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That Was 2024

My year in review

~ 12 minute read

Robtober 2024

A month’s worth of movies to help you stay awake

~ 1 minute read

Once in a Lifetime

A game show for the Philadelphia Psychotronic Film Society

~ 12 minute read

That Was 2023

My year in review

~ 15 minute read

Glenn and the Danzigs

~ 4 minute read

Robtober 2023

A month’s worth of movies to help you stay awake

~ 1 minute read

Python easing functions

For precise programmatic animation

~ 3 minute read

That Was 2022

My year in review

~ 19 minute read

Robtober 2022 Design Notes

How to design a ransom note

~ 3 minute read

Robtober 2022

A month’s worth of movies to help you stay awake

~ 1 minute read

Inside ProPublica’s Article Layout Framework

How we vastly expanded our website’s visual storytelling capabilities.

~ 7 minute read

That Was 2021

The highlights and lowlights of another pandemic year

~ 16 minute read

Robtober 2021 Design Notes

The making of a custom-designed blog post

~ 8 minute read

Robtober 2021

A month’s worth of movies to help you stay awake

~ 1 minute read

That Was 2020

It sure was.

~ 16 minute read

Jen Mussari’s Killer Lettering

The making of the terrifying Robtober 2020 logo

~ 8 minute read

Robtober 2020

A month’s worth of movies to help you stay awake

~ 1 minute read

A New Issue of an Old Zine

The future is uncertain. The present is awful. No better time to revisit the past.

~ 8 minute read

Fictional Band Trivia

Test your knowledge of made-up music makers!

~ 4 minute read

AP style month abbreviations with strftime in Liquid

~ 1 minute read

That Was 2019

The highlights of what I took in and put out

~ 20 minute read

Dynamic, Date-Based Color with JavaScript, HSL, and CSS Variables

A rational system for generating thousands of possible color schemes

~ 23 minute read

Robtober 2019

A month’s worth of movies to help you stay awake

~ 1 minute read

Making Music, Update 1

~ 5 minute read

Sophisticated Partitioning with CSS Grid

Create compelling grid patterns by harnessing specificity.

~ 18 minute read

Making Music in 2019

My creative goal for the year

~ 8 minute read

Introducing Tinnitus Tracker

My live music diary is now a website.

~ 5 minute read

That Was 2018

The highlights of what I took in and put out

~ 20 minute read

Decades of Horror

Using personal data and crowdsourcing for film curation

~ 7 minute read

Robtober 2018

A month’s worth of movies to help you stay awake.

~ 10 minute read

Revisiting Incomplete Open Cubes

Behind the scenes of an obsessive art project

~ 6 minute read

About Incomplete Open Cubes Revisited

Exploring the extended potential of Sol LeWitt’s ‘Incomplete Open Cubes’

~ 3 minute read

Twelve Bucks, Twenty Years

The strange story of a student film with a surprising shelf life.

~ 10 minute read

Design Doesn’t Care What You Think Information Looks Like

Sometimes convention is sufficient. Sometimes it’s not.

~ 10 minute read

V6: Color

A new approach to one of my biggest design weaknesses, using basic color theory, HSL, and Sass.

~ 16 minute read

A simple Sass function for frame-based CSS animation

~ 1 minute read

Meet Column Setter

We developed an open source tool for building custom responsive grids that work in older browsers.

~ 7 minute read

That Was 2017

The highlights of what I took in and put out.

~ 20 minute read

V6: Typography and Proportions

The logic behind the layout.

~ 15 minute read

Robtober 2017

A month’s worth of movies to help you stay awake.

~ 11 minute read

V6: The Archive

A rationale for a redesign.

~ 6 minute read

“The Chosen” from ProPublica

~ 24 minute read

Links: October 2016

~ 6 minute read

Philadelphia: City of Brotherly Rock

~ 2 minute read

Beyond Pixels: Air Guitar

~ 2 minute read

Astro-Zombies

My third annual Halloween Misfits cover, along with some thoughts on nostalgia.

~ 2 minute read

Behind the scenes: Rob Weychert on the Archive by Day and Night

~ 3 minute read

Devilock

My second annual Halloween Misfits cover, including a treatise on what makes punk rock great.

~ 3 minute read

Inefficiency by Design

How my web site’s lack of a CMS has made me more prolific.

~ 3 minute read

US Air Guitar 2012: Washington, DC

~ 2 minute read

US Air Guitar 2012: New York City

~ 2 minute read

US Air Guitar 2012: Boston

~ 2 minute read

Musicians Templates

~ 6 minute read

Skulls

Celebrating Halloween with my first Misfits cover.

~ 1 minute read

First Responder

Under the hood of my first foray into responsive web design.

~ 4 minute read

Hello Again

Catching up on three years of silence: what I’ve been doing, what I haven’t been doing, and why I’m glad to be writing again.

~ 2 minute read

An Interview with U.S. Air Guitar Competitor Windhammer

~ 5 minute read

An Interview with Reigning Philadelphia Air Guitar Champion Windhammer

~ 22 minute read

Windhammer

~ 6 minute read

Pharewell

~ 2 minute read

Fall Travels

~ 2 minute read

2008 US Air Guitar Championships

~ 2 minute read

Something in the Air

~ 3 minute read

Crunching the Numbers

~ 2 minute read

The 8600-Mile Journey Home (From Home)

~ 2 minute read

Rob Across America

~ 1 minute read

South by Southwest 2008

~ 2 minute read

Flying Southwest Airlines Southwest to South by Southwest

~ 2 minute read

Thirty Days Has September

~ 2 minute read

Rob Weychert from Happy Cog Studios

~ 11 minute read

Bridging the Type Divide: Classic Typography with CSS

~ 32 minute read

South by Southwest 2007

~ 3 minute read

The Hunt Is on at SXSW

~ 2 minute read

Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann

~ 3 minute read

How I Spent My Summer Vacation

~ 2 minute read

First Born

~ 2 minute read

The Horror

~ 1 minute read

The Inheritance

~ 1 minute read

In Search Of...

~ 1 minute read

Mint: A Stats Odyssey

~ 3 minute read

The Morning After

~ 1 minute read

42.66 Fluid Ounces of Freedom

~ 1 minute read

The Hills Are Alive

~ 2 minute read

An Illustrated Retrospective

~ 5 minute read

6 for the Price of One

~ 1 minute read

Return of the Second Cousin of the Fly’s Nephew

~ 1 minute read

No, seriously, let’s get this show on the road.

~ 1 minute read

In the 77 days since I last posted: I started a new full-time design job at TMX Communications. My face...

~ 1 minute read

The Philadelphia Film Festival ended a couple of weeks ago, and as it turned out, about 4 of the 8...

~ 1 minute read

The 13th Philadelphia Film Festival began on Thursday and I’ve managed to fit 8 screenings into my schedule this year,...

~ 1 minute read

BREDSTIK Entertainment made its second foray into frenetic weekend filmmaking, this time for the 48 Hour Film Project, on the...

~ 3 minute read

Over the last couple of months, this site has offered its visitors little respite from boredom. I’ll make no apologies...

~ 1 minute read

You know, neither my physique nor my personality suggests a similarity to any hibernating animal that I can think of,...

~ 2 minute read

The sleepless National Film Challenge weekend is behind me and its results have far exceeded both my expectations and my...

~ 1 minute read

Dial-A-Spy: Production Notes

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Last night, I registered team “BREDSTIK Entertainment” in the National Film Challenge, which works like this: At 7:00 PM on...

~ 1 minute read

There has been plenty going on, but I haven’t had much to say about any of it. Lightning Bolt, Hangedup,...

~ 1 minute read

The long-awaited Camp Naked Terror 2 web site is finally up, complete with pictures and video from the event for...

~ 1 minute read

Today I completed my first ever full-page magazine advertisement for a gay pornographic DVD. High five!

~ 1 minute read

I have accepted a job in the design department at TLA Video. After nearly fifteen months of unemployment, getting paid...

~ 1 minute read

The newest addition to the Projects section is entitled Snowfall; it’s a series of photos I took in the aftermath...

~ 1 minute read

Busy, busy week. We have updated the BREDSTIK site for the first time in almost a year, with Flash goodies...

~ 1 minute read

I had a dream that Sebastian Bach (of Skid Row fame) moved in with my next door neighbors. In the...

~ 1 minute read

I guess it’s been pretty quiet around here. In the last month: I braved the Philadelphia blizzard fallout to get...

~ 1 minute read

While I’m sure all (3) of my regular readers are enjoying my media critic pretensions, the About section does say...

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My animated LEGO Trilogy shorts collection will be screening at the Bumpin’ Big Top at midnight this Saturday as part...

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You may or may not have noticed that I redesigned the site. Welcome to robweychert.com Version 2, lovingly dubbed “The...

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Volumes 1 and 2 of the Lost Film Fest DVD compilations are now available. I’m not sure if they’ve actually...

~ 1 minute read

We finally got the pictures and video online from the Summer Camp Slasher Birthday Bash at Camp Naked Terror. The...

~ 1 minute read

The Summer Camp Slasher Birthday Bash at our house this weekend was a huge, bloody success, so thanks to everyone...

~ 1 minute read

Should I go see Trouble Every Day on Thursday or should I go see The Locust? I don’t think I’ll...

~ 1 minute read

Thanks to everyone who has given me feedback so far via e-mail and message boards. There will be some minor...

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Welcome, friends, colleagues, and strangers. This is the eighth redesign of this web site and the first to go live....

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