Madbadcat.org

When I first got out of school it was still common to run around with your portfolio containing tear sheets and photographs. It was always a pain to collects these, the few copies in hand were precious and almost irreplaceable. I cannot count the times I lost my portfolio. More often than not, I wouldn’t bother to replace the evidence of the work. Oh, the drama. I would end up losing gigs because I didn’t have the tearsheet for this or that. 20 people lined up for a gig, the last thing an art director wanted was to call to verify you had actually done a job like "that".

I developed an almost vitriolic reaction to the concept of a portfolio. If I was in good mood, I would put one together for a particular occasion, never to be updated. For the most part I would disempower the whoel idea of a portfolio. I got jobs through recommendations. If they wanted to interview me first, well… no portfolio- no interview.

So when it came time to get my own space- Madbadcat.org- I setup a Joomla site with a lovely template I purchased, included whatever images I had laying about my desktop and proceeded to neglect it as well. Hated it. Didn’t care.

I decided to throw this site together mostly because the latest revision of Revolution Magazine Theme arrived in my email and I was really interested in playing around with it.

Named after one of my favorite artists, behold the rauschenberg revolution!
(tongue in cheek- really!)

In this design hack, I intergrated a few flash slideshows that interface with Slideshow Pro Director , installed on DigitalApplejuice.com. I never have to visit my own site to update. I basically just add more pictures and captions through SSP Director. No drama needed.