My iPod is Born Again

I actually found this ipod years ago, but the battery has always been no good (it only worked when it was plugged in) and the body was just scratched to holy hell. 

So I went to the internets and bought some new parts (totalling $20 much to my amusement), tore that sucker apart and rebuilt her from the ground up: new front panel, new metal back, new click wheel and center button, and a new battery.

The whole operation took me about 2 hours.  Well worth my time I think.  Now she looks and works like new.

And I know what you are thinking Amber.  You can see an ipod, an iphone and a macbook pro in these photos.  But it's not an obsession, it's just a personal preference ;-)

I'm International!

An art lover observing a poster of one of my bears at an exhibition called "Design and Life"
Jinan, Shandong, China.

Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation Used to Make My Business Cards!!

Snip snap!

Wares

Fourth row down, on the left. I made that one! Yay for being "featured." http://skreened.com/beeplusdesign

My Portfolio Website

Bee Plus.net

I guess this would be version 2.1 of my portfolio website. I'm pretty proud of it considering my super limited knowledge of code. But somehow I've managed to piece it together by reappropriating chunks of code from here or there. It's mostly just html tables, which I hear are pretty out of vogue, but building tables is about all I know how to do. So...stick with whatcha know right?

Anyway, I think the new gallery is pretty sweet. Its basically just an embedded flickr set, so it will be super easy to update. The images I have up now are more or less just test images - more are on their way. I'm toying with the idea of adding a "blog" page, and either embedding my blogger page into the site with an iframe (a page within a page), or finding something to convert the rss feed to html and pasting that in. So far my experiments with both have had mixed results. For now I just have a link to the blog.

I'm also thinking that I should remove the "Design" from "Bee Plus Design." Seems a little pretensious, especially since I'm still a student and I've never had a paying design gig of any kind.

Any suggestions? General comments?

I'm Published...ish!!

The Register Guard in Eugene was putting together this book on local photographers, so I decided to submit a few images. Out of about 9,000 images submitted they picked a few hundred to put in the the book. Not only did I make it into the book, but I was also one of 24 people to receive an award! They gave out 1st, 2nd and 3rd in each of the eight chapters and I won 2nd in the "schools" chapter. Yay for 2nd place!

And I realize that this pic looks kinda stupid with the right side cut off, but the right side isn't important, the left side is. Of the photos I submitted it's not the one I thought they would have used, but it's still rad to see something I made in a hard bound book.