I had a blast at the HomeQuest/FATCo/PHATCO event in Portland. I’ve got about three or four followup posts to write, based on questions. But to start off I wanted to address this one about web design (I’m teaching my weekly web design class tonight so it’s top of mind for me).
A more in depth response after the jump. Read More
Gahlord Dewald, president/janitor of Thoughtfaucet, will be a featured speaker at the HomeQuest Social Media Summit 2010. He’s very honored to be on a program with leading real estate tech/marketing/social luminaries such as Dustin Luther of Spinnio and 4Realz, Zillow’s Director of Community Relations David Gibbons and HomeQuest founder Garron Selliken. The HomeQuest Social Media Summit will be taking place in Portland on Wednesday February 17th starting at 9am.
Here is Garron’s introduction:
I recently had the opportunity to see Adrian Ho of Zeus Jones speak. His firm does exceptional things in marketing that are non-traditional and approach social marketing in a way that is seemingly at odds with many of the “Best practices” floating around. Here’s the video and below that is the slide deck. Read More
I was recently asked by a marketing student at one of Burlington Vermont’s several colleges whether she should spend the time learning to make things in Flash. This post is my attempt to provide some guidance. If you have some useful information or feedback, please don’t hesitate to use the comments section.
With the latest shiny object released by Apple without support for Flash, there’s been a lot of conversation about the future of Flash. But there are much larger wheels in motion than the Flash/Apple situation. But examining the future Flash does make for an interesting and useful lens on the direction of several technology trends currently in play.
Preliminary statement of bias: I enjoy making Flash projects and have been involved with the platform since I first entered Stuart Butterfield’s 5k competition back in 2000. But I’ve also been heavily involved in search marketing activities, where Flash can really mess things up.
Let’s look at a couple observations that I think are relevant to the future of Flash: Read More
Just a quick heads up that Facebook is changing some things about business pages. Here’s a slide deck to help you adjust:
Gahlord holds a blue box of Thoughtfaucet r2 Series business cards at the Thoughtfaucet Studio
I love it when I get a new shipment of business cards from Moo.com. It’s like Christmas for me. I like it for a few reasons:
This is my second order in the past 10 months. My goal for this year is Read More
Thoughtfaucet President/Janitor, Gahlord Dewald, will be teaching an introductory web design course for Burlington Public Schools this spring. The class is 10 sessions, from 6pm to 9pm on Thursdays starting February 4, 2010. The class meets at Burlington High School and is open to all ages.
This class will be helpful for:
The goal is to get to be able to design and code functional website by the end of the course. Students will be using the same tools for web design and development as professionals. The class will make use of the Burlington Technical Center’s Careers in Design and Illustration Mac lab. All of the tools used have PC equivalents, so don’t be too frightened if you’ve never used a Mac.
Topics covered include: Read More
Happy Spring from the Dogsharks
Thoughtfaucet was very psyched to work on this short animation for Dogsharks. It is part of a larger collection which will be showing at this year’s Prix Jeunesse.
Services performed include animation, story consultation, music composition and performance. This work was performed in collaboration with Dogsharks’ creator Robert Wurzburg.
Tools Used: Toon Boom Animate, Logic Express
If you like this be sure to head over to Dogsharks.com for more like it.