March 12, 2008 by Russ
After a year helping out the team at Columbia University’s Digital Knowledge Ventures, I’ve decided to wield the freelance once again. I have a number of projects in the works including a youth spirituality community site and a website for another Catholic church in New York. Look for lots of motion graphics work as well. It’s good to be back.
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January 05, 2007 by Russ
I’ve been a bit lax about posting recently. The holidays came and went and that ate up a lot of my time. But the real reason for my silence is a new part-time job at Columbia University’s Digital Knowledge Ventures. At DKV I’ll be a site developer working primarily with Drupal and Joomla, two popular open source content management systems. I’ll still be taking on new freelance work but at a more measured pace.
categories: Personal
November 10, 2006 by Russ
It’s been a busy couple of weeks here. Today, Russ launched a redesigned Malickcontractors.com.
Kudos to Erica Stoll for pushing pixels on this one. Yes, she is Russ’ sister but there’s no nepotism in play here—she’s a pretty sharp designer.
The site features a Flash music player positioned in a frameset (so that the client-requested music doesn’t restart with every new page). Instead of pop-up windows to handle the enlarged thumbnails, Russ used the Lightbox 2 javascript library for a neat image overlay effect. Gotta love the elegant transition effects as you move from image to image.
A fun project overall.
categories: Projects
October 30, 2006 by Russ
I just finished two Flash animations and some general HTML edits on MedallionRetail.com. Take a look. The splash page intro is easy to find. The second animation is in the Process section.
categories: Projects
October 30, 2006 by Russ
Anyone with a bit of curiosity about the future of the computer will marvel at Jeff Han’s work on an “interface-free,” touch-driven computer. Manipulated intuitively with the fingertips and responding to varying levels of pressure, his computer certainly looks like a precursor of things to come.
Follow this link to see video of Han’s first public demonstration of the computer, recorded February 2006 at the T.E.D. conference in Monterey, CA. Simply mind-blowing.
Can anyone get me tickets to next year’s T.E.D. conference?
categories: Usability
October 22, 2006 by Russ
I’m not sure how to pronounce Moses Gunesch’s last name. Is the stress on the first syllable or the second? He’s simplified things for us by mercifully naming his website “MosesSupposes.com." But I do know how to pronounce his super hero name. Flash Master.
Moses is the creator of The Fuse Kit, a powerful animation, event-sequencing, and BitmapFilter toolset for Flash coders. It’s revolutionized the laborous process of scripting a sequence of events and effects in Flash’s Actionscript. While Fuse is built on the pioneering work of Robert Penner, Ladislav ‘Laco’ Zigo, Danilo Sandner and Björn Wibben, Moses gets the credit for pushing the envelope.
Moses offers The Fuse Kit for free download but this Flash coder will be making a donation to his beer fund. Cheers Moses.
categories: Flash