Here are a few of my favourite animations by Len Lye made for the G.P.O in the 1930's. His style of hand colouring and printing onto the actual film itself is still mimicked (digitaly) in adverts today. Remember these films were made before colour film existed.

TRADE TATTOO (1937)

A COLOUR BOX (1935)

RAINBOW DANCE (1936)

About Len Lye: Wikipedia, IMDB

I've been receiving a bit of spam on my blog lately obviously none of it gets through, but its still annoying having to delete it all. So, I have decided to take measures against it by implementing a few changes on my blog. I have installed the Captcha! plugin which now requires users to manually enter the text they see in the picture before their comment is submitted. I have also activated the Askimet plugin which flags comments as spam based on the askimet database.

Whilst looking at the different ways to fight spam I found this article: The Solution to Blog Spamming, which I found very useful.

This easy to use plugin will embed a flash digital clock into your wordpress blog, either in a post or page, or within your blog's template (in the sidebar / header / footer etc.). The background and font colours are managed via the options menu. The clock can display the time as set on the user's local machine or as set by your web server with an optional offset. It also has options for 12hr and 24hr clock.

Installation:

1. Download the plugin file here: WP Digi Clock Plugin (1.0)
2. Upload the wp-digi-clock folder to your wp-content/plugins folder
3. Activate the plugin from the plugins page
4. Go to Options -> WP Digi Clock to choose your colour scheme and time format options

Usage:

To embed in a post or page:

type in [ wp_digi_clock ] (removing the spaces) anywhere in a post or page.

to embed in your page template (header, footer, sidebar):

use the function wp_digital_clock($x), with $x being a number or identifier for example:

<h2>TIME</h2>
<li><?php wp_digital_clock('1'); ?></li>