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NASCAR site (n.): A web site with a greater percentage of…

NASCAR site (n.): A web site with a greater percentage of advertisements and widgets than content at any scroll length.

Stutz Art Space Preview: Sight/ Insight: Artists & Places of Inspiration

Sight/ Insight will be at the Stutz Art Space from November 6-25, 2009.  The show incorporates a variety of styles ranging from abstract slashes of paint, abstract quilted fabric, exaggerated recognizable forms, jewelry, and paintings and photographs that display clearly recognizable subjects.  The artwork is juxtaposed leading the viewer to flow back and forth between [...]

Laku has the NERVE: A Preview

Butterfly Clover Three Daisy Jazz During the month of November, stop by Wug Laku’s Studio and Garage to see, Nerve, a collection of some of the gallery owner’s personal work.  His drawings and paintings are worth an extra trip downtown when his gallery is not crowded with people and conversations, but if one only has time to [...]

Beauty of Process or Anatomy of a Butterfly

There is something beautiful about the process of forming of ideas, thoughts, and art.  At a gallery or museum one can sometimes see the development of a series by viewing its parts, but this process is still fairly opaque with only a showing of the final work. Thankfully artist blogs are full of studies showing [...]

Designers who use the phrase “Click Here” within a website…

Designers who use the phrase “Click Here” within a website or email should be fined.

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Do bumper stickers and yard signs serve any positive purpose?

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Do the Arts inspire innovation in business?

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What's the story with the Windmills along I 65?

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Stephen James replied to Pat Coyle's discussion 'Do bumper stickers and yard signs serve any positive purpose?'
I would guess that yard signs are supposed to sway undecided voters. If I like my neighbor, then the candidate they support must not be too bad. This is especially true where their is a lack of information (either the fault of the voter or the can...
November 4
Stephen James replied to Pat Coyle's discussion 'Do the Arts inspire innovation in business?'
I find that some of my most creative times are times of worship at my church. The energy and joyful, enthusiasm of the time charges my creativity. Art is about as close to faith as many people get, due to the implicit metaphysical meaning. My wife...
November 1
Stephen James replied to Pat Coyle's discussion 'What's the story with the Windmills along I 65?'
"Informative" answer there from ChaCha! :-)
October 15
Stephen James commented on David Sicklesteel's blog post 'Go Green! Explore the Concept of Used and Refurnished Furniture Options'
In a related note there is an RSS news feed of craiglist furniture locally: http://indianapolis.craigslist.org/search/fua?query=furniture&catAbbreviation=fua&minAsk=0&maxAsk=500&hasPic=1&format=rss
October 15
Eric Stallsmith joined Stephen James's group
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A place to share your online presence outside of SmallerIndiana.
October 13
Joe Shoemaker replied to Stephen James's discussion 'What were the surprises with your first home?'
I think the biggest surprise to most first-time homeowners is the actual cost of maintenance and upkeep. I strongly suggest putting away $150 a month in a savings account to take care of things as they pop up, especially if it's an older house wit...
October 5
Tom Marsh replied to Stephen James's discussion 'What were the surprises with your first home?'
Yeah, the shut-off is key--good call there. Also, know where the cut-off for your outside faucets is so you can shut them off before it freezes and purge the water. It isn't always obvious where they are, so ask the previous owner--they can be ch...
October 5
Stephen James replied to Stephen James's discussion 'What were the surprises with your first home?'
Any hose longer than 75 ft is difficult to twist and encircle (If one has a hose holder, I guess it doesn't matter as much. I recommend a 50 ft thick (heavy duty) hose with quick linking attachments (multiple 50 ft if you have a larger lawn) and a...
October 5

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How did you hear about Smaller Indiana?
Friend
What is your greatest strength?
Flash timeline and Actionscript animation
Semantic, standards based and W3C-compliant markup
Information design for search engine optimization (SEO)
Best practices for usability, accessibility, and information architecture
Best practices for corporate blogging
Video editing and compression for the web
Dynamic content and databases interaction for Flash and XHTML
Graphic and user interface design
What are you working on?
I work for an advertising agency, MB2 Advertising (formerly Miles Brinson Brown) as an interactive designer. Recent projects include Flash/.net enterprise sites, artist portfolio/blogs, and Flash video promotional sites.
How big is your business?
small company
What is your Job Title
Other
What is your Company Website?
http://www.mb2advertising.com
What is your Personal Website?
http://www.smjdesign.com
What is your alma mater?
Other / out of state
Why join Smaller Indiana? What are you hoping to experience here ?
Finding others with similar interests.

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Stephen James

Sending Red Envelopes on March 31st?

I'm curious if anyone else is sending in Red Envelopes tomorrow on March 31st. My wife and I are. I think this is the first year its been done. I just went to a CVS and bought 2 cards for future birthdays for family members and grabbed a red envelope with it.

Anyway, I heard that the creators were wanting people to do photos and meet in groups at post offices and such, so I just thought I'd ask on SmIN. I believe it's between the hours of 12:00 - 1:00pm on the 31st if you work during the day. I… Continue

Posted on March 30, 2009 at 9:00am — 2 Comments

Stephen James

‘Perfected Communion’ is a perfect night



If you made it to Smaller Indiana's Elegant Funk back in August, you might have seen two of Rachel's bone paintings, in the middle of that "hot room." Well,… Continue

Posted on November 10, 2008 at 3:00pm — 1 Comment

Stephen James

List of active online networkers: Share your online presence


If you have your own website, you should list your most active social networks (and of course a link to SmallerIndiana) on your site. It's no different on your profile page here on SmIN--a.k.a. "My page."

Share your online social presence with other SmIN members


You… Continue

Posted on July 22, 2008 at 1:30pm — 1 Comment

Stephen James

If this is not a demographically skewed primary, I don't know what is

I woke up this morning to this map at CNN's website:



Lake, St. Joseph, Elkart, Allen, Tippecanoe, Hamilton, Boone, Hamilton, Marion, and Monroe counties were won by Obama and the rest were won by Clinton. Not much of a surprise.

Also, does anyone have any "Operation… Continue

Posted on May 7, 2008 at 3:30pm — 2 Comments

Stephen James

BlogIN conference planning underway

Members of SmIN met in person and by phone on this Saturday morning to establish the foundation for a conference this coming spring. We discussed the focus and outlined a structure for this event. In order to meet the wide diversity of interest and familiarity with blogging (and online social communities), it will be a hybrid conference--with both structure and unstructured platforms. We laugh, we cried, we proposed public relations and marketing starting points.

Those that gathered this mornin… Continue

Posted on February 16, 2008 at 1:12pm — 2 Comments

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At 9:59am on September 20, 2009, Lindsay Manfredi said…
I'm sorry that I didn't respond to your comment earlier. I just saw it this morning. :-) Thank you for reading it and pulling McLuhan into it. haha
At 12:05pm on June 30, 2009, Tod Esquivel said…
Hello Stephen,
We are working on a ning website but are at some challenges. Do you know of any web people who are good at working with ning sites? We will take whoever you know and speak to them about this project. Please fill free to foward my info also to any web people.

Tod Esquivel
2945 N. Lawndale Dr.
Indianapolis, Indiana 46224
317-289-1219
asktod@hotmail.com

Here are some of the barriers right now.

*having the public vote on video/written essay's where a member can only vote once. Just want to prevent any pitfalls with an online voting contest
*entries filling out online forms/essay's that will get fowarded to us

Everything else seems very easy to work with as an admin on ning.

Thank you! Tod Esquivel
At 11:30pm on April 21, 2009, Genie Goykhberg said…
Not a problem! I appreciate your reply.
At 1:44pm on April 7, 2009, Genie Goykhberg said…
up to 10
At 11:16am on April 7, 2009, Genie Goykhberg said…
would you be willing to help?

i would be happy to pay or exchange services...

thank you,

Genie
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At 9:47pm on January 5, 2009, Phillip Archer said…
Thank you for the correction. My main curiosity in advertising right now, is finding a way into the field, while I am still in school. Can you help by pointing me in the right direction? I have plenty of schoolwork to show.
At 6:56am on January 5, 2009, Scott Emmett said…
Thanks. No, I took it down. There was no "agenda" behind it really. I wrote it as a mental exercise and my adult children all thought it hilarious. I took it down because I got concerned how it might be taken by some people. I might put it back up sometime.
At 12:33am on January 5, 2009, Phillip Archer said…
Good day, James. You seem to be someone who may be able to answer some questions of mine. How long have you been in the advertising profession?
At 1:53am on December 9, 2008, Kelli Membreno said…
Hey Stephen! Great profile you have. Thanks for passing the info about my banquet hall to Carrie. Hopefully she will call me! Take care and hope Bucky Brinson is treating you right!! Kelli
At 4:19pm on November 18, 2008, Gabe Reed said…
good point...i should probably explain that's my name, that's why the link looks like that. Were you hesitant because it says "greed" in it?

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