What in the Heck is Nooodle Zoo?

I am sure I am not alone in saying that “I am a Domain Name Hoarder.” I think many of us who were designing websites during the “dawning of the internet,” circa 1990s, developed the habit of buying cool names for websites.

Back then it was a lot of fun creating weird and wacky websites based on a single concept. In many ways websites were treated like art projects. I loved using the internet as a creative canvas.

As the web design process shifted more towards the blocky, scalable, engineered sites that we know today, a lot of those original ideas got pushed aside since they relied on plugins and hard-coded images that didn’t scale properly. (Remember Flash?)

Those were the good old days… Anyway…

When I was in the process of getting back into launching Ukelectik, I browsed through the many domain names I own which are sitting around gathering dust. One of those was nooodlezoo.com.

One of the best things I like to do is noodle around on my musical instruments and save them as recorded noodles. I am sure many of you do the same. One day we will turn them into proper compositions, right? As you get older, you realize there might not be enough time to do that. This is how I came up with the concept of NooodleZoo. It could be a place to store and share some of my noodles.

In conjunction with the annual 21 Day Project, I thought I would launch the site by posting one noodle a day. The inspiration for each noodle would be an animal. I was inspired by Tony Mizen’s Anthropoda book. This proved more difficult than I imagined. The noodling was easy but the process of documenting each day could take an hour or two. At the time it wasn’t sustainable for me so I stopped at Noodle Number 14.

Today I will share one of those noodles so you can get an idea of what I was doing. This one is for my “spirit animal, the giraffe.

Here’s the link to the original post.

Now that I’ve relaunched Ukelectik, I want to include a noodling section so I will gradually be moving NoodleZoo to this site. For now, it’s still a stand alone website. You can see the remains here.