Josh Reisner

I recently completed a new site for Kate Howe using the Isotope jQuery Plugin. Sort the projects to see it in action.

Jane, Lu and I drove to Mozambique for a few days in Jane’s green car, which developed a penchant for honking randomly at the least (or most) opportune times. We went to Maputo and Praia do Bilene. Here are some photos:

Things I wish I had photographed:

• The scuba shop owner with the toe tag tattoo
• The “Africa” nightclub in Maputo
• The two sketchy guys who followed us around Maputo after the nightclub
• The old islamic teacher I met from Swaziland
• The border crossing
• Jane and Lu
• The green car

Jane’s parents Jo and Hugh took us for a game drive through the Karongwe Game Reserve. We saw lions, zebra, buffalo, rhinoceros, wildebeest, and lots of other strange-looking animals.

The lions were particularly spectacular. It was hard to photograph them, because we were instructed not to stand up in the game car, since that would be interpreted as a threat.

The main thing this gallery is missing is an audio recording of Jane’s niece Sophia and her continuing narrative about what candies would be available in her ‘paradise.’ She’s going to freak when she reads Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

On my third day in South Africa, Jane, Lu and I explored the Blyde River Canyon Nature Reserve. These photos are what it feels like to be in that part of South Africa. Red earth, green vegetation, lots of baboons.

I was in Grand Turk for a week to hang out and get an open water scuba certification. Here are some photos:

Things I wish I had the presence of mind to photograph:

• John and Ray
• The Turks & Caicos National Museum
• John’s boat
• Nat and Lamar, my scuba instructors
• Anything, you know, underwater
• Air Turks & Caicos

I spent a restful few weeks in Pine Cay in the Turks & Caicos Islands. I caught up on some work and swam in the ocean. Here are some photos:

Things I wish I had photographed:

• Mom and Jim
• Phil Austern coming to visit
• The huge dolphin that swam past me
• Thanksgiving dinner

Here’s another fun site I just finished up: Mood-Tuner for my friend Kate. It’s the companion site to an iPad app of the same name (App Store link).

Whereas my recent site for Ksenya scrolls horizontally, this has little modules that move around and expand and contract. It uses the amazing isotope jquery plugin by David DeSandro.

Here is a fun project I did recently for my friend Ksenya: a blog that scrolls horizontally. She did the design, I did the coding. It uses the open-source CMS we developed at Bureau Blank, and there’s some jQuery to make the columns and image popups.

It didn’t take too long either, which is great when it’s a freelance project. According to my notes, it was under 30 hours.

I’m having a going-away party because I’m leaving NYC. Please come! But also please RSVP!

Another really quite amazing video from Ok Go.

Ok Go – All Is Not Lost

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