There are a series of photos I’ve never posted up here for lack of having somewhere to actually put them. At some point I’ll need to come back and reorganize these but here are 2 from a series of 6 I shot back in 2007.

As with any of the images on the site just click on the image to see it larger.

Had always meant to shoot a little something down this tunnel near my apartment. Just for fun went down with a couple friends and shot a few images.

Earlier this year we were working on an experimental website for PUSH Your Business, a consulting firm that helps businesses maximize their value throughout the entire life of the venture. Part of the concept for the project involved an opening animation of character pushing the letters in for the logo. We shot this footage to eventually turn into a simple vector animation but never had the opportunity to actually include it in the site.

I don’t know if it will ever see the light of day as a final project but I thought it was worth posting up here.

On the window outside my office I’ve posted a slide from a PowerPoint that reads, “Like it or not, you’re a publisher and you need to start acting like one.” On the web content is king; it’s different than traditional advertising that can be all about the feeling or emotions that an image and headline provokes. On the web people are looking for a new morsel, something they haven’t seen before.

Those are what survive on the web. That in addition to a snappy visual they are accompanied by something rich and new. Blogs aren’t always visually engaging but they are still full of drama, intrigue and knowledge.

I read a blog called A List Apart which writes on topics relating to web design but written in a sort of lofty designer speak. One of the most recent posts is called, In Defense of Readers.

Despite the ubiquity of reading on the web, readers remain a neglected audience. Much of our talk about web design revolves around a sense of movement: users are thought to be finding, searching, skimming, looking. We measure how frequently they click but not how long they stay on the page. We concern ourselves with their travel and participation—how they move from page to page, who they talk to when they get there—but forget the needs of those whose purpose is to be still. Readers flourish when they have space—some distance from the hubbub of the crowds—and as web designers, there is yet much we can do to help them carve out that space.

As more and more projects and clients move into the content creation space and become publishers I want to make sure we remember the readers. On the web people actually read the body copy although formality isn’t a mandate.

The post is definitely worth reading. They discuss both function – some thoughts on how to pace an article – and also conceptually what we are trying to do when we set type on the web.

Just something to mull over on your next interactive project.

Recently I helped my buddy Peter Chee with shooting an audition video for a friend of his. She’s auditioning to be an on air QVC personality. I think she’d do a fantastic job in that she’s funny, smart, and good at keeping things moving.

Employee art at the West Linn Market of Choice. While scouting the location for the grocery shoot found these rocks in the back. An employee didn’t know how long they had been there for but some of them were pretty hilarious.