Explosives

It feels like spring is officially breaking here. I’ve officially cracked two windows to let some of that forty-something air in as the sunlight combines with the radiator to make this place pleasently too warm. A warm week in March is way too soon to declare victory over winter in Cleveland, yet I am hopeful.

As if with one final malicious whip, however, this winter finally got a hold of my immune system and I ended up lamenting a cold all week. Such a state lazied me up enough to prevent my forward progress on this site, but that excuse has come to pass.

In a pleasant turn of events my old friend Theresa sent me a tiny crocheted bomb in the mail. A mail-bomb if you will. Let it never be said that we failed to live a life of danger.

Adios Kiddos.

'Never for Fear Of Exploding We'd Let the World Turn'

This Passing Week …

'Here's to Hoping Where We're Going Sells Nice Postcards'

Last week I had a small showing for an event by my old university. The Akron Civic Theatre — one of six remaining atmosphere theaters left in the United States –asked me to display some of my work at a fundraiser event in their “AkronNites” series.

'And One For the Things We've Never Done'

Here are three paintings I made for this event last month. I hope everyone enjoys them.

'All My Friends Play This Game Called Exploding'

The Process of Floating Away

'When Nothing's Left for TV Sets in Head Rests Our Children Will Dream Again'

This is unofficially my first post in what shaping up to be my brand new website. I’ve been saying I was going to redesign this thing for about two years and I’ve been lying about redesigning it since October so it is nice to actually be doing it.


There is still a large chunk of work ahead of me — I still need to design the backing pages after I finish the homepage, but I really like the way it is shaping up. All this coding is making my brain gently boil, but I like the way it’s shaping up.


With that said I should get back to coding it.
I’ll talk to you again when I have more to show for my efforts.


Regards,


Andrew R Shondrick

Newness

With this new site being well underway I thought I’d post a little about it for those parties interested.

My old site, (which, for the time being, is still available at arshondrick.com/old had a few nice tricks in it but ultimately it was too dark and impractical. There came a time to realize that I lack the skill and time to create and maintain a truly wonderful Flash site so I decided to move on.

I decided to build this site around a Wordpress core for several reasons. I wanted a blog-centric website to make updating easy and to give people a chance to subscribe to the RSS feature. Not being based solely in flash, my images and content will be search engine friendly and people will be able to bookmark any page that interests them. Wordpress allows you to download their program to your own site and then to style it to any extreme that suits you needs. All in all this allows me to highly functional, professional and easy-to-operate website.

For those of you wondering, I actually and a simpleton with minimal wed design/programming knowledge. My ability to get this thing off the ground owes much graditude to css-tricks.com and more specifically this screen-cast series.

With this being said, my future posts here will move away from drab web design talk and focus on painting, (which I am significantly better at).

Until then.