edwardrock.com

Coming soon

2008-08-07T22:25:00Z

I’ve been pretty busy lately, though I have been working on some ideas/code for a new version of this site.(though i plan on switching to a new domain that i already registered). I’ve also designed myself a new logo.

Its an Ambigram, spin it. Tell me what you think.

An ambigram, also sometimes known as an inversion, is a graphical figure that spells out a word not only in its form as presented, but also in another direction or orientation.

For those that are here looking at my work, I am available for hire and would love to help you out. Please feel free to email me.

where’ve you been (all my life)

2008-04-30T18:47:01Z

You may have noticed that I have not updated this site for months. Reason? Well I’ve been busy and also I’ve become immersed in all the web+social+2.0 hype. So really I have been updating, just not here, instead on tumblr, twitter, flickr, facebook, etc. Video games, mountain biking, and an expanding list of clientele has also kept me from updating, though I don’t blame them.

With that said, there is some point to this post. Which is to inform all those that come here, that I’m currently in the process of updating my portfolio. Like new version, new works, new effects, though I am keeping the colors(plus some new ones). Want to see what I have so far? Well tooo bad, I’m just not ready yet. I will say that if you are savvy, you might be able to stumble on my test server on edwardrock.com

Check back soon! I promise, good stuff.

Dan Mumford

2007-12-10T17:34:00Z

Is it a coincidence that I have waited 5 months to write my 5th review? No. Was I expecting to write it anytime soon? No. Did I run across Dan Mumford’s work this morning, and immediately began collecting screen shots of this work to write a review about. Hell Yes! I mean, who could pass up work with such detail from an up and coming artist? Speaking of detail, I’m not going to go into to much as to why I like him, his work speaks(..Yells) for itself.

Info about the artist.

Dan Mumford is a 23 year old male illustrator/designer/rock star, “with an obsession for drawing hands, hair and tentacles”, who resides out of Bethnal Green, London, UK.

In The Belly Of A Shar | for The Gallows

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Don’t Panic

Daydream

untitled

Airman

Skull

There is a bunch more to look at on his myspace and soon to be up website
Myspace
http://www.myspace.com/takeittotheboneyard

Website
www.dan-mumford.com/

Article in “Don’t Panic”
Don’t Panic

Makeupage.com

2007-09-20T00:47:01Z

Finally, here it is! makeupage.com

makeupage.com is the personal portfolio of the amazing and talented makeup artist Stephanie Circhirillo

click here to see more…

Woah! woaahhh…

2007-09-19T23:52:00Z

What happened? Sites down, no updates, no new music, nothing, nothing, nothing...?

Well lets recap as to why there has been no signs of life on edwardrock.com since August.

Issue #1: edwardrock.com is offline
A bit of site info to get you started, first the site is hosted at Dreamhost, which is great. The reason for telling you this though, is the my domain is NOT hosted there. Stupid I know, but once I explain where it’s hosted, you might better understand. So? What is the name of this horrible domain hosting company. Registerfly. Yeah, back in the day when I first registered edwardrock.com, I had no idea how much of a pain in the ass this company was. Well like many out there, my domain was sold off, and then sold off again. Currently I have it back, though I cannot bring it over to dreamhost yet. It’s safe, but not as safe as it could be and I’m working on that.

there is more after the cut!!

Issue #2: where are the updates?
Due to the overwhelming amount of work I have been receiving at Remo, along with there being not domain to point you to the blog, there has been a month of inactivity. I’m working on changing that, see look, I’m working on it right now!

Issue #3: no music wtf?
I have no excuse for this. I plan on uploading a bunch more soon.

Good News
Yes there is some good news though, In just a few I’ll be uploading a new project into the work area! Again sorry for those that check this site out, but I hope to have everything back to normal soon!

Im not dead yet!

2007-06-04T17:52:00Z

Not yet, though had some close times. Life has been incredibly busy for me lately, and that has left the site once again collecting cobwebs. Even so, this site is on my mind all the time, and I’ve come to the conclusion that once again it needs a re-design. I’ve already started work on the next version..

highlights? sneak preview? hints? cheat codes? you ask??

Well so far its 100% (I am going to separate this blog and my work sections) flash, so far 700+lines of actionscript, with another 800more till completion. The work section will be the more predominant section, blog being second, which will include the music blog.

If you need more, check out my tumblr, as its tracking my online happenings. edrock.tumbler.com

Jeff Soto

2007-04-03T21:51:00Z

Here we are again for another artist review, for my fourth review I chose artist Jeff Soto, and as you will see below, there are many many reason to choose such an artist. Some of the unique qualities of Jeff’s artwork would be, first and foremost (for myself at least) his unique/uncanny color pallet which is used in all of his paintings. The second quality I would choose would be his distinct character designs, and their blend of both mechanical and natural features. I could continue going on about all of the things I find to be amazing throughout Jeff’s massive about of works. Rather than describing all of these qualities, I would much rather you see them for yourselves, and with that I present to you a small selection of Jeff Soto’s art.

Info about the artist.

Jeff Soto is a 31 year old male painter/artist/creative guy who resides out of Riverside, CA. with his wife Jennifer and daughter Shannon. He is a graduate (with Distinction) from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA.

Fall | Acrylic on wood | 18x18

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The Run Up - Jeff Soto [Teaser Trailer] (An Artist Documentation Series)

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Los Angeles Lets Be Friends - A short film by threeleggedlegs.com
Inspired by the work of Jeff Soto..click to read more

There are tons more to look at, so here are some links to get you started. Jeff's Book - Potato Stamp Dreams

Website
www.jeffsoto.com

Store
www.potatostamp.com

Blog
jeffsotoart.blogspot.com

Myspace
myspace.com/jeffsoto

Sneak Preview

2007-04-02T23:58:01Z

It’s been much to long since my last update, and I can say that the reason for this has been..well, because I’ve been busy. “Busy with what?”, you might ask, well that’s the point of this post. With that said, here is a sneak preview of a website I’ve been working on, that is almost ready to launch(it really is, I’m just waiting on content!!).

makeupage which is a portfolio website for my friend Stephanie Circhirillo who is a make-up artist

This is is built 100% in flash, fed by xml, and is completely dynamic to the content loaded into it(width,height,color,text content).
I hope to have the rest of the content needed to finish the site, and get it uploaded asap.

Also there will be a new Artist Feature by the end of this week, along with some song reviews, so please check back!

Drout750

2007-02-22T22:14:00Z

This third artist feature is on the ever so creative works of Drout750. I wasn’t able to find much on this artist in terms of personal information (name, dob, schools attended), however as you will soon see, his work speaks wonders. He has a very unique way of showing his character in both a cute/fun and down & dirty way. Without further ado, I present a selection of works by Drout750.

Info about the artist.

Drout750 or “Dro” is a 25 year old male designer / illustrator / cartoonist / painter / internet all star out of L.A.

For Those About to Rock

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Mistletoe Monster

Skelebear

Guardian

Illustration Orgy Vol.1

Original Batman

Once a Hunter

Dro’s House

Website
www.drout750.com
Blog
www.drout750.com/blog
Flickr
flickr.com/photos/dro
Myspace
myspace.com/drout750

Aya Kato

2007-02-02T22:40:01Z

For my second artist feature I chose again to do it on an amazing female artist Aya Kato. I chose this artist not knowing much at all about her, though I had seen some works before (on a side note, I had added some of Aya’s images to my ”neat” folder, in which I have an ongoing collection of imagery that I find beautiful). With that said, I know present you a small sampling of the works of Aya Kato.

Info about the artist.

Aya Kato is a 25 year old female artist out of Japan, who studied Visual Art Education and Graphic Design at the Aichi University of Education. Some of her most notible works include artwork for a Microsoft WindowsXP TV Commercial and the music video for Tori Amos’s song “Sleeps with Butterflies”, in which it featured digital recreations of some of Aya’s works merged with Tori as the subject. Her style is uncanny blend of dark Art Nouveau and Manga/Japanese pop art

Elegance

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The Little Mermaid

Love of the Sky

Pink Magic

Rapunzel

Samurai

Unnamed

Beautiful/Decay VS. Aya Kato Shirt | 2006

Website
www.ayakato.net

Audrey Kawasaki

2007-01-12T19:46:00Z

Audrey Kawasaki launched a new version of her website 2 days ago, after looking over some of her new works (I have been a fan of hers for quite a while) I thought to myself, “I should showcase some of her work on my site, with hopes that it will send some viewers her way, and hopefully create some new fans”. So that’s what this is, my first of many Featured Artists posts.

First I would like to start of with a little info about the artist.

Audrey is a 24 year old female artist out of L.A., a graduate from the Pratt Institute, who creates some of the most beautiful and surreal paintings that I’ve ever seen. She has an uncanny style of depicting the female form, showing the subjects in innocent and also very sensual/erotic ways.

Owari|Oil on Wood|2006

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Horn Girl | Oil on wood 11x16 | 2006

Setsuna 1 | Oil on wood 8x11 | 2006

Oyasumi | Oil on wood 10x19 | 2006

Domnique | Oil on wood 9x9 | 2005

This is only a very small sampling of her work, so please get yourself over to her website and check the rest of her work out!

Website*
www.audrey-kawasaki.com
Journal
http://i-seldom-do.livejournal.com/
Myspace
myspace.com/audreykawa

* this latest version of her site was designed by the wonderful Corinne Mosh(corsakti) and coded by vegas himself Trent Hamilton (aenemated)

Reason To Post

2006-12-13T20:15:01Z

It has been awhile since my last post, and to tell you the truth the reason I haven’t posted in so long is sad. I’ve just been too busy with work, and none of the projects I’m working on are ready to be posted here. I do have something I can post about though. While looking through my “dumb” folder, I came across very first mock-up for this site.Here it is, in all it’s glory!

Pretty exciting huh? I’m glad i didnt go with this color scheme, unique, but bland.click continue for more....

I also thought since this post isn’t very content rich, I would show some love to the music blogs/sites that I visit.

Here is the list:
3hive
A Reminder
All Things Go
Big Stereo
Gorilla vs Bear
I Guess I’m Floating
My Old Kentucky Blog
Neiles Life
S K A T T E R B R A I N
Scissorkick
Stereogum

Thank you all for having these amazing blogs, and posting all that music for us to listen to. Well I hope to be updating this soon with new content, until then be sure to check out my music blog

couple of updates

2006-11-09T17:20:00Z

Ive added a couple of updates to the work section, though they are not really new. I added the last two versions of my site (under the edwardrock.com domain that is), they are under the website section. You can also click on the images below:

Check them out if you get a chance, each one has some interesting things built into it.

In other news, I’m extremely busy at work which is why I haven’t updated in a while. We are gearing up for trade show season, which means everyone is running around like crazy.I did however upload some example files to the music player how to post. check it out and comment if you need help.

Music Player how-to

2006-10-19T17:20:00Z

Ive been getting a lot of questions on how the music player on my site works. As you might have guessed (from listening to my music blog ) I love mash-ups, I find it fascinating how you can take two/three/four/however many songs and put them together to make something unique. That was the same approach I took to "mashing" the music player on my site together. The first step I took though was figuring out exactly what I did and didnt want. What I didnt want was a bulk flash player/play-list that ran off xml.There are a bunch out there already, like the XSPF Player (which I have pushed/pulled apart to make this with)

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I have nothing against that player (more of a music jukebox), but it was just not what I was looking for. I wanted something that was super small in file-size, and that could link up to ANY song I posted on my site. There are players out there right now (mostly on music blogs) that allow you to post a small player that streams in the song, and you can post it as many times as you wanted (the Audio Player Word-press plug-in works amazing). I would have used that, but I wanted something that would also show album artwork, so I turned to the one place I always turn to when I need help/suggestion.

Yayhooray!

After a lot of creative searching (since the search is broken..only title search works, I guess the Jake's don't love us anymore) I came across the amazing niftyPlayer (built by tvst) which looked perfect...except it didn't have the ability to link in album artwork, or display the song name. It was a start, all I needed to do was figure out how to add in those two other options I wanted and I was set. Javascript to the rescue!! Once I figured out how to get it to swap out an image

function replaceimg(n, s) {document.images[n].src=s;}

and replace some text

function setTitle(str) { document.getElementById("musictitle").innerHTML = str; }

all i needed to do now was make it so i could easily upload music/album artwork (re-size the artwork to 50px x 50px). Thanks to expression engine, that was easy. Simple right?. Thanks to everyone that helped with this!!

Update

I've uploaded an example of the player I use here on my site. click here for the zip file

music i like

2006-09-30T00:12:00Z

I’ve added a new feature to the site, well it’s new and then it’s not. See im really into music, I love every aspect of it, and I have a great time introducing new music to people. For a while now I have been posting music on my myspace (before i built this version of my site), since I was rebuilding this one, I though why not build it into it. So thats what I did, and then some of couse! Without further adieu I present

music i like is a music blog of sorts, I post music I like, you listen, and enjoy. If you want you can comment on the song, and I even set it up so it can be downloaded podcast form through itunes.
To do that just copy this link

http://edwardrock.com/index.php/site/musicilike/

into Advanced > Subscribe to Podcast in itunes!