Carousel 1/29/10

This is the trailer for RIP: A remix man­i­festo. If you’d like to see the film, you can name your price and down­load here.

This video is just sort of hap­py­mak­ing. yay.

January 30th, 2010 | Carousel, Inspiration | 4 Comments

SadieLune.com

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I recently had the plea­sure of design­ing the per­sonal site for per­for­mance artist, Sadie Lune.

Sadie Orig­i­nally said she wanted some­thing that was “Freak Show meets Art Nou­veau”, and I imme­di­ately knew I had to make her an illus­trated header.

I did a lot of design research on freak show and cir­cus posters, as Art Nou­veau was already a well-researched aes­thetic for me.

I tried to com­bine the hand-lettered, ban­ner laden, design of the freak show poster, with the heavy line weight and real­ism of the art nou­veau poster. This was the result:

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I was espe­cially pleased with the inte­gra­tion of the header and the curtains.

I also used a trans­par­ent graphic for the header, allow­ing the moon in the back­ground to show through on the page.
The moon remains sta­tion­ary, as the pic­ture of Sadie and all the con­tent below, scrolls freely.

As for the left side­bar and post head­ers, I wanted to con­tinue the retro theme and incor­po­rate an old news­pa­per feel.
I mixed up a bunch of dif­fer­ent fonts and graph­ics to try to achieve this.

There are some other nice details to the site, like the event cal­en­dar on the left; which Sadie can use to not only put new events into, but can also cre­ate new posts auto­mat­i­cally with­out hav­ing to reen­ter all the event information.

I’m also par­tic­u­larly fond of the cus­tom search bar, tes­ti­mo­ni­als, and flickr gal­leries– which update auto­mat­i­cally when Sadie updates her flickr.

I’m really happy with how the site came out!
What do you guys think?

January 29th, 2010 | Design, Web | 3 Comments

Raging: The XMess Edition

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Almost a month after the fact, I’m finally get­ting around to post­ing my hol­i­day pho­tos.
This year, I attended a num­ber of get­to­geth­ers, and with the help of my new wig, I decided it would be fun to show up in the guise of a Who from Dr. Seuss’s Grinch Who Stole Christmas.

One of these par­ties was thrown by none other than Miss Mary Bee.

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Melinda and I arrived with out best footwear for­ward. I love the bows she put on her shoes! They look like lit­tle presents!

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The party was full of all sorts of curi­ous creatures.

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As we’ve pre­vi­ously estab­lished, at any good party, there are fake mus­taches involved.
This party was no exception.

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We watched Christ­mas hor­ror clas­sic, Jack Frost, and I couldn’t stop tak­ing pic­tures of the screen as one totally absurd thing hap­pened after another.
Check this bathtub/snowman/sex/murder scene out:

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It was a very good night, all told.

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I also hosted my own, low key, orphan xmess gettogether.

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The night was mostly spent eat­ing deli­cious food and play­ing Wii. I owned at bowling.

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Jeremy and Zuey clearly liked the mit­tens Tim got her.

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Hope your hol­i­days were as fes­tive as mine!

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January 25th, 2010 | Raging | 1 Comment

Carousel: 1/22/10

Dear sweet lord, I do not have the words for this.

January 22nd, 2010 | Carousel | 3 Comments

Carousel 1/15/10

This is amaz­ing! Wait for it to load all the way before you play with it, okay?

January 15th, 2010 | Carousel | 2 Comments
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