I’ve been noodling around the site a bit this weekend, and I’ve added a few goodies.

First up, now you can contact me using a handy form.

I also added pricing information to the work that I have done that is available for purchase.

And finally, if you wander off the beaten path, there is a new 404 page.

In celebration of it all, I made a new desktop image, available in 1280×1024, 1024×768, and 800×600.

A long time ago, I heard about the Art*o*Mat, and I thought to myself, “Gee it would be fun to make something for that.” Skip forward a year or so, and there is an article in the local paper about an Art*o*Mat vending machine going in at a local store.

Last week I sent off my prototype, and today I got an email saying, “man, your proto is a-1. please make a bunch.” So I will, and then you all can buy your very own copies from your friendly neighborhood art vending machine.

And just a quick note about the comic: I have gotten some funny reactions to the short comic included with this piece, but my favorite was when I showed it to one of the Principals at work. He told me, “You are going straight to hell, you realize. I’ll be there first, but I’ll see you when you get there.”

If this is your first visit to the site, you probably can’t tell, but this site looks really different from how it looked yesterday. I have been sneaking a few minutes here and there for the past few months to put together a new site design and a portfolio database.

So far I have collected examples of my work from the past four years or so. I haven’t scanned some of the quickie little comics that I like to do, but that’s only because I haven’t gotten to it yet. I’ll dig up some of my work from college work, too, and hopfully I can represent the massive amount of time I spent pulling prints off of limestone and zinc, and the time spent stitching books together. I also haven’t pulled together screenshots from the many and varied websites I’ve had a hand in building. That’s also forthcoming, but maybe on a longer timescale.

Now for some technical jargon: the site is xHTML/CSS layout with a PHP/MySQL backend. I’m still running WordPress for the weblog, and over time, I will work on making it more of a general-pupose CMS for the rest of the site. I am also taking advantage of the Apache mod_rewrite module to pretty-up the URLs for the site.

If you are still reading, thanks for coming by. I have been in a really productive spirit lately, so expect to see more work and more updates on the site in the near future, and come back often.

Oh, and some of the work here is avalable for purchase. I haven’t figured out how I want to handle that yet, but until the technology catches up, if you like something and want to buy it, make me an offer. I am also up for commissions, if the spirit moves you.

And away we go.