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Clients
Here are some of my favorite clients and their corresponding projects:
Write Strong Consulting
Write Strong Consulting is a website for a writing consulting business in Los Angeles. The goal of the site is to help students prepare their Personal Statements. I was provided with a Word Document containing the text for this site and some color preferences... this is what I came up with. I built it out of CSS / XHTML.
Rachel Beth Levin
Rachel Beth Levin is a freelance writer in Los Angeles. She wanted a site that captured her personal vibe (style, textures, colors) but would allow her to easily edit content and post blogs. I designed this custom WordPress-powered site for her to store and organize all of her articles from a simple web interface.
Tangible Entertainment
This site has gone through various incarnations over the years. It is the home of Brendan Davis and Blue Nelson, a film production team in Los Angeles. I designed the "geoteric" Tangible logo back in late 2006, and have also handled the bulk of Tangible's collateral material since then. As of right now, the structure of the site is going through a major rebuild from scratch, using CSS, XHTML, and Flash. The fully-armed and operational Tangible Entertainment should be back before you know it.
Astro Teller
I re-coded this site for Astro Teller from the bottom up, based on his pre-existing layout. Astro provided me with zillions of video files in every format known to man, and I conformed them to embedded Flash players. This site was quite a challenge because of the multimedia coming from so many sources, which I had to hack apart and put back together. I enjoyed coming up with the "Circuits" layout on the front page, which was done as a Flash animation. We needed a way to display various aspects of Astro's life and work, and to be able to accomodate multiple image types. It was an honor to work for a mad scientist!
The Lacking Organization
This is a custom WordPress template for The Lacking Organization, which is a radio show and podcast on WFIT's 89.5 FM in Florida. This is the most complex graphical CSS I have created, as it has so many layers and decorations. Suncoast Studios provided those custom retro 3D cassettes, which were modeled in Lightwave. I personally refer to the theme as "Dirty iPhone."
Science Babe - Dr. Debbie Berebichez
This site is for a TV show host and Ph.D. in Physics named Dr. Debbie Berebichez. I worked from some of her previous graphics and cleaned them up, then built a functional site out of CSS / XHTML. I also assisted with turning her Quicktime content into a Flash Player and some minimal video editing and conversions. I enjoyed organizing and preparing all of her various press materials, too.
Dr. Zoltan!
This is my very own long-term creative career project. Dr. Zoltan is a fictional character that bills himself as "The Funniest Comedian Since Carrot Top," and "Hollywood's Premiere Anti-Sociologist." This is my place to do or say anything while wearing strange costumes. Satirical, post-modern social commentary. Through the music and lectures, I have worked with some of the greatest musicians in the world. Check out the WordPress Template, which pulls content from Dr. Zoltan's Twitter and incorporates it into the home page. I am quite proud of this site.
Adam Shenkman
Adam Shenkman is an underground comedian in Los Angeles. I was basically told to go for it, and this zany, colorful site is what came out. I have basically been put in charge of Adam's online presence, because he seems to be technologically cursed. This site is basic CSS / XHTML as usual. We're working on putting together some more multimedia for him.
Eman Laerton
Pastor Eman Laerton of "You Have Bad Taste In Music" hired me to help publish Phase Two: Church Across America. The site contains several fun Flash elements and sound effects to highlight the topic of Biblical Scholarship. During the creation of the site, I helped him with audio recording & editing, logo design, and photo editing. The best part was getting to be a cameraman for one of his live street sermons.
Tamar Halpern
Tamar is an independent filmmaker / director in Los Angeles. One of her recent films, Ezzy Fish, needed a website to show off several video clips, script selections, and related photos in the style of a Look Book. I spent a lot of time in Photoshop enhancing the visual depth of various elements, adding paper textures and photo-album tabs to the photos. The site is basic CSS, php, and Flash Navigation. I recently did a reworking of what was once her 100% Flash site, Tamaroland Pictures. I will be converting it over to pure CSS soon. Tamar also wanted to host a one-sheet contact page at TamarHalpern.net, which I also designed in CSS / XHTML.
Christopher Schlegel
It was time for Truth Against The World to be powered by a Content Management System, so I designed this custom CSS / WordPress Template for him. The artwork at the top is a tribute to Atlas Shrugged, one of Christopher's favorite Ayn Rand books.Rails Rumble 2008
Every year, for two days, an intense Ruby On Rails programming competition is held, called Rails Rumble. I designed their splash page, blog, and badges using some modified clip art from iStockphoto.
Black Ink Item
This micro-site was designed as a FlashPressKit. Black Ink Item was looking for a slick website to show off their portfolio of screenprints. This site is entirely Flash.GuitarTricks
I am currently working with the guys at GuitarTricks.com. I have done several photoshoots and designed some of their printed promotional materials.