satorimedia

Yesterday a friend of mine who has recently been promoted into a marketing position asked me for some logo advice. She works for a property management company, and they wanted a simple, quick, and dirty logo. She had tried to give them some of what they wanted - but they (i.e., management) were somewhat less than clear in what they wanted. Aside from the fact that it wasn't what she was giving them.

In a recent Presentation Zen entry, Garr Williams applauds one of the TED presenters for his technique when showing a slide with a comic slide:
"He does not read the comic but instead pauses to give a few moments silence which allows people to read the strip and chuckle; silent pauses are always refreshing.

One of the most satisfying parts of my career is making technology friendly. That is, teaching people the overwhelming principle:

Technology wants to work.

If people are going to anthropomorphize it anyway ("Why does this coffee maker hate me?") they might as well project a friendly-but-stupid persona on whatever they're trying to fix.

Yesterday I got an email from one of my oldest clients, who found a section of his site which had some old videos of an archival project we'd showcased on his site. He's a video artist, and has been around forever, so there's a lot of material on his site.

Ah, the sweet, sweet feeling of the final upload of a project to the printer, washing my hands and knowing it is done, done, DONE! Nothing left but to bill the client for the final part of the job, and add it to the portfolio.

The project (a calendar for Wisconsin Property Management) is going to have 2000 copies made and distributed throughout the properties they manage. I'm looking forward to the day I run into one somewhere I'm not expecting it - to see something useful to someone else all year, and know that "I made this," -- that's a really good feeling.

This is in response to Mary Grabar's column about the Midwest Teen Sex Show on Townhall.com

I think I've finally found a couple of nice uses for Twitter. Now, mind you, I am an addicted user. I have the messages sent to my phone, I have it on my desktop all day...I'm way into the microblogging world (hmmm...wonder when Izea will do "Pay-per-tweet"?). However, it is an addiction; I usually tell people to save themselves if they can avoid it).

Slowly, slowly we turn...inch by inch...

I am not tackling the drupalization of satorimedia with the normal hell-bent-for-leather approach that I usually apply to my client's work. Instead, I'm sort of easing into it, setting small goals for myself (such as today's, implementing the site logo and favicon and name of the site) and just letting myself grow into it.

This is the first node.

I chose Drupal for the basis of my new, relaunched satorimedia LLC website because....well, ok, because my former employer is about to change all of their content to Drupal, and I figured if there's any hope of me getting contract work, I'd better get a leg up.

Right now, though, it's not so much a technical challenge as an artistic one. I have no idea how to format text; none of the usual "i" or "em" tags are sure to work, which means I must rely on good old-fashioned prose to write something interesting.

Not sure if I succeeded. But it's something.