Rustin Jessen

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Alpine Script

I originally saw Alpine Script over at the beautifully redesigned Letterhead Fonts, and today it crossed my path again in the MyFonts email newsletter.

I’m normally not a fan of brush scripts, but something about this face from Charles Borges de Oliveira catches me. I’m a fan.

As I mentioned in the about section of this site, there was a regularly updated blog in this space from 2004 until late 2007. All those nuggets of wonderfulness I created for the site are now archived, hidden away from the world.

I thought it might be fun to pull some of those bits out of the archive from time to time in a bit of a series I’m going to call… …wait for it… “From the Archive”

This little gem is from a post on June 17, 2006. I really think it stands on it’s own.

Please enjoy this wonderfully choreographed version of I wanna love you tender.

March 16, 2009
api, disney, twitter

Mr. Blu Bird on my shoulder…

Today, I’d like to introduce you to a friend of mine. Please say hello to Mr. Blu Bird! This little guy will sit on your shoulder and tweet happy little disney messages in your ear all day long.

Well, that last bit isn’t entirely true… but pretty close.

How this all came about

The story on this one isn’t particularly long or interesting. Sometime around the end of last week I thought it might be cool to check out the Twitter API. I didn’t have any particular project in mind, just wanted to see what it was all about.

Come to find out that the API is really awesome, and totally dead simple to use.

So I whipped up a little rails app after work and started to mess with things. All-in-all, development time spent on this was less than 6 hours. I spent a lot more time sorting out the details of it’s deployment. With the use of the new and totally awesome Feedzirra ruby feed library, deployment on a shared host just wasn’t going to be an option (though I did beat my head on that wall for the better part of Sunday night). I just couldn’t make all the custom gem requires play nice, so I reverted back to the always stellar Slicehost.

I swear, every time I’m frustrated with another host for some project or another, I end up back at Slicehost and they never disappoint. So with a new slice up, I had my little project deployed in under 30 minutes.

So, that’s really that. I just wanted to get my hands dirty with the Twitter API. I plan to add some cool features since I really had fun getting this far.

I hope you like it!

March 11, 2009
apple, design, web

Apple no-flash audio player

Want to know my favorite part about this new iPod Shuffle release?

Check out this totally cool no-flash inline audio player they’ve created. I like it.

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WED

Was playing with the flickr button integrated in the new iPhoto last night (it’s the first time I’ve even logged into my flickr account in a year).

Thought I would share my little collection of images of the old maestro himself. (photos below the cut)

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Produced c1500, the book is filled with designs for different styles of script, letters, initials and decorative borders. All are believed to have come from one workshop, where the book would have been used not just in ye olde pitche meetinge but also to teach assistants how to reproduce the house styles.