I’ve taken on duties for some online promotion and poster design for Che’s Lounge, (redesign for their site is in the works) so this is my first poster. Hopefully many more to come:

Come to the show on saturday, and follow @cheslounge on twitter for up to the minute updates!

I changed my copyright information for this site to fall under Creative Commons, so feel free to distribute and share the art, rework it (but not for profit), print it out and poop on it, whatever. My only request is that if you are sharing the work I’ve created, please link back to the site and credit me for the original work.

Drew (my brother) graduated from UMass today, here is a barrage of photos. Feel free to use them on any site, just throw me a link back and a photo credit if you do please. I will update this post with more photos and a couple of moments of video shortly.

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Click over on Web and Radio now and you will see the corresponding sections in action. Changes will certainly be made in the future, but I have finally reached a point where I feel comfortable saying that Maury de Geofroy.com is OFFICIALLY LAUNCHED.

Expect changes and updates, of course, but there are no more empty “coming soon” sections.

And please, by all means: comment or send a message with any suggestions you may have for features. I have plenty of ideas of my own, such as adding an “about” section, spreading some more red coloring throughout the rest of the site, and eventually having some sort of shopping cart for art sales, but for now: please enjoy what’s here: and please, by all means, spread the word.

I added a contact page. Oh yeah!

Or just do it right here, right now.

Hooray progress!

(feature suggestions are welcome – I can add a CAPTCHA and allow uploading of files… for example … form options? Checkboxes? Etc?)

I bought an iPhone in Boston yesterday and I am exploring the lovely world within it. One app I discovered was the free wordpress blogging app, from which I’m typing this very post. This phone is pretty slick, I must confess. For kicks, here’s a photo I took from the roof of the hotel. (if I think of it I’ll try to post photos from the floor of the burlesque expo today. There have been some neat sights but the trip has been overwhelming and I’ve had less time to appreciate the show than I planned for.)

It’s still a work in progress, and I need to tweak some visual elements, add more images, categories, and various other details, but thanks to the glory of WordPress and the wonderful NextGen gallery plugin created by Alex Rabe I’ve easily integrated a gallery into the art section. Go check it out.

Saw this on Boing Boing Gadgets the other day. Traced back to this blog, that I wish was in English

It’s true. I work in one of them. Dry towns, they’re called, for the uninitiated. These are places that never got around to repealing prohibition and now contain just enough votes against change to hold back the rest of the public from ordering a nice glass of wine with dinner. Why? It will destroy the community, of course!

Well, there is another side of the community that suffers from this mindset: the local business owners. And all the people who want to order a glass of wine and didn’t realize they had to bring their own. Oh yeah, and anyone who is in favor of forward progress.

Okay, Maybe I’m a bit biased.

I was commissioned, through EduComp, for the cause – to design a website to showcase the language of those working toward legislation that would allow beer and wine consumption at restaurants in one such town: Tisbury, otherwise known as Vineyard Haven, Massachusetts.

I should note that personally, I drink very little, perhaps one or two beers or a glass of wine in a month, although, like many, I went through a typical teenage binge phase. I blame the heat and madenning peer pressure of Savannah, Georgia. That’s beside the point, however: the legislation would be good for the town. As it stands, people can bring their own beer or wine to dinner, so the drunks are just as able to get drunk. If anything, this would be more regulatory, and it provides those who want to have a drink at a restaurant that option. I have had a lot of trouble understanding the logic behind the fight against it, aside from stubborn traditionalism.

Consider this a call to anyone who lives in Tisbury: please vote on this on April 14th. It’s a town meeting vote to get it on the ballot in 2010. It needs your help to pass. For more information, and some words from those involved in attempting to pass the legislation, visit the site itself: PreservingTisburysFuture.com

I will have a more comprehensive post in the web section about the process of the design of the site soon, and about upcoming websites, when they go live.

I just created a splash image and a front page to open the site. Partially influenced by a story I started writing a long time ago and never got around to finishing, and of course, influenced by the design of the site. I basically crammed all the elements of these pages together, while adding a few more.