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The Super Ugly Dot Com

Jesse — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 06:38:24 +0000

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.

Wak Shack Salon Blog

Jesse — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 06:04:19 +0000

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.

Sideshow Grind

Jesse — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 04:00:35 +0000

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.

Soapbox was Slow, but Got Some Press!

admin — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 01:41:50 +0000

Well, I did get my soapbox racer done for the derby on Nov. 1st. I met with success in that I actually built it in two days! It even had fully functioning steering and a brake! Unfortunately I didn’t really get a chance to use the latter since it was soooo DAMN SLOW! I blew it by going cheap on the wheels. I bought the $8 non-ball bearing wheels from my local hardware store Pagano’s. I think these wheels would be great on a lawn mower, but the plastic and brass bushings they roll on just caused too much friction to keep me moving at a decent pace (or any pace at all).

I did just order some better wheels from Ebay. I’ll get those on the soapbox as soon as possible and take it out for another run.

The cool part was that my friend Murilee Martin dropped by to see the soapbox project and did a write-up about it on Jalopnik. Check out the post:

http://jalopnik.com/5399652/mystery-seat-from-20r-sprite-hell-project-lives-on-in-illegal-soapbox-derby-racer

Soapbox Derby Car Parts Shopping

Jesse — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 22:52:12 +0000

Not sure if I will be able to attain this build quality... but I'll have a better seat.

I’ve decided to build a soapbox racer for the 2009 soapbox derby in SF on Nov. 1st. I have no experience with this whatsoever, but how difficult can this be? The only rules, as I understand them are that the car can’t have a motor, but it must have a beer holder. Okay, no problems there.

So far I have a seat from an old Austin-Healey Sprite and four wheels from the hardware store. This weekend I start in on building the chassis. That means I needs so materials. Lumber yard and ALCO Metals, here I come!

Graphic Design Timeline Grid

Jesse — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 22:41:22 +0000

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.

Some Flash Animation Work

Jesse — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 21:29:26 +0000

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!

G4 Contest Winner!

Jesse — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 23:53:36 +0000

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.

Posse Up!

Jesse — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 00:55:50 +0000

An official partnership with the people at Twin Oaks Creative is in the works. They say as soon as I build one site in particular (my own), we can talk more…

Super Ugly

Jesse — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 02:40:28 +0000

So the cable channel G4 is having a contest to find the perfect nerd who would be capable of being a special correspondent at the 2009 San Diego Comic-Con. In one day we shot and edited a super awesome audition tape for my friend Super Ugly, an Oakland jack-of-all-trades artist-musician-white rapper-superstar waiter-pop culture database. I’d love to share the video, but I’m not sure if he would agree. It is heavy on showing his geek side, along with all 3,000 of his action figures encased in Ikea glass cases. If he gets the gig, I’m definitely sharing the video. In the meantime, here are some links to Super Ugly’s work. I call him John.

Unified School District Video