Thus and henceforth the frequency of updates to this site will be lessened while I funnel my creativity through the offices and sites of Echo East Creative. You can still contact me here if you would like, but I may respond quicker if you contact me through Echo East Creative.

You can visit echoeastcreative.com to get links to our Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Behance sites as well as drop us a line via or contact form.

Talk to y’all later,
Lindsey

Client: Personal

My Role(s): Designer, Developer

One day when looking at traffic cameras online, I realized that there must be innumerable live image feeds on the internet and the voyeur in me decided to take a sort of survey of what I could find. I eventually found a set of National Parks webcams that gave me a surprising feeling of peace, as if I were actually there. This video shows a series of image sequences obtained through a simple PHP script written to download images from three of those U.S. National Park web-cameras every 30 minutes. The script ran for a few weeks in late June and early July 2010 and captured a sequence of images from Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Theodore Roosevelt National Park and Point Reyes National Seashore. Nights were removed from the sequences along with any damaged images from camera errors (the Point Reyes camera was offline for several days).

I also separated out the audio tracks from the music and used certain tracks to populate actions in the video. The dot and ring in the upper left corner, the lines in the bottom right and the yellow/blue color filters over the whole video all reflect the audio tracks. Frame blending was used to smooth over the jerkiness.

The music is “Venus Moonrise” from Agua Trip’s album “Genetics”. The earth image is from the famous images taken from the Galileo space probe as it sped away from Earth on its way out into the unknown.

Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNpEq0tGmjU

Client: Personal

My Role(s): Designer

After reacquiring my born name as a domain name, I wasn’t sure what to do with it, seeing that my online output is scattered among a few other sites.

So, I decided to make a simple lifestream using Sweetcron, collecting any creative output I put on the world wide web, categorized by media (like music, writing, design, etc), and showing it all in a constantly updating stream of links on lindseyboise.com. This sort of thing is all very familiar to some of you. The rest of you may find it nifty, neat and efficient.

The design is very simple; white on black, serif typeface, colors at 80% saturation, and a face.

Link: http://www.lindseyboise.com

Luckily, the water is receding now, but we are starting to see exactly what sort of mess we need to clean up and it is sort of daunting. Plus, there is heavy water conservation efforts since we are running out of clean water, so forget showers or washing dishes.

I know many of my readers are folks in the entertainment industry; venue owners, performers, marketers, PR gurus, etc. and I would call on you to use whatever outlets (Twitter, your blog, a moment on the microphone, etc) to mention this issue and help raise the national awareness so people can get some help down here. This is an entertainment town and many of you probably have collaborators and contacts here who are digging out their equipment and offices from feet of contaminated mud and anything you can do to help raise awareness will come back to you in karma points, I am sure of it.

If you want to find out some easy ways you can help, go to this post on Nashvillest. For some updated information on other efforts in the area, follow the link over to this post on Eastnashvilleblog. You can also follow #othersituation2010 on twitter. For images, check out the Other Situation 2010 Group on Flickr.

You don’t have to live here to help.

Thanks for your time.

Client: Personal

My Role(s): Developer, Designer, Writer, Editor

Notasgoodasthebook.com is a pet project of mine. The site was live for a while early in 2009, but I felt that I needed a drastic redesign, so I stopped posting content and spent months tweaking it whenever I could find a moment away from my other work.

In addition to designing and coding the WordPress theme, I also came up with a fun set of flash banners depicting the pleasure of reading a book and the ugly disappointment one finds when reading/seeing/hearing its less-than-worthy adaptations. The logo is a simple type treatment over a bookmark.  The inspiration for the colors/shading/textures of the visual design was a mingling of the favorite hardcover books of my past.

I am the editor and the main contributing author to the site, but hope to see many more public submissions and posts from a group of regular contributing authors as the site grows.

I used numerous great free open-sourced plugins for WordPress to accomplish much of the functionality. The category icons are modified versions of inages from several open-sourced icon sets.

Link: http://www.notasgoodasthebook.com

I am also excited to get to work on projects localized to the Nashville and the Southeast. There is a lot of work to be done, and I can’t wait to get started. I will keep you informed of any Lindsey Boise Design news throughout the process.