I’ve been spending a fair amount of time on Shuttercal.com lately with Dan and Scott.  It’s a neat site where you can post up a picture a day in a calendar format and communicate with an already vibrant community on photography or just regular nonsense.  I was eating dinner at my parents place last night and all of a sudden I get a ton of calls from Dan and Scott, I figure I can catch up with them later cause I’m spending time with my parents.  No big deal.

It turns out they were calling like crazy cause the site made it on to Fox News.  The Houston local station saw the site and covered it on their cool-site-of-the-day bit.  Just the thought of news anchors making small talk around a project I’m involved in is crazy.  Catch a link to the video here.

The craziest part is we had nothing to do with this, the users of the site love it so much they are constantly getting us exposure in random blogs, you tube, deviantArt, etc… I have a good feeling about this one!

This rap is straight dope yo’

So, I’ve been working on version 2 of this site I started to look at what I have uploaded and clean up where necessary. During this process I found a folder called poetry and I rediscovered my favorite poem from my favorite poet, Charles Bukowski.

It turns out forever ago I was talking to some girl about this poem and I couldn’t for the life of me find it online to show her. It has since been uploaded and sitting on my server, I showed it to her of course but I didn’t exactly share it with you guys.

“You have no idea, cousin, how many men can do it but won’t.”
That’s why funerals are so sad.

Enjoy!

Originally this sites purpose was to land “The Job”.  Whether or not it worked is another story but I’ve got “The Job” so I think it is about time to repurpose the site.  I’m going to keep the portfolio around but switch things up a bit.  I have a few ideas, one is to showcase some projects I’ve been working on.

First, I’m going to redesign the site to fit more of where I see it going, then I’ll show you my current project cinder, which is basically a random name for the existing project that I came up with right now.

The method: I picked three numbers (7 55 5) and matched it up with the books on my shelf.

It turns out the 7th book was Catch 22, and the 5th word on the 55th page was cinder.  What is cinder? I’ll give you one hint; it goes along with the whole computer agnostic trend the web has taken these days.

So yea, look for cinder soon and a redesign even sooner.