~Posted: January 5, 2009 /11:12 pm~
Here’s something fun (for me) that occupied a bit of time in December; NW Real Estate has been asking me to make an animated holiday card in Flash for a couple years now, and this year if finally come to be…
Click on the image or here to see the full “card”
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~Posted: December 1, 2008 /1:55 pm~
This is a test post from 
, a fancy photo sharing thing.
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~Posted: November 17, 2008 /12:06 am~
Here’s another item designed for Edúcate Ya… this time a poster for their 3rd annual fund-raiser.
It’s another functional piece, with a focus on information over style, and a continuation of using bold colors and a very Latin American sensibility…
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~Posted: November 4, 2008 /8:13 pm~
I recently helped out Mona from Acorn C/s with the website for Sensia “Life Enhancing Water”…
The design and everything is all hers, I just helped with some code. Check out her site; she has an obvious knack for textured design and illustration…
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~Posted: October 30, 2008 /5:56 pm~
Thanks for stopping by… Sorry about the lack of functionality…
Unfortunately for you, I am redesigning everything, and so far, the only thing that is near-completion and thus viewable, is the new portfolio section.
I hope to have the rest finished by the time we have elected a new president…
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~Posted: October 23, 2008 /5:27 pm~
MoodyBands.com and their creator Naif Faris were featured in an article in the Oregonian (and they were kind enough to link directly to the site a couple of times).
Excerpt:
This month, Faris is advertising Moody Bands for the first time. He hopes that the six-wristband sets, which sell for $12.99 each on his Web site, www.moodybands.com, get more and more use.
Naif, who is also the author of two children’s books that deal with loss, works for Portland’s Learning Palace, which supplies schools, teachers, parents and home-schoolers with educational materials.
But if his Moody Bands succeed, he plans to add more emotions (afraid and shy will be a couple of the first) and build a career producing toys, books and other materials that help children cope with loss.(Link)
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~Posted: October 6, 2008 /4:05 pm~
A couple more ads for Twill which will start appearing in different publications around town. On a side note, twillclothing.com, which I also designed, is down for right now until they straighten out some domain issues.
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~Posted: September 30, 2008 /11:53 am~
Last Wednesday,I shuffled myself up to Seattle, to meet with Aimee Curl, the writer of the Nickelsville article in the Seattle Weekely that initially sparked my interest.
Rewind a couple weeks: Courtney and I had been staying at the Moore Hotel which is right next to Josephinium where the Nickelodeons were meetin. I picked up a Seattle Weekly issue as these homeless people were filing out of the building and it seemed that some sort of event of something had just let out. Right after that we read the article and connected the dots… I had already been planning on doing a documentary on Dignity Village down in Portland, and this seemed like a perfect contrast to that (more on that later).
So back to last wednesday: I was supposed to go over and watch the final Nickelsville committee meeting before the building of the village, on a still-secret date in a still-secret location. Aimee had looked at me quizzically when I mentioned that the final meeting was in the evening; only later did I find out that the meeting had been nine AM not PM and that I had missed it. I only discovered that while I was sitting in the totally awesome Seattle library and got a phone call from Scott, who blamed himself for not being clear. Though neither of us HAD ever said AM or PM, it was clear upon re-reading Aimee’s article that the meetings were always in the morning (if I had known they had a website at that point I could have checked that as well). Trying to salvage the day, I call both tent cities and get them to agree to vote (everything is über-democratic in the tent cities) on whether I’ll be allowed to film. Tent City #3 votes that night and agrees so I head over to see them even though it’s too late for me to shoot, not having the right equipment for night shooting. Instead i just introduce myself and chat with Beatrice, who does not want to be filmed but is undeniably the head of the Nickelsville effort in TC3. She leaves but introduces me to a man named Lance who gives me a brief tour and then a crash course in the history of Seattle’s tent cities…
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~Posted: September 16, 2008 /12:55 am~
Naif Faris’ company “Moody Bands” helps kids express themselves through colorful wristbands, each with a corresponding emotion. Naif has written children’s books, and with the launch of this new product, hopes to expand and “produce children’s toys and accessories that encourage emotional expression and interaction.”
Visit them at moodybands.com
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~Posted: September 8, 2008 /12:03 am~
Both of these have been up for a bit but have been undergoing refinement.
Harttohart.com came to me whole and I dissected the Flash, adding new sections and implemented a SEO-friendly HTML version.
Nyloungedecor.com was a complete redo. We did the original in Flash but it proved to be too load-time intensive and packed with frivolous animation. So we extensively reworked it, throwing in some JQuery to add some pop to it and to allow it to degrade nicely. I’m pretty pleased with the results.
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~Posted: July 3, 2008 /3:23 pm~
So, I already have a Flickr account yet somehow it left me feeling unfulfilled. I even have nice little Flickr badge posted in my sidebar. But what I really wanted was somewhere to highlight my favorite photos. So here’s this new category, which formerly was unoccupied space intended for bloggy-ramblings that I never felt like doing.
It’s a step-up, I suppose, in my regard for my own putative photo skills. As my friend Matt Wong says, “Don’t pretend to be a photographer, be a photographer.” Though I suppose it’s easier for him to say that, him actually being a photographer and all (MW link coming soon).
I also am trying out Yet-Another-Photoblog, the plug-in for WP just to see how it works, and in the future I might add something or change it out for one that has gallery capabilities or multiple photos features.
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~Posted: March 31, 2008 /3:29 pm~
This ad for Twill recently appeared in the SE Examiner, along with a photo I took of the co-owners Audra and Heather for a feature on SE boutiques. Their new website {link at left} should be up and running within the week (crossing fingers and knocking on wood).
click on image to see full size.
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~Posted: January 14, 2008 /4:40 pm~
Here are two brochures that I made for one of my favorite non-profits in the World: Edúcate Ya. As far as I know, they haven’t hit the street yet.
“Edúcate Ya is Inc. is a non-profit Latino community based organization committed to empowering Latinos educationally, professionally, socially, culturally, and in wellness.”
Click on any picture to see a larger version.
Please visit them at educateya.org
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~Posted: December 11, 2007 /2:18 pm~
Hi.
This is the new design/structure/hivemind of mamascience.net. I’m hoping there will be more to explore soon and that eventually half of the links don’t just lead you back here. I’ve been too busy pouring Wordpress into this thing’s tank to pay attention to much else.
However, there are things that have been added in the Portfolio, and plenty of people to visit and embarrasments to gawk at in the links to the right.
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~Posted: December 5, 2007 /8:46 pm~
Here are some of the print ads for Twill. They’ve been shuffling around town, sometimes peeking out from The Portland Mercury, and the SouthEast Examiner.
Oh, and Twill is located at 5935 Se Division, here in Portland 97206.
Click on any picture to see a larger version.
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~Posted: /6:04 pm~
This thing has been up and running for some time, but it’s taken a lot longer to get this site up and running. So here you go.
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