Invasion!

Sometimes the timing of events in the world is just impeccable. You may recall that Rikke and I were recently in Paris. While there I took a shot of three invaders, from the classic game, on a wall in Montmatre.

Invaders

In nature it seemed like modern nerdcore streetart, but the care with which it looked to have been made was almost too intricate.

Then, a few days ago, the ever verbose Kotaku posted another invader, this one from Amsterdam! What the?!... And then today, yet another from Switzerland.

I had in other words stumbled onto a public secret, the work of an artist called Invader, present in cities across the world and with more flickr groups than you can shake a small colored tile at.

Well, now you know.

Invader60 Commands Obedience

Dear reader, meet Invader60; Invader60 meet one of the people who will be using you. Great, now that we have that out of the way, allow me to explain to you what exactly is going on.

Invader60 is the 60% mark of Invader. You will no doubt have noticed that it is considerably slimmer than earlier versions of Invader, or indeed any layout previously seen on Binary Bonsai, which is actually quite contrary to what I had originally planned (which was a layout which would be considerably wider than anything before it).

The implementation is filled to the brim with bugs at the moment, but I’ll be hammering most of them out today; I just wanted to make sure I actually managed to publish this today instead of letting it slide.

There are quite a few ideas behind the way this new layout is structured, some are evident some aren’t quite as evident yet. Most importantly is the use of AJAX and fancy schmancy effects, all of which I’ll also want to talk more about as soon as it’s all working as it’s supposed to.

Order of business: Fix the currently slightly broken functionality, then order the content properly, then fix the styling.

Now if you’ll excuse me.

PS: Oh yeah, in the midst of all of this, I forgot to tell you that this is another Bachelor Weekend! :)