This morning I did a trail run organized by Erik Storheim called the Grandeur Peak Fun Run. The first two miles is neither fun nor a run. It goes up the face of Grandeur Peak starting in the parking lot near the bridges that go over I-215 and Parley’s Canyon in Salt Lake City. You [...]
“IE the Butcher” by Benjamin Kimball
It’s been quite some time since I blogged. I’ve been super busy on some larger freelance projects that will soon (hopefully) hit my portfolio. At work I’ve been dealing mostly with CSS bugs on our internal web app UI and after knocking out a particularly difficult one this afternoon I [...]
Ignite Salt Lake last Thursday was awesome. The turn out was amazing and the talks were inspiring. If you missed it or attended and have been wanting to watch your favorite talk again, the videos have now been posted on YouTube. You can get to them all from here:
http://www.ignitesaltlake.com/ignite/index.cfm/watch-the-presentations/
For those of you bored enough with life that you would even consider watching a 10 minute video of me playing Rock Band - here it is! This is the video of the Rock Band competition that the company I work for had, in which our team slammed the competition.
Drums: Expert
Bass (me): Expert
Guitar: Expert
Vocals: Hard
If [...]
The Ignite Salt Lake 2 agenda is online. We’ve got another excellent line up for you this time around with topics in design, entrepreneurship, science, technology and … Pee Wee’s Big Adventure (seriously!).Â
http://www.ignitesaltlake.com/ignite/index.cfm/speakersagenda/
There are only 9 days until the event! Make sure to be there!
March 14, 2009 – 10:45 am
Here is my Powerpoint presentation from my PhotoCamp UT presentation on Photoshop tricks:
You can download the presentation here
Over the weekend I had a couple of ColdFusion programming techniques I wanted to test out for a side-project I am working on. I figured that rather than just play around with them on my local machine I’d build a simple little site that utilized both of them. The result is the Single Serving Site [...]
Tonight I spoke at the University of Utah on the topic of “Web Design Career Options”.
You can download the Powerpoint presentation here.
February 23, 2009 – 9:53 pm
Last week I was interviewed by Matthew Reinbold of CouchCast. The interview is about the Ignite Salt Lake event that I organize. The next event is coming up on March 26th.
If you are not familiar with Ignite, the tagline of the event is “Enlighten us… but make it quick.” 16 speakers get 20 PowerPoint slides [...]
February 18, 2009 – 1:01 pm
I’ll be speaking at PhotoCamp UT on Saturday March 14th. My session begins at 11:15 am and is titled Photoshop Wizardry: Tips & tricks for efficient photo editing. I’ll be going over masks, batch editing and some other cool Photoshop tricks.
If you are into photography, whether professionally or as a hobby, I’d highly recommend coming [...]
February 18, 2009 – 9:40 am
I’ll be speaking Wednesday night at the local Adobe User Group about Search Engine Optimization. You can get more details on groups.adobe.com
Download the presentation here
February 13, 2009 – 3:55 pm
Yes I admit, I am a Twitter addict. In fact my Facebook friends who aren’t familiar with Twitter probably think I spend all day updating my FB status. That’s actually just coming over from Twitter. Does that make me any less of a geek? No, actually that’s probably arguably more geeky, but I just thought [...]
February 6, 2009 – 3:31 pm
Web Address: www.AssetsABC.com
Company: Asset Strategies
Summary: This is the corporate summary site for Asset Strategies, LC. This site is phase 1 in a larger project I am working on with Asset Strategies which will include a CMS (Content Management System), MySQL database integration, and on-the-fly PDF generation. Phase 2 of this project will be done in [...]
February 5, 2009 – 5:23 pm
Each year I do a t-shirt illustration for a fly-fishing cancer fund raiser that takes place in Cody Wyoming. It’s usually based on an inside joke that I know nothing about. This year’s shirt features Ricky Bobby, a Lucha Libre wrestler and a ram. Not sure what the connection is but it was fun to [...]
January 24, 2009 – 7:21 pm
I created this quick tutorial that shows you how to use batch processing to edit multiple photos.
View the tutorial
January 16, 2009 – 11:11 pm
Have you ever set a tag style on your form input tags in attempt to make the input text fields just the right size? Everything looks great until you notice that now the submit button (since it is also an input tag) is also that same size. In the past I’ve always just created a [...]
January 14, 2009 – 11:18 am
I’m very very (very) pleased to announce that I’ve been asked to speak at the How Design Conference this June in Austin, Texas.
My topic will be “Working with Indecisive Clients”. I’ve been putting together the outline of the talk for a few months now and it’s going to be a very fun presentation.
I first attended [...]
January 3, 2009 – 4:34 pm
Web Address: www.halleyconsulting.com
Company: Halley Consulting Group
Summary: Halley Consulting Group is a physician practice management and consulting firm specializing in the strategic development and performance turnaround of both hospital-owned practice networks and independent medical offices. Multiple acquisitions and management shifts had left their brand a little outdated and unclear.
I worked with Harding and Associates, a local [...]
January 2, 2009 – 7:41 pm
Cuningham Group is an architecture firm with offices in Minneapolis, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Biloxi, Bakersfield, Madrid and Seoul. They specialize in everything from theme park and casino design, to church, restaurant, and retail architecture.
Cuningham Group already has a beautifully designed Flash web site, but noticed that they weren’t getting a lot of search engine [...]
December 24, 2008 – 8:51 am
Core 77 Design Magazine and Braun are hosting an international photo contest called “Shoot Your Inspiration”. The basic idea is as follows:
What inspires you? What thought, object, vista, event or person has moved you more than any other? To celebrate the launch of the international BraunPrize 2009, Braun and Core 77 invite you to share [...]
December 22, 2008 – 10:46 am
Each year I create a CD with some of my favorite artists/songs of the year. Here are the songs on my “Best of 2008″ CD. Also - check out my “Best Music of 2007” list.
Name
Artist
Turn Tail
The Young Knives
What Would Wolves Do?
Les Savy Fav
Resistance St.
What Made Milwaukee Famous
Campus
Vampire Weekend
Good Arms v. Bad Arms
Frightened Rabbit
Nursery, Academy
Tokyo [...]
December 21, 2008 – 11:08 am
I’ve been super busy on a couple of projects and haven’t had a chance to install my new Adobe Master Collection CS4 Suite. I figured since I have Christmas week off, this would be a great time to get it all installed and start playing around with some of the new features.
As I started the [...]
December 5, 2008 – 4:30 pm
I created this quick tutorial that shows you how to use the Auto-Align Layers feature Photoshop (CS3+) to retouch photos.
View the tutorial
November 29, 2008 – 3:50 pm
The presentations from Ignite Salt Lake are now available here:
http://www.ignitesaltlake.com/ignite/index.cfm/watch-presentations/
You can check out my intro presentation on “What is Ignite?” or one of the many other (probably more entertaining) presentations as well.
November 18, 2008 – 9:24 am
I’ll be speaking tomorrow night at the local Adobe User Group about how to create a Flash video web site using Adobe Encore. You can get more details here:
http://www.slcadobeug.com/
October 28, 2008 – 6:30 pm
Looking for something to do in November? Well on Thursday November 13th you could be a part of the first ever Ignite Salt Lake event. What’s Ignite? Visit http://ignite.oreilly.com to check it out but the basic idea is:
If you had five minutes on stage what would you say? What if you only got 20 slides [...]
October 8, 2008 – 11:53 pm
Wiley Press which publishes a ton of the design books you probably have already have on your shelf is giving you the chance to create the cover for their next Photoshop book which is titled, “Photoshop for Right Brainers”.
This is a super cool contest in my opinion and I would enter it except for one [...]
October 1, 2008 – 1:40 am
Web Address: www.gearlive.com
Company: Gear Live
Summary: I recently created the following series of logos for web tech magazine Gear Live. These logos were all created using Photoshop.
September 30, 2008 – 1:43 pm
Company: integrated Project Development
Summary: I used Photoshop and Illustrator to create this logo for a firm called integrated Project Development. iPD has a suite of applications that helps contractors manage all aspects of their projects.
September 29, 2008 – 1:01 pm
Recently I started looking for an online to-do list app that I could use to manage my freelance work. Just days after I started looking, AppScout reviewed an app called Toodledo. Now I have to say, I almost didn’t take the time to check it out because the name is so lame. Maybe it’s another [...]
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