All glory to the hypnotoad!

You've reached the webspace of Elliot Long.

As of January 2005, I am involved in a new project in Barcelona, mycitymate.
It's keeping me super-busy, but I'm really enjoying it!

Hosting

I have my own server in London and am offering hosting at a very competitive rate. Get a .com, .net, .co.uk, or .org.uk domain name plus hosting starting at just £20. Email me at elliot[at]hypnotoad.co.uk for details.

--Web Development Work--

This is my new project, my new passion, my new direction for the forseeable future. We're creating a community for travellers for cities all over the world where you can share tips on the best places to go. Make contacts with people who live in these cities in order to get authentic, current information on the best places, and download it all in a cool app for your mobile phone! Register now and send me a message!

Plus here's a little sample of the latest stuff from me and my mates:

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I am continuing development on the Jibbering Records site. Aside from an online record store with a seriously varied selection of world music, funk, reggae, and hip hop, it's a great source for event listings around the uk, with correspondents in several cities, so check it out!

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I worked for StartGlobal/Synchro - a producer of software for the construction industry for two years during which development of the product shifted from a combination Windows C++/ Java Web app to 100% windows app so eventually, after creating the new company web site, my services were no longer needed. Herein lies the frustrating thing about intranet development. After two years of great coding, all i have to show is the website that took me a few months to build! Such is life.

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Citizen Kane

I developed this website for this very talented and energetic two-piece from Birmingham featuring former Monkhouse frontman Gaz Twist. Unfortunately, the band is more or less defunct (though Gaz continues to perform internationally), but I am still very fond of the design. I recommend checking out the cool faux-lcd display I made....

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A site I did in 2001 for entertainment coordinator Les Hemmings.

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Monkhouse - the band that started it all for me in Birmingham some 9 years ago. Though I'm no longer a part of them, they're still gigging and available for phat phunky phunctions. Check it out.

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In 2002 I was in Colombia for three months, attempting to find web development work. Unfortunately, while I found many who wanted sites, I couldn't find any who could actually find the money to pay for it! I had a good time though, and I made a bit of a photo diary, which you can still see here. I also designed a home page for a beauty pageant and while funding wasn't available to make the site, the preliminary designs can be seen here.

Other links....

Digital Lunar Sea Studios

Matt Fisher is a scientist of sound, rhythmatically puttin' it down. Aside from his performances in the guise of Lunar Sea Weapon and Fat Nurse, he teaches studio techniques in his well equipped home studio and is involved in several collaborations with other talented electronic musicians.

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Anarchy Sound Software is a distribution site for the works of Leighton Hargeaves. Leighton writes VST audio plug ins, and he's come up with some mind blowing stuff! Check it out. This is the same Leighton that, back in 2003, took a 5 week bike ride from Birmingham, UK to Tangiers, Morocco! Check out his travel diary at bigbikeride.co.uk.

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Mooncoin

This is an Irish folk band based in Birmingham. The aforementioned Leighton plays fiddle with them, and he's designed a clever little flash site - you can't just download music you've got to WORK for it! Well worth checking out...

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This is a (still unfinished) website for my sister's cafe in Exeter, California. It's one of my favorite places in the world, it's just a shame it's so far away! Hopefully I'll find time to expand it soon.

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This is Irene Mejia's Colombian export business (no jokes please ;-). At the moment she is focusing on tropical flowers for wholesale.

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GoldenBurn.co.uk

This is Dave Rudge's site. Dave's a great singer/songwriter and traveler and he set up this site to disseminate his music and promote his new band and OneMic workshops