A Mother's Journey

This is simply breathtaking and I had to share. I reblogged this from http://awarewolves.tumblr.com/ This is titled "A Mother's Journey." Grab the tissues.

- A Mother’s Journey, Sacramento Bee Photography (2007 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography)

Band of the Day: Menomena

[Image via last.fm]

I first heard the band Memomena from the Barsuk Records sampler album in 2009. I found it on Amazon and probably listened to "Wet and Rusting" (YouTube video) about ten million times. I had forgotten about them until recently and came across them on ModCloth. Click the player below for a link to the ModCloth blog post (the player is on the bottom). Or, check out "Dirty Cartoons" here. (My favorite song of theirs!)

Cloudscapes

Check out this beauty from the 12th International Architecture Exhibition in Venice. This piece, called 'Cloudscapes' was assembled by Tetsuo Kondo, a Japanese architect, and a climate engineering firm (what is that?). To produce the cloud, they creators had to make three different layers of air - cool, dry air on the bottom; warm, humid in the middle and hot, dry on on the top creates the foggy effect.

They actually produced a cloud inside. You can actually walk through the cloud! The only way it would be better would be if I could float on it.

[Images via Sweet Station]

Journalism/Web Nerd Alert, Part Deux

I'm really excited about my recent Google Analytics report. The average time on site for my three sites - (in this order: Images Repeating (this blog), JenniferElston.com and Mobile Journalism Tools. This is really exciting because those are really long numbers in the web world. In a recent study we learned about at the IE Lab the other day said that people lose attention after five seconds if things aren't wowing them. They leave the page. These statistics are really encouraging - especially on my portfolio/website. Thank you!

Next step - talk to the IE Lab (Information Experience Lab), which tests the usability of websites through focus groups, etc...