The Lighthouse Keeper’s cat

On my second day in Melbourne I decide to just stroll around rather than having a plan :-)… funnily enough this way I stumbled upon the well known Blender Gallery and Studios who organise street art tours guided by artists. For now I am content strolling to the city on my own, but if you do not have much time this might be a very good idea. They seem to be really nice www.melbournestreettours.com.

I would guess that these are all Miso’s (miso + ghostpatrol ABC documentary) work.

More in the Melbourne Streetart Flickr Set…

Background

WordPress – as most other “Blog” applications – handles media (images and video) content as “Attachments”. You write a Post and you attach an image using ‘Add Media’. The system does all the magic, scales the image in 3 sizes, allows multiple images per post. You even can add those multiple images as a gallery to a post…

Criticism

The approach in its current form is not working for me as Writer, Blogger, Publisher. Images are Posts not Attachments. I want to post an Image, not a Post. An Image is as differnet to a Post as a Page is to a Post (‘WordPress universe’ wording). Images have specific particular features, in both back (administration) and front-end (themes) aspects. The ‘advanced’ user needs more control in templates and template tags.

I am an Information Architect not a coder (developer), but this is how I see it: In a OOP metaphor an Image is a Post with specific ‘extensions’. If I would define a Post as a Class, an Image would be a Post Sub-Class. It would inherit all template tags while adding a few pieces of magic.

The Image ‘content type’

This is what I imagine would be possible without reinventing the (Wordpress-) wheel…

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The Union Lane Project is part of Melbourne’s Laneway Commissions project. Beginning in 2002, the Laneway Commissions temporarily transform Melbourne’s lanes into public art galleries.
My images are taken today almost 2 years after the event. The project is (partly) documented under http://beyondthecctv.blogspot.com/.

Many more inspirations from my first walk through Melbourne are in my Melbourne Flickr Set. Enjoy ^_^…

Übersprungbewegung (auch: Übersprunghandlung, Übersprungverhalten; engl.: displacement activity, gelegentlich auch: substitute activity oder behaviour out of context) (Übersprunghandlung on Wikipedia)

The noun is based on something Konrad Lorenz said in his work around human instincts.

However… this is not how it is used in everyday German. Something is called a ‘Übersprunghandlung’ when you have to do something and then you start doing 2+ other things – erratically – because you do not want to do what you actually have to do.

E.g. today I need to do my German taxes, so I went to have coffee with a friend, bought a new Journal and pencils, spent hours in the Library, updated Parallels to 4 (which crashed my virtual Windows XP, so I spend hours…  ) now it is dark and I am cooking (doomed to burn), listening to podcast (without really listening) and writing this stupid post… I think you get the picture…

Every language should have a one word to describe something like this ^_^…

P.S I you know an good idiom in English for this, let me know!

…because this part won’t be like a comic book. Real life does not fit into little boxes that were drawn for it.

Elijah to David in M. Night Shyamalan’s ‘Unbreakable’

Time on your little fingers? Get out your Scissors out and make a little cozy for your snapper card.

Get all the info on the craft 2.0 blog and make sure you email photos of your little something to Sue (photos@craft2.org) by August 27th.

Need inspiration? First in line was the felt cosy by Amie McCarron…

Disclaimer: Being ad free I feel the urge to let you know that this article was not paid for and does not have any opinion on snapper … ^_^…

To be honest  WordCamp New Zealand Day One was a surprise … a positive one ^_^. The best thing you can take home from any (un)conference is this feeling of being charged with energy, ready to go and make the world a better place… and this time it actually worked…

It was not only the quality of the speakers, it was the mixture. Jason Kemp, Dan Milward and Anthony Cole managed to get a wide range of presentations together, starting with Steven Price trying to keep bloggers out of legal trouble and Dan’s talk about eCommerce plugin. Old fashioned me is skeptical about the theme generator thingy, I admire what Ryan Hellyer achieved… it is just that I myself believe that software only gets you so far. To get your fingers dirty with a bit of code is not a bad thing…

Philip Fierlinger, Work Head of Design at Xero, is always great to listen to. There was heaps to learn from his experience with corporate blogging at Xero.

Now… personally I was really surprised by Matt Mullenweg – co-founder of WordPress and director of Automattic. “… one of PC World’s Top 50 People on the Web, Inc.com’s 30 under 30, and Business Week’s 25 Most Influential People on the Web.” (source http://ma.tt/)… whatever that might mean … his answers were smart, engaging and having this flair of professional honesty… you know, the one were you never know what actually is true and what is purely professional. I myself chose to believe the words. I think the world is not completely lost if there are people out there like Mike to keep open source what it should be and not just choosing it as a marketing stand to sell their products or services. Even so – I assume – he is a multi-millionaire, (Matt Mullenweg on Wikipedia) guess what? fair enough…

Gareth Townsend presentation on the new WordPress iPhone App did make me think… yup that is how it actually should work, so once they get this release out, we can look forward to some real cool stuff in the future. And Doug Casement is a legend anyway.

I am looking forward to tomorrow.

My Fazit so far ….

… I will keep on complaining about WordPress… as well as keep using it for all my web projects ^_^ and telling everybody else they should use it, but I will be very careful when I use “kids coding” again. I think the kids grow up fast…

… and I really would like to find an angle to contribute …

P.S. why is Tiny MCA doing this to me… ARGH if I click on remove formatting, I would like you to remove “§$%&/() formatting ….. ^_^…. see?