With the ski season winding down I’m looking to cure my mountain addiction for the summer months.  I’ve been looking at all mountain bikes for a few weeks and decided to go with this sweet piece of radness above.  I’m still pretty new to mountain biking as Pittsburgh didn’t have the type of terrain like Utah.  I went and got fitted the other day at Canyon Bicycles, one of the best place to get fitted in Utah.  I was pretty amazed at how much a centimeter here and there can help you ride longer and more comfortable. 

I can assure you there will be pictures posted on this blog of pure carnage…

It’s that time of year again, when you store away the winter clothes and tell yourself the extra 10lbs you’ve gained is water weight.  One of the first things on my list is to refresh my portfolio with new work.  Unsurprisingly I’m finding that I want to spend more of my free time outside.  So I’ve come up with an alternate solution (for now).  This blog will serve as a portfolio of my recent work along with the occasional random link or video.  I’m still working on getting a formal portfolio online, probably around late summer.  Right now I’m cranking on some awesome projects at Struck and trying to spend as much time enjoying the outdoors.  You can still visit my old portfolio here.  In the mean time here are a few banners I’ve helped create recently.

Ski Utah - Old Man Winter - Local Gold Addy, SLC
Northface - Defy.tv Ski/Snowboard
Utah Office of Tourism - Rock Theater
Utah Office of Tourism - Puzzle
Utah Office of Tourism/Warren Miller - Ski Jump - Featured in this edition of Communication Arts
Utah Office of Tourism/Warren Miller - Cliff Huck - Local Silver Addy, SLC

I snapped this picture of my buddy Adam C. back in early Feb. when we got a record dumping here in Utah.  A few weeks ago I found out about the annual photo contest open to both professional and amateur photographers on Ski Utah’s web site.  Without much thought at actually doing well I submitted the photo, within a few days it’s gotten up to 40 - 5 out of 5 votes!  I just need your help to get the number of votes higher!

http://www.skiutah.com/photocontest08/voter.php?photo_id=eqc7nd550xy59e80

I found out a few weeks ago that a project I led while at Blattner Brunner is a Webby Nominee in the Services / Employment category!  I’m not too familiar with how popular the Webby’s are but it seems like a real honor.  If you get a chance and would like to help me out please sign up and vote for the People’s Choice Award.

Somewhat old news but new news to this blog.  During our down time at the office a few Struckers and I whipped our company blog into shape.  I was responsible for the IA and design as well as the two dandy backgrounds above.  The biggest improvement was separating the content into three channels, Design, Build and Play.  Other features include random backgrounds, snazzy flickr and wallpaper streams, ajax commenting and stupidly awesome blog entries from us Struckers.

New features are already in the works like a last.fm feed from our office as well as the ‘Get Ryan Potter To Grow This Beard Campaign 08’

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