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Suit Selection and iPhone iDolatry

Adrien Goulet — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 02:46:21 +0000

Mr. Doug Nash, one of my best buddies, is getting married. It is my great honor to have been asked to be one of his groomsmen and as part of my groomsmanly duties, this past weekend I helped in the process of finding him some swanky duds for the big day. This was a particular challenge when you consider that he doesn’t own a single suit, let along worn one in the past decade or so. All in all though, I believe it was a success. Despite my pushing for top hats and tails, we found his something that looks great, suits his personality and their style as a couple and reflects their desire to not have a regular transitional wedding (no tuxes at this affair).

This also gave me a great excuse to take some more video with my iPhone 4s. The thing takes great quality video and I recently picked up an Owle Bubo, which really makes it fun to shoot video with the iPhone. Also just figured out how to disable the auto-focus on the iphone camera app, which will come in very handy when I totally nerd out and buy an adaptor to hook up my slr lenses to the Owle. (In case anyone is wondering how to disable the auto-focus, in the camera app, tap the screen and hold your finger down for a second or two. You will see the focus box blink. Lift your finger and then the words “AE/AF Lock” will appear at the bottom of the screen. This disables both auto focus and the auto exposure features. To reenable them, just tap the screen again.)

So here is the video I shot. It’s not the most amazing thing in the world, but it was fun and the quality is definitely a huge step up from the Sanyo Xacti I was using before.

Herzoglawgroup.com Launch!

Adrien Goulet — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 18:18:18 +0000

The Herzog Law Group website has launched! Still a few small tweaks to be made, but we wanted to make sure the new site was live in time for 2012. This was a great project in that it gave me a great deal of content and presented challenges to overcome, which in turn expanded my knowledge of wordpress development greatly.

Instagram Plugin

Adrien Goulet — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 01:51:25 +0000

I just added a new Instagram plugin to the site (as seen to the right of the screen). I used Instagram Widget for WordPress, a nice little plugin that was very easy to manipulate to add my own styling. The developer is also super responsive, so I anticipate a lot of additional functionality down the line as well.

Interactive Designer Position

Adrien Goulet — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 17:05:18 +0000

The New School is hiring an interactive designer! Amazing benefits, plus the greatest gift of all: being able to work with me! Apply here: https://careers.newschool.edu/postings/6620

Position Information

Position Availability: Immediate
Position Title: Interactive Designer

Responsibilities:
The Design office— part of the Communications External Affairs department (CEA)— creates all the print and online promotional materials for The New School, a vibrant, progressive university in Greenwich Village, NYC. It is their charge to define and execute a smart, lively, viable presence for the university and each of its divisions and administrative departments.

The New School seeks an experienced Interactive Designer with an excellent command of color, space, type, and style, and who is willing to push the envelope even as he/she maintains the integrity of the university’s brand. The ideal candidate is a marketing-savvy interactive designer who can design to the exacting technical specifications for the university’s website and create compelling work that converts to easily-produced web formats, online platforms and large scale content management systems. The Interactive Designer will contribute to creative briefs and help define online strategy and information architecture.

The ideal candidate will be a motivated, inspired, detail-oriented digital designer, who is in tune with social networking/Web 2.0 tools and capabilities, mobile media, and video, and aware of how these tools and technologies are used by our target audiences—notably high school and college students looking to further their education.

Part of CEA’s creative services team, the Interactive Designer reports to the Art Director and works in close collaboration with print designers, as well as the web producers and developers in Online Media.
Develops the visual presence of large and small online entities, including, but not limited, to full school websites, micro-sites, landing pages, blogs, social networking sites, iPhone/iPad apps, HTML emails, and more.
Works with Web Producers to build websites using technologies that conform to usability standards and makes sure that they are universally accessible and easy to navigate.
Ensures consistency of vision on marketing campaigns that may extend to print, video, and advertising.
Supports the university branding and web style guides.

Minimum Qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree in design, communications, online media, or other related discipline or commensurate experience.
Three+ years of experience in designing for the web and digital media.
Expert proficiency in the complete Adobe Creative Suite and Interaction Design skills (IA and UI) is essential.
Demonstrated ability to create designs that can be produced to spec in the following digital formats is required: HTML, HTML5, XHTML, CSS, PHP, and Flash.
Superior knowledge of the following is also required:
- JavaScript, jQuery and other front-ending scripting languages
- WordPress
- Cross-browser and cross-platform issues (IE, Firefox, Safari, etc.).
- Responsive design principals and CSS grids
- User experience
- Current Web 2.0 design trends and techniques
The ideal candidate is a clear communicator who brings attention to detail and creative problem solving; is a team player and multitasker; and brings a sense of humor and joy to all of her/his work.
An online design portfolio that demonstrates solid knowledge of web and/or mobile design principals is essential to be considered for this position.

Preferred Qualifications:
Preference will be given to those who may also have skills in any of the following:

Large-scale content management systems
Digital imaging
Mobile media
Motion graphics
Animation
Video titling

Interesting Finds

Adrien Goulet — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 16:05:46 +0000

Here’s a couple interesting and intriguing finds. Both of these are actually courtesy of my new boss (@batec). Another reason this new job rules: the sharing of ideas and interesting finds, whether they directly relate to the job or not. Such a small thing, but really important.

First up: TouchFire
Click above to support this and preorder yours. I did.

Next Up: CSS Piffle
Full disclosure: I really have no idea what this is, but the general concept sounds pretty interesting. Definitely something I want to pay attention to and see what they do with it.

Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes

Adrien Goulet — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 18:06:45 +0000

Wow. It’s been over a month since my last post. A lot has happened, which would account for my lack of posting. I quit my position of Marketing & Creative Director at the Emelin Theatre. I had been there 4 years and it was time to leave. I will still be doing much of their web and design work on a freelance basis. I underwent various stages of panic, extreme productivity, boredom, motivation, and lack of motivation during the subsequent job search before landing the position I was really hoping for: Web Producer at The New School. Specifically handling the Parsons The New School for Design website, special projects, wordpress templates and plugins, jQuery fun, etc etc etc. So basically all the stuff I actually really enjoy doing, in a great work environment (and the pay and benefits certainly don’t hurt either!). Pretty pumped. I start tomorrow and am very much looking forward to it.

Of course, that hasn’t been the only thing to happen in the past month. The rest is much more interesting in photo form, so here goes:

I turned 30 and to celebrate my taking the next step into the grave, I got an age-appropriate Logan’s Run inspired tattoo. Time to dust off those running shoes… (Tattoo done by Dustin Horan, who is excellent at doing palm tattoos.)

In other tattoo news, Dan did a bunch more work on my half sleeve tribute to my grandfather.

I attended NY Comic Con 2011, shadowing Judah and taking shots at his signing table and his various meanderings around the event. Check out a selection of shots in the public facebook gallery. In what is probably the most ridiculous photo I have ever take (above) Judah makes out with Wonder Woman while Batman angrily looks on. This little gem ended up in the Huffington Post. Check it out here.

Judah’s Gone Rogue!

Adrien Goulet — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 15:16:48 +0000

Judah recently dropped both his management, 3 Arts Entertainment, and agency, The Gersh Agency. A bold, but definitely awesome decision. But really, I am posting this for completely selfish reasons. Check out this article posted on The Comic’s Comic for some tasty eye-candy shot by yours truly.

Although, full disclosure, I can’t take credit for the great shot of him with the ladies.

It’s a Gas!

Adrien Goulet — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 02:00:46 +0000

Just finished editing and uploading another video from the recent Rusted Hero show at The Bitter End. We played a cover of Jumpin’ Jack Flash as our encore. I’d also like to point out that the encore was legit audience demanded (not a lame, pre-planned encore…there is nothing quite so self indulgent and obnoxious). Shout out to Andrew Testa and Brandon Jones for shooting the video!

DanBelcher.com Launched & Other Crap

Adrien Goulet — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 20:07:08 +0000

Over the holiday weekend I met up with Dan and we launched his site! Check it out: DanBelcher.com. So killer. We are going to be adding a bunch more stuff to the portfolio and adding in some paypal shopping options so people can order paintings through the site too. Check back for that.

Dan also knocked out the next stage of my half sleeve. I couldn’t be more psyched with how awesome the tiger came out.

ROAR!

And in Rusted Hero news, we recently played at The Bitter End, which was huge for us. Great turn out, awesome time all around. Here’s a video from that (another video on the way soon).

Champions of Comedy

Adrien Goulet — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 03:02:22 +0000

This past Tuesday night I tagged along with Judah Friedlander and Mick Foley as they ran around the city doing multiple stand-up spots at Gotham Comedy Club, Stand-Up NY and Comic Strip Live. Mick is a physically intimidating dude, which makes sense given that he is one the most brutal professional wrestlers of all time, but in person, he is one of the nicest, most genuine guys you will ever meet. He’s recently jumped into stand-up comedy and has some seriously funny material. Can’t wait to check out more of his stuff soon. And of course Judah was hilarious as usual. Check out the photo set here.

Complete photo set up on flickr.