Temporary Hiatus
As I have been packing, painting, and cleaning for the move to my new place, I simply haven’t had the mindset (or the ideas) for new blog posts. I have been working and fixing up the place every day for the past 5 days, and it’s not slowing down yet. I am exhausted, but it must get done. Therefore, it may be a little while until I update this again.
I set out for the goal of updating this twice a week, but I always struggle to come up with things to talk about, especially considering that I want to avoid directly talking about my personal life (well, perhaps at the most keeping it vague).
So perhaps this “hiatus” may simply mean less frequency with my blog posting. *shrug* It certainly didn’t help that my blog went down for that week I was on vacation, and it still hasn’t fully recovered (you might notice that the earlier blog posts are still missing images)… It’s frustrating when your code goes down and there’s nothing you can do about it. Watch, as soon as this post is made, it won’t actually mean anything and I’ll find random stuff to rant about and post on here.
Be forewarned, my blog posting may have less frequency. Though this post gave me the idea for another entry, which will be up later this week 
Business Cards
Blackened Sun Business Card (June 2009)
Back in September, I had a concept for my website that I was planning to follow through on, so I designed a business card to go with it. I ordered 250 of them and handed out the majority of those business cards at SxSW Interactive. I actually didn’t make them for the event at all, but it turned out to be a blessing to have (though I wish I knew Twitter was going to be such a massive part of the event, or else I would’ve put my Twitter name on there as well). I certainly don’t need that many cards typically, but going to an event like that, you certainly hand out a lot of them. I was throwing 30-40 cards into my backpack every day and probably going back to the hotel with only 5.
Actually, prior to attending SxSW, I didn’t even know Twitter had truly made it to such a large audience. I was still “ignorant” to the force that Twitter had become. That’s probably another post, though.
Meanwhile, my website continued to say “coming soon,” and I never did get around to designing a website to match the card. I couldn’t get past what I want the site to function as, and I kept changing my mind on how the design would end up. I finally decided (as you can see with the site) to go with a complete change around, and got away from the dark and gloomy aspect of “Blackened Sun,” as that mindset and what the name originally represented, is far from who I am today.
Of course, with a new website, a new business card should follow. It certainly helps that I decided to finally move the last of my remaining “chains” to Massachusetts to Florida (my phone number). I needed a new card to display the new number, regardless.
I’ll probably make another post showing the cards when they come in. The card design shown with this post, however, does not have rounded corners. The actual business card will.