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Javascript Games
I spent some time playing with making games using vanilla Javascript. I honestly wind up using jquery a bunch when doing simple javascript projects because I find it’s easier to teach designers JQuery than it is vanilla Javascript. I hate when I get out of practice so it was fun to just spend time goofing…
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Well, Here We Are
I saw two posts on instagram the morning of Nov 5th. One was Willy Nelson saying that worrying doesn’t do you any good. It doesn’t solve anything and it just makes you sick The next post I saw was of Elmo, sitting quietly on a stoop, listening to birds, looking around, and taking it all…
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Death and Disaster
Andy Warhol started his “Death and Disaster” photo series in 1962. The series would weave into his practice throughout the 60s and he produced over 70 pieces [sothebys]. Topics included car or plane crashes, suicides, homicides, electric chairs and death by tuna can poisoning. I’m not Andy Warhol so I won’t put words in his…
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Popping a Recap in Your Ass
It seems during the last couple of years that a reflection of the year coming to a close has been potentially the only thing keeping my sanity. Adulting is no joke. The end of 2023 had me begging for a new year, only to get served up a very smelly shit sandwich in 2024. Call…
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Vue.js Recipe App
Made this cool, fun recipe app using Vue.js, MealDB, tailwind, vuex, and vite. It was really fun playing with vue.js, I’d only done short tests and very small, mostly static projects in vue.js before this. The tutorial on it was on YouTube by Codaholic. Good video! It’s live on Netlify
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Figma UX/UI Fundamentals course cetificate
I’ve been bust this summer updating and rounding out my skills. And though I’ve used and taught Figma for a long time, I was suprised to see how many things I DIDN’T know. Excellent course on Skillshare, Dan is really funny. I made a dorky speaker company website. Best part was really diving into Figma’s…
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Full Stack React Course Done!
Look at that! I finished The Full Stack React course on https://developedbyed.com/. It was so fun and it was great to update my react skills. I’m a big fan of Ed and regularly recommend his videos to my students. This was also my first typescript project. I recommend this for developers who already have their sea…
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Page a Day: Women of Bauhaus
Welcome to Women’s history month! What a great time to start this project up! Today I’ve made a simple page about some of the women of the bauhaus school.
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Page a Day – skeuomorphism
I’ve decided to do a daily web page. Static, art-inspired, and weird is what I’m going for. Today’s web page is inspired by the story of Scott Forstall and Jony Ive, two designers in Apple’s history with stories that everyone loves to tell. In our rink we have Scott Forstall, into “photo illustrative” design elements.…
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Dug up some old botanical drawings
Did this set several years ago and I love them. Juniper was a toddler. Reminds me how much I love to draw botanicals. All were done with Sakura Pigma Micron pens.
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What engineering teams *still* look like
I found this image of Mr. E.M. soon after his take over, after all but a few engineers remained, after the mass exodus, mass layoff. The picture showed a team of engineers after pulling an all night code review. There were lots of smarmy comments about it but it wasn’t the comments that struck me,…
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That one time my band opened for Flock of Seagulls
It was at the Cactus Club in San Jose. It was in February 1991 so I was 20 years old. The flock didn’t talk to us, so we made fun of them in hushed giggles. Very immature, I know. All I remember is that they were traveling in an airstream, something I didn’t think was…
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Dee Dee and the Dolphins
In 2019 I participated in Liberation Rock Camp. This camp is for grown ups and is sponsored by Girls Rock Camp. In a weekend we formed a band with strangers, then wrote and performed an original song. Here’s our video:
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Dreamland: Little Rock’s West 9th Street
Just watched this movie. It’s heartbreaking but hopeful. It’s part of American history we need to talk about.
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The first of august
Todays log a couple weeks after the proverbial barn burned down. caution! an image of a human heart is in this post! I left CETI on Jul 15th. It was sudden and painful. The last straw was a big one. SO I just walked away. Here I am. I’ve been trying to make and make.…
