So how does the cat err, catalyze stuff?

Not sure, but I like the way the word rolls off your tongue...cat-a-ly-ti-cat

Anyway, this website is basically a brain dump for my thoughts, designs and writing.
So have a look around and I hope you find something interesting.

And I enjoy getting comments so please feel free to leave one. ;)

- Sean Ockert
My narcissistic music corner

The bands on repeat on my iPod are Nine Inch Nails and The Tea Party. I'm praying that Nine Inch Nails does a stand alone concert in Brisbane but I fear that I might just have to cave in and get a ticket to Soundwaves in Feb.

Also, there's 2 incredible Aussie bands that deserve so much more attention than they recieve:
The Butterfly Effect and Mammal.

The Leonard Cohen concert was fantastic. An epic 3 hour show that I hope won't be his last.

May
24

A river of Flickr photos

I stumbled upon this neat way to view Flickr photos, called Flickriver. Basically, you search for a topic (like orangutans) or a member’s photostream and it displays the photos as one continuous ‘river’ down the page. But the nice thing is it only loads them dynamically in small batches, so you only use extra bandwidth if you scroll the page.

I’m guessing it’s based on this jQuery plugin Lazy Load which is basically the opposite of pre-fetching. Might be worth incorporating into a project. Hmm…

Check it out and be sure to also have a look at stuck in customs photos. He does some absolutely stunning HDR images. Highly recommended.

Tags: flickr, flickriver, jquery, photography

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Leon

5th June, 2008

Hey Sean!

Nice to see the website up and running! So far I’m enjoying your site quite a bit I like the floral/vines popping out the sides, but with a small background gradient effect and a soft multiply effect with drop shadow would really make them pop! Would also love to see them grow… plus the inconspicuous “top of page” arrow and side bar “slide away” is very slick. gotta love that slick stuff.

Re: Flickr photo river - I think it can be addicting as you could end up scrolling down for hours… lol but it is a great way to easily view images. This also reminds me of a plugin that pulls images from your flickr gallery and loads them into at custom gallery page on your website.. But I can’t remember the name sorry!

Sean

5th June, 2008

Thanks for the suggestions Leon! That’s a good idea about the vines, I’ll see if I can play around with Flash and get them to grow. I liked the ornate background on your site so I was thinking of doing something similar to that.

I’ve seen a couple of custom Flickr galleries around the place like Flogr or a jQuery plugin like flickrGallery. They tap into the Flickr API, so you need an application key for your feed. Might be worth checking out.