Another ongoing Wordpress project I’ve been working on is TheSuperUgly.com, a site for artist SuperUgly AKA John Williams. HE’s an all-around talent who draws and paints, podcasts, and makes some crazy music and has a lot of clever little things to say. I tried to incorporaet his art into the site design itself. The Blog and Twitter feed are two big elements to the site in addition to the gallery of his art.
~ Jesse, April 7, 2010
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Wak Shack Salon Logo
I’ve been working on the website for the Wak Shack Salon for a few years now. The current Flash main site needs an update in a pretty bad way since I don’t condone the use of Flash in that way anymore. Well, a rebuild based on HTML/CSS/Javascript is surely around the corner. In the meantime I did get their Wordpress Blog going, and it ain’t looking half bad. Also, if you are in Sf and need some hair services, you could do a lot worse than visiting this fine salon located in the Lower Haight neighborhood.
~ Jesse,
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Sideshow Grind Flier
I just created this little flier for an upcoming Burlesque Show in San Francisco that is being produced by Bunny Pistol of Barbary Coast Burlesque. The artwork is from an old Italian Horror Movie Poster… so my claim can only be to the typography treatment. But anyway… a little project I had a good time with.
~ Jesse,
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Here’s one of my favorite things I’ve built while working at the Academy of Art. I refer to it as the Graphic Design Timeline, although it’s really a grid. Since time runs along the Y-axis, I guess “Time Stack” is more appropriate than “Time Line”. This project is a solution to display of student-sourced images that represent various eras of graphic design history. It’s built using Actionscript 2.0. The data resides in an external xml document, and all of the images load from external files.
~ Jesse, September 10, 2009
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I just thought I would share a couple of flash animation pieces I did for an online art class for the Academy of Art University. These were for a graphic design portfolio class, a way to add some life and interactivity to some potentially dry subject matter. Was flash necessary to convey this information? No, probably not, but a typical AAU online course includes about 150 web pages of text and still image content, so its nice to gives students something shiny to play with here and there.
Although… I’m not so into Flash anymore. I don’t care for the program interface, I think the plug-in isn’t as universal; as it used to be, it doesn’t work on mobile… Overall it’s not as easy to develop or deploy. It’s still agood platform for delivering video… except to mobile devices. Blah!
~ Jesse,
John “Super Ugly” Williams was announced as the winner of the G4 Dark Horse contest yesterday on-air! I suppose my camera work and video editing skills help to put John at the lead. Although I will give him much credit for being not only very comfortable in front of the camera, but also possessing actual stage presence as well. In any case, we are damn stoked right now!
Watch the winner announcement on Attack of the Show.
Watch our audition video.
~ Jesse, July 3, 2009
Brandon is a freaking sweet dude who is by all accounts a metal-working genius. He is the type who has a brain that works so hard it make you feel really lazy just looking at him standing still. In addition to his technical expertise, he also dabbles in nude modeling. We did a little trade of expertise, whereby he got his Mullins Chain Drive site rebuilt using Wordpress combined with a custom theme by yours truly. I, in return am getting some parts fabricated for my old ‘61 Mini. The fabrication should prove to be 1st class, since Brandon has some pretty impressive credentials. Meanwhile, his website is humming along nicely. I’m looking foreward to seeing my new seat brackets…
~ Jesse, June 1, 2009