Unfortunately, I was not able to see my mom today. But I did get an unexpected surprise. I received a impromptu visit from my old business partner Greg Huntoon and family. I was also lucky enough to meet Zurhi for my first time. She was dressed in the latest garb from the families new line of apparel, make sure to visit weweclothing.com if you have a youngster.

Its Spring time so I thought it would be a good idea to ring in the season by refreshing the colors on www.brianjeremy.com. In addition, I went out with the Ice Cream Man yesterday for lunch and got my first viewing of the new Toyota Yaris. Keep your eyes open for that Popsicle driving around town.

One of the last major decisions I made in 2007 was whether or not to attend my 10 year high school reunion. After much thought, I decided as always it was a good excuse to return home to San Francisco - and see old friends. It was a very fun, yet a rather unusual experience. I now actually have proof that I showed up to the party.

Evan, Bryan, Christine, myself.

Ally Wolfe, myself, Katy Claypool

Well 2008 finally rolled around. The www.icecreamman.com website launched so make sure you drop by for a visit. It also looks like 2008 has many new exciting changes to come including a new career [more to come].

So ever since I moved to southern California after the dot-com crash, I’ve (had to) make some changes. I modified the hairstyle a bit, changed favorite watch brands (needed the surfer feel), revised the wardrobe and also gained taste in different artists. Two artists that I was introduced to were Dave Kinsey of Kinsey Visual and BLK/MRKT and Shepard Fairey of Obey.

Long story short, I finally acquired a print I’d been searching for over the past few years. It’s the 2002 Lebowskifest print that was designed to promote the (2002) annual gathering and celebration of the 1998 movie The Big Lewboski featuring Jeff Bridges (which has has rather large cult following). The print by Shepard Fairey is based on the Oliver Atkins 1970 photograph of Richard Nixon. A copy of the newest edition to my collection is below.

2002 Obey Lebowski Fest (mission finally accomplished, great way to end 2007!)

Another favorite picee of my collection is the 2005 Monkey Pod. This print is based on a tree in Hawaii and was commissioned by The Contemporary Museum in Honolulu.

Lastly, I can’t get enough of my 2006 Guns and Roses print. Not only a great band, but a great political statement. This print is based on a 1970’s propaganda piece put out by the Chinese Central Art Academy that included text which translates in English to “Government is Established Through Guns!”

Friday night I had the pleasure of seeing cake at the Orpheum in Los Angeles. My good pal Victor celebrated his last day at Juxt Interactive so we thought it would be a good way to celebrate new beginnings. I have to say the acoustics and sound at the venue was by far the best I’ve heard in years. If you haven’t picked up their latest release of B-Sides do so, and catch the Unlimited Sunshine tour in a town near you.

Well, After a lot of traveling I am finally back at home. Rather busy with work at the moment, but I wanted to share the souvenir/gift I received while in New York. I happened to be in the city at the same time as the Ice Cream Man, and he stopped by the conference I was attending to give away free ice cream and to drop off some goodies for me that he had found in the city. I think these two pieces of memorabilia were meant to describe the yin and yang of my work life. Either way, great artwork from the 80’s and much cooler than a miniature “Brian” bicycle license plate.

As a follow up to my previous post, I now have a definition for “Hard Launch.” A hard launch is what happens when water from a planter box leaks (or in this case floods) your central fire alarm box. In my case this shorted the alarm system and set off the 120 decibel fire alarm at 6am for about a half-hour.

Now of course I was awake due to a scheduled 5am conference call. However, the fire department would not turn off the alarm because then they would be responsible if a real fire were to occur. I’ll end this by saying its nice I live downtown, in a typical neighborhood there would have been some very unhappy campers.

So, its official — self proclaimed Greg “Papa G” Huntoon announced the arrival of baby Zuri (which means Beautiful in Swahili) at 3:34am this morning. She’s 6lbs, 8oz and shares a birthday with my Grandfather (#2). Of course I reveal I was birthday #3, and brianjeremy.com makes #4.

Cheers.

After nearly ten years in the web industry i’ve managed to partially create over a dozen portfolio websites. However, my first actual personal site launched just this past soon and had after six months in the making it had a rather short shelf live.

And therein lies today’s birth of my new home on the “interweb.” A few notes about the production of this undertaking (a) first and foremost a big thank you to all who led a helping hand (b) secondly whomever gave me the idea that modifying a simple wordpress blog to suit my needs… gave bad advice. I dare go as far as to say that I “re-wrote” the system, but excluding design and integration I spent nearly forty (40) hours customizing the product to function as intended.

Lastly, all typical disclaimers apply (use Firefox not Internet Explorer). I’m of course not finish loading content and havent’ started authoring the case studies, there are a few bugs, and lastly if I didn’t credit you on a project you worked on it was an accident — please email me.