ATL/ALT

Short of Horror

admin — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 17:39:38 +0000

A short piece of mine has just been put up on a horror micro-fiction site: Micro Horror. I unearthed it the other night digging through my box of google docs. Check it out: The Long Trail and its End.

White Horses Elsewhere

admin — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 16:37:56 +0000

Doug and White Horses got plugged and interviewed the other day for a site called Thoughts in Progress. Read to exist. Also worth noting that White Horses is 15% off until August 13th if you enter the code: BEACHREAD305 at checkout. That is all. Here is the interview

“I think WHITE HORSES was my attempt to create something that might possibly make all these bad things better. Like I could weave a safety net out of words. Like I might be able to save what little I still had. I think all these desperate factors together created a sort of poetry.” -Doug

Letters to its Editor

admin — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 22:41:10 +0000

“Dear, sweet Jelly Smithson:

It seems as though the great state of Indiana, while contemplating its many dead sons–maimed by bayonet, vivisected by grenade–grew a massive erection that turned out to be, as Bob Dole has since proven humanly possible, permanent. Ten stories high and topped with a dead sailor. O! how adored and adorned. What could be more patriotic?

I’ve been told by the butler to inform you that your mother expresses her deep love to you, Smithson, but it’s also been expressed that that love comes with a grain of salt. She knows where you come from and is unimpressed with its yeasty proclivities. But, you know, kin is kin. She’ll cherish you to the end, you disgusting, disgusting thing.

Flourish your burger like a barbecue chef flourishing his burger.

Delightedly,
–Marcel Proust”

Power Dynamics

admin — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 15:55:43 +0000

65 N outside of Chicago

Brain Wipes

admin — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 14:44:17 +0000

Continued exploitation of HTML/CSS/JS as an animated display language. This one hurts you.
Wiper

Fill Er Up

admin — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 15:07:54 +0000

Sure, a BIT of a comment. A bit of play. A bit of an exploitation (of HTML/CSS). Destruction destruction destruction. They’re cutting down power-lines outside today. There’s a smoke from Canada blowin in. This isn’t how it’s meant…

Fill Er Up Boss

Friends With Websites Kickstarter

admin — Mon, 31 May 2010 16:29:02 +0000

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

Ride No.5: Shaker Village (50miles)

admin — Fri, 28 May 2010 22:50:28 +0000

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.

Henry V

admin — Fri, 28 May 2010 20:13:02 +0000

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.

Achieving Failure

admin — Thu, 27 May 2010 15:15:34 +0000

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.

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