Another chapter ends and a new one begins!

Due to changing economic conditions and consolidated of functions and departments, my position and a many others were eliminated at Kerzner. Naturally, this was an unwelcome turn of events, but in a way, I’m excited about the new possibilities it opens up.
Rather than keep this news a secret, I decided I’d just lay my [...]

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-01-25

30+ Apps for Doing Business on Facebook – http://tinyurl.com/bpfxs9 #
ANVIL! THE STORY OF ANVIL – UK trailer – http://tinyurl.com/8xkkxw #
syncing blackberry…switching to AppleOSX!!! #

iPhone music app

Transform ambient noises into soundscapes!

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-01-18

Pimp Vanilla cameo and world tour could work… http://tinyurl.com/9wsa4l #
Get light box freaky with some geeky Face Book tutorials! http://tinyurl.com/8twkd2 #
wow clicked a tiny url link on a tweet and it leads to a subscription page – that is just dirty! #
new mac book pro arrived today… apple is sooooo easy! #
listening to Underworld’s “Oblivion [...]

u-ska reel

A montage of my past work. Some interactive but mostly broadcast design and commercial production.

watch demo reel

Content is king

Here are two great articles about content.
1.The Discipline of Content Strategy
2. Content-tious Strategy
Both articles are from “A-List-Apart”.
If you manage a site you know the key is to budget and plan to create/capture content that is useful and usable for the user. So often we cut corners by using the copy from last years brochure. But ask [...]

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-01-11

syncing ipod – does anyone have any good recommendations? Looking for music and podcasts. #
The Tao of Warren Buffett – http://tinyurl.com/73rqqn #
catching up on RSS feeds – too much to read and so little time! #

Does anyone have any good recommendations?

On Face Book I posted my status as “John syncing ipod – does anyone have any good recommendations? Looking for music and podcasts”. Yes I was looking for engagement and I am sorry to make my friends my test group but I did receive some good responses and great music recommendations. I was surprised to [...]

The Tao of Warren Buffett

I found this old (08.08) post on “The Laws of Simplicity / John Maeda”
In looking for someone to hire, you look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence, and energy. But the most important is integrity, because if they don’t have that, the other two qualities, intelligence and energy, are going to kill you.
This rings of some [...]

A labor of love – frame by frame

Thanks to my friend Greg I started to play with iStopmotion. iStopmotion is a stop motion program for the Apple OS. I have yet to produce a piece worth sharing but regardless check out the 50 Incredible Stop Motion Videos posted on Smashing Magazine.