Ambition
They are the flaws that come of ambition, not of ineptitude. –Nick Hornby Photo above: The author’s own Featured image: “The Battle of Britain” by Paul Nash
Month: September 2017
On Photography
According to photography legend Elliott Erwitt, the making of a photo is “just composing all the parts of a rectangle.” Photo above: By Elliott Erwitt Featured image: Elliott Erwitt in Vienna
For the Love of Ektachrome
I created a PowerPoint presentation on the soft, abstract-art-like features of old Ektachrome slides and the story of the medium, told through my own family pictures. The PPT is a companion piece to a website I designed while I was a student at San Diego Mesa College. Please ask me …
From Mark Rothko, to the sea and back
I took this photo at a fish ladder in Oregon many years ago. Looking at this fish ladder from the observation area as I did, it resembled a painting by my favorite mid-century artist, Mark Rothko. It turns out that after his family emigrated from Russia, Rothko spent …
Service Focused Design
The web design framework I built with Team FreshPlate is one example of approaching clients with service focused design–its genesis was in wanting to help the food service scene here in San Diego build easier/better/faster websites. But long before our framework became a reality, one of our team had already …