Stop what you're doing right now and go play with language

Last night we launched Another Pointless Production, the portfolio site of friend/collaborator David Silverstein. The site capitalizes on the union of Flash, PHP, MySQL and DHTML to expound visually on some of Dave's favorite themes: collaboration, wordplay, and the individual expressions of patterns.

Check out his phoems (that's not a typo). Vandalize a great work of literature and pass it on. Get advice from long-dead college students. Go.

Redesign = instant gratification

Within a few months of finishing the redesign for this site, I got two full-time offers. Almost certainly unrelated, but I prefer to believe in a magical world where pet projects yield high dividends.

So I'm now a developer at MetaDesign in San Francisco, but continuing with my own various projects on the side. Two will be launching by February; updates to follow.

Works in progress

In the hopper: exciting projects with some heavy-duty programming. The Business Advisors Network is an ongoing effort to build a commercial real estate brokerage site – PHP + FileMaker – from scratch. If you haven't heard from FileMaker in a while, you will soon: it's a very robust database solution, a subsidiary of Apple, and now it works directly with one of the leading scripting languages on the web.

We're nearing completion of Dave Silverstein's portfolio site, Another Pointless Production. Don't let the name fool you; this one was carefully planned, and fuses Flash, XML, PHP and MySQL into a fully interactive art piece.

Also coming soon is a redesign for Ethical Traveler. Cleaner, more modern, and more features.

Another Pointless Production

Photographer, language poet and performance artist David Silverstein wants you to investigate, collaborate, and get lost. Read more in the portfolio section.