My friend Kemar turned me on to this list of jQuery plugins maintained by Marc Grabanski self-proclaimed "Jack of all trades in Web development." He took it upon himself to go through the jQuery plugins repository, and he picked out what he felt was noteworthy or most useful in his eyes. It’s a pretty good […]
My friend Johnny, The Big Gun
I met Johnny back in 1996-97. We worked at Graj + Gustavsen, a retail branding and creative development firm here in NYC. At this particular time the office was full of freelancers, myself being one of the last to arrive. This was during a hiring burst to ramp up for several impending presentations to numerous retail brands and a major cable network that was planning to build “themed” retail stores across America.
I loved it. I was a young kid, just a few months removed from graduating from the School of Visual Arts and my Scholastic illustrator contract had just ended. There I was sitting in the middle of a retail brand incubator with a slight bump in pay. I was feeling good about myself, and I was only scratching the surface of that experience – because in walks Johnny…