In the past year, I made tons of changes to this site. Here is a list of some of them:
1. I added some missing blog posts dated as-of when they were supposed to be posted. This goes all the way back to the site's 2008-ish reboot. There were some dated through 2007, but those were lost due to my failure to back them up correctly. In any case, I recommend re-browsing through all of it. You might find something you missed!
2. One the blog side, I finally removed the temporary main image, for one more suited to the site. Eventually, the main site image will feature both of the Brasscoe Co-Presidents. The Index site's polaroid image was also updated.
3. The blog's main menu was expanded to include some upcoming-posts-sections, while removing the image of the month and featured galleries areas. Those were combined into a Photo Projects page, which now showcases all the image I liked amongst the hundreds I take each month. That can be found within the Photo area.
4. Speaking of new website areas, I also added two new sections to the movie page. The tape logs were moved out of the archive section and now displays VHS and MiniDV [links removed] items separately. Also, I created the Brasscoe: Timeline, which chronologically lists some of the movies we have worked on.
5. In the movies section, I uploaded the video files used for each movie, making the clips available for download. A few of the old videos are accompanied with their original renders. I hope to re-master them soon. Side Note: I posted actual blog updates only for the movies I re-mastered. Older items will be posted when they get re-done.
6. The Art & Design section was revamped to include items I created, and how-to listings, along with my usual artwork.
7. Among the plugins I use for the site, I added Postviews by Lester Chan {LINK REMOVED} to help me see a visual count of how many visitors were seeing the various sections of the site. I also added Page Numbers by Jens Tornell {LINK REMOVED} which allowed me to modify how my various page counts are displayed, rather than the next and previous default. Lastly, I added the Search Highlight by Ryan Boren {LINK REMOVED} plugin in order to help identify the terms used when searching through the blog posts.
8. Since the Archive section was meant to hold the site's misc items (moved to Art & Design section), I created Other Video Area, The within it to showcase clips and shorts created in conjunction with Brasscoe, and some others I just wanted to show off.
9. On the HTML and CSS side, I moved most of the site's clip art and .PHP files into one folder, helping page load times by using the same items throughout (The site is actually made up of 9 individual blogs, all tweaked in different ways). Also, I learned how to use JavaScript in order to display any font on the website I wanted (whether the end-user had it installed on their computer or not).
As of right now, my small list of items to finish includes these two huge tasks:
1. As I finish my catch-up with old Flickr photos, I realize the total count pending is over 90GB's worth. That's over 14,000 images, and maybe 100 videos. Not too sure if I will ever be done.
2. I began a Scans - Photos & Items project and hope to have all 1000+ photographs up by the end of the year. This includes pictures from my childhood, and when I worked at Disneyland during its construction phase in 1999.
Now, if I can only figure out solutions to my two current problems...
1. Why won't WordPress {LINK REMOVED} let me upgrade the blog from 3.0 to 3.1 without problems.
2. Finding a stable hack for my Panasonic GF1 {LINK REMOVED}. So far, I successfully completed a modification to the firmware with PTools changing the video recording size from 720p to 1080p, but want it to maintain the HD MJPEG quality at a 50-80 MBps data rate without issue, which is a big step up from the default 15 MBps setting. Probably need to get a Class 10 SDHC card.
As I finish up my complete website overhaul, I finally updated the landing page with a new polaroid image. It was added to the collection of older images within the Image Manipulation section.
Added to existing post: Site Polaroids
Added to the Digital Artwork section is this image I drew on my laptop during a road trip home.
Below are some of my favorite digital images added to the gallery: Photo Projects within the Favorite Images 2010 section.
