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My main focus is webpage design which is quickly evolving into front-end development but I started out as a Fine Artist and Designer. I still try to keep my skills and talent in with a paint brush and graphic programs up to date.

I approach web projects with a diverse range

Starting out as an artist – I a have well over 10 years experience crafting ideas, designs and illustrations in traditional formats. I am also an expert at using Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, and Fireworks. I have also worked with FontLab to create fonts and Painter to develop Computer Generated Images as well as working with Alibre and Google Sketch to do 3-d drafts and sketches.

I started creating basic html and css websites using Dreamweaver in 2006. During this time I started working with flash. Since then I have focused my skill on html, css and basic scripting. I am experienced in with several CMS’s and prototyping sites, widgets, and controls and then turning then into a real website/web object that funtion for users. I am capable of making them work and function in uniform or differently among different devices.

Project Complete

by admin on January 31, 2013 » Add the first comment.

I’ve told some of y’all about my projects. Projects to me are things that I think to myself -

maybe I can do that(?).

and then … I try to do it!

Usually with projects like:

Make my own stone-washed jeans using bleach and a sandblaster
Build my own hydroponic planter
Fix the garbage disposal by myself after watching a couple of ehow videos and
Make a running fountain in my loft in Downtown, LA

I fail …

With the stone-washed I jeans I blasted and bleached holes into every single one of my pairs of jean until I gave up and was forced to buy … stone-washed jeans.
When I went to build my own hydroponic planter I realized I was about to embark on building my hydroponic planter.
When I decided to fix the garbage disposal, I realized as I disconnected the garbage disposal and all of the parts that go along with the garbage disposal that there are a lot of parts involved in fixing the garbage disposal.
When trying to make a beautiful running fountain I quickly realized that water prefers to go down rather than up.

But these failures have never deterred my belief in doing it myself OA friends … and, finally, I completed something. In these pics you’re looking at a coffee table I made. Simple, I know, but inexpensive, sturdy and done. : )

Built a table

Project Complete!

2013 Quick Quote

by admin on January 2, 2013 » Add the first comment.

Follow your heart. Listen to your body. Have peace knowing everything beyond that is out of your hands.

Art Lived

by admin on October 10, 2012 » Add the first comment.

I was chatting with an old friend of mine discussing various good yet challenging things that had happened in the past months and relating them to the scope of things that we where up to. We both decided that in about 2 weeks (meaning last week now) that I would post an image of Lemonade to acknowledge the moments that we had overcome our challenges: Lemons to Lemonade.

Needfully to say: I did not follow through with my promise and the story that is ensues is why.

First, let me prefice with a brief timeline:

Conversation with my friend [3 weeks ago]
Planned execution of Image of Lemonade/incident described below [1 weeks ago]
The post now [curren, post date]

A gentleman walks by, looking down on his luck and says, ‘your lucky … flats can be fixed!’.

I was in Venice 2 weekends ago working on stuff with the founders of this awesome new tech/clothing/mood company and one of them (the founders) just happened to have this absolutely beautiful painting sitting out in their lawn. I took the sec to say, ‘Wow! That painting is beautiful!’. Little did I know that this would lead to a wild night and early morning! So as I was leaving after a day of data planning the owner of the painting says, ‘bet that painting would look great on a wall in your house!’. I agreed and we decided to pack it up and tie to to my car … safe and sound; high and tight. Right? Wrong! I was driving on the 10 (Los Angeles Area Highway towards Downtown LA (where I currently live) and suddenly Whoosh. The painting is flying through the air. I was initially scared that it was going to cause problems but it landed flat on the freeway for a semi to run over seconds later. Got home, called up the founder, owner of the painting (friend) and told him what happened. We sat on opposite ends of the phone silently for a sec. Then he goes, ‘do you remember where on the highway the painting flew off?’. Yup! I did know! He says, ‘come get me’. I go and pick him up and we go searching for the painting on the 10 [again, Los Angeles Highway (always busy)] and it is sitting on the side of the Freeway … might as well have been folded it was so perfect. We pick up the painting BUT as we are driving to the exit we hear a … whoop whoop whoop … and yes one of the wood chips from the painting frame had lodged itself right into my tire and had given me a flat.

So there we say fixing a flat. I think it was about 3am at that time … on Crenshaw I might add (not the safest spot in LA to fix a flat). A gentleman walks by, looking down on his luck and says, ‘your lucky … flats can be fixed!’. And he was right. I drove the owner of the painting home and before we bid our good byes he unfolded the paint and we looked at it – still beautiful. Art, for the night, lived.

After scrabbling to get my car fixed and other daily obligations of the day, I did not have time for the lemonade but somehow I hoped that after sharing this story – it wouldn’t matter. The Lemonade was a symbol as is finding the painting on the side of the road. I think that, maybe, recovering the painting was actually a better symbol. I hope that my friend feels the same and relates to this story/metaphor … ART LIVED!

Please note as I post this that I am about to release a new blog/website. I apologize that the formatting is not optimal (Content is king right? Don’t hate). :)

My NASDAQ

by admin on December 7, 2011 » Add the first comment.

This is a manipulated screen capture from the new Community Section of NASDAQ.com. The Community Section needed the ability to create a deeper connection between the customer and the data provided by the NASDAQ.com Community. To do this we created My NASDAQ. For the My NASDAQ section of the site we added the ability for customers to track who they are following, who is following them and experts that they might want to follow. It also includes updates to the customer’s latest activities and stock ratings. We also created the ability for a Vanity Page so that a customers could index their My NASDAQ Profile Page.

Vivalo

by admin on November 19, 2010

I spent 3 years making this bike. It was pretty much all NJS (*Keirin Racing) Certified which means that each part on this bike was pretty hard to find. It was a great joy when I finally finished it! It offered a really stiff feel which made it great for picking up speed.

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