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Kubrick Header Tool
Filed under: Asides | February 20th, 2005
I’ve noticed a lot of the blogs updating to 1.5 are using Kubrick, which is great, but a lot of blogs look the same now! Time to spice up your life a little with Owen Winkler’s awesome Kubrickr. What does it do? Well first you type in a word and it searches Flickr for all the photos with that tag and that have a Creative Commons license. Pick one of them, then it lets you choose which part of the photo you like and it crops the photo then gives you a download with the graphic to upload to your blog. How cool is that? (20)
Dante Evans | February 20th, 2005 @ 1:28 pm
I’m gonna say “too cool”.
Anthony | February 20th, 2005 @ 2:01 pm
I’m convinced mind reading works now.
Jeff Minard | February 20th, 2005 @ 2:21 pm
Yeah, I’ll go with “Too Cool” as well.
eliot | February 20th, 2005 @ 2:47 pm
Hopefully people who use this tool will leave a comment or something in flickr to let us know that the image is being used. It’d be cool to know if any of my photos are being used for people’s header!
Ozh | February 20th, 2005 @ 3:11 pm
wow god this is awesome.
Larry Ayers | February 20th, 2005 @ 3:17 pm
That is so cool! How does it work, I wonder? I’m not using Kubrick, I’ll sees what happens if I use the generated photos with GreenTrack. I’ve been feeling vaguely guilty that I’m still using Sadish’s original photo!
Jens Luedicke | February 20th, 2005 @ 3:18 pm
very cool indeed!
Firas | February 20th, 2005 @ 3:25 pm
Too cool! Especially the selection cropping.
Tom | February 20th, 2005 @ 3:56 pm
Very smooth, rest of the site seems a bit broken but still a very cool little tool.
Terrance | February 20th, 2005 @ 5:48 pm
Excellent! I just used it to update the masthead on my blog. I’ll probably update it more often using this tool.
Owen | February 20th, 2005 @ 6:05 pm
I’m glad you all like it. Just remember to give appropriate attribution to the photographers who are graciously allowing you to use their often quite breathtaking photos.
echa | February 20th, 2005 @ 6:22 pm
yeah noticed that lots of people who used WP as a weblog engine do have the same template from kubrick lol…the newest version of WP is nice! I’ve installed WP through the fantastico on saturday [the older version] and then upgraded it to the newest version. Just curious of the newest version and then after the installation is done I removed the WP again hihih
Sunny | February 20th, 2005 @ 6:28 pm
Woops, seems like the background color around the image differs from default’s background color!
Mark J | February 20th, 2005 @ 8:25 pm
Would be cool if he could lock the aspect ratio of the selection so you don’t have stretching.
Gregory Wild-Smith | February 21st, 2005 @ 12:09 am
Nifty - of cource its still Kubrik, just kubrik with a photo.. which is progress.
Mine is currently stuck on Kubrik while I redesign and generally thrash out a new look. One thing I love about Kubrik tho is its white space… see if I can keep that…
Josh Janicek | February 22nd, 2005 @ 11:49 am
I recently switched back to WordPress 1.2 because of Kubrick (this prior to Kubrick being the default template in 1.5). Kubrickr makes changing your site’s header very simple.
I’ve been using a combination of my own photos (well, some aren’t “mine”) and Automatic’s image rotator:
http://automaticlabs.com/products/rotator
Very easy to implement.
Jauhari | February 23rd, 2005 @ 2:04 am
Great Tools, I want try this.
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If Else | February 25th, 2005 @ 12:02 pm
The kubrick look will probably be just a temporary phase as I’d imagine a lot of people will use the new inbuilt theme support as an opportunity to redesign their site (as I did).
Connie | June 5th, 2005 @ 12:38 pm
Anyone know of a similar tool that I can use if I have my own images that I want to Kubrickr?