The Odds

On our second to last day in Ireland, my father and I negotiated the Ireland busing system, and purchased two tickets to Ardee,  a small village about an hour and a half north of Dublin. The bus would apparently stop a five minute walk outside of the main town – and another bus would [...]

Design Review

This is episode #2 of what is quickly becoming an animated series depicting real meetings with clients and the interesting requests and feedback we get on a regular basis.
This episode is actually a composite of two design reviews we had over the past couple weeks. I love my clients – but sometimes you really [...]

The 40kb Banner Ad

This past week we had a series of back-n-forth conversation with one of our favorite clients, regarding a banner ad they had already received approval for from their client.  Try as I might, I couldn’t seem to convince them that what they were asking for just wasn’t realistic.
For the heck of it, we’ve now recreated [...]

Nothing To Do Today

On the far end of the Dingle Peninsula of Ireland, out past the quaint little fishing village that is its namesake, are a series of stone bee-hive shaped dwellings in a circular formation, surrounded by a stone-wall and sitting on the side of a hillside overlooking Dingle Bay and further out over the Atlantic Ocean. [...]

Death and Social Media

It’s been a rough couple weeks.
A close friend lost his sister in a car accident three weeks ago – and just when I was beginning to breath regularly again and not self-reflect the incident on my own reality and my own beloved family – I received a Facebook message from one of my closest friend’s [...]

On The Way To Union Station

The photograph taped to the dashboard caught my eye the second I entered the cab.  A beautiful African women in traditional clothes, sitting gracefully with a large book spread-open upon her lap and a smile that filled the car.  I assumed by her apparent age and the drivers age – that it might be his [...]