The Hollywood Sign Generator
Seeing the growing support for the Save Cahuenga Peak campaign was an inspiration for me to try and contribute my own little fun side project to the cause. So I created a Hollywood Sign Generator that allows users to put their name on the sign and share the image with friends as a way of getting the word out! Go ahead and try it out! An example image is below. In the future there may...
posted on 02.28.10
SaveHollywoodLand.org - Campaign to save Cahuenga Peak
The SaveHollywoodLand.org website and interactive widget were developed by the Digital Ops group at Atomic PR in conjunction with The Trust for Public Land as part of the campaign to protect Cahuenga Peak, the land surrounding the Hollywood Sign in Los Angeles, CA. That Cahuenga Peak has remained undeveloped to this day is a lucky result of Howard Hughes' difficulty with women. A remnant open space in a spreading sea of development, the peak had...
posted on 02.08.10
Grooveeffect
Grooveeffect is an urban/indie culture web site dedicated to curating the best in emerging style, music, and trends, and is ranked in the Top 20 music blogs worldwide by Alexa. Originally launched in late 2004 as a small web store, it was re-launched in late 2005 as a content site and quickly grew to be one of the leading urban/indie lifestyle sites on the web. The site was founded by myself and Ivy Rashid, who...
posted on 02.05.10
I keep a throwing knife on my desk which was gifted to me by a heavily armed man while I was working at a toy store
So when I first moved to SF I was broke and got a job at a toy store at the Metreon, a major downtown mall. My "boss" at the time was 19 and kind of a punk Asian-gangster type. So one day this sort of nerdy looking 40-something Asian guy comes in with a duffel bag. He was recently divorced, talking about how he lived in a hotel in a really seedy part of...
posted on 09.30.09
Let Me Google That For You
I was invited to speak on search at the San Francisco Bay Club for the "Connect5" networking event on August 19, 2009, and when deciding on what specifically to talk about, I realized I didn't want to give another iteration of the 'make your site rank higher' presentation I'd seen hundreds of times. With that in mind, I decided to look at the broader aspects of search, including how search can influence brand, the...
posted on 08.19.09