A skill I pride myself in is my keen ability to take fancy complicated talk and make it understandable to normal humans.

Whipped this thing up for our show this Saturday at one of my favorite places to eat and see music in town. Sketched on paper, scanned, and colored in Photoshop.

Frog soup will not be served.

I was sort of commissioned to do a poster for the PBR Art Pary held at the East Side Co-op in KC, where “local artists have created works with their interpretation of the PBR logo and are competing for cash prizes.”

It turned out a bit goofy, but I like it.

I did a series of posters for The Empty Spaces’ 2011 summer tour, affectionately nicknamed “soccer tour 2k11” after the soccer camp van we rented for transportation. They’re all slight revisions of a poster I did a while back that didn’t get much exposure. The illustration depicts what it would look like if aliens came to Earth and dumped a bunch of pink bubbly goo on some houses.

Poster I did for the Empty Spaces/Fullbloods/Kuhls show on January 8th.

See you there?

Matt and I just finished this year’s Rails Rumble competition. For those unfamiliar, teams are given 48 hours to design, develop, and deploy a Ruby on Rails based web application. Our entry is was Operator.

I did all the visual design for Operator; we didn’t use a single stock image. I didn’t worry about IE at all during this 48 hours, and the site uses a lot of CSS3 attributes that make it prettier. Take a look at our team page for a look at the technologies used.

The landing page was something I threw together in Illustrator. All the icons were made in DrawIt. I’m pretty proud of my little creations and I think it will be a very useful service once we can really spend some time working on it.

I thought this was funny: Our commit graph, shown by the hour, for the weekend.

We finished our development a couple hours before the deadline, and I thought we used that time to push up a pretty bugless app. Unfortunately, after spending some more time with it in Firefox, we noticed there were a couple of hangnails on Operator. Apparently, Firefox doesn’t like console.log unless Firebug is on. Neither does Opera. Neither does IE. Major bummer.

So, if you take a look at Operator in Firefox, playing messages from the answering machine and adding tags to calls via drag-and-drop will not work. Everything else seems to be fine, though, and you can still add tags from the call tags section and listen to messages from within each call. Moral of the story: WebKit rules. Go download Safari or Chrome and experience web how it should be experienced.

Some other entries from the KC RoR Community:

• Twitassist.me
• Lowdown

Great job guys!