Wednesday, January 21st, 2009
Tonight I wrote my first introduction for a book. It’s for an upcoming rerelease of one of my favorite short story collections by a favorite author of mine. I was really honored to be asked to do this, although it’s also a little surreal that he thought an introduction by me was worth having in [...]
Tuesday, December 16th, 2008
Today I penned my first blurb for a book, at the request of M. Christian. It should appear on an upcoming book of his science fiction and horror. While I was of course very flattered to be asked, it is also a little bit surreal — a bit like being recognized from my blogging on [...]
Saturday, December 6th, 2008
Today, Reesa, Steve and I spent nearly all of our productive hours creating a map of a city on another world. It was a fairly grueling 12+ hour process, even with breaks to take in an episode of Dexter and eat. The first draft results are impressive, and preliminary photos have been shared with our [...]
Tuesday, October 21st, 2008
I’ve been putting a lot of hours into the big “secret” project lately, and it’s been interesting — I’m wearing a lot of hats right now, and I am not sure which of them count as ‘writing.’ I’m a (hopefully not the sole) webdesigner on various project sites, including a fair amount of hacking at [...]
Sunday, October 19th, 2008
The latest entry in the artist business model series is now available. This entry covers the DMAIC model, a useful tool for evaluating new projects or for figuring out how to improve existing ones. Read about it on Words Words Words.
Saturday, October 18th, 2008
It’s been a busy and exciting week. I spent a long extended weekend in the Austin area with my girlfriend Tea and her network. It was a wonderfully loving, blissful, creative and fun weekend. She’s just gotten great news that her sculptures have been accepted by a Houston gallery, with a Halloween-ish opening. I’ll be [...]
Friday, October 17th, 2008
The latest entry in the artist business model series is now available. It discusses the 5 W’s, a series of questions which you can ask yourself to help define your project. Read about it on Words Words Words.
Also, while working on the design of the major central portal for the Continuous Coast project I discovered [...]