There was a unanimous choice for 3, with the small revision of adding an actual “lynx” to the image.  Which can be seen in the final version here :

I’ll be developing the site as well, and will post links to that as it get’s completed.

I’ve been working contractually for Public Strategies here in Austin since about February, usually helping with tweaks and back end stuff on several different sites by now, and this is the first site I was asked to build out all the CSS for the theme.

They have a full “digital” team over there, I was sent a .psd(seen above) from the designer and I cut it up and coded the rest, the joomla install was readied by the project manager and we very swiftly turned around the site.  I really enjoy working with the team at Public Strategies as opposed to only myself and being solely responsible for every single aspect of the design and implementation, being a useful cog in a well working machine is extremely gratifying in it’s own, and I’m happy to part of such a useful team of people from time to time.

Chompers is now available, and will be available in Wal-Mart’s nationwide starting this summer. I updated the products page to include 3 more products on the chompers line. I replaced the LivePipe rollover tabs with Spry tabs, and also used Spry to make the sliding panels, turns out Spry is quite handy.

My friends in Hello Hawk asked for a music video. I had personally gone through a break up, and I felt it would be a fun way to show what happened and do this whole short story about my side of things and whatever else.

But I changed my mind, and decided to completely forgive/forget/accept the whole memory and make something else to take my mind of it entirely, realized thinking longer about that would just recycle the same terrible thoughts, so I did something completely different.

In any case, it was kind of my own way of moving on, because dwelling is always useless.

So I utilized some footage a friend gave me who advised me to “do what I will with it”, and I did.  Thanks again Craig, for the hour of dance footage you gave me.

With the welcoming of 2010, I have left my employers and new friends in CA, and have moved to Austin, TX.  A better opportunity had presented itself to me in the time of searching, and I couldn’t resist, in fact, an overwhelming sense of purpose led me to my move, and keeps me excited and enthusiastic about the future of my being, and the future of my work.

To all of those at Impulse One and 15 Rose, I hope for the best, and know you will do well with what you’re trying to do, and I am always available for help if you ever need it.

Stay tuned for more, now reporting from Austin, TX, in the year 2010…and beyond.

• WordPress Flickr Manager

I use flickr for photo sharing just because of the sheer amount of people on flickr, and it easily syncs with most other services, and especially with this plug in. It allows you to set and organize all your photos on flickr, and then those changes can be seen on your blog.

• All In One SEO Pack

I always use this plug in to create the titles and urls, and set site wide keywords and such. Pretty straight forward and easy to set up.

• Google Analytics for WordPress

If you have a google account, then you should be using analytics on your site, with this plug in you can simply enter your anayltics tracking code and you’re done, everything else is taken care of.

• Twitter Tools

If you twitter, and this really only applies if you do, you can tweet from your blog, or blog from your twitter, a lot of features makes this handy for tweetheads.

• WP-DBManager

Backing up your WP database seems important, so I install this too.

• WordPress Mobile Pack

Simplest way to set a site up for mobile browsers, it can detect and change the CSS depending on the user’s browser, and comes with a collection of mobile ready themes.

Let me know if there’s any plug-ins your WP blog can’t live without.

And I breathe a sigh of relief, but only for a moment, I’ll feel great when they’re all shipped and accounted for, and I won’t get another, “I ordered sometime in july, just wondering wtf?”  We’re still going through lost orders and backtracking all the shipments to make sure everyone gets their package, but we’re no longer taking any more orders, surprisingly enough we managed to get rid of them all(through several different efforts).

We dropped off a few pallets here at the 15 Rose for awhile, and that turned into an interesting experiment.  Leaving them out, then encouraging people to take as much as they want, worked well for the first round of pallets.  Three pallets sat in our breezeway for one month before they were taken by the locals willing to grab a few, we ordered three more pallets and they lasted only 4 days, I don’t really know how that happened.

Dogtown now has a new park, and it is siiiiick. Opening day was a madhouse, but it was awesome to see how much this place meant to all the skaters in the area, they really respected the place and each other. It’s comforting to see how well people thrive when placed in an environment where they can be themselves without judgment from society, I guess that’s just the way all of Venice is.

I managed to shoot a bit of random footage throughout the day/night, and did remember to record at least one song all the way through, allowing me to make a music video of the event!  Reminded me of the lake video, and makes me think I should make more music videos of party footage, they’re might be a niche market for that somewhere.

and this is for you jimmy:

LaBor Day Long Set

LAbor Day Short Set