I’ve recently taken up paper cutting. I’ve also been intrigued by geometry. So I’m starting a new series of paper cut dioramas that I call “Geometric Paper Cut Dioramas”. Or something like that.

I’ve been doing the preliminary sketching in Illustrator.

materials: colored pastel paper, balsa wood, glue
dimensions: 18” x 18”

Alex was finishing his MFA in filmmaking at UCLA and needed a website for his short film “Blue Boy”. His biggest concern was the quality and delivery of the movie trailer. To solve for this, I set up browser and device detection so the site would automatically deliver the best video format without the user having to install any plugins.

tools: textpattern, javascript, jquery, flash video, quicktime, windows media

Seattle Lesbian and Gay Film Festival. That’s long. This site featured a slideshow gallery of upcoming films. During the festival, films that had already screened would automatically be removed from the home page gallery.

tools: textpattern, html, css, mootools
another collaboration with Sleep Op

This was my first major collaboration with Corianton from Sleep Op. Corianton and I used to work together at the Stranger when he was Art Director. He designs, I develop. Perfect.

Tools: textpattern, openx, html, css, jquery

Peter asked me if I could help him build a photography portfolio site that was built in flash but easy to update. I developed a simple system where he could upload photos to his web server and it would automatically update his site.

Tools: flash, xml, php

The Seattle Mayor’s office was launching a ‘green’ campaign to reduce the carbon footprint of every Seattleite. I was tasked to design a site that was fresh and friendly.

This site won a bronze Pollie in the Local Public Affairs Website category.

Tools: html, css, flash

A few years after the release of our last album “Sun Q”, I decided I wanted the IQU (my band) site to be an archive of all our past work. I also wanted to have our entire catalog available to listen to for free, so I created a custom xml driven flash mp3 player. I asked my friend (and amazing designer) Mike Guss to create a new look and header for our site.

Tools: textpattern, html, css, mootools, flash, xml

My Majority Watch polling map was so popular that Pollster.com asked me to build one for them as well.

In 2008, TalkingPointsMemo.com hired me to build them a poll aggregator map too. Maps, maps, maps. Everyone loves maps!

Tools: flash, xml

Before the 2006 mid-term elections, Republicans controlled the Senate, the House, and the executive branch. Remember those days? Yuk. Anyways, Constituent Dynamics (a Seattle based polling outfit) and RT Strategies (a bipartisan public affairs research group) had a feeling the Dems were going to take back the House in a BIG way. They decided to poll the top 60 contested seats during the 10 weeks before the election. They asked me to design and develop an interactive site to show the polling results along with demographic data in the district. We wanted to make sure that we provided enough data to satisfy the nerdiest of number crunchers, while making it fun for the non-political types.

Although our results were a tad more optimistic than the actual outcome, the Republicans did get their ass served.

This site won a silver Pollie award in the National Public Affairs Website category.

Tools: flash, xml