It’s summer in Portland, the sun is out (cross our fingers), the days are long, and it’s hard to not be having a good time.
Which brings us inevitably to Finn. He’s gettin’ bigger, smiling, laughing, grabbling things and putting them in his mouth, and generally being a little cutie. The current stats: he is now 4 months old, and more than doubled his weight at 16 lbs., which is slightly above-average for his age. But, and he’s 27 inches long, which is in the 98th percentile.
Good Job Finn!!!
close up of finn in his favorite spot: outside bathtub
If you want to see some recent photos of Finn, check out the photo blog we’ve set up for him here:
www.finnamundson.com
Thursday, February 5, 2009
A couple of changes to the portfolio page for the better:
- I added a lightbox effect in the portfolio section - so you don’t have to download that big, honking PDF to get a closer look. Instead just click on an image to bring up a gallery of images in it’s own AJAX-y popup. Much nicer!
- And.. More recent work in the portfolio section –Brokers Gin packaging, an OHSU Ad and brochure, The Allison Inn & Spa website, Oregon Humane Society banners and Rural Organizing Project’s ballot initiative guide. Dang!!
- And.. I’m sure everyone’s favorite, the portfolio page is just called ‘Portfolio’ instead of ‘PDF Portfolio’ to reflect this new web-goodness. The old links redirect, no 404 error here!
Check out the portfolio, whydontcha.
Thursday, January 29, 2009
I love juvenile semi-coherent home amateur recordings done on cheap microphones, so I’m loving this right now:
Stark Effect - mic in track – a collection of mp3s accidentally shared through file sharing - a ‘mic in track’.
Here’s the description from Stark Effect:
A “mic in track” is a recording made on a PC using MusicMatch Jukebox, a music utility packaged with many new PC’s that allows the user to record from the microphone input of the PC’s sound card and save the recording in mp3 format. The default filename is “mic in track” followed by a number.
If that user also happens to be running a file-sharing program (WinMX, Audiognome, Kazaa, etc.), and shares the directory in which the mic in track is stored, then these personal recordings can be easily downloaded from the user’s computer. The vast majority of them are either silent or uninteresting, but many are like Christmas presents giftwrapped in nondescript serial numbers. They represent unique examples of audio vérité.
I’ve listened to a couple tracks Why Is My Sister Such a Dumbass? (0:46) and Bunnyrabbits, Satan, Cheese and Milk (2:18) — and they are great.
Thanks, CohenMasta, for the link and hat tip to Joshua Bearman’s LA Weekly blog.
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
I used Drupal to build the functionality of this site for American Iranian Friendship Council.
This is a continuation of me testing the organization of a portfolio on the blog - using the embedded Gallery2.
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
I used the Lightbox2 Ajax effect to create this very simple but effective landing page for OHSU Doernbecher Children’s Hospital. When a visitor arrives for the first time, they will be greeted by this unobtrusive effect that simplifies the choices for first time visitors.
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Testing out the new wordpress iphone app- as you can see you can use it to post photos.
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
This is another website I finished recently. This involved upgrading a wordpress site, and converting it’s theme to Lindquist, and modifying it for use as a copywriter’s portfolio website.
In this ad for OHSU we choose selects of thousands of photos of employees taken at a photo booth at OHSU children’s hospital. It was a fun but late night placing the hundreds of images in InDesign..
This ran in Portland Monthly and Portland Spaces magazine.
I’ll be posting new items to the portfolio of recent past work for the next couple days.
Here’s the first piece, which was for an Inn & Spa in the heart of the Oregon wine country in the Wilamatte Valley. This was an interm website that was done to give the public a look at the progress of construction, news, and show off the luxurious look and feel through the use of an easy to use Flash image viewer right on the front page.
It’s online at theallison.com
