If you have been in business for atleast 3 years and have space to host one of my paintings, then take a look around my site and see if you find a painting that you would like to host.

To Qualify:
• Your business must have a security system in place.
• The location for the painting must NOT receive direct sunlight at any time during the day.
• The location for the painting must be temperature controlled.

Details:
• Your business will receive a 20% commission if you sell the painting at your location.
• A new painting will be replaced in that location once you have sold a painting.
• You may have the painting removed at anytime, If it does not fit your decor anymore, we will be happy to remove it. (If you live outside the Greenville, SC Upstate area, you will be required to pay for shipping the painting each way and must purchase transportation insurance)

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Think about the possibilities that this will have, no more excuses when your friend says…Oh I’ve got to get some cash out to pay you back the $20 bucks for lunch. You say, no problem, I take credit cards.

What’s the catch. Well just like any business, you will be charged a per transaction fee and probably a percentage of the sale, but you get your money now and quick, and you won’t have to pay a monthly fee for just having the account. Maybe you own a small plumbing business, forget having to to call in your orders to your secretary, be your own secretary and take your payments at their front door. As a designer, when I sit down for a consultation with my next client, guess what? sure I can take 50% down right now.

This could spell the end of the cash system worldwide, seriously, if everyone can process a credit card, then why ever carry cash? I think it only makes sense that we will be cashless society as somepoint, we are already heading that way. How much cash do you carry anymore?

Hold on for just a minute though…It’s not quite here, but it will be soon. According to their blog, they are currently beta testing it with a number of small businesses and hope to roll it out to everyone in early 2010.

Check out their website: www.squareup.com

Lala.com is the perfect choice for this. It already feels like Itunes and it allows you to upload or “match” up your music collection to the cloud so that you can stream your music library online. I tried it today and matched up already over 1,700 songs.  What really made me giddy was the ability to go search for music that I love….add it to the que (then I could sample the entire song, not just 30 seconds). I felt like it was pandora and last.fm combined together but with the ability to control what I wanted to precisely listen to.

After I had sampled a couple of songs, I then hit “ADD” this to my online library and now I can listen to an entire 10 song CD of Scottish Bagpipes (Sorry Nathan, I can’t get over it!), all for just $1.00 which I didn’t have to pay for because lala.com gave me 25 credits ($2.50) but enough to allow me to add 25 songs to my online libary. I can assure you I will be adding another $10 to my wallet(which is how you fund your lala account), and will allow me to download an astounding 100 songs and play them forever online.

If Apple plans on integrating this into Itunes or turning Itunes “Online” into lala, I don’t know but I think it could be a game changer. All I know is I am sold. Now if they will just launch the Iphone App, I can just unload my entire iphone worth of music and stream all my songs directly from lala, because I hate updating my iphone anyway.

Okay Apple! What’s going on here? When are you going to let us know… Maybe MacWorld in February, 2010?

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Project Description: website design for Brit’s Brothers Gym

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Application: Photoshop, Wordpress and CSS, with jquery front page slideshow.
Client: Drum Creative

One of the only longstanding personal training and fitness locations in Greenville, SC., Brit’s Brothers approached Drum Creative to completely rebrand their image.

After an extensive conversation with Olly Pierce, Brit’s Brothers Owner, I realized that he had a real passion to help people NOT have an excuse to stay with their workout program.

I wanted to make sure that this small personal gym was able to convey the same respect online that they get when one walks into their gym. We patterned their new website after the same personal attention to detail you get as a client.

Visit Site: BritsBrothersgym.com

Name: Rift
Size: 36″ x 80″
Technique: Acrylic on wood
Price: $995

I am beginning to understand why I paint, and why I paint so uncontrolled. I really never know how a painting is going to end up until I see it. But after hearing a number of people trying to explain the painting “Underneath” I realized that I don’t want to control my paintings. As a full time art director I work everyday to control with extreme detail every project that I dive into. I want to make sure that a printed piece, matches the website that I am designing for, and that they in turn match the interior space of the company I am designing for and so on….”complete control vs. complete disorder”. In a painting I have no desire to represent that which has already been photographed, painted, etc…I want to create something completely new and never seen before. I usually start with an idea and work toward it…but that is all it is, an idea that will eventually turn into a “Rift” of light…shooting through the night sky…or maybe it’s something else. you decide and let me know…I love to hear the different opinions.

(All artwork comes with papers of authentication that are sealed and stamped. All artwork is hand delivered in GA, FL, SC, AL, NC, TN, & VA)

It’s Saturday March 12th and we are officially in our new house. The greatest thing about this move is that I will have my own studio, at least in my opinion it is. After living in a old cotton mill for almost 3 years we are looking forward to having a yard and the room to move about without bumping into each other.

My wife loves old houses and this is one of the houses that would have been owned by someone in management at the mill that we are moving from. It is only about 500 yards from The Lofts of Greenville.

I will hopefully be able to get more artwork done because I will have a 140 sq. foot room dedicated to myself and painting or whatever I decide to do. I expect it will be a little messy but it will be mine and intended for me to be able to work freely without having to put something up so it won’t get messed up.

Stay tuned for more photos from the new studio…

Project Description: website design for Only On Augusta Business Association

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Application: Photoshop, Wordpress and CSS, with jquery
Client: Drum Creative for ARBA

Augusta Road is a unique shopping district just outside of the metropolitan area in in Greenville, SC with fashionable stores and businesses that feature products that can only be found in that area of town.

ARBA approached drum creative with the challenge of updating and rebranding their business association logo and website.

Visit Site: OnlyOnAugusta.com

Project Description: Illustration for a Blood Drive Campaign
Application: Vector Illustration finished in Photoshop
Client: Drum Creative for The Blood Connection

Each Year The Blood Connection in conjunction with Rock 101 and New Rock 93.3 hold a joint blood drive that the radio stations really get behind because they can basically do it like they want and part of that is designing a tshirt and posters around the whole drive. Each year I get asked to come up with an illustration that will pull it all together. This year I incorporated the wings with a “Blood Drop” Guitar emblazoned with a Jimi Hendrix  image.

Project Description: website design for Greenville County Parks and Recreation District
Application: Photoshop, Wordpress and CSS, with jquery
Client: Drum Creative for GreenvilleRec

My goal in designing this site was to achieve a fun but up to date look with a 2.0 web feel. We also implemented multiple templates to engage the user when viewing a special department or location of the site that should receive special recognition (.ie waterpark, ice skating rink, etc)

“We are excited to announce the launch of the new GreenvilleRec.com website this morning. Some of the features of the new site include a park locator, a Twitter feed displaying field closings and conditions, targeted zones for advertising, multiple templates that compliment the look of several parks and an overall dynamic structure. At the time of the launch, the website weighs in at right around 260 pages. With a content-managed back end, we expect that number to continue to grow.

With the improvements in usability, design and the dynamic nature of the site, we expect that GreenvilleRec.com will see 1 million visits this year.” – Drum Creative

I am greatful to have been a part of this project. I started working with the Greenville County Recreation District over 9 years ago doing small print jobs for them and producing a 4 times a year overview brochure.

In 2004 I was asked if I could help them out with their website. At that time I was programming completely in tables and html without any knowledge of css or backend cms. I hand coded over 70 pages and implemented an open source very limited cms that worked at that time. In the 3 years that gcrd.org has been running we have increased the visitors from approx. 40 per month to an average of 1,500 per day and expect to hit more than 1 million visitors this year.

When the call came to redesign the site, I was naturally to be considered to redesign the site but we had to do our homework to prove that we could take on the challenge of re-programming the site. Jim Ferguson who came on board with Drum Creative in 2008 was confident that we could produce a very dynamic, user friendly and extensive cms using Wordpress.

Project Description: Illustration for a Blood Drive Campaign
Application: Vector Illustration finished in Photoshop
Client: Drum Creative for The Blood Connection

The Donor All Star Blood Drive illustration was created for a Blood Drive Campaign that is being held at the Greenville Drive Baseball Complex at Fluor Field in Greenville, SC on June 09. My assignment was to create a look that was relevant to baseball, incorporate the Greenville Drive but make sure that the words “Blood Drive” would retain the focus.

I struggle with what is the “Focus” of this illustration but the client wanted all letters to be large enough to read, so this is the result. If you have any comments as to what could have been accomplished different let me know.