Making sites for motivated, creative people is really satisfying. Work Collaboratively, 2013 [image coming] Katia Perea, WordPress, 2013 [image coming] Kristyn Dunnion, HTML/CSS, 2010 Heather Acs, WordPress, 2011 Hadassah’s Bizzare, HTML/CSS, 2008 Silas Howard, HTML, 2010 Liquidation Lady, HTML, 2007
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Webmaster: building on others work
Many organizations have a website and either seek someone to maintain and improve what they have or –oops!!– just need occasional help updating it. In order, pictured below are projects I’ve stepped in to update, maintain and improve, rather than design and build: Center for Collaborative Communication, HTML/CSS site, 2011-2012 $pread Magazine, HTML and later… Continue reading Webmaster: building on others work
FLOSS Audio Workshop
I’ll be offering my Getting Your Voice Out There Workshop at Gabfestry August, 2013. This workshop covers: — Getting a toolkit for lo-fi digital audio production. — DIY & low-cost strategies. — Using Audacity and other FLOSS softwares in general — Recording Techniques. — Finding copyright-free or copyleft samples. — Mixing and sharing your audio!… Continue reading FLOSS Audio Workshop
Website graphics: 2007–2008
Using Photoshop, sourced imagery, and typographical design for web banners and blog images: Blog series image: WordPress website, customized header, for Transmission, a social-justice faith-based organization in NYC. 2008.
Center for Collaborative Communication, Print & Communications (2011-2013)
As the Communications Director for the Center for Collaborative Communication from 2011-2013, I had the opportunity to create tri-fold brochures, sell sheets (CCC_IntroPacket_Jun12-v1), postcards (CCC_Postcard_Front-bleed), posters (CCC_NextNVCSteps) and web-ready promotional graphics. Poster, 8.5 x 11: Sell sheet cover: Sell sheet interior: Postcard front:
My ### Is A Muscle The Size of Your Fist
My Cunt Is A Muscle… is based on the wonderful Your Heart Is a Muscle 1999 woodcut by Dalia Sapon-Shevin, then a member of the Syracuse Cultural Workers, it was made as an inspiration to activists and a response to the state repression experienced during the World Trade Organization protests in Seattle in 1999. Dalia’s… Continue reading My ### Is A Muscle The Size of Your Fist
On power
In preparation for the “Queer Power, Queer Vulnerability” talk I gave at the IVYQ conference last week, I’ve been thinking a lot about power… I think about it in many forms and am actually kind of obsessed. I think about resistance, social change, revolution and “people power.” The ways and means from which individuals and… Continue reading On power
Colleges Here I Come: Yale, Hampsire, New Paltz
On Friday Feb 8, I’ll be speaking at Yale at the IVYQ conference, on “Queer power, Queer vulnerability: BDSM, femme, and generating resistance in identity,” talking about personal instances where queers created joyous lives, structures for accountability, and modes of resilience that pushed that back on dualism, domination culture, and histories of shame. I’ll post… Continue reading Colleges Here I Come: Yale, Hampsire, New Paltz
#3 Digital Humanities Report: Creepy Art Possibilities
The DHWI Art in Odd Places award goes to: Digital Forensics & BitCurator BitCurator is a project that I’m rather excited about, although not wholly for the developers’ original reasons. It’s a set of Linux-based OSS’s which “incorporate the functionality of many digital forensics tools” for the purposes of humanities research and archiving. The site… Continue reading #3 Digital Humanities Report: Creepy Art Possibilities
#2 Digital Humanities Winter Institute Report Back
Everything I viagra tabs did not take a course on: Data Sets, APIs, Random Links & Intersectionality I’ve been writing about the Digital Humanities Winter Institute, reporting on the Data Curation track here, and weird data archiving here. The DHWI was a faucet of information which I spongily absorbed, learning that I am especially apt… Continue reading #2 Digital Humanities Winter Institute Report Back