Graphics

In addition to designing character bio pages for The Accuser, I was responsible for organizing a galleries of "behind the scenes" material; preliminary sketches, storyboards, and other materials used in the course of production. For The Accuser, I used a 3D-Rendered metallic frame around the content on each page.

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I was approached by Wrox Press to contribute to Professional PHP4 Multimedia Programming as a result of the pieces I had written for Wired Publications’ Webmonkey.

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Due to the extensive use of Macromedia Flash, complex table layout, and Cascading Style Sheets on the Stanlee.net web site, I was asked to create a JavaScript "Sniffer" script that would detect several key pieces of information: Browser Name (Netscape, Internet Explorer), Browser Version, and whether or not the Flash plugin was installed.

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I developed both the interface and the back-end for this component of the Stanlee.net web site, which was the first practical application I wrote using PHP.

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During the summer of 2006, armed with 2 years’ worth of object-oriented Java programming and a borrowed copy of Aaron Hillegass’ [‘Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X’][3], I finally made it past Apple’s [Currency Converter Tutorial][1] and wrote a simple Cocoa application of my own using XCode and Interface Builder.

Given a vibrating scale length and number of frets, the program uses the [12th Root of two][2] to calculate the fret positions that will ensure proper intonation for the 12 tone scale.

This article was written for Wired Publications’ Webmonkey. Using freely available software for PalmOS and Windows, this tutorial shows how doodles made on a PalmOS device can be transferred to PC and then vectorized using Adobe Streamline or Macromedia Flash.

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The producers realized that we would need more than a three minute flash animation every other week to retain an audience, and to that end a great deal of supplementary material was made available. I was charged with creating interfaces for The Drifter character biographies. Using copy provided by the writers and artwork provided by the animators, I incorporated everything into a Macromedia Flash-based interface, using ActionScript to handle the scrollbars and control transitions.

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This article was written for Wired Publications’ Webmonkey. Not quite accurately titled, the tutorial shows how PHP can be used to sniff out the color depth of the device requesting an AvantGo page. Using this information, PHP can then be used to send a corresponding image to the browser; so an AvantGo user with a Palm III would get a 2-bit image with black, white, and two shades of grey, wheras an AvantGo user with a Handspring Visor Prism would get a 16-it, 65000+ color image.

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In 1998 I became a docent at the Frank Lloyd Wright designed Ennis house (called the Ennis-Brown house at the time) in Los Angeles, California. Apart from helping with tours of the house, I was responsible for building the first web site for the house. I was honored to have the opportunity to design a web site for a Frank Lloyd Wright structure, and I wanted to incorporate as many elements of the house’s style into the web site as I could, hence the extensive use of varied concrete block graphics. (The entire house is constructed of patterned concrete blocks.)

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In 1999, through my involvement at the Ennis house I also became a docent at Frank Lloyd Wright’s Hollyhock House. My chief interest was in designing a web site for the Barnsdall house, but all of the elements never quite came together, and my design was never fully implemented.

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