The Science of Web Art, Design and Development

My flickr has reached 1000 views, mark that the Zo’C blog had already reached some weeks ago.

This may not seem a lot, but still I’m happy with this, because, after all, both are very young.

So I’ll celebrate publishing this commemorative picture.

I have recieved a lot of nice feedback regarding the new layout of the Zo’C blog and one of the most commented items is the logo, and people wonder where idea came from.

The idea came from a little wooden owl that I have for years, since I was a kid.

I don’t really know, how it happened to become mine, but I have it for more than two decades now, and it is been sitting over my computer’s monitor for almost a decade.

So I decided that this nice and loyal little fellow would give good inspiration for the logo.

The logo is actually its silhouette, cutted vertically on halves and mirrored, to have perfect simetry.

The owl being a symbol for people who like to work at night, like most computer related developers is a nice plus, but was not the main reason for the choice.

On my last post, most people see “the fictional band” as a british band influenced by Belle & Sebastian and The Jesus & Mary chain or that is more of a cult band that was succesful among the young people on the ninties.

People suggested names like “chic chic chic”, “funky toys”, “white rabbit and the bearbeds”.

Luis Otávio thinks it would be techno-rock band and suggest Mechanical Fox as a name.

That reminds me of a show I wached in Lund, Sweden about a year ago of Stereo Total, a band I enjoy very very much.

On that particular show, a local band called Firefox AK was the support band.

Firefox AK is a Swedish band composed by a single member, and I was gratefully surprised with the quality of the music. While I was only going to wach stereototal at first, I came out really enjoying Firefox AK.

If you like the video below, you may go to Firefox AK’s site.

Have fun!

We gladly announce that Zo’C is moving to an external server. I will still be a Blogger Blog, all the same, but new location and new address.

Please update your bookmarks,the new address is: http://www.z-oc.com/blog

The atom feed is now placed on: http://www.z-oc.com/blog/feed/atom.xml

In the last few weeks I’ve been working on a new layout for the Zo’C Blog. Actually, a new layout, a logo, visual identity, etc.

This is the first post on the new layout. Please take the time to go the the page and check it out.

Also, plese take the time to leave a comment, any constructive criticism is welcome, as well as compliments.

I expect some trouble just as I apply the new layout, I really think that the images are going to give me some work when I republish, I’m prepared to fix that, but maybe not today, indulge me on this if something looks broken, and leave me a comment if you think it’s something I may not note by myself.

And for those who already regularly read the blog, and those who just loved the new visual and intend to do it so, I’ll tell about my next post: Zo’C is moving to a server outside Blogger with a decent domain.

Keep tunned so you don’t miss Zo’C, in the next post I’ll give details about the move.