who are we?
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who are we?
we're a rather odd and mercurial fellow, mr. andy corax, who is the brilliant one (but about whom I could say much more, since he seldom is around, whereas I, about to introduce myself below, manage to take care of the plebian, mundane work &mdash while mr. corax goes to wine tastings and art openings...) the only snap of mr. corax I have; I was taking a picture of some swans, and caught him in it. he doesn't like having his picture taken.
mr. cole on the rue du montparnasse, paris....and a less-bright (and apparently modest), but nevertheless faithful and dependable amanuensis and factotum, mr. barton cole (see mr. cole's essay, "Boris and Sergei," at geniusweirdo.org}.
between the two, we generate clever web and other contemporary designs.but really -- as usual, he's out of the room, and he's not going to look at his own site, so let me tell you -- you'll be dealing with mr. cole.
where are we?
Presently, we're based in Langley, a little town on an island off the northwest coast of america -- about thirty kilometers north of seattle, washington, usa:view larger map →
our campus
Here's a snap of one of our top tech guys at our campus; he's just left the Binary Asset Lab, where our servers hum in a hermetically-sealed, climate-controlled, pressurized room below ground with radon shielding. We can't take a picture of the Lab without an infra-red camera, because of the special, anti-microbial/fungal/viral(digital and other) lighting, and we don't use one in our work.
Looks like he's headed up to the Digital Media Lab; he might drop in at the Control Room, off to his left, where large white boards hang thickly like posters in a head-shop. This is how the design team can maximize their display note-writing and design brainstorms, keeping them all straight in a small, intimate space.
The atmosphere is often rarefied, seldom somber, and, when not frustrated by a missing semicolon or other stray smidgen of typography,really, it's like taking kindergarteners on a field trip to the zoo, keeping track of the stray punctuation, without all of which, in proper order (like a genome), the site is broken -- or, as a genome, you could call it mutated. you could say we were serenely jubilant, most of the time.
We enjoy our work, and as noted below, can take it to interesting places.
Here's a snap of one of the work stations in the Digital Media Lab:
And we're set up with hefty Pelican cases for our laptops , and have multiple file backups and source materials (lots stored on a one-and-a-half-terabyte external hard drive) ready to hand, not to mention the (rudimentary) requisite software; we are always prepared to be web jockeys.
In fact, we set up shop a couple summers ago in Amsterdam, in a room at the Hotel Asterisk, just across the garden from Heineken headquarters, and across the canal from the brewery. From there, with broadband internet access, I was working the domains like a switchboard operator on roller skates.
Set up remotely, with internet access and our copious notes, we can manage our domains in any way, from anywhere. Not a bad setup.
