Project365

This is my favorite photo from the Orientation Leader retreat today.  There’s a lot of emotion packed neatly into 18 megapixels.  I’ve been on a real black and white kick lately.  I’ll splash some color here soon.  Promise.

I’ve been spending most of my time working on a series of web development and design projects.

www.samuelKillermann.com is finished (again) and I think I’m happy with it.  It is, of course, the fourth completely unique version of the site, so I suppose it’s always possible I’ll scrap it and move on to something else completely (again). 

But I really hope I continue to like it.

Impetus is finally up in a form I’m happy with.  I’m now hosting it at blog.samuelkillermann.com (you can get there from my main site).  I have a ton of content for that project pending, and I’ll begin the release and distribution of that in the next two weeks (still fitting my timeline).

My freelance site, alas, is still under construction.  You can check it out (www.samuelKillermann.com/freelance) if you’d like, but it’s lacking.  In content.  The funny thing about designing and developing for myself is that I have to generate the site and the content.  I keep getting caught up in the first part.

All of these projects are far from finished, but are now (thankfully) closer to being finished than they are to being started.

The other three sites I will be working on/building this next week are photo.samuelkillermann.com (full photo portfolio and photography for hire services), design.samuelkillermann.com (ditto photo.), and hied.samuelkillermann.com (my full Higher Education Student Affairs portfolio and related work for job searching).  

For now, weakSauce, Visual Quotes, Words for Pictures, Top Seven, and, of course, Project 365 will all stay on Tumblr.  Though I will say that my plan is to continue this restructuring.

Slowly, I will challenge porn for web dominance.

(Oh, that reminds me, exposed.samuelkillermann.com is still under construction)

A pleasant evening stroll in an uncharacteristically warm flurry.  

I think I might use this photo to replace the “Your Turn” interactive photo in the words for pictures exhibit because all but ONE of the create your own story cards are full.  See:

It was like a conga line mid-blizzard.  I approved.

Lost in his own shadow, 
fingers grasping the edges - 
the lines that define him -
like an elusive word dancing upon his tongue, 
begging to feel the warmth of daylight.

Begging to be found.

-Finding

Some things will never be clear, she said, 
never be fully defined. 

I’ve been privy to the most magnificent beauty, he replied,
and it was never remotely defined. 

-Well Defined

They always said Ol’ University Hall was haunted, I just never believed ‘em.  

(This is technically my first entry into a Tumblr cultural practice: Gratuitous Picture of Yourself Wednesday [GPOYW])

I’ve really enjoyed playing with this photo.

This photo, like many of my favorites, was accidental.  

I have a full manual lens I have been using a lot lately.  I hadn’t even considered the settings for the shot when I made this photo; I was just checking to see if the tripod was aimed properly.  Once I saw it was, I set the camera, made my photo, and moved on.  I never thought I would come back to this photo, but now it’s one of my favorites from the trip.

It’s a beautiful accident.