Jason Powers, of AOL Moviefone design fame (aka, my neighbor at work that is leaving for another job after tomorrow ) Decided to become quite the entrepreneur and start up, yep, 30 Kittens Per Second. You can upload images or your fave cats (or anything for that matter, but they’ll be taken down), and watch them whizz by you at blazing speeds to such classic tracks as ‘Bassy Kittens’, ’80s Kittens’ or my personal fave ‘Harmonica Kittens.’ Enjoy, careful not to melt your face on kittens.
Hello. There once was a time when I blogged quite often. Then I was bored of my site. Now I have a newly renovated site, with many more portfolio pieces and a solid design. Now I feel I must bring back the blogging. So to start up again, here’s a quick update on life.
Currently, I’m working on a great project at AOL that I am proud to have been involved with. It’s the new channel AOL Home, and should be launching this week. The uniqueness of the work is that I was appointed to handle all the CSS. This is no easy under-taking for any channel design, and is a first for a designer. A lot of hours have gone into refining the CSS and essentially designing with CSS as my Art Director designed via Photoshop. Needless to say it’s allowed for quicker rendering and control on the visuals. The site is going to look great!
I want to write more but I’ve been working hard on this site, and I’m tired. I bid adieu for now, but look for more interesting posts to come.
Created the skin for this, along with the design and CSS of the website for ATIO on AOL Body. Just checking it out, see how the snaggable feature works
I barely got to know him, but I still loved him. For everything he did to influence and inspire Margaux’s life before I knew her, I thank him. I considered him a friend shortly after meeting him, and was very excited to have him accept an invitation to meet my parents. We all had a great time that night too.
For his silly emails, goofy cat language, ridiculous impersonations, and love of odd words that just “sound cool,” how could you not laugh in his presence? Introverted, but polite, accomodating, and genuinely interested in our lives, even if unspoken. He read our blogs, looked at our pictures, and even listened to my stupid songs! I love that I got to jam on the harmonica while he played the piano at Christmas, especially since he was so damn good (though very modest).
A great man, great father, great husband, great friend. There will be an emptiness, and he will never be forgotten. On top of being a great man, he was also a great designer, so I thought I would share some of his logos below. I’ll miss you Mark.
Paranoia sets in, a bomb squad is on the scene, a tv station is overhyping, an Attorney General is getting even, a city is at a stand still. Big thanks to the Prez for instilling fear into every human in this country, and letting some of his stupidity rub off on our authorities. His incompetitence isn’t his problem however, it’s the problem of a couple of guys who ‘masterminded’ the campaign. Thanks for trying to get these two locked up, without them the morons of Boston will be better off. PHEW! Disaster averted.
Everything everything everything everything everything I’m invisible I’m invisible I’m invisible I’m invisible… Underworld. If you never listened to them, do yourself a favor and check out some of their stuff at underworld. Become a [free] member, and download their live stuff for free (in archive). I’ve been a fan of them since around 97-98, seen em live once in 2000, and have just about everything everything of theirs (including vinyl). They have officially been around since the 80’s, but the sound as I know them started with Dubnobasswithmyheadman in 91. They’re part of the English design collective Tomato, and always have great design.
Their live show consists of full on jams of their songs, basically using large soundboards with all their sounds being pulled in, and can be brought into any song they want, making for an awesome live experience. Furthermore, Karl Hyde sings and woos the crowd with his free-flowing lyrics, generally created for rhythm and can be non-sensical coming from sources such as conversations or observations. In addition to the heart-pounding musical excursions, they also include wonderful motion graphics consisting of typography for us design-junkies, random images from city life around the world, and live shots from the crowd. At leat that’s what it was like 6 years ago, hopefully we’ll see them here in the US once again.
) Decided to become quite the entrepreneur and start up, yep, 30 Kittens Per Second. You can upload images or your fave cats (or anything for that matter, but they’ll be taken down), and watch them whizz by you at blazing speeds to such classic tracks as ‘Bassy Kittens’, ’80s Kittens’ or my personal fave ‘Harmonica Kittens.’ Enjoy, careful not to melt your face on kittens.
