Work Samples
Science+Society: conference website
My first 'conference' website. I Worked with a print designer to adapt a design from the poster (featured prominently). Heretofore my only experience with conference websites was scrambling to find what room I was supposed to be in while balancing my laptop (precariously) on my knee, and using an equally precarious wifi connection while slugging down my third cup of expensive coffee.
SunScapes: photo exhibit
We had pictures and text, a short deadline and the shadows of several (much more) complicated 'photo galleries' in our past. So I recreated the photo exhibit 'feel' and left well enough alone.
Wired to Win - IMAX Film
I very 'tricked out' movie website. A slew of interactive pieces illustrating brain science as exemplified by Tour de France cycling. I spent 15 months building this website and all I got was a lousy t-shirt (and a messenger bag). Seriously, it was a fantastic experience.
Mom's World
I heavily customized the open forum app PHPBB to create a slim, portal-like destination, for all things MOM.
Here again is one of the rare occasions (becoming much less rare of late) where my design work actually sees the light of day. Dig that groovy background ;o)
Work the System
How to make a large painting interesting on the web. The effect is interesting enough to draw attention but the zoom is not purely aesthetic, roll over the animals in the magnified area for identification information.
Journey to the Bottom of the Sea
It took me two years but I finally convinced my cohorts at the Museum to let me build a game that one could LOSE. This was a ton of fun to code. SECRET: I generate all the die rolls at the beginning of the game.
It Takes All Kinds
This started as a static poster, we didn't have time to do a full Flash interactive so I volunteered a simple game implemented in javascript using nothing but a simple script and a few image swaps.
Inca Archaeology
Basically, we had a map. We needed an interactive. With my background in Anthropology I had no shortage if ideas. Be sure to check out the "How to read a plan"
Archaeology Tools
This was my first attempt to translate a comic strip/book into an interactive learning experience. I have a heck of a time getting people to go along with me. I managed to get this idea through, but the simple layout was not my intention. I LOVE non-standard layouts in comics (strips or books), stay tuned for my latest (and greatest) comic book translation.
Plate Tectonics
A translation of a video piece... The intro piece was great fun to work out. I had access to far more earth quake data than Flash could handle so I wrote some simplification algorithms and had to build and test it with several different data custom sets. there is a fair amount of my art in this piece as well.
Deep Sea Vents
Once again I was called on to take a static image and create a interactive experience out of it. This was also during my "intro phase" (see "plates" for another example). See, nobody reads instructions, which means you have to design your interactives to be intuitive, but when there is required background info (not just instructions) there must be another way to get those points across.
The Amazing Mundo
My second comic Interactive, this time the panels weren't all the same shape, but they were all rectangular. Art was pre-existing in a print product that we were re purposing. This took a lot of paper mock-ups to get everyone on board.
Planetology
I designed the interactivity, and built this. What makes it extra special... I also did all the design. I actually end up creating a large amount of art, usually based on an artist's designs, but in this case I created all of the art (except the planets).
Sharks vs. Rays
I have done a fair amount of QTVR (QuickTime Virtual Reality) most of it was Panoramas of archaeological sites. These we some of the QTVR Objects that I have done. I arranged the specimens and a pro photographer shot the frames, we actually lost 1 shot and I had to create a *tween* shot in photoshop.
Resources for Learning
A ton of PHP/MySql... a darn fine, and effective project. My 2 regrets... didn't use strict XHTML/CSS (this was a while ago)... and I wrote the search by hand... Check out the Advanced Search... it is surely one of the most complex bits of PHP that I have written.
Air Force Modeling and Simulation and Resource Repository
ColdFusion/access: years ago... I learned my trade during long days and late nights building this "militarily complex" online database and multi-user management system.
ChallengeLine (in private beta)
a highly customized implementation of PHPNuke with several custom interactive Flash charting components. Custom tables are updated using a streamlined combination of XML and standard form POST to allow clear and simple modification of complex personal improvement metrics. The site also included custom PHPNuke modules to support user BLOGGING and accumulation of points.
NycBikes.com
custom E-commerce app written in PHP/MySql. Auto generates thumbnails from uploaded images. Shopping cart supports PayPal or automatically sends emails of orders to store for fulfillment.
Itochu Chemicals
this was a custom PHP/MySql content management system that also had to be able to accept large XML dumps from an internal corporate Oracla inventory system. The client dictated that each section must randomly create the header graphic based on the content of that section.
Science Bulletins
a custom PHP/MySql content management system, a centrally managed database created statics HTML pages, Flash interactives and several RSS feeds.
Worm
a little faux perspective, about 100 movie clips and a few lines of action script. (577 bytes)
cycle
started out as an effort to use the spokes of a wheel to indicate the passage of time. (2.76 KB w/o images)
Synapse
This was just a ton of fun... It started out as a way for me to explore some ideas regarding a project that was in the bid process. The fun really started once the app was written... (click to read more)
shhhhh
this is my top secret lab-or-a-tory where I am building the "Next Big Thing" or maybe just an RSS aggregator, while I learn some AJAX ;o)