Webdesign
I created my first website in the spring of 2002. I don't remember what it was, exactly, but I knew I had to buy a domain for something. From there I soon got into the world of personal websites, digital diaries of teenage girls, baring my soul one tortuously-crafted pixel at a time. I loved being able to combine visual and verbal meaning, and I loved that behind my epic photoshop creations there was a sort of algebra at work. The actual experience of blogging throughout my high school career was cathartic. I haven't been an active journaller for a few years now, but that's mostly because I've run out of things to say.
The last few years I've been more involved in the fandom side of internet self-publishing than the personal side. But that's a lie: everything I do is personal. Of course, when you put something on the internet, it becomes available to a vast and terrifying public. What's more, you want people to be watching. That doesn't stop my online "career" from being a profoundly selfish thing. The coding, the image editing, the early lense flare abuse, the attention-- it's all been for me. As such, many of the examples in this portfolio are more bad poetry in website form rather than viable commercial-quality designs. You live, you learn.
I've also done something different for this incarnation of my portfolio. Instead of a simple index of thumbnails for the 200+ designs I've created over the last few years, I chose a few and decided to comment on them at length.
