My mom’s birthday is tomorrow, so I created these two little flash things that draw out the words “Happy Birthday Mom” with particles. For more information, go here.
Today’s project took a lot longer than an hour, and it consists of design and artwork that I didn’t make, but I hope you will agree that it was a worthwhile activity: I pulled out a bunch of cool images from this public domain book—
English Literature: An Illustrated Record in Four Volumes. Volume II: From the Age of Henry VIII to the Age of Milton. Part II, by Richard Garnett and Edmund Gosse (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1905)
—cleaned them up in Photoshop, posted them to Flickr, tagged them, and typed out the captions and all the text that I could make out within the images, so that it’s all searchable.
Here’s a more detailed blog post about this project: A thin slice of history