brian dichiara

When deciding on a Halloween costume this year, I was compelled to mock my favorite folk comedy duo Flight of the Conchords, and designed a pretty-decent clone of the robot costume from Season 1 Episode 1 of FOTC on HBO. This costume was featured in their debut music video called Robots (aka The Humans are Dead). You can view the video on HBO’s website. Photos after the jump.
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Like many other people, I found Mike Lopez’s image thumbnail script quite useful. He has taken the time to go through the brain-crunching algorithm to create image proportional image thumbnails when given a max height/width. Although this script is very handy, it was lacking in a few areas, such as transparent PNG and GIF support, as well as the un-needed resize if the image was smaller than the requested dimensions. I hope I have “helped” in this situation by modifying the script so that it handles such requests. Credit for the transparency support goes to Martin Schmidt (icheee).

One modification I made that is important to note is that the image is now fed through with the SRC variable, rather than the IMG variable. Thanks Mike for this script and I hope my updates really help.
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This code is something i found that will force download, rather than opening in browser:
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After much long waiting, HBO has posted an episode of Flight of the Conchords on their website. Here it is: (more…)

Here’s some handy code to help you get starting if you are using PHP and need a 50-state drop down select box. It’s already pre-built to maintain selected value after post.
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Anybody remember the video for Green Jelly - Three Little Pigs? I got to thinking about this song, and after downloading the mp3 from allofmp3.com, I decided to hunt out the video. Since I love claymation, I felt the need to post it here. (more…)

Along with all the other problems that have long plagued Internet Explorer, with their newest release, one of the worst bugs I have ever seen is packaged with it. This video gives a good demonstration of what happens:
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Here’s some PHP code that will validate an email address.
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Difficulty: 2 (Beginner)
Time: 5 minutes

I decided to give tutorials a try and have seen how popular the “vector starburst” has become, so I decided to demonstrate a simple way to do that in Illustrator. There’s a pretty decent tutorial of how to do one in photoshop here, if you’re interested. (more…)