The blog within the blog. Your non art Sterling Sheehy news source.
Silas and I had a drawing adventure in the backyard today. I went to the local art store and picked up a tub of colored chalk and a couple tubes of finger paint. The morning rain had stopped and drawing outside on the porch just felt like a good idea. He thought so too.
Well I found out who was eating all the bird seed from the feeder and lets just say it wasn’t the birds.
I made this little time lapse movie to solve the mystery.
Yeah I’m a dork. I’ve been geeking out on ways to make the site faster, and today I managed to move all of my images over to their own subdomain.
What this means is that all of the images can now be loaded in parallel with all of the other files that you are opening. Before it would take a little while for all of the images to load on the site. Thats because all of the files were being loaded thru a single source. Now that I have subdomains set up for all of the images, html, cssimages, and javascript files which make up this site. They all now come from different locations. Instead on one funnel there are four and so everything moves faster. yeah!
The hardest part of all this was trying to redirect all of the images from the Nextgen Gallery plugin that I use. Today I was digging through the php files and I found the little snippet of code for the base url. I changed it and TA DA! like magic suddenly everything worked! Problem solved.
Go go gadget geek powers!
This website wouldn’t be complete without a place to draw!
I put Mr. Doob’s amazing Harmony app in the frame below. What are you waiting for? Lets make some art.
Have fun!
—update–
sorry but i had to kill this page, i changed the layout of the site and it just didn’t look that great and I was getting frustrated trying to fix it all the time.
Yeah! I just read the news about Vimeo throwing down mobile and html5 support!
Finally I have an easy way of adding video without spending five hours of compression and coding. This news solves the biggest hold up for developing this site. Wahoo! Looks like we are good to go. Nothing left to do now but upload and replace all the old files in super awesome HD!
Here is a little gator run cycle I made last night in TVPaint.
I thought I was going to use it for the loading animation that plays when you click one of the the image links. It turns out the pictures load to fast to see the whole cycle so that ended up being pointless and so I made little spinning ball animation instead. You can see that play when you browse through the image links.
*UPDATE: no longer use a loading image*
I’ve been trying to get the sites load time down to under a second but it looks like it isn’t happening. On the bright side I did set up a image mirror last night. Now all of the sites embedded picture picture should go through a images.sterlingsheehy.com domain. It might speed things up a little or just give me a big headache.
Its always good advice to take a biologist along on your nature hikes. I woke up at five the other day and went for a hike up at cypress mountain provential park with Scott Loarie. We had a great time.
I’m really excited about the new Ramblin category I set up.
One of the goals of setting up the site was to have a professional work space but its nice to put up family stuff as well. Now I can do both without the water mixing with the oil.
I’m in the process of rebuilding the website to make it more flexible to use.
The old one was a bit of a beast. Split into several parts, with multiple domains and overly heavy bad code it was a nightmare to keep up. Posting media was always rather frustrating. It had to go eventually.
The goal rebuilding the site was to clean up the interface and make everything mobile friendly. Ever since I got an iphone I’ve been more aware of these things. Waiting for your own site to load in order to share something with a friend is rather frustrating. It being too small to read is maddening. So if your reading this on the go, enjoy. I spend way too much time learning, css, javascript and jquerry code so you can do that.
A good deal of the information on some of the new tabbed pages is just filler. In the coming days I’ll finish polishing them up. While in the processes of building them though I did find a bunch of old project, mainly old student films, that I’ve never put up on line. I put a few under the “wrapped” tab for you to watch. Descriptions and such will come later when I find the time. Thats it for now.