Archive for May, 2010

Friends With Websites Kickstarter

Monday, May 31st, 2010

I am moving in both place and mind. I have been working as a web designer/ developer for a number of years. Largely it has been satisfying and educational work. There is much intrigue to me in understanding these technologies we inhabit. It is wonderful work to enable and empower individual humans and projects, less so to dress up faceless business and spin one’s wheels. In moving place I am raising money. In moving mind I am raising awareness and quality. Templates are well and good where personality lacks. Templates are an insult to personality. Many friends with websites are left with no place to turn but to the vile template overlords. Who can afford a website?

For swaggeringly deflated rates I will design/redesign/and/or/redevelop the websites of humans. The projects will be addressed as they come in, and I will take every measure possible to turn them around in no more than a week’s time. All the sites will be collected and linked on a communal site at the end of the project so that friends may share friends and websites alike.

I am a designer, programmer, and tinkerer. Here is the evidence:

alt/ATL Delete (professionally)
OR/AND

ATL/alt Website (casually)

Send me adjectives, designs you like, and what you’re looking for in a home on the internet. Please no: “I’d like to develop like a Facebook type application for my readers.” or “Can you make like, YouTube?” No more social networks. Let’s talk about you.
All sites built from scratch to spec. Quick, clean, and compliant code that’ll grow old slow and well.

Blogger and Wordpress friendly. If there’s a question about features/functionality, e-mail first and we’ll discuss it. These should be quick projects, not big builds.

Kickstarter Project Link: Friends With Websites

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Ride No.5: Shaker Village (50miles)

Friday, May 28th, 2010

A straight line into the Northwest. Took the wind out of me this time. Hills to contend with unlike the others. Wandering mind to contend with. The straight path is curious in what it does to the mind. Many twists, turns, and directions keep you on your toes. The line–you’re either in it or struggling. You are at once so aware of how tired you are, and how much effort it will take to get you back to any relative comfort. In spite of this you keep going. You end up. You turn around. You return. A gorgeous ride against my will on the second most beautiful day in history.

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Henry V

Friday, May 28th, 2010

Printed but did not design the above poster for my pals at Kill Mike Use (who’s website I designed but didn’t print) and their production of Shakespeare’s Henry V.

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Achieving Failure

Thursday, May 27th, 2010

A bit back I composed an interactive meditation on failure for an open call from Several Pursuits. The task was taken up merely as a direction for thought/activity, and the objective was met (for me) as soon as the piece was completed, however, because it was a directed effort, it has hit a mark, and they’ve accepted my submission. Follow this link to Several Pursuits to bring you back here.

5:36:24…5:36:23…5:36:22…

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Stump Float

Wednesday, May 26th, 2010

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White Horses Exists

Wednesday, May 26th, 2010

You may now begin to normally purchase copies of White Horses by Douglas W. Milliken at the very regular price of $12. OR you can go check it out from the Portland Room of the Portland Public Library if you are opposed to the concept of ownership.

Order White Horses by Douglas W. Milliken

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Last Day to Pre-Order White Horses

Monday, May 24th, 2010

Only 24 hours left to pre-order White Horses by Douglas W Milliken from NaDA. Order today and get it for cheaper AND better (personally stamped, signed, written, and drawn). After tomorrow it will be available for the regular $12 from Lulu.

Pre-Order White Horses. I should also mention that it is the author’s (pictured above) birthday today.

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Monday Ride No.4: Sebago Lake (53miles)

Friday, May 14th, 2010

Monday Thursday to Sebago Lake and back. Biking off map (written directions only) is such an experience. You feel completely lost in space. You have no familiar context, no real sense of place. You get lost. You figure it out. It is a wonderful and unsettling feeling that seems to rarely happen in the modern world, and yet it’s just there. Right out the front door practically.

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Monday Ride No.3: Wednesday Old Orchard (32miles)

Saturday, May 8th, 2010

Monday Wednesday ride to Old Orchard Beach and Back.

I was fighting going on this ride- “It’s so nice out. I’m tired. I just wanna lie out in the grass and read.” -”What!” I said out loud. “How many times have I clocked into work and not wanted to?” “Ok.”

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