Web/Tech: January 2008 Archives

Looking for a fun way to make your Friday afternoon work day go by faster? Give this little flash based dance music sequencer a shot. Sure, it's a little on the cheesy side, but it's all in good fun.

After a long hard day at work launching a series of web sites which were the culmination of 6 months work, it was nice to come home to find this little treat over at Make Blog (The music reminds me of an episode of This Old House). As some of you know, I've been taking glass blowing classes over at Urban Glass in Fort Greene to get my mind of the daily grind of software and web development. It has been an excellent diversion which helps calm, relax, and put my mind on other endeavors.

I've been considering how I could apply my new skills with other things to create some interesting art projects. One of which is a handmade Nixie clock. Nixies are vacuum tubes which were used for display purposes before LEDs became the standard. They have a very pleasing analog look to them. I figured that it would be possible to roll your own vacuum tubes.

This video has inspired me to look further into some of the fringe classes offered over at Urban Glass which deal in lampwork and neon. I'm sure both of those skills could apply here.