Sometimes the urban landscape can be as inspiring to photograph as the great outdoors. I have found special interest in what I call “Urban Decay”, the feature of the city that are no longer maintained. One of my favorite spots to document is the old Columbia Brick Works, a massive turn-of-the-century factory. Check out some [...]

Backpacking, hiking, mountain biking, or snowshoeing – one of the greatest things about living in the Pacific Northwest is the access to some of the most beautiful outdoor areas in the country. And of course, I take my camera along with me whenever I head out the door. Over the past few years, I have [...]

Digital photography gives you the freedom to take lots of pictures without worrying about the costly price of film, or film development. However, more often then not, you end up with tons of photographs and face the tedious task of post processing them all one-by-one. PhotoButter is an open source program for batch editing single [...]

There are many great image creation applications out there such as Adobe Photoshop and the Gnu Image Manipulation Program. These are great for working with photographs, but for drawing I prefer vector based programs such as Flash and Illustrator. With the aid of a tablet, vector drawing can be as easy as sketching with pen [...]

The original splash page for my home site: DilateYourMind.com. This flash example loads variables from a PHP page and then creates random size gears to represent the links to the separate sections of the site. The Flash movie automatically creates a new gear-link each time that a section is added to the site.

Another picture of Sam, this image contains more detail such as shading and highlights. While more complex then the previous, it incorporates minimal colors and use of line, compared to most bitmap art. I enjoy the way that vector art allows you to use these simple elements to compose complex drawings

After the distance orientation, PCC asked me back to work on a complete re-design of the Portland Community Collage Distance Education website during the summer of 2002. This site is primarily programmed in ColdFusion, contains numerous dynamically generated pages, and serves hundreds of PCC students each year. The process incorporated closely working with many of [...]

Prior to the construction of the Distance Education site, I participated on a team of developers hired to design the extensive Online Orientation. This orientation is required for all perspective students, and makes sure that they gain the skills necessary to take an online course. While my time was mostly spent on constructing the structure [...]

During the winter of 2001-2002 I worked for a group that was attempting to compose an application to distribute to high schools that would help educators facilitate discussions concerning September 11th. While my initial job was to construct an expandable project structure and navigation system, I ended up also creating many of the graphics and [...]

The online orientation to Distance Education contains several Flash tutorials. Using animation that follows a voice over, the tutorials guide the students through the step needed to do things such as take an online quiz, or log into an online course.