DiscoveryChannel.ca relaunched

Sunday, 15 February 2009, 15:38 | Category : DiscoChan, Uncategorized, web
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Out with the old, in with the new: DiscoveryChannel.ca/ The site launched a little over a week ago, and while there’s still some tweaks to be made, I can’t stop raving about how much I love it…MUCH easier to navigate (and populate), and easy on the eyes… It also allows us to start afresh, in […]

Imax’s upcoming feature: Under the Sea 3D

Jeff Berman, one of the fantastic segment producers at Daily Planet, is working on a behind-the-scenes piece for this upcoming IMAX 3D feature, directed by Howard Hall. I’ll be working on the web-side version, for our soon-to-be-relaunched site, www.DiscoveryChannel.ca. Digging around on the doc site, I found this neat widget. I spent a large part […]

Jay’s thoughts on science in ’09

Thursday, 25 December 2008, 15:31 | Category : DiscoChan, Future, General Science, Musings, web
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Ah, there… Steaming dark-roast in cup (Starbucks’ Verona, if you’re curious), let’s catch up… You see, for the past few weeks, I’ve been scratching my head, trying to figure out how to create a multi-layered frame-in-frame look for a single Flash file. Most recently, Daily Planet host and Discovery Interactive’s resident expert, Jay Ingram, cooly […]

My Favourite Rube Goldberg Contraption

Thursday, 4 December 2008, 22:00 | Category : Musings, Physics, Psychology, Uncategorized
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Daily Planet did a segment on this in 2007. It’s one of my all time favourite DP clips as well.