I've benefitted so much from the sites of other designers/developers/animators that I felt the need to share some of the things that I've learned. I'm currently obsessed with jQuery but intend to add HTML/CSS, Flash and After Effects tutorials as time allows. And, yes, I have lots more jQuery tutorials in the works, too. Some of the links below are tutorials I've created. Some are links to other sites that helped me learn. Feel free to email me if you have any questions. I'll do my best to answer or point you in the right direction.

> jQuery animated "blob" menu
> jQuery simple animated menu
> jQuery bouncy content panes
> jQuery toggle visibility
> jQuery horizontal accordion (from Andrea Cima Serniotti's excellent site)
1/15/11 :: I had a conversation with a very wise man last night. He told me to "live every day as if you're going to live forever." I thought that was pretty cool.

1/16/11 :: Brothers by The Black Keys may be the best album of the century so far.

1/17/11 :: Just finished "Things the Grandchildren Should Know" by Mark Oliver Everett (E from The Eels). It's an excellent read about a guy with an extraordinary life...some serious lows and serious highs. Plus, he writes kinda like Vonnegut. If you're into autobiographies about great musicians that have beaten the machine, this is a must read.

More to come...
1/18/11 :: There's a Chocolate Milk Party going on.

A while back, I gave a small OC startup company the rights to use my song "Chocolate Milk Party" on their website. Looks like they're starting to blow up, getting writeups in Rolling Stone, USA Today and more.

You can hear Chocolate Milk Party on their site: www.adultchocolatemilk.com

I wrote the song when my wife was pregnant with our son, Elliot. She was craving chocolate milk late one night, so I went to the store to get it. While in the car, the words "There's a chocolate milk party goin' on" popped into my head.

I started recording the basic vocal track as soon as I got home and began to develop the music for it over the next few days. Shortly after, I sent what I had done to my good friend and long time collaborator, Chris Michael (aka Dr. Rock). He took my basic instrumental concepts and massaged them into a whirlwind of Prince-like funkiness.


I'm a multimedia swiss army knife. For over 13 years, I've been designing, animating, developing, composing, recording, writing and creating rich media for the web and beyond.

When it comes to web development, I specialize in clean, CSS-driven design that features tastefully implemented rich media and SEO-friendly content. For interactivity & animation, I have loads of Flash experience but, lately, I've been focusing on jQuery and After Effects.

My tools of choice are HTML/CSS, jQuery, Dreamweaver, After Effects, Flash, Photoshop, Illustrator and the rest of the Adobe Creative Suite, though I have professional experience with much more, including 3D modeling and audio software. If I don't know it, I'll learn it.

Download my resumé



animation


development/design


I've been writing and recording original music for over a decade. My work has appeared on 7 albums, compilations, television, film, web applications and advertisements.

> Banjo Drill Music
> iTunes



Drawing is an important outlet for me. I often use it to explore philosophical concepts and the absurd but mostly I just find it satisfying.

> Banjo Drill Art