Feeling Fantastic in Florence

Just cleaning up my Google Reader subscriptions, and I thought I'd post the feeds I find interesting for design and web technologies.

On musicroom.com, if you're a Windows user (or Mac, I think) and don't mind installing a plug-in, you can view and download legal copies of sheet music for a reasonable price.

Great idea!

Except I'm one of those silly people that use open source software -- so no Windows, and no sheet music.

Reading their fine print, it seems this silly practice is in place to keep nefarious evil pirates from making copies of legally purchased sheet music.

I've been collaborating with a group of professionals -- designers, marketing experts -- basically a loose confederation that works together on projects.

It's a great idea, and I'm happy to have become their guy for building web sites (of course, with Drupal).

As you do in a budding relationship, we've discovered a point of diversion.  Not quite a point of contention, but certainly a differing of opinions on a very basic aspect of our work -- how we get paid.

This has been up forever, but I wanted to have a mention here on the blog as well.

My Flickr page houses most of the images I put up on the internet.

I've just re-done the site for Performance International. 

One major motivating factor was a call from an events organizer in Dubai, interested in our production of "The Comedy of Errors". 

I hadn't realized we'd be so internationally desired, but seeing opportunity beckon, I've fixed up the site to make it more clear that we now have shows ready to travel.

This is the first in a series I keep trying to get back to called "Retrosnaps".

The challenge is to use snapshots taken from a cell phone to create the poster.  The text must come from a dead poet or writer.

This first one is of my girlfriend, Annalisa, with text from a letter by John Keats to his girl.

I really love vintage.

Just found this through reddit:  http://www.vintageadbrowser.com/

Over 100,000 vintage ads (all the way back to the early 1900's) for inspiration.

I've been porting www.megagames.com from an old in-house Perl based "publishing" system (ah, the good ol' days when men were men and  databases were text files).

We're on to deployment now, so I've been boning up on best practices for deployment for a fairly high-traffic site.