Hand-coded this site using my text editor of choice: TextMate.
It is written in PHP with a simple MYSQL database. The lack of styling is purposeful. I'm just trying to keep it readable. There's not much to see, but I'm using the generic Event/Result data to experiment with personal journaling and data visualization. Only a portion of the data is publicly viewable.
Now, I have the burden of updating and backfilling data. Finding or taking screenshots and deciding on copy has proven to be far more difficult a task than creating the data schema, coding, and publishing the pages.
Created a Safari Extension to hack the Netflix UI. Started a tumblr blog to share the extension and see what all the social fuss was about.
Nobody downloaded it. I still use it to alter the UI to my liking, and I'm still trying to understand Tumblr.
Created my own Project Management software using PHP, MySQL, and a heavy reliance on jQuery UI. It started as a personal list of projects and resources, then shortly after sprints and milestones were added with calendar and gantt features (thanks Full Calendar). Adding a task board was a logical progression.
It was the Task board that resonated with other users and turned my personal documentation into a company tool.
Began working at Casting Networks. I was hired as a former customer, so I had product knowledge that allowed me to have immediate impact. I led a project to expand our market from NY/LA to nationwide.
After my first year, casting projects increased 30% overall and 70% in new markets.
Co-created the website and podcast Westside Sessions. The concept was an online venue, where the performances were shot with a two camera setup and mixed in a controlled environment with predictably high quality results. For the performer the benefit was exposure and a well produced video they could use to land more gigs. For the viewer there was new content weekly and the promise of "Never a cover song, cover charge or two drink minimum."
We recorded 116 sessions -- 8 1/2 hours of original, polished content. I manned camera and mixed the audio on every single one. It was an awesome experience to meet a performer whose music I had never heard, then within 15 mins be intimately involved in staging their performance, setting audio levels, choosing mic placement, and by the end of the production I'd be a legitimate fan.
Assisted acclaimed Mexican artist Laura Anderson Barbata with a beautiful animation piece, called Shapono. The artwork, story, and voicing was provided by the indigenous Yanomami people from the Amazon.
You can watch it here.
I really honed my Photoshop and After Effects skills on this project. At the time they were version 5 and 4.1, respectively. We kept all the elements in high quality and used 1K resolution for the timeline which really taxed the top of line Quicksilver G4 I was working with, because at the time it was a possibility it would need to be transferred to 16mm or 35mm for gallery projections.
After the final cut, I helped install the video with a creative arrangement of multi-displays in galleries in NYC and Mexico City.
I continued to work with Laura for many years on a variety of multimedia installations and documentaries.
Co-directed, co-wrote, and edited a feature length digital film. I had graduated a semester early, so I considered it continuing education. We ran it as a legitimate film set. It was listed on the Texas Film Commission's job hotline, and we got most of our cast and crew from volunteers and fellow grads looking for their first feature experience.
It didn't get distributed. It's long (140 mins), but it is a good film. Like all Texas filmmakers we applied to the Texas Production Fund, and when we didn't receive grant funding, as recent grads it was hard to find the spare money to pay the festival fees.
I am extremely proud of the film. All the actors and crew did such a great job, and I am so thankful to all of the locations which provided the wonderfully local texture to the background and mis-en-scene.