maxelman.com » art http://www.maxelman.com the funky fantastic blog of max elman - web designer, photographer, ninja for hire Wed, 01 Sep 2010 09:04:17 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 The Bonneville Salt Flats http://www.maxelman.com/2010/08/31/the-bonneville-salt-flats/ http://www.maxelman.com/2010/08/31/the-bonneville-salt-flats/#comments Wed, 01 Sep 2010 07:41:58 +0000 Max Elman http://www.maxelman.com/?p=403 Driving to San Francisco from Utah on I-80, you’ll pass through the Bonnevile Salt Flats shortly before crossing the Nevada state line. There’s a rest stop smack in the middle of them, and it’s definitely worth stopping for. Pull over, stretch your legs, grab your camera and take some pictures. At least that’s what we did.

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From July – November 2009, I “made” something every day. Usually a photo, sometimes a video, but something got uploaded to Flickr daily. Here’s the full slideshow. View images individually here.

Stay tuned for MSCED 2010.

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My father recently found quite a few slides from 1948 and had them digitized for various reasons. One of those reasons probably wasn’t so that I could mess around with them with Photoshop, but I did anyway.

Above is my version of my grandfather’s dive into a wonderfully blue pool. A bit different than the original slide below. It’s amazing what 60 years can do to a photograph…

Feel free to click through to Flickr and comment there.

pool party

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It’s that time of year again.. The time when a few of my pictures find meaning, popularity, and I feel particularly good about my photography. I took this shot a year or so ago and it’s always made me smile. (And no, there weren’t quite that many peeps. Oh, the wonders of photoshop.)

Buy a print here.

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]]> http://www.maxelman.com/2008/02/27/busy-busy/feed/ 0 content management systems! hooray! http://www.maxelman.com/2007/11/28/content-management-systems-hooray/ http://www.maxelman.com/2007/11/28/content-management-systems-hooray/#comments Wed, 28 Nov 2007 20:06:19 +0000 Max Elman http://www.maxelman.com/2007/11/28/content-management-systems-hooray/ So, in an effort to replace the zope/plone craziness of kzsc.org, I’ve been looking into CMS alternatives. I know – exciting, right? It’s been a whole lot of uploading files, changing permissions and using the wonderful new tabbed terminal in Leopard. I’ve set up a few on this site so far, with only one looking like a real option. If anyone’s had any experience with any of these – let me know!

  • wordpress (duh) – too blog based, but on the other hand, good for multiple blogs (μ – mu edition)
  • drupral – also blog based
  • expression engine – not very user friendly and a hell of a time to change skins
  • joomla – the best for not-blogs so far and very easily skinnable
  • plone – an actual up-to-date version that makes life better

So maybe joomla for kzsc.org – it’s a whole lot easier than plone, that’s for sure. But for this blog? WordPress all the way.

On another note – anyone have any strong opinions on the Academy of Art? Specifically the School of Computer Arts: New Media? Because that’s looking like a nice place to head next.

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Definitely glad I’ll never have to do that again though. Unless I decide to minor in Molecular chemistry or something. Who knows.

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next up, my final for art 119.
enjoy.

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poor, poor balloons

Click here to view the embedded video.

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