Welcome to hell
People. Crowds. Lines. I despise shopping for groceries. F Word.
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Attack of the One Page websites
I have been pretty busy lately with lots of mind-numbing, data-centric design projects and I have discovered an excellent cure. One page websites!
I recently banged out two simple sites for friends and family. The first was for my “Rock & Roll” Father in law, Rick McGregor. He’s a great musician and absolutely loves to play, so I put together a slick little promotional site for him. Check it out at www.RickMcGregorMusic.com.
The other site for a friend of mine that runs a Dessert Boutique near Calgary. If you’re in need of some delicious custom birthday cakes, or sultry cheesecakes check out Sweet Tooth Creations!
I’ll sleep when I’m dead
It’s Summertime and the livin’ is NOT easy
It’s been awhile since I have written anything and my guilt is getting the best of me, so here’s a little update. It’s been about a year since I left my previous gig to pursue my own endeavours and I gotta tell ya, life is great/hard/inspiring/long/amazing! I am no stranger to deadlines and work stress, but I feel I have spread myself way to thin as of late. I am currently providing full time creative services for three companies, a couple freelance projects and as if that wasn’t enough; I started a silly new side project with a buddy. While all this is fine and dandy, cause I absolutely love designing… I have a new deadline on the horizon with an unprecedented sense of urgency.
My wife and I are expecting our first child in the end of August! We are both ecstatic and could not be happier! It’s hard to explain, but I have this extreme sense of motivation now. I have a handful of weeks left to crush every deadline, wrap up my work life in a tidy bow and prepare to become a parent. Amidst all this stress and endless list of tasks, I can’t stop myself from drumming up new ideas and silly little projects. I need to learn how to balance my life better. Once things get back to normal, I plan on writing more. In the meantime you can keep up with my daily mundane adventures here ↓
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365 Icons
Here’s to 365 days of 16px X 16px crap from my mobile!
I decided a few days ago it might be fun to take one random photo every day for an entire year, and post all of them as 16 x 16 pixel icons. My hope is that on April 10, 2009 I can look at a wall of icons and recap an entire year of awesomeness. Most likely it will just be 365 icons of empty Starbucks cups, sidewalk garbage and bizarre meat concoctions.
Anyway I hope you enjoy 365 Icons and soon enough Brettage and I will roll out a free version for everyone to use.
SEO Rapper - Design Coding
This is rad!
Jumping on the Mac train
After years of hatred and harsh words, Brettage “I hate Apple” Duncavage just had a new MacBook sent to the office. “It’s for iPhone development” he says… Yeah right!
BTW - I heart my Helio Ocean. iPhone’s make me angry.
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Web 2.0 Steez
Yayhooray gives corporate america a facelift, Web2.0 style!
In this day and age it’s pretty hard to design a site and avoid the all too common “Web 2.0 Steez” of glossy reflective logos, gradients and the excessive use of the term “BETA”. Personally I can’t wait until this trend dies, and interfaces begin to embrace real textures such as wood grains, metals, leather and dare I say it… fur. How boss would it be to see Starbucks.com draped in a Leopard print!? Latte’s and exotic animals! Ok, that’s a real shit idea. Scrap the fur. I’m rambling now.
Check out this post and see the new logos of corporate US of A. My fave is the Quaker 2.Oats. Hilarious!
Denver Arenacross
The Denver Arenacross was this weekend, and for the first time in years the event was held back at the Coliseum instead of the Pepsi Center. The track was great (for an AX) and all the local boys put in some strong finishes.
Note - low light action shots taken with a cell phone look like shit!
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CarType
An interesting new site from the fellows behind T26
CarType is a comprehensive study and collection of reviews and typographical applications of emblems, car company logos and car logos with images, comments, links, car company information and general interest. If you’re into typography, logos and cars check it out.
Effective Web Design
Great article from Smashing Magazine
Smashing Magazine put out this great article on effective web design. It’s a boss-ass read with some top-notch examples.
Click here and get your read on.
Yes, I did say “boss-ass”.
PostMaster for WordPress
WordPress posts via email, now with image and video attachments courtesy of Brett Duncavage.
Brettage wrote an alternate script for the WordPress wp-mail.php script. The new and improved version, PostMaster, allows email posts to support image and video attachments. You can check it out here, or you can just use Expression Engine and have your site dialed from the start ; )
Chocolate Rain
Every time I watch this video, I piss my pants!
Commie Unicorns
Behold, the greatest gift in the history of mankind…
Nothing says Christmas like a couple of Cold War Unicorns! Brettage gave me this epic battle between “Commie” and “Freedom” (in doll form) last night and I couldn’t be happier. It just goes to show kids, that dreams really do come true. But only if you’re dreams involve communist unicorns.
Makin’ Babies
My good friends Michael and Barbara Nelson just had their first child, Jaden Michael Nelson. He was born on Thursday, December 11th at 11:58pm.
Little Jaden Nelson came in weighing in at 6 pounds, 3 ounces and was delivered all natural (Barbara is one tough cookie). I’m really excited about this because I have known Mikey since we were little kids racing 80’s together and this is the first of my close childhood friends to have a child. I’m really happy for him and his new family and I wish them all the best. You can check the little guy out right here.
On a side note, does it make me weird if the first thing I think of when someone says “baby” and “11:58pm” is Iron Maiden? As soon as I heard Jaden was born “two minutes to midnight” this is the first thing that popped in my head!
Winter commute
I live ten miles from my office. It took two hours to drive to work today. By doing the math you will see i should totally stop designing for a living and take up Nascar.
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Rolled 100k in the T-Hundo
I caught the 100k mile rollover in my truck last night. The old girl really has 197,000 miles on her cause some jerk-dick stole my odometer a few years ago, but i thought it was still cool to see the rollover anyway.
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First snow of the season
I woke up today and there was a little bit of the white stuff covering everything in my neighborhood. First snow of the season and just a day before Thanksgiving!
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Boston rocks denver
Not only did Boston rock Denver in baseball last night, the Street Dogs rocked our ear holes at the Ogden theatre as well. It just hurts so good…
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Mobile Web Design
Go buy this book right now!
Cameron Moll’s new book, Mobile Web Design, is available now for a special discounted price. From now until October 21st you can pick this bad boy up for only $19. More info is available here. Go buy it now!
Greatest show on earth?
I went to the circus last night for the first time as an adult. I had fond memories of the show as a young child, so when my wife mentioned going i thought it seemed like a good idea. I’ll admit it was entertaining but it was way too crowded, the coliseum smelled like urine and i swear i saw an elephant cry. In summary this may be the greatest show on earth, but only for people that dig sad animals and the smell of wee wee.
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The Draft
The Draft + Dead to Me + The Gaslight Anthem = RADNESS!
The Draft played the Marquis in Denver last night with Dead to Me and The Gaslight Anthem. Despite the bands trying to cope with the Mile High altitude (nothing new there), it was a great show! Dead to Me and the Gaslight Anthem were not messing around, they played hard and fast and rocked my face in. Being a long time HWM whore, I was eager to see The Draft take the stage. As always they didn’t disappoint, they played a great set and had a lot of energy. The Draft kicks my ass and if you don’t agree they are the greatest band in the world, I will fight you!
Yeah it’s a startup
This is where we are currently working at the moment. Four guys crammed around one little conference table, until the office build out is complete. You gotta love startups!
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It’s About Time
It’s taken me forever to finally get around to it, but this site is finally up!
There are still lots of things I have in planned for this site, but the hardest part is over now. It’s kind of funny how I design and build websites on a daily basis, but when it comes to putting together a simple site for myself it takes me 4 months. Oh well, at least it’s finally getting going. Hopefully I can get this one all wrapped up before another 4 months pass me by.
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