A project very close to my heart, www.TheFlavours.co.uk is one of those proud ‘all my own work’ moments.
The simple design is based around a one-page format, incorporating a degradable fluid Javascript navigation system , a Flash music player, some PHP scripting to read song data directly from ID3 tags and a bespoke mini-CMS allowing the management of Gig listings and tunes available for the player.
Big up to the following resources used on this project:
Currently both a work in progress and a labour of love, Mundiscover is a small site designed to help promote lesser known bands. A user will input a particular artist or band, and Mundiscover will run off to search Last.FM, returning a list of lesser known, but highly played artists.
The brain child of esteemed web mixer Paul Mackenzie, I’m the boy running around in PHP, massaging the Last.FM API and keeping a leash on the MySQL database.
Currently based at http://www.neilpie.co.uk/mundiscover but moving to its own domain very soon.
Big up to the following resources used on this project:
Laura-Jane and I like movies. Beaches and Grease aside, our movie tastes share a great deal of common ground. In fact, it was when I overheard her championing Death Race 2000 to her friends whilst out drinking one night that I realised she was a serious candidate for a ‘life-partner’.
Anyway, one of our favourite pass-times is to force the other to watch a ‘must-see’ film of our choosing that they have somehow managed to avoid seeing thus far. It was while introducing Laura-Jane to the wonder that is Totall Recall the other night that she came out with this classic example of how her brain works.
It’s the end of the film, and Arnie and his athletic, sleazy AND demure chick have switched on the martian reactor, been blown onto the surface of the planet, fallen down a martian mountainside and are busy having their eyeballs sucked out because of the lack of any atmosphere. Nothing too baffling there, at which point Laura-Jane says…
“This film is stupid. How come they fell down the mountainside if there isn’t any air? There can’t be gravity if there isn’t any air.”
.. and thus began a surreal explanation of how it’s the atmosphere that keeps us all on the planet because we are all heavier than air, of how there is no gravity on the moon because there is no atmosphere there, and how the people who walked on the moon weren’t kept from floating away by gravity, but in fact it was the lead in their boots.
Confused?
Please don’t get me wrong, I love my partner. She is a wonderful woman who must have infinite patience to put up with me the way she does. Unfortunately Laura Jane has a tendency to come out with some of the most ridiculous questions and comments I have ever heard a person above the age of 7 utter.
I’m not trying to imply that she is stupid, far from it – the girl is a university graduate and head of department at a grammar school. I just wonder how her mind works when she can come out with such questions as ‘Do you ever wonder what it would be like if forks were in charge of the world?’.
Sometimes I’m left speechless. A mutual friend suggested I create a web site totally devoted to these inane soundbites, and so until I get the chance to I shall document as many as I can here, under the category ‘Laura Jane Says…’.
I hope they bring you as much enjoyment as they have me.