I just updated my Flickr with some new photos! Check them out here! or at sean-dinner.com!

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Yes, I’ve finally updated my portfolio at sean-dinner.com!

I got the initial layout idea from Derek Semmler’s Red Staple Media website (in which I designed the logo for ) to use the accordion set-up from Deziner Folio. I’m still working on the site and will be playing around with the CSS and adding some more work soon. So, I suggest checking sean-dinner.com out ;) I also have some new photography there too!

Another update involves Twitter. Yes, I’ve finally signed up for Twitter, something I thought I’d never do. Hopefully it’ll be to my benefit somehow… We shall see! You can see my Twitter profile here.

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You may or may not know, but Derek Semmler has created a brand for himself under the name of Red Staple Media. I first found out about this when out of the blue I received an email from Derek asking if I could design a logo for this new idea “Red Staple Media.” I said, “Of course I will!”

Derek already had some great ideas in mind for what he wanted, so it was up to me to put it into the works for a final design.

After spending some time, switching, turning, placing, and all that jazz coming up with different variations, the logo you see at the top is the final outcome. A nice clean-cut logo that speaks Red Staple Media, just what Derek wanted.

If you check out Red Staple Media you’ll notice the cool setup it has, using some Javascript from Deziner Folio Simple Accordions. I thought this was pretty neat and decided to update and incorporate it into my own portfolio Sean-Dinner.com. Check it out for all of my latest work.

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Has everyone seen the video where Kobe jumps a moving car? Here’s my view of it

Here’s the original.

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This one is two minutes long and using a combination of Photoshop, Corel Painter IX and Flash.

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As I headed over to worth1000.com I noticed something different, they now have contests! What a great idea! Except for the fact I hate them. Why, you ask? Because there is only one guaranteed winner and the prize is often way too far under the value of the product. Sitepoint has a similar deal going, cheap companies looking for people to offer their services for a crummy cash prize.

What I hate to see is the amount people who enter these things and spend hours coming up with a logo or design, and get absolutely nothing for it. There’s no guarantee you’ll get anything, and there’s also a chance the contest creator will take off with the entries and use them without you knowing, and you end up with nothing. Sure, they’re a good idea if you have A LOT of free time to waste, or can come up with something amazing in 20 min. but, when I was at Sitepoint entering contests I was staying up late and spending countless hours tweaking my designs and logos for the “client” (which can be seen by all). What ends up happening? Someone swoops in at the end and uses the critiques of my logo (and others) to create the “perfect” logo. They win. You’re welcome for the help. Now, where’s my cut of the hours and work I did? Gah.

Don’t get me wrong, worth1000.com has a lot of amazingly talented people on there, but the fact that they support cheap, under paying companies/clients is beyond me. Perhaps for some winners it works out and they end up winning a contest that only took them 45 min. to do beginning to end, but I doubt it.

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