dc356ee

Any help is greatly appreciated. Cheers in advance!

TYCHO Nov 5, 09, 11:24 a.m.

Friday November 20th 9pm-2am

Featuring:
TYCHO/ISO50 (Live A/V Performance)

With Guest DJ’s
Aarnio (Ghostly/Moodgadget, New York)
Noah Pred (Thoughtless Music, Toronto)

Nocturne NightClub
www.nocturneclub.com
550 Queen St W, Toronto, ON M5V 2B5

Tickets $10 in advance / $15 at door

Dope poster and will be a great show as always. Any other Torontarians going?

Gallery opening that night at Function 13 too:

Scott Hansen (ISO50) comes to Toronto for a solo art show.
Gallery Opening: Fri Nov 20th, 2009
6pm-9pm
FREE
Scott Hansen, better known by his design moniker ISO50 and his musical pseudonym Tycho, is a San Francisco based artist whose work in both design and music overlap to form a vivid artistic vision. As ISO50, Hansen weaves organic textures and forms with sun drenched color palettes to create striking illustrative print works. Hansen's flash based portfolio, ISO50.com, provides an engaging interface from which to view his deep body of print, web, and branding work.

Our First Doc/Film Oct 29, 09, 7:41 a.m.

Here's our first Doc/film we've spent the last couple months working on for NBA Star Chris Bosh:

It's just the trailer, but we would love to know what QBN'ers think of it.

Cheers in advance!

XML / Flash help, please. Sep 15, 09, 8:42 a.m.

Hi, for some reason I'm not able to bold text in flash when I add tags to it in the XML.

Here's what the XML looks like:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<itemContainer>

<item title = "Tips &amp; tricks" path = "images/features/homescreen1.jpg">
<teaser>Blurb about personalizing your phone and using all the awesome features...</teaser>
<detail>
<itemDetail><![CDATA[Create a device that suits your style by using the personalization features!]]></itemDetail>
<itemDetail><![CDATA[Put applications at your fingertips. Select Go to > Options > Select options and choose the applications you want in the menu.]]></itemDetail>
</detail>
</item>
</itemContainer>

and here's the bit of action script calling it into the flash file:

Object.Main = this;
onLoad.moveButtons(0);
function galleryChoice(q) {
tArray = new Array();
titleArray = new Array();

detailItems = new Array();
detailArray= new Array();
my_xml = new XML();
for (var j = 0; j<curLength; j++) {
this.th_nav["thmb"+j].removeMovi...
}

my_xml.ignoreWhite = true;
my_xml.onLoad = function(loaded) {
if (loaded) {
gallery = this.childNodes[q];

curLength = gallery.childNodes.length;
trace(curLength)
_root.totalItemLength = curLength
_root.bigPanel = 0

for (var i = 0; i<gallery.childNodes.length; i++) {
tArray.push(gallery);
titleArray.push(gallery.childNod...

}
}
delay = setInterval(makeButtons, 50);
};
my_xml.load("xml/XMLtext.xml");
}
function makeButtons() {
tnNr = 0;
clearInterval(delay);
for (var i = 0; i<tArray.length; i++) {
_root.panelHeight = 0
var thb = bt_p.attachMovie("itemBox_mov", "thmb"+i,i, {_y:(i*29)})
thb.featureText.text = titleArray[i];

detailItems = gallery.childNodes[i].firstChild...

trace(detailItems)

for (var j = 0; j<detailItems.length; j++) {

detailArray = detailItems

var detailBox_MC = thb.contentBox.attachMovie("deta... "detailBox"+j,j, {_y:_root.panelHeight})

detailBox_MC.featureDetailText.h... = detailArray[j]

detailBox_MC.featureDetailText.s...
detailBox_MC.featureDetailText.a... ="center"

_root.panelHeight = _root.panelHeight + detailBox_MC.featureDetailText... + 5
trace("DETAIL"+j+": "+detailArray[j])
trace("this: "+detailBox_MC.featureDetailText...

}

_root.bigPanel = 50 + _root.panelHeight
thb.featureNumHigh.text = _root.bigPanel

_root.distanceMove = 183
_root.buttonBG_height = 183
_root.thisSelected = 0
moveButtons(0)

}
loadButtons();
}

Anything jump out at anybody? It's probably something stupid, but I'm not the greatest at flash.

FMT 210809 Aug 20, 09, 7:33 a.m.

Delorean - Ayrton Senna EP

Similar to JJ, with a bit of Phoenix thrown in for good measure. Short, but sweet.

Mediafire and everything!

http://www.mediafire.com/downloa…

The Pop Shoppe Aug 17, 09, 2:36 p.m.

We've just launched this site with our friends at AmeobaCorp(our first project together): http://www.thepopshoppe.com

Have a look around and I'd love to know what you guys think, good or bad. There's lots of fart noises and general weirdness if you're into those sort of things.

(If you find any bugs, please post 'em too)

Thanks and hope you enjoy!

Pitchfork: The Top 500 Tracks of the 2000s Aug 17, 09, 7:45 a.m.

"Since Pitchfork has been around for all of the 2000s, we're taking the opportunity to put together a detailed and wide-ranging story-- as told in four lists, four essays, and a timeline of events-- of what happened in music in the last 10 years. About what you'd get from a print magazine, but it's free and you won't throw it out the next time you move."

This is 500-201:

http://pitchfork.com/features/st…

Posting the rest later this week. I think it's somewhat impossible to truly list a top 500, but it's a good way to find new/old/undiscovered music.

Toronto Processing Programmers Aug 5, 09, 9:54 a.m.

Hi,

I've been working on a project with scientists from the Ministry of Health/St. Michael's Hospital for the past year (http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/Artic... and we're now looking to write a program that can visualize the collected data in real time.

Email me for more info(in my profile) if you're interested.