I know it has been like two million years since an update so I thought I'd try a quickie before I go to bed. Thats what she said....sorry I had to. Anyways, as most know I have been working at M/I Homes in the Corporate Marketing department. It is me and two other designers. In other words we are screwed 50 hours a week. Most times more. Me and M/I aren't a perfect match so I have been doing freelance on the side like usual. My current project is wrapping up a site for Rainsoft of Columbus (old site). I'll give a little sneak peak down below.
Not all of it is fine tuned and its been a design while code process. I have been going to shows like crazy. Recently been taking a good amount of pictures with the 40D. I think I want a 100 m f/2.8 macro lens. Been hearing good things. If you want to check out some of my mediocre photography then click the link.
Just got a pair of Matix jeans today from jackthreads. I suggest every skater at least own one pair of these. So comfortable. Well that took 30 minutes too long. Hi dad, hi mom. Later people that look at my blog from foreign countries.
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So I've noticed its past 3 months of me not posting anything on my blog and I feel like I needed to do an update. This entry will be just an update so the people that visit this amazing site (sarcasm) will know how hectic my life has become after just 6 months out of college. I'll try to do this in order.
Since October 2nd, my girlfriend had her birthday, we went out the night before to a dance club. Went to see August Burns Red at skullys. Didn't buy tickets in advance so we had to wait in the cold for an hour. Got in while the 2nd to last band was doing there hardcore set. Experienced ABR to their fullest and realized that they are one of the best bands out there. Girlfriend got punched in the face, on purpose. Went to Dayton for the week before Halloween. Realized my friend was way to drunk to even realize I was around. Went to OU for actual Halloween. Saw a dude dressed up as pac man and saw 3 ghosts chasing him. AWESOME!! Entered two rail jams in two different parks for snowboarding. Got a bunch of free crap. Won a stupid twitter contest for photoshoping Michael Jackson in a metal band, hosted by Nopattern. Got a free book.
Went to the CSCA Creative Best. Talked with old friends from school and my boss. Got denied to buy beer across the street. Won a merit for my identity.
Went to another friends birthday party. Had my one year with my girlfriend. Had a huge party for my Birthday. A lot of friends showed up and a lot of friends didn't. Got my first keg of Keystone. Got my iPod stolen along with a case of beer and my friend had his iPod stolen and a poster. He also got his window punched out. Went to my first Underoath concert with August Burns Red and Emery in Cleveland at the House of Blues. Missed Emery but August Burns Red was amazing like usual. Went to a skateboarding premier at the Milk Bar, Drank some beer and hung out with the fellow shredders of campus. Joined in on a SAA reunion party. Fun times. Went to two other friends birthday parties. Watched Carl cry because he was laughing to hard. Entered in the Rome SDS Premature Jibulation. Got my shred on.
Went to my works Christmas party. Regretted going to my works Christmas party (got to tipsy and tried to sleep in someone's yard. I do this a lot.) Got my new camera. It's used but new to me. Canon 40D with a 22-80 mm lens. I am extremely intimidated by it. Went snowboarding about 20 times. Got my Medical insurance card!!! Went to do a Cab 3 snowboarding off one of the jumps and ended up going to fast, digging my edges into the snow and started to do an underflip and slammed my face into the snow/ice. Started doing volunteer work for the FWA. Went shredding some more and slipped off the double kinked rail and landed my shins into it. Cut my left leg pretty bad, blood all down it. Should of got stitches. It's still pretty disgusting and still open.
Oh yea! Got a Xbox 360 for christmas. Been playing call of duty a lot. MW2! Username is "Step Child 614". It's a snowboarding thing, my parents love me. Went to enter in the Big Air comp at Mad River. Filled out all the information, went inside to warm my hands up, came back outside and my snowboard was gone. I seriously searched almost every where. Key word Almost. Got the cops involved, filled out a police report. Told my girlfriend that it was stolen, I called her and asked her when I first noticed it was missing and she said she didn't mess with it. Then she told me she moved it 5 boards down after 2 hours aka she is full of shit! Ended up missing the the Big Air warm ups and didn't bother competing and looking like a fool getting wrecked. Heard the word that my time was ending with tracermedia :( . The same day I received a phone call for an interview at MI Homes. Went for an interview. Got the job at lunch. Going to be doing both print and web which is a bonus. Went to the CSCA meeting. Pretty sweet designs. Turned in my last full TK lesson. Hooray!!! That's pretty much sums everything up. Chow!
So I have a huge list of sites I’ve been meaning to get to but I don’t have enough time to write about them. Instead I’m going to post two sites that recently got updated. Both being Design firms and in Ohio.
The site went live a week in advance of their open house, which I might add was pretty sweet. Free drinks and food, cant go wrong there. The thing I like about this site is it’s not just your average day site. Its got a good mix between content and graphics. I enjoy the fact that there building is part of the main graphics. I feel it makes the company more personable and it is part of who they are as a company. The website showcases there portfolio pretty good. There are some minor glitches but I’m not about to point those out because overall the site is pretty much Real-ly Awesome. If you get time, check out the invitation video incase you weren’t one of the lucky ones to experience in real life. First click on the “in 3D” button on the homepage. Then click watch the video. Really cool stuff. One other thing I would like to add is when you click on there different links, it goes to an actual url and grabs another file. This makes SEO a lot better and plus you can set external links on other sites and link to certain areas like their portfolio.
The company that I’ve been contracting for, for a couple of months now has finally decided to update their website. Some may know that the past one wasn’t all that special. It wasn’t bad, it just didn’t have enough information for the user to see. It was originally a single page site that has now grown into a 20+ page site. The graphics are very nice. Soft easy colors that aren’t too dominant with a nice signature tracermedia orange. The reason for the reconstruction is for the adobe max. Tracer has been nominated for an award and is in the final 5 for the education bracket. The voting started September 28th and goes till October 6th at noon. Vote for your favorites, no limit. I like the subtle inner shadows and outer shadows. Gives a small glance of flare. Plus the added corkyness to the site helps people know how the company is. Laid back hard workers that enjoy a Friday beer at the office.
So my well needed vacation after graduating from SAA and going through their hell like portfolio process, and working two jobs, putting in anywhere from 70 hours to 50 hours a week, I finally got that vacation. It was fun but it wasn’t for me. In Atlantis, they nickel and dime you everywhere you go! My bad, correction, $5 and $10 you everywhere you go. Once you get to this expensive ass hotel you would think your paying for all the luxuries it has to offer. Wrong, you pretty much are just paying for that room. Do you want maid service? Okay, that will be $14 a day. You want to watch a movie? Yea that will be the same price. Oh, did you want electricity for your room too? That’s $19 a day. Drinks were $10.50. Everything you wanted to do or eat had 15% gratuity already added into it. Say you ordered a pop at BK lounge and you filled it up yourself, yea, they got a tip for that. Every receipt you signed for had a line for an extra tip. It’s like a bottomless pit for you to loose your money. Technically you aren’t loosing your money cause you know where it is going. It’s all going to pay off this glass sculpture that they paid way too much for. $1,000,000.00 for this sun like glass blown sculpture. That’s almost like a million crispy chicken sandwiches. I mean that could feed a lot of homeless people. As if that wasn’t enough, you cant have a sun sculpture with out a moon one right next to it. 2 million bucks for glass. That’s a lot of chicken nuggets.
After we got settled in and forgot about the price of everything, we did this boat package. Snorkeling, wakeboarding, tubing, and kneeboarding. I was stoked when I heard wakeboarding. This whole summer, my goal has been to learn how to wakeboard and once I did that, it was to jump the wake. Well back in Columbus I didn’t have the luck of jumping it. I landed on it a couple of times but I ended up getting the damn thing done this time in the Bahamas. The salt water is choppy and unforgiving when you go in face first. My nose was screwed. Hali ended up getting a couple of good shots of me. I need to work on my form a little bit so it doesn’t look like I’m rocket airing all the time.
The one above is when I landed perfectly into the wake. Smooth as butter, amazing shit ever. Now the one below is just purely awesome. I don’t know how Hali got this picture. Perfect timing and everything. I can’t believe I even got over this thing.
I guess when its life and death, instincts just kick in. After that fun time, we went parasailing. It was a nice view but its kind of freaky chilling up above the 30 story hotels. I wasn’t feeling it that much. The bar that was holding us to the parachute, yea it would make sense to use something strong and metal. I guess wood works, right?
I played the casino a bit. Got up to $500 ahead and then around $47. I guess its all for fun. I went skating for a bit in a parking garage. Cab kickflip ended up getting me. Board flipped around and hit me in the ankle with the nut that holds on the bearings. Looks like I have two ankles now.
Now its back to working at Tracer for my last couple of weeks and working on the Orange Cab website and folding shirts at Pac Sun. Hope you enjoyed this extremely long blog. Have a good week. Oh did I mention my camera is broken now. AWESOME!!!!
I’m going to start off by saying this is taking place of this weekend websites and maybe even next weekends too. I thought I should give a little re-cap. I’ve been working on the Orange Cab Columbus site for a little while now and I am fine-tuning the home page mock up and have the inner page layout pretty much done. I ‘ll give you a little sneak peak of the inner page header. Hope you like it.
Last night I went to see Alesana at the Attic. Pretty awesome show. Asking Alexandria was pretty freaking sweet…minus their singer. Too many lows and out of sync singing. They sound a lot harder in concert then on their albums. Kind of made me mad cause they put on such a great show and had amazing music, but the singer just wasn’t cutting it for me. To Kill A Monster played too. They are a great band. Not my taste completely but you can just tell they are a solid punk band. Dane the bass guitarist gave his guitar to some random kid in the crowd while they were playing, ran across the attic and started watching some kids play air hockey and then ran back onto stage and started playing again. I liked that. The Bled was good too. Reminded me of rage against the machine a bit but heavier. Now onto Alesana. I saw them last year in Kentucky (Lame!!!) I was super pumped this time around cause the last performance was good. The dude in the picture down below came walking onto the stage and just bent over and stared this kid in front of me straight in the eyes. Didn’t say anything, didn’t blink. Just leaned back up a bit and then spit on the floor. The kid was kind of freaked out. Later on in the show his strap ended up breaking and he had to play sitting down. Kind of stunk but they hyped up the crowd pretty good. I also got a pick and found 75 cents on the ground. Hell Yeah!
Now that I have brought you up to speed, I’m going to the Bahamas tomorrow at 6:30 in the morning and wont have phone service and internet cost like 30 bucks a day or something stupid like that so I probably wont be online. Have a good next week…I will!
Id like to start off by congratulating my mom for getting an awesome award at work and also completing 20 years with the same company, Tween Brands Inc. I’d also like to congratulate my girlfriend and her volleyball team on making #1 in the nation which is also known as Columbus State. Now that that is over with, lets jump into the Weekend Webs. This week is not all about the inspiration even though it does have some pretty rad things. One site in particular doesn’t, you will know which one I am talking about later.
So this really isn’t a web site as much as it is a kick ass video. A colleague showed me this video and being a huge snowboarder, I felt it was extremely appropriate to post it up here. After you get done watching the video, watch the making of it, which is right down below. Now lets talk about the website its hosted on called CLDFX. Nice fun little site that has massive amounts of inspiration. Pretty much, it’s like a playground for skaters and boarders.
I’m not a huge fan of skiing but this lady is pretty good. Some of the photography is pretty nice. The webisodes are pretty cool. The thing I don’t like is after you are done watching the video, it loops back to the beginning. I like the layout and how it’s pretty basic and not confusing on what to click on.
So I am posting this site on what not to do. For one, if you click the launch button at the bottom of the screen, it launches another tab with the same exact content. Awesome, cause I definitely wanted to see the same exact thing again. The designs not horrible but there’s a problem with this whole site. Click on their “Our Portfolio” page. Now if you look at their work and then you compare it with their site….are you thinking what I am thinking? They didn’t design their own website? Yea that’s what I thought. I went to one of their sites I really thought I was going to find tables when I viewed the source but I didn’t thank goodness. All I really want to say about this is, if you are going to be a web design company. Build your own website!
I just had to put this up here. Really funny and cheap. Also a good link for all the high-tech phone people out there.
Just a nice flowing flash site. The home page loads pretty fast, which is a huge plus. The inner pages are a little slower. The picture above is in the create your own bag. This is the bag I would make if I carried purses around.
Of course I have to end this post with a bang. This site is pretty awesome. If you ever wondered what drugs did to you, you can watch it here. I really like the added details to everything. The loader is pretty funny too. Just go to the site and see for your self.
Hope you enjoyed this weeks Weekend Web. Check back sometime next week for a post. If you want more of my non sense, follow me on twitter.
Hi there. It is time for a Weekend Website post today. The past two weeks have been some days. Almost lost a flash file to a corruption error after working on it for over 28 hours. I finally got to skate this past Monday and Tuesday. Did a little night sesh with my friend that BMX’s. Never skate with a biker. They only know bike spots that have rough grounds or that are major high. This Monday I get to help the girlfriend move in to her new apartment. First time away from home so I guess I’m going to have to do all the hard stuff. Bummer! Anyways hope you enjoy the posts. Got some flash sites since I’ve been kind of in the mood.
I really don’t know too much about this site besides the fact that I assume it’s for a game. It is well illustrated with a nice little beat in the background. If you find all the bones in each little section you get a free screen saver and two wallpapers. Since I found all 20 bones, I’ll give you the url for them. Supposedly this website only cost 5k to make.
This site is pretty cool. Sweet way to navigate. Interactive for sure with some nice photography shots. Make sure you are running a good connection because it does take a while to load with all the high quality images. That’s the only downfall about this site if your running a crappy service or you are at work and surfing the web right after lunch with half the other co-workers.
So this really isn’t a site but it’s amazing. First Born did this one. This is what they had to say, “A little color can go a long way - not only the standard nine official Ford colors, but ANY color (up to 16 million). To do this, we obviously couldn’t use pre-rendered 3D assets of different color values, so we created a custom colorization engine in Flash. We took several 3D layers (base, metallic, gloss) and mixed, duplicated, organized and colorized them using different transparency parameters as well a different blend modes in order to create a colorization which looks realistic.”
Just go to this site. Great marketing! Great video action. Great Idea. I like how if you get the girl down to her skippies it asks you to weigh her underwear and then if you click on the little button it pops up a random code and you have to type it in as fast as possible. In other words they didn’t make that video. Sorry ladies, there is not undressing the guy.
The sites for an airline company and they are asking there customers what they would like on the airplane. You can submit your own idea or vote for someone else’s. I voted for the pink unicorns.
New site, new shirt. Some people may now about this site. This guy makes awesome typography shirts. I got the yellow 5. Well his site just got overhauled and has a new face. A drastic change. Went from white to black. I like it a lot. Complements the blue nicely. I like the flash action at the top with some nice pictures. I like the Ugmonk tags. Nice touch. There are limited edition shirts too for their one-year anniversary.
This guy is ridiculous and awesome at the same time. Just go to the two links down below. On the first link view the source on it. Every letter is in its on span.
The only reason why I have this here is because I want you to go all the way down till u see the picture above and then read the story. I laughed pretty hard. Plus I mean the name of their blog is called “Oh Fuck”.
Hope you enjoyed this weeks Weekend Web. Check back sometime next week for a post. If you want more of my non sense, follow me on twitter.
Hey guy's and gal's. Just wanted to drop something off so you don't think I forgot about my 5 fans. Hi mom, hi dad. Anyways, so I've been busy this week. I have a whole bunch of good sites, however I don't have any copy for them so that will have to wait for next week.
I've been doing some side work for Orange Cab Columbus and hopefully be doing a website for them with my friend Josh. Just trying to make a mock up as of right now. Took a couple of pictures for it (aka the one above). Also been enjoying my hectic life at tracermedia. Check back next week for a splendid Weekend Webs. If you want more of my non sense, follow me on twitter.
