Here are the pictures of the Sol LeWitt installment at Columbus Circle NYC

The pictures comes from this set in flickr.

View from the roof of the new apartment. Not to shabby.

Sunday art today is, this. In combination with some Tim Burton.

And if I’m lucky and smart planning my subway trip, I will get a chance to see this.

For you that might have missed I’m on twitter now also.

http://www.twitter.com/karlnorling

Just wanted to share the news that I just replaced itunes with Spotify. Spotify is a swedish music streaming service, available in most of Europe, it will launch, hopefully end of 2009 in the states.

I also installed the Spotify application on my Android (G1) phone, and it’s amazing. So no more ipod for me :)

This is the PHP snippet in the generate.php file from the FLIR.

This code will check if the request to generate the FLIR image is allowed or not.

if(false !== ALLOWED_DOMAIN && $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'] != '') {
    $refhost = get_hostname($_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']);
    if(substr(ALLOWED_DOMAIN, 0, 1) == '.') {
        if(false === strpos($refhost, substr(ALLOWED_DOMAIN, 1)))
            err('DISALLOWED_DOMAIN');
    }else {
        if($refhost != ALLOWED_DOMAIN)
            err('DISALLOWED_DOMAIN');
    }
}

It’s time for Ester Vacation!
Rome here I come, Gelato here I come, watch out Colosseum.

Here’s some pictures from today’s Sunday walk. Trying out my new Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ28k.

This is my third test of font-replacement tools for the web. This time it’s time for the oldie Sifr. After Shaun Inman left the sifr project it was taken over by Mark Wubben. I won’t talk to much about sifr, because I guess you all are really familiar with it by now. So let’s look at the result.

Please pull up new tabs/windows of the Cufon and Flir also to compare how the font is being rendered. It’s quite interesting that it could be presented in so many different ways. Hopefully when @font-face is fully supported in different browsers and when those browsers has hit a critical mass in usage we can start using the CSS3 font-face.

Time to try out a other custom font web intergration, this time it’s Flir.

“Facelift Image Replacement (or FLIR, pronounced fleer) is an image replacement script that dynamically generates image representations of text on your web page in fonts that otherwise might not be visible to your visitors. The generated image will be automatically inserted into your web page via Javascript and visible to all modern browsers. Any element with text can be replaced: from headers (<h1>, <h2>, etc.) to <span> elements and everything in between!”

My implementation can you find here. You can compare it to the Cufón test I made earlier, you will find that one here.

So what’s the main difference between these? Flir is using PHP and the GD library in PHP to read ttf/dfont/opt files to generate images of these, while Cufón is using VML to generate text based on font files converted to JavaScript.

So far I think Cufón is doing a better job.