The summer is slowly coming to its end, but first things first. I got new business clothing from cyroline.
Yes it’s great that you can look funny in the creative industry, everybody needs some benefits, right?

The next two weeks are going to catapult me far out of my comfort and far in to the video zone. I’m looking forward to intense learning and presentable results.
Besides my studies I’m working on my early retirement in Mexico with tequila beer and Pinjanas full of Apple hardware. I’ve made a business card, so potential clients, co-workers and employers can contact me, after a meeting.

Now, a little something about its design. The colours used are the same as on my current portfolio, the front shows my name, phone, email and URL. The back holds a very compressed description of the roles I like to play, like photographer, web design- and developer and on top of that SEO and social media geek.
Surely you people knowing PHP or some similar language have noticed the little hints on this like the curvy brackets and the double ampersands.

The hierarchy from top to bottom on the front:

space for notes by me or the client, increasing individuality and interaction to memorize me better

contact details, minimal

my name with a very large contrast, so it still is significant, without being on top

The hierarchy from top to bottom on the back:

SEO and social media on top of

WEB

wich I develop and design

oh and I’m a photograper (out of the brackets)

What do you guys think?

I’ve been printed! Not literally, but pictures I took and retouched got printed in a local (big) malls magazine. At this point, thanks so much to Ragno and the whole MeRox crew. As you can see on the picture, there’s a makeup tutorial on it. I didn’t layout the page, but did the retouch on the pictures with the model and I shot the product pictures. It was quite a moment to see this actually laying around in stores and so on. The first time in my life, somebody printed my creative work. (How creative photo retouch and product photography is, is up for discussion) Anyhow I’m a little proud about getting on the paper.

Welcome to the third Friday Feature from my side! Today I will be writing about Angeline Gragasin, who describes herself as a Woman of The Future. I can agree to that, since she on her website states to “sets out to revolutionize the death industry one corpse at a time”. This references her series of videos The Ecstacy of Decay, which you can see below. Her perspective of accessing this topic is very open, sometimes provocative. Where both episodes have strong resemblance with a documentary, the first one has more video footage and the second is compiled from still-life images, video and voice-over, which is because it pictures the history of the corpse in America. In her director reel for 2011, that is linked on her vimeo profile, she also shows that she does not only direct camera shot footage, but also digital productions like animations. Apart from her profile on vimeo, you can also find her on her website angelinegragasin.com.

Since my portfolio has been up, my blog has not gotten the love it used to get, so I decided to strip some things off and give it a new sexy booty face! So this is what it looks like so far. There is still some optimising ahead, but this is the general layout.

Primarily I used a custom written theme with that sexy little date box. The rounded corners are CSS3 without IE fallback (suck on it sucky browser users) and the blueprint css framework. The Fonts used are ChunkFive and DeJaVu Serif.

For everybody interested I have made the use of borders a little easier for me by putting them into separate classes for easier re-use.

.border_top {
	-webkit-border-top-left-radius: 10px;
	-webkit-border-top-right-radius: 10px;
	-moz-border-radius-topleft: 10px;
	-moz-border-radius-topright: 10px;
	border-top-left-radius: 10px;
	border-top-right-radius: 10px;
}

.border_bottom {
	-webkit-border-bottom-right-radius: 10px;
	-webkit-border-bottom-left-radius: 10px;
	-moz-border-radius-bottomright: 10px;
	-moz-border-radius-bottomleft: 10px;
	border-bottom-right-radius: 10px;
	border-bottom-left-radius: 10px;
}

.border_all {
	-webkit-border-radius: 10px;
	-moz-border-radius: 10px;
	border-radius: 10px;
}

So my former tablet broke or works unreliable and after some driver issues my new wacom one works like a charm.