Ewrick's Rabbit Hole

The book has arrived this morning!

It’s a com­pi­lation of the stories we’ve started to write about a year ago (Sept. 12 2007 to be accurate) at 8 hands (Tracy’s, Lee Muir’s, Jib’s and mine). Circle of Eights the title, is a ref­erence at the inter­locking circles that brought our interests together, as sym­bolized by the pseu­donym for the author’s name which is made by merging our nick­names.
It is much more than one story actually, and quite dif­ficult to sum­marize as it’s inter­active, non-linear, and spans many interests at once. A bit of a chal­lenge to get the hang of it, but immensely rewarding in fun.

We’ve decided to publish a first volume of these stories as much for our own per­sonal pleasure as it’s also a way to have the content more easily explored. Coin­ci­den­tally, the 888^th addition to the stories was made on August 8^th 2008, but it’s only one of the many syn­chronic­ities that sur­rounded the creation.

I chose Lulu to print the book, which is a self-publishing service, and the quality is really great, as you can tell on the pictures.

It’s a really large book (350 pages black and white, perfect bound). The exterior (paperback) is all shiny and Tracy’s picture of the cave in Jimena, Spain is looking awesome on the back.

A look inside, with illus­tra­tions I created along the stories

If you want to give it a read, there is the stories website, and the link to order Circle of Eights.

Woohoo

(2009–03-12 EDIT: the second volume is out too)

written by Yuki \\ tags: book, circle of eights, elikozoe, pictures, stories, yurara fameliki

While looking for flash appli­ca­tions and other geeky stuff, I redis­covered yes­terday PicLens, a plugin for web browsers that allows people an immersive expe­rience into pic­tures galleries.

I remember how I was really impressed the first time I saw it; and I wanted to implement it else­where, but didn’t have the time to have more fun with it than with standard web­sites like Flickr, or Google Images…

Anyway, now I’ve done the nec­essary things to have it imple­mented on my website (once you’ve installed the plugin, hover the mouse cursor over the pic­tures thumb­nails and you should see a little icon that you can click on to jump into the wall of pictures).

It’s also imple­mented on my photo gal­leries.

Now, just have to sit back and enjoy the show…

written by Yuki \\ tags: gallery, photos, pictures, web 2.0

A little picture that I did a few days before, which had much sig­nif­i­cance for me.
It prompted a little con­ver­sation that I found very entertaining.

Here it is ; feel free to comment on the blog or the website (or both), as you prefer and find more comfortable

written by Yuki \\ tags: collaboration, fun, pictures, playfulness