the buddie icon

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November 18, 2008
10:43 pm

Photo by Francis Delapena

Photo by Francis Delapena
297.9… B free

wild orchids

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September 15, 2008
10:10 pm

Photo by Francis Delapena

I get questions every now and then asking me about these film scans. They’re scratched, gritty, have light leaks and sometimes look like they have some kind of chemical residue on them (there’s a proper term for it but I’m too lazy to Google at the moment). Anyway, they’re purposely set up to accidentally turn out like this.

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ODSY STFF

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August 27, 2008
12:05 am


I’ve been developing a lot of fun stuff over at Odyssey lately.
Read more to check out the other widgets.

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Filed under: behind the scenes, bmx, design, geek out, photography, portfolio
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fuck4u

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August 8, 2008
11:50 pm


Courtesy of Myspace’s random captcha generator.

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feed changes

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May 30, 2008
6:39 pm

Hey, just a heads up. I changed the default URLs for this blog so for those of you using the feeds you’ll need to update them to the following:

RSS: http://www.narfdesigns.com/blog/feed/
Comments: http://www.narfdesigns.com/blog/comments/feed/

Posted by Francis Delapena
Filed under: behind the scenes, geek out

dinosaurs > robots > internet > video > radio

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February 25, 2008
1:25 am

I found out recently that my initial blog title, “internet killed the video star…” is already well circulated and on its way to becoming played out (there are already horribly designed t-shirts rocking the slogan).

To stay two steps ahead of the game, I came up with the next generation’s star and then killed it immediately with it’s successor. This new and improved title should give me at least a three-decade lead.

Here’s a quick recap of who killed who:

  1. Radio Star.
    (whether or not they killed anybody is still disputable)
  2. Video Killed the Radio Star.
  3. Internet Killed the Video Star.
  4. Robots Killed the Internet Star.
  5. Dinosaurs Ate the Robot Star.
    (turns out, they were just chillin’ in caves listening to the radio)
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The “Director’s Cut”

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February 11, 2008
3:24 am

People often ask me what it takes to build one of these websites and I usually just say lots of coffee. While my statement is truthful, there’s a lot more to it than that. So to those who ever wondered, here’s a behind the scenes look and some trivia regarding my portfolio website and this blog.

  1. I grew out a mustache specifically for the ‘fancy’ photo. The word ‘fancy’ is written with sharpie on an inside-out Hanes t-shirt (the type that comes in packs of three in the clearance isle at Wal-mart).
  2. The layouts are designed in Illustrator CS3 and the images/photos were cutout and prepped with Photoshop CS3. The portfolio website was created and animated using Flash CS3 and coded with ActionScript 3.0. It’s content and text is provided by an XML file (which is populated by a PHP script that’s connected to a MySQL database).
  3. The title of this blog is inspired by a 1979 British pop-hit song by the Buggles:
    Video Killed the Radio Star. (UPDATE - 02.25.08)
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bugs and errors…

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February 3, 2008
10:55 pm

If you happen to find any bugs or errors, please send an e-mail to: AwwShit@narfdesigns.com.

Posted by Francis Delapena
Filed under: behind the scenes, geek out

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