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jesse — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 04:17:17 +0000

You just know that this is going to be good.

Patience please

jesse — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 06:27:45 +0000

Well … it appears that the plugin I was using to generate the galleries here no longer works*.

I wonder when that happened? In the mean time you can see most of my pictures on flickr.

Please bear with me, a change is coming.

*Edit: I should mention that this is now fixed. Sort of.

Don’t be scared

jesse — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 01:06:22 +0000

A lot of people seem to like this design, but for a long time now I’ve felt it doesn’t really represent my feelings on web design accurately (which as I’m a web designer and this is my portfolio is sort of important).

Specifically I’m talking about readability, typography and changes to the way that I use the interweb. So in the coming weeks (I hope) I plan to make a few fairly major design changes, so stay tuned, but also please forgive any really wierd things that might happen (I like to live update)

It might look like this …

Ah memories

jesse — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 01:02:52 +0000

So they are making a 4th Indiana Jones film, I hope it’s good, the title isn’t. What does look good though, is these Indiana Jones trading cards TOPPS has released featuring original art from artist Patrick Schoenmaker. Click the image to see the rest on Patrick’s blog.

Via Drawn!

Change is good

jesse — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 23:43:08 +0000

The Royal Mint has revealed a new coinage design for the first time in a long time. It’s the result of a public competition which was won by is Matthew Dent a 26-year-old graphic designer, originally from Bangor who now lives and works in London.

Matthew’s design features different parts of a single image, the Royal Shield of the UK.

I like it, I think it’s pretty neat, watch though as public outrage and resistance to change surely ensue.

Via ffffound.com

Pause, OK, wait! Pause again! Harakiri

jesse — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 10:49:22 +0000

I hope this is a the first in a series of homages to great movie stills. Some of these stand so well on their own, just print them out and stick them on your wall.

I may have been a bit behind on this one, but I saw this for the first time only fairly recently. All I could think while watching it was “Oh that’s great, oh that’s better!”, so now I have to pare back the fifty or so screen shots I took back to a key two or three.

Harakiri is a 1962 film by Masaki Kobayashi and is the story of a disgraced samurai hoping to end his life honorably by perform ritual suicide, before he does so he proceeds to tell the story of his life.

I guess the fact that this is black and white is at play, I think you tend to notice shapes and contrasts more. But the placement of objects, space in the frame and lighting is genius.

Grab it and watch it if you can, but if you aren’t as slow as me and have already seen it, tell me what you thought.

Finally

jesse — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 04:04:26 +0000

I am notoriously lax when it comes to updating this site, I just looked and it was October when I last posted … oh dear. Anyway, I’ve been working on something, so I’ll say that’s why it’s been so long.

A long time ago I buried the music link on this site with the intention of making a new one for my musical endeavors. And it’s finally here. So please have a look and let me know what you think.

jessestephens.com

外国人

jesse — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 15:08:51 +0000

Sitting in a high rise apartment in Tokyo, it’s pretty late at night. I’ve uploaded some photos of the trip so far. We’ve seen a castle, a lot of gardens and getting ready to get some modern Tokyo craziness.

Click the picture to see the other photos.

(I’ve broken the galleries here, you might have noticed, they are working but are just a bit weird in places. So yeah, I’ll get right on that.)

I am a fan

jesse — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 12:17:52 +0000

From “Bottle Rocket” to “The Life Aquatic” something about the way Wes Anderson puts a movie together is … I want to say magical, but I’m afraid that might sound pretentious … but then I did say it … so yeah, magical.

A house in the country

jesse — Wed, 23 May 2007 00:33:33 +0000

Charles, David and I all trekked up to the country on the weekend. We took our families and a lot of musical equipment.

Thankfully we have something to show for it, other than a rested feeling at the beginning of the week (not that that isn’t worthwhile in itself).

Download the mp3 here

It’s about eight and a half minutes long, but I think it’s worth it.