Net Porn : Princess

Posted on 16 March 2006 by André SC

Princess
(Lambda prints available)

Coaches Galore, before and after

Posted on 16 March 2006 by André SC

Revamped the Logo and website for Stan Katz’s Coaches Galore coach and bus hire business, and setting him up with coffeecup ftp and pagebreez html editor.

Before:

After:

New Damelin Visual Identity

Posted on 12 March 2006 by André SC

Fin24 New damelin logo : “Empowering Financial Decisions” the new logo is out, definitely an improvement, but it would have been so nice if there had been some feedback to those of us who submitted work in response to the request/competition, maybe more detail will apear in some newsletter or group-email at some point, hopefully this time without sporting an Uncle Sam clipart image ;- )

Becoming parents – staying partners?

Posted on 12 March 2006 by André SC

“I hope this finds you well and that you do not mind me letting you
know about a talk for new and expecting parents and interested
professionals

BECOMING PARENTS � STAYING PARTNERS
What to expect and How to cope

Saturday 1 APRIL
Time: 9:30 �10:30
Cost R30

Venue: my practice on the Norwood Houghton Border
Tea, handout and practical suggestions included
Places limited booking essential
Call Belinda Farre on 728 3406

Antenatal classes help us prepare for the birth and early physical
care of baby, but what about afterwards??????

For more info:Web link:
http://www.wlw.co.za/PROVIDERS/becomingparents.htm
or call 728 3406 or e-mail bfarre at webmail.co.za with any
questions.

Belinda runs workshops for new and expecting parents. Feedback
regarding the original workshop series has been very positive.
workshops aim to strengthen both the partnership and early
parenting. However new parents are met with a barrage of products
and services all drawing on limited funds. The talk covers some of
the ideas and exercises participants found most helpful in the
longer workshop series and also serves as an introduction to the
workshops for those who wish to do some further work.

Please forward to anyone you feel would be interested.

With many thanks
Belinda Farre

About André SC

Posted on 11 March 2006 by André SC

Hmmm, some stuff about me…

I am an artist/designer/developer/tech-guy in my third decade on this crazy old planet and I am self-indulgent.

My personality bias is ‘generalist’ (7 on the Enneagram)

I used to lecture and freelance but am increasingly investing time and energy as a full time employee at ForgeBusiness – a very exciting, high-tech organization focused on dynamic performance-based business in new-media oriented marketing, specifically Multi-network Affiliate Marketing.

I aim for my core values to be the pursuit and realization of Authenticity, Creativity and
Consciousness (I try my best to remember this as life’s little reminders can sometimes be somewhat disconcerting – if you know what I mean…) and I’m interested in ideas like Salutogenesis.

I live with my awesome wife (read lifetime achievement) and our eccentric toddler boy on the border between Yeoville – a vibrant if somewhat run-down predominantly African neighborhood, and Observatory – an old mostly Caucasian middle-to-upper-class suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. We love the contrasts of the neighborhood ‘though we do sleep sounder for the big dogs and electric fence.

More formal detail about my career, employment history and education here in my CV.

PS: My CV doesn’t mention the time I made props for that B-grade horror movie, or the murals I created for the presidential suites at Caesars Palace, or the time I started a taxi-business for ‘ladies of ill-repute’, or the rather blurry phase of having my very own nightclub “Unde’ground”: Deep Dark & Funkey House, etc…
and that perhaps is as it should be. : )

Zooming ahead

Posted on 11 March 2006 by André SC

We live in the kind of world that you can do that in,
it is probably the thing I like most about the world we do live in.

Seeing the big picture is a luxury
seeing the advantaged using it usefully excellent.

The latest punch at it by advertising
{advertising and sustainability} (e.g. adbags [http://www.biz-community.com/Article/196/12/9527.html] by TBWA\Hunt\Lascaris [http://www.tbwa.com/])
deserves nothing but standing ovation.

Applied creativity is an eerie thing
its structure spawning autopoetic
salutogenesis seemingly at random
in truth driven by ultimate reality.

Design is begging for the u to be rediscovered
everywhere in each intimacy
inwov’n structure and form
in our every expression.

Now if you hold the kind of focus that can see that kind of detail, at that kind of resolution and its quality and promotion and you trust your sense of judgement
and pull back on your point of reference
as far as you can without losing
necessary balance between objective and subjective
reason and experiential emergence.

New media is a good industry to be involved in tonight.

Good night.

Salutogenesis

Posted on 11 March 2006 by André SC

The broadly single minded pursuit of quality tenaciously:
1. systematically {Manageability}
2. aiming procedurally {Meaningfulness}
3. predictably, repeatably and reputably { Cognition }

PS.

More than your average soundbite.

“digital equivalent of lovely?”

Posted on 8 March 2006 by André SC

What is the digital equivalent of lovely? He wondered. What are the digits that encode beauty, the number-fingers that enclose, transform, transmit, decode, and somehow, in the process, fail to trap or choke the soul of it? Not because of the technology but in spite of it, beauty, that ghost, that treasure, passes undiminished through the new machines.
— Salman Rushdie

Colbert Mashile at DK

Posted on 5 March 2006 by André SC

a contact form is not email! (rant)

Posted on 5 March 2006 by André SC

e.g. Global Art Information Directory

Okay, email is email, and a contact form is a contact form. If you want to have a contact form on your site, fine have one, but especially on a business site not listing a good old fashioned email address is just plain rude and smacks of backwardness.

If i can click on a link to send an email to a website, the de-facto standard being webmaster@ whatever it means that email goes through my email system and i have a record of the comunication. Not giving me that option implies something you suspect me of being a spammer and that just rubs me up the wrong way.

Especially if all I wanted to do was point out a slight glitch on your site that requires me sending you a small screencapture, which of course i can’t do through a contact form and instead i have to upload it to my own site, prompting me to write an entirely pointless rant like this just to have somewhere to put this…
globalart

Its not just this site that is guilty of that, more and more sites are doing this, possibly because it looks all we-are web 2.0 ified, and i think it sucks – unless of course you have a spell checker installed in which case I’ll be a bit more impressed.

PixelPLEXUS

where some pixels meet for drinks after a hard day

Monthly Archives: March 2006

Net Porn : Princess

Coaches Galore, before and after

New Damelin Visual Identity

Becoming parents – staying partners?

About André SC

Zooming ahead

Salutogenesis

See also

PS.

“digital equivalent of lovely?”

Colbert Mashile at DK

a contact form is not email! (rant)