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year 29 || day 27 – the heat brings the spiders

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Churm Media's big orange tree spider

After the record breaking heat we’ve been having in SoCal comes the spiders. Apparently the heat was enough to wake these eight-legged mammoths from their tree top slumbers. I can only imagine the suns rays breaking through a save haven cocoon of leaves and paper tree bark only to strike the fuzzy orange backs of our arachnid web slingers, breaking them from their hibernation. This beast in particular has decided to make his home just outside the catwalk to our offices. Building himself a comfy hammock between two trees, he waits … the prefect breeze is all it will take. Sure the occasional fly or gnat is a comforting appetizer for this fella, but I know … he’s waiting for me. All I can do as a 6’1″ man is scamper haphazardly across the catwalk to avoid getting too close for that perfect storm of El Nino winds to launch this predator into the collar of my shirt as I pass by. I can sense him thinking. Plotting. But when that day comes, I like to think that I won’t scream like a little girl, but instead handle it like Ivan Drago and just break him. I can dream.

Google + HTML5 + Arcade Fire = The Wilderness Downtown

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Google, Arcade Fire, HTML5 and The Wilderness Downtown
Blown away… It’s really all I can use to describe the experience I just had with Google and HTML5. Maybe I’m just a nerd who gets his rocks off on techy, gadgety things, but I don’t think anyone will be able to deny the powerhouse that’s coming to the internet programming world, HTML5.

Take 4 minutes of your life and check out this project between Google and The Arcade Fire, “The Wilderness Downtown”. But sorry to all you hacks still living with Internet Explorer, you’re shit out of luck my friends… or should I say frenemies. (yeah, I think i just slipped into an MTV haze of unnecessary word combos). The project was started to shot the power of HTML5 with such things as it’s animation, video and layout capabilities, no flash involved!

So, go now, check it out. Drool a little if you’re a ubër nerd like me, but you will not leave disappointed… unless you’re an IE user, haha.

“The Wilderness Downtown” was inspired by recent developments in modern browsers and was built with Google Chrome in mind. As such, it’s best experienced in Chrome or an up-to-date HTML5-compliant browser. You can launch the project and learn more about it on our Chrome Experiments site at www.chromeexperiments.com/arcadefire.

We hope you enjoy it.

[-From Google's official blog]

Now, just to wet your appetites for HTML5, here’s a bit of simple code that can give you a sweet glow/drop shadow effect like you see on this site!

div:hover {
	-webkit-box-shadow:0 0 10px #1FA2E1; 
	-moz-box-shadow: 0 0 10px #1FA2E1; 
	box-shadow:0 0 10px #1FA2E1;
}
Check out the nifty glow box. oooooh, aaaahhhhhhh.

Web2Expo Speaker, Gary Vaynerchuk (Wine Library)

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web2expoI just took a little break from my Saturday work day at Churm Media to watch a video that may have just put an impact on my life… and hopefully will get around virally enough to get people up off their asses and doing something they love to do, not just grinding their ways though life trying to make sure the rent is paid with a job you hate rolling out of bed for. I mean. c’mon…. look at me. I’m working on a saturday! haha!

note to self… book flight to next web2expo… check.. and check.

Full length video after the jump.
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