Here's some new work from my new art series, Corrida. This is a series that combines scanned elements from James Joyce's Ulysses with manipulated photographs. More on the workflow coming later...really not looking forward to painting all that text!

Explosions In The Sky is an instrumental "post-rock" band out of Austin, Texas, known for their completely insane guitar work, and "cathartic mini-symphonies", as they like to call them. Similar to bands such as Godspeed You! Black Emperor (another of my favorites), these guys build intricate cathedrals of sound, punctuated by a percussive backbeat that complements the etherial guitars amazingly well... I read somewhere that listening to Explosions could "make walking the dog a transcendent experience" -- and I agree totally.

The Birth and Death of the Day is perhaps my favorite track off their recent release, All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone. It's one of those songs that I can listen to on infinite repeat, if it wasn't for the fact that Welcome, Ghosts comes up right after.

So after doing a routine search on YouTube for them, I happen upon this genius video, which is an amateur edit, a mashup of sorts of The Birth and Death of the Day, and Koyaanisqatsi, a cinematic tour de force from 1982. Koyaanisqatsi, directed by Godfrey Reggio, with a soundtrack by Phillip Glass, is kinda of like a giant montage of people, places, and things in the United States, all illustrating the subtitle of the film, Life Out Of Balance. Out of distribution for many years (due to IP issues, what else?) I clung to my ancient VHS tape of it for many years.

So the Firefox attempt at the Guiness World Record for the highest number of downloads in a single day is complete! And not too shabby, at over eight million downloads -- that's a lot of browsers! Hopefully at least some of those went to people that are currently mired in the Hell of Internet Explorer. Anything which gets users away from the mess that is IE 7 is good for me and my business.

You can see their nice interactive flash map, tracking Firefox downloads by country, here. And, of course, you can learn more about the best browser on the net at Spread Firefox!

I did have a bit of a panic when I saw that the version of Firebug I had installed wasn't compatible with Firefox 3, until I actually read the page and saw there was a new version. Firebug (with Yslow) has become a critical part of my web workflow, and without that, I'd be in for lots of extra work.

Firefox 3 is really exciting for a number of reasons, including:

• An improved add-on manager that even lets you disable third party plugins like Flash and Quicktime -- a nice boon to our Slashdot friends
• A better download manager, which allows you to search in your recent downloads, as well as timestamps them
• Massively improved performance, both in terms of CPU use and memory management - it does seem snappier, but I'll really have to push it before I know for sure

Some fun stuff... my daughter Isabel is a member of the youngest Shakespearean performance company in LA, the Los Angeles Drama Club. I designed these for their recent performance of The Scottish Play. Had a ton of fun with them, and I think it shows.

Even if it does seem a little odd for a children's theatre group to have black and blood red posters. But hey, MACBETH!

Well, it's been over two years since this thing was actually public in any meaningful way, but timgilmour.com is back up! There's still a lot of work to do, lots of rough edges to be smoothed over, but I think at this point it's vastly more important to start generating some content...

Anyways, take a look around, there's not a ton to see (I haven't even finished the project descriptions yet), but baby steps... baby steps..