Goodbye Free Hosting
Posted on 11/05/09 at 03:11:32 PMNote to all those on a free subdomain.centraldown.com account - Happy days are coming to an end. Due to an increasing amount of strain on the server due to people abusing my hospitality, and a few various people completely and utterly breaking the hosting ToS via uploading copyrighted files/phishing on their space (really guys? really?), I will no longer be offering free subdomain hosting.
Those of you who have been around forever and are trusted -- congrats, you get to keep your hosting. Everyone else is going to have their hosting terminated.
Sorry it's come to this, but lately it's just become more trouble than it's worth to deal with all of this constantly. So if you go to your site at some point and you see the following message, contact me for your files.
"This account is suspended pending investigation. If you are the account owner, please contact alpha [at] centraldown [dot] com for information."
Colorlust Remix
Posted on 10/10/08 at 06:00:17 PMIn the spirit of the political season, I've remixed the previously posted Colorlust wallpaper into something extremely different. Those of you out there who are A) horribly political, B) insanely right and/or left wing will appreciate it. For those who are literarily inclined, you may recognize the text from Animal Farm, the allegorical masterpiece on the flaws and dangers of Socialism.
That all being said, I'm completely apolitical. Obama, McCain... they can both go play in traffic as far as I'm concerned. It's not that I don't care about the future, or that I'm lazy... it's just that I don't believe that in the end either one would really do anything all that different than the other. Sure, on some issues they'd differ, but on the big, world changing issues, there's generally only one course of action a president can take.
Of course this is all in my opinion which doesn't matter much, as I'm apolitical. A plague on both their houses.
In other news, as you can probably tell by looking at the wallpaper, I've recently become enamored with applying color separation and dot patterns to non-print-related things. I'm not the first person to feel such love for the print process, but that doesn't make it any less wonderful a feeling. <3
Colorlust Wallpaper
Posted on 09/23/08 at 06:04:51 PMSo quite often while at work, I'm given the task of making pretty vector graphics. I've said it before, and I'll say it again; If I had a job where all I ever had to do was to vectorize pictures, I'd be a happy, happy man.
Now, my boss actually owns a huge number of fantastic url's which he's been squatting on for several years, one of which was Colorlust.com. I've been giving him crap about not putting such an excellent url to use for a long time now, so finally he said, "Fine, make something pretty to put up there. Whatever!" And so I did.
You can download a wallpaper of it from here or there. Comes in many sizes. Enjoy.
In other news, I'm in the process of redesigning my portfolio again. I was asked for my opinion from a few friends as to how their own portfolios looked and functioned, and I found myself saying, "Your portfolio is for showing off your work. It should make your work look good, not distract from it." While I don't think that my current portfolio is distracting, it doesn't really do anything to make my work look amazing. So.
Also, Central Down itself will be getting a redesign at some point in the future. But as I haven't even come close to even contemplating a new concept, I'm sure it'll be awhile.
Art of Peace: Buy It
Posted on 08/08/08 at 09:43:04 PMYou can now buy Songs for Tibet - The Art of Peace on iTunes. If you'd prefer to get a CD, you can preorder them at Amazon, and they'll ship on the 12th. More info, and links to both, on the Art of Peace site.
There was a release party on Thursday which, sadly I was unable to attend as I was closing on a condo today (Friday). Underworld, who you may have heard of if you haven't been living under a cultural rock for the past ten years (Born Slippy Nuxx ring a bell?), was kind enough to let the Art of Peace piggyback on their artjam in New York. Word was there were to be some of the other artists there, but I don't know because I wasn't. My boss was, however, so hopefully he was handing out business cards and such and we'll be able to do some more cool work like this in the future.
Anyhow, go buy the CD or some of the songs from iTunes. It's fairly chill music (mostly acoustic), so it's nice stuff to listen to if you're hanging out or whatnot. And it is, of course, a good cause.
