Jai's Laboratory

What’s with all these wild fires? There are 400 wildfires reported in BC earlier this week, and let me tell you, my lungs sure can tell. I cough a lot more, and getting up the 3 flights of stairs to work makes me feel like a 400lb competitive eater after a bacon-eating contest. UGH. It reminds me all the time of the Firestorm I lived through in Kelowna, about 7 years ago. The air was heavy, had a tinge of woodsmoke in it. Now, when I smell the same air, it makes me homesick for Okanagan Lake. Maybe I’ll head back there soon & see the fam.

Work has been awesome, and in the name of science (SCIENCE!) I found a new app that lets me track my work. It’s called IOGraphica and it’s a great little tool. Basically, you set it to record, and then it tracks your house movements, rest points, and clicks. Then it turns it all in to a really great data map that you can do whatever with. I see a lot of long-term potential for this app, not just for professional purposes (see: tracking user behavior when launching new sites), but also for art.

Here, I made one over a day of work, coding a new site at the office (notice the dual monitor):

…and one I made at home while working in Photoshop for a client:

I think it’s interesting that on the first one, it’s all over the map where I click to access the code I need to edit in both windows, and the major clicks are where my browser windows overlap so I can select them. In the second one, since I was only using Photoshop, and Firefox, you can really see where the layers palate is, and where on the canvas I do most of my work. I can also notice where I color with my tablet, just like a real pen, diagonally.

Have an awesome weekend & be excellent to each other!

J

Well, I had a meeting with Sebastien almost a week ago, and I am pleased with how it went. It could always have gone better, but there is nothing I can do about the past. The last week was a crazy one, hence my lack of posting.
Sorry about that, everyone.
I have been working on to code for so long, that it was nice to take a break and work on the visuals for the project. I finished 3 of the 4 levels, and I have been doing some concept sketches for the fourth. I thought I would have some serious help for the code, but it seems that there was a mis-communication, and now I am right back where I started. Oh well, I got a bit of advice, and I have yet to exhaust all my resources. 5 weeks left and I am determined to make this thing work.

Now, off to go and code some zones and do some freaky Flash math.

Listening to: Armor for sleep – “Phantoms Now”