Following a successful and highly productive 16+ years working at the University of Denver, I’m thrilled to announce that I’ve accepted a faculty position at the University of Colorado Boulder teaching creativity and design through technology. As faculty for the Department of Advertising, Public Relations and Media Design (APRD) within the College of Media, Communication …
I do not make resolutions for a new year. In fact, I am sort of opposed to even thinking of a new year as anything special at all. It’s a number flipping to the next just like any month or day – and that happens quite regularly without much fuss. What a change in year …
I’ve been on vacation for nearly three weeks now… though this time is approaching an end, it’s been a great reflective experience for me. If you are able to take a few weeks off from your regular job like this – I highly recommend you do so. Anyhow, I don’t have much to say in reflection of …
It has a been such a busy year for me. While I got a ton of things accomplished – I also had to place other items aside… and I hate that. I’m pretty worn out and in real need for some down time. I have 2 simple goals for 2016: Take time for my own …
2014 has been a good year for me. A number of personal goals were achieved… and things have never been better, professionally. My Lynda.com course, HTML5 Game Development with Phaser, has closed off the year with 5000+ viewers since it was published in August. I am thrilled with the activity on this course as it …
I’ve been creating music under the name of An Early Morning Letter, Displaced since 1999. 2 full length albums, 3 ep albums, and a variety of compilation and remix work stretching all the way to 2013. Back in 2012, I decided I needed to break from this and do something fresh. Shivervein was born from …
Happily surprised this morning to receive news that Adobe has renewed my term as an Adobe Education Leader for another two years. I’ve gained so much from being a part of this program; providing feedback to Adobe, working with industry leaders, networking with other great AELs from both higher ed and k-12, publishing and consulting …
Going to keep this short this year. Here comes. Technology Lots of work with both Flash Platform and web standards technologies. A lot more Flash Professional work than expected and Edge Animate is maturing in a lot of areas – great to see! Video streaming on the web is still a freakin’ mess though. Publishing …
Twenty-Eleven was a stand out year for me. In my professional life, I had three books published in addition to co-authoring a DVD workshop along with two smaller video courses. Considering I’ve never had my writing or video recordings published before this- it’s a pretty big deal for me. Working with Packt, O’Reilly, Adobe Press/Peachpit, …
Seriously, 2010 has to win the award for most frenetic year ever! It almost seems as though I was asleep for most of it- but that simply cannot be the case as I’ve accomplished far to much to have been asleep at the wheel. So what have I done this past year? Well, things started …
On the days I drive into the office, before getting on I-25 to travel south to Denver, I normally stop by Starbucks for a coffee. My normal coffee is a Venti “bold pick of the day”, black. Today, I was feeling hungry so ordered a cranberry orange scone as well. After waiting in line at …
Just a quick note that things may be pretty distant for the next few months. I’m on parental leave until mid-July and will have my hands tied up in baby business until then. Hopefully, I’ll be able to get some other things done as well. On the list right now: Get up to speed with …