Project Update

Graphic Design: Tucson Travel Card

admin — Fri, 09 May 2008 00:07:06 +0000

This one was created for a Creative Postcard Club assignment. We were given the task of designing a card that would promote our hometown.

Event Photography: After The Festival Ends

admin — Tue, 06 May 2008 19:03:44 +0000

This past Sunday, I stopped by the Main Library in Downtown Tucson. Just a week ago, the library plaza had been filled with artists and their admirers. The occasion was the 3rd Annual Tucson Madonnari Chalk Art Festival.

Even though the crowds have departed, the chalk art remains…

Event Photography: Tucson Folk Festival 2008

admin — Mon, 05 May 2008 20:24:43 +0000

“Diamond” Jim Hewitt is a musician, music producer, and web applications developer from Oracle, Arizona. He periodically sends e-mails announcing upcoming gigs. The last one included a promo of his Tucson Folk Festival appearance, and it ended with admonition, “Be there or be trapezoidal!”

How could I refuse an invitation like that?

Jim was playing with the Blue Prairie Dogs, a group that has been together for around 15 years. The Dogs play family-friendly Western music, and they filled the “house” at the Folk Festival’s outdoor Museum of Art Stage.

Guitarist “Cactus” Dan Oved (left) with fiddler “Diamond” Jim Hewitt (right)

Bassist Doc Whitmore

“Diamond” Jim Hewitt on mandolin

Website Design: University of Arizona Herbarium

admin — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 19:17:03 +0000

Late last year, I worked with the University of Arizona Herbarium on a website makeover. The new site is up and running, so log on and learn about the Herbarium’s research collection of over 400,000 dried plant specimens.

Much of the UA Herbarium collection comes from the Sonoran Desert region and adjacent areas of the arid southwestern United States and northwesten Mexico.

Graphic Design: Win The Race

admin — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 22:09:59 +0000

This one started out as a photograph I took while watching the 1996 El Tour de Tucson bike race.

Event Photography: 3rd Annual Tucson Madonnari Chalk Art Festival

admin — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:03:57 +0000

This past Saturday, chalk artists and onlookers turned the Main Library’s Jacome Plaza into an open air gallery. The occasion was the 3rd Annual Tucson Madonnari Chalk Art Festival. Skilled artists and their apprentices painted large, contemporary and traditional style murals in chalk…

While the artists painted, Orquestra la Unica played salsa…

and the University of Arizona’s Ritmos Latinos club danced…

Bike-tography 106: Bicycles As Art

admin — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:36:45 +0000

This past weekend provided a visual feast for those who see the bicycle as art. From Tucson’s Bicycle Swap Meet and Alley Cat Bike Scavenger hunt, we have…

Event Photography: Alley Cat Bike Scavenger Hunt

admin — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 15:31:10 +0000

Tucson’s Bike Fest 2008 ended this past Sunday. The final event was a scavenger hunt for a good cause. And it started and ended at one of our coolest two-wheeled places, BICAS…

The 5th annual Alley Cat Bike Scavenger Hunt was a fundraiser for El Grupo Youth Cycling, and it attracted 134 riders. The cycling sleuths followed clues around Downtown Tucson to solve puzzles and win notoriety and modest prizes.

The winning team was an intrepid quartet that didn’t let flat tires and other mechanical difficulties get in the way. Two of the guys ran across the finish line carrying their wounded bikes. Their teammates soon followed…

But they had some brain work to do before they could claim their top finishers’ trophy. They had to assemble the puzzle pieces they’d found at the various checkpoints…

Their cycling speed and puzzle skills earned them the coveted Bike Scavenger Hunt trophy…

Event Photography: Bicycle Swap Meet

admin — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 23:30:23 +0000

Yesterday was a total bicycle day in Downtown Tucson. The day started with the El Bike Swap de Tucson on Fourth Avenue. It’s one of the largest bicycle swap meets in the country…

The swap’s a good place for some great deals on bicycles, bike parts, and tools…

And it wouldn’t be a Tucson event without some unique entertainment. Here’s Louis showing off his impeccable balance…

and adding some polo to the mix…

Website Design: DNA Research Database

admin — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 23:39:06 +0000

It’s always fun to see a client website go live. This one’s for ChromDB, an international database for DNA researchers

Since the ChromDB website is frequently updated, my job was to create a Web Standards-based template that would properly display the database output.