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those of you who care for a little disgust mixed in with your morning coffee, hit godaddy.com and throw the search keyword ‘deadsy’ into their start your domain search here box. you’ll note after the more regular recommended domain purchases that they have a few ‘premium domain names’ suggested:

yep, you read that right:

deadmuslims.com

UPDATE:

we just received this note in the comments section from godaddy themselves:

“To those concerned,

Please know that the Premium Domain Name listing for DEADMUSLIMS.COM was recently brought to our attention. As you might imagine, Go Daddy deals with a very large number of domain names on any given day, and the processing of these names is necessarily automated. This can include our Premium Domain Name offerings, as it did in this case.

Although we make no direct judgment regarding the validity of any domain name, we do feel that removing this domain from the list of recommended names is in the best interest of our customers who may be offended by it. Since the posting of your article, the Premium Domain Name listing has been removed from the Go Daddy website. We appreciate your understanding in this matter, and we sincerely apologize to anyone who may have been negatively affected by the listing.

Office of the President
Go Daddy”

thanks for listening GD.

check out the site we just made for long time collaborators?asylum films. the music video they made for black ghosts is particularly worth watching. also, the site we did for tanit sakakini has apparently received some kudos over at?spyline and?straightline.

swing state has just made the cut over at the web design showcase?irie. just in time for some nice weather too.

steaming back into the world of luxury brokers, our site for?the tavivian group went live this weekend. we hope you enjoy it.

on top of that?swing state has been receiving a fair amount of praise. it’s been considered a ‘supercharged creative bookmark’ by the kind folk over at?xhilarate. it’s also been posted over at?picked by six.

so who doesn’t enjoy particles or ironman. we enjoy both and here is a fun little gadget that combines the two, so click around to your hearts content. start clicking, and maybe some holding.

two new sites from us. the first a mini-site to promote 65 days of static’s?new dance parties EP.?the second our first film site for the documentary,?swing state.

it’s hard not to feel?underwhelmed with the state of the design industry today. one avenue i personally had always relied upon was designing artwork for bands. however now the music industry can barely afford to pay for the great designs they need to present their artist’s work, we are all having to find work elsewhere to make ends meet. this, along with other elements, is adding to the larger realization that now more and more of the market is being eaten up by corporations forcing designers to use their art to sell incompatible, emotionless products.

if you have a moment, i highly recommend registering to the (albeit commercially founded) ‘i love design’ site and watching this short interview with peter saville. i have been feeling a great weight on my conscience recently and after watching this i felt it all lift a little as one man defined the issue so succinctly. i hope many can take a lesson from this and things will change. thanks, peter.

http://www.ilovedesign.com/us/exclusives/interviews/peter-saville-design

another experiment using the first playground entry to animate album artwork. this one includes a song (might take some time to load it) and animates the equalizer right into the artwork.?check it out and select your favorite artwork. again, mouse-overs create even more effects.

one of the reasons we’ve started a blog is that we’ve reopened the playground (v). as such you can look forward to all kinds of (useless) pieces of code, graphics, animations and other fun stuff. the first is?a little flash experiment codenamed ‘ballgrid’. this thing was made in order to get used to Flash’s all new AS3 language and i tried to play around with coded kinetics applied to a bunch of randomly created balls in a grid. please mouse-over for some action, or don’t… for some other action.

hi. welcome to?our new blog.?it will be our news page from now on, hence the archived news posts dating back to the beginning. it will also be a place for a bunch of other things too. stay tuned.