So here's the promised post.

The weather in PDX is great. It's overcast during the morning but the clouds burn off completely before noon. I'm really glad I have a small AC unit because, even though it isn't anywhere near as hot as it was last year, it's still uncomfortably warm some days. I've temporarily stopped feeding the birds because the ( Read more... )

I occasionally tell people that the best kind of ads are those that you want to watch, those a guy can point to and say "this is true, I believe this." They are art.

Though I've seen many ads that I think are clever and interesting and might even be effective, up until now, I don't think I've ever seen an ad where I actually caught myself nodding to ( Read more... )

Student Throws Puppy at Hell's Angels and Escapes on a Bulldozer

You can't make this stuff up.

My new website is live. www.synaptictempest.com

I'll be doing some minor tweaks yet, but or all intents and purposes, it's done.

Rather bad day today.

I'm getting no where with my ads for my campaign class but I have both the instructor and department chair telling me (and everyone in the class) to "take things in a new direction, push it further, make new and interesting connections." Today they were marginally more helpful than usual in that they added a new point to their ( Read more... )

Was up all night working on my damn website. It's frustrating to me that there are so many coding languages that come into play in making a website. There's HTML, CSS, Java, Action Script, and probably a number of others that I can't think of off the top of my head. To make matters worse, there's all the different browsers out there, each with ( Read more... )

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For my birthday yesterday, I got to see Hal Curtis talk to the Brash Creative group here at the Art Institute. Hal Curtis is a creative director at Wieden + Kennedy. In addition to hearing some really good advice, we got to look at some of his work. For example:

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One of the questions that was asked of Hal was what his thoughts about Tiger were in the ( Read more... )

The Synaptic Tempest Audio Blast is "official" now. How so? You can subscribe to it in iTunes! (or any rss feedreader, for that matter). In iTunes, open up the "Advanced" drop down menu up top and choose "Subscribe to Podcast." In the white field that pops up, paste the URL to the show:

http://www.synaptictempest.com/audio/mixes/s.t.a.b..xml

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Now that I'm in a basic web design class, I have the opportunity not only to redo my website like I've been planning for a long time, but now I can do it or a grade. I'm ahead of the rest of the class in that I've already resketched how I want my site to look and even started producing content for it. For example, my new header image:


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