The flotsam and jetsam of a mind otherwise occupied. Reformed newsroom creative director turned indie Web designer.
Art Direction
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stuntbox Still have more site polishing to do, but knocking off to go catch the latest Dot Dot Dot @ Galapagos. I'm the boss of me now. :-)

by David Sleight, Art Direction

stuntbox Just checked site stats, and adore how many are intentionally b0rking URLs to see the 404. Each and all of you are the wind beneath my wings

by David Sleight, Art Direction

stuntbox @aworkinglibrary Thanks. Hopefully from now on he'll only be making cameo appearances. ;-)

by David Sleight, Art Direction

stuntbox Whew! Glitch squashed. Re-adding project content now. It wouldn't be a launch without one minor hiccup.

by David Sleight, Art Direction

stuntbox It's official. Announcing Stuntbox, LLC, my very own little design shop. http://stuntbox.com/?p=422

by David Sleight, Art Direction

stuntbox Ah, screw the glitch. Imma launch this thing anyway. #welldoitlive

by David Sleight, Art Direction

stuntbox Whoooooops. Seem to have hit a post-launch WordPress template snag…

by David Sleight, Art Direction

stuntbox @zeldman RE http://ok.cogaoke.com/, you channel Scorsese like a master, sir.

by David Sleight, Art Direction

stuntbox @beep A single tear, perfectly formed and fresh as dew, now flows from my eye.

by David Sleight, Art Direction

stuntbox Best "Zoom in and enhance!" scene ever. http://bit.ly/aRejdY

by David Sleight, Art Direction

stuntbox Was that a David Bowie cameo in the new Tron Legacy trailer? #majortom

by David Sleight, Art Direction

stuntbox "…said the joker to the thief."

by David Sleight, Art Direction

stuntbox Just finished The Manual of Detection. Damn good noir-ish fun, and I'd be shocked if it hasn't been optioned for movie rights yet.

by David Sleight, Art Direction

stuntbox I like that Duane Reade developed a hand soap dispenser that can actually *fling* the soap directly onto your pants.

by David Sleight, Art Direction

stuntbox Dear Adobe: 85% of Alexa Top 100 websites use Flash, you say? Well, 100% of them use HTML.

by David Sleight, Art Direction

stuntbox NPR interviewing motion capture actor this morning: "A lot of times it's performing with yourself." Stop! You'll make the baby Jesus cry!

by David Sleight, Art Direction

stuntbox Turned on TV to find they're interpretive pop lockin' at the Oscars. Why is it I don't have the carrier with the blackout?

by David Sleight, Art Direction

stuntbox And now I shall reward myself with a burrito.

by David Sleight, Art Direction

stuntbox Okay, so applying the background color/image to the html element itself makes it work. Which feels dirty, wrong, and evil, but it works.

by David Sleight, Art Direction

stuntbox .@ronsome Likewise. Currently doing unholy things to both in a mad effort to squash this suckah bug.

by David Sleight, Art Direction

stuntbox And yet, seeing plenty of sites with backgrounds rendered in the viewport correctly. Worst bit is, when it does happen, it seems random.

by David Sleight, Art Direction

stuntbox Anyone ever hit into a WebKit bug where body background color/image doesn't display if window extends past content? Then flashes into place?

by David Sleight, Art Direction

stuntbox They had free Cherry Garcia ice cream at the NY Historical Society's Grateful Dead exhibit. But our loyalties remained with Mr Lincoln.

by David Sleight, Art Direction

stuntbox Think I may have just accidentally burned my fingerprints off on this coffee pot. Sweet. Bonus.

by David Sleight, Art Direction

stuntbox Once entered, you turn the bayonet, like so, so that the wound may not close.

by David Sleight, Art Direction

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