http://fyrewurks.com between the click of the light and the start of the dream Thu, 28 Jan 2010 20:44:33 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en On Sunday night, my sister and I came in from the frigid air of a quiet downtown Tulsa to see the Fiery Furnaces at Cain’s Ballroom. The Brooklyn brother-sister team (Eleanor and Matthew Friedberger) was laid back when we arrived: Eleanor hanging out in the small crowd consisting of 30-40 fans, and Matt selling [...]]]> http://fyrewurks.com/2010/01/fiery-furnaces-cains-ballroom-01-24-10/ I’ve just created a new WordPress theme – “The Lamppost” – under the GPL license: Clean, elegant, green, orange, silver, modern, widget-ready, Adsense-ready, supports gravatars. DEMO | DOWNLOAD ]]> http://fyrewurks.com/2010/01/the-lamppost/ I recently returned, part-time, to my old job of digital mapping. It’s a leisurely job where I can work on maps all day while being able to listen attentively to short stories and still get the job done. I’ve always liked maps, and I’m usually happy when I have a short story or good music to listen [...]]]> http://fyrewurks.com/2009/12/the-mappist/ Part I covered our first morning in Disneyland and Part II picks up at Small World – which was one of my very favorite rides – it was beautiful!!  As you will see here, I went crazy with the pictures, and even got a video of the entire wonderful ride! This is a culmination of Small World [...]]]> http://fyrewurks.com/2009/12/2009-disneyland-vacation-part-ii-its-a-small-world/ This Spring my daughter, sister in law, and I went to Disneyland – the weather was perfecto and we got to ride just about everything numerous times.  Since I haven’t managed to turn these digital photos of our Disneyland trip into physical photos, I thought I was high time I displayed them somewhere other than [...]]]> http://fyrewurks.com/2009/12/our-spring-2009-disneyland-vacation-part-i-discovering-disney-tomorrowland/ Now that I have the proper content width for displaying photos, I thought it was high time I posted some of the best photos (and some of the best times!) from this year here. These photos of numerous cute and amazing cakes were all taken at the Sugar Art Show – the largest competition of [...]]]> http://fyrewurks.com/2009/12/2009-sugar-art-show/ Maurice Sendak’s Where The Wild Things Are has always been one of my favorite books.  In fact, I even find myself watching the children’s TV show “Little Bear” (based on Sendak’s Little Bear) every now and then, even though my daughter grew out of the show years ago. The playful (and wild) spirit as well as [...]]]> http://fyrewurks.com/2009/11/where-the-wild-things-arent/ This past week I’ve had a ton of theme ideas and have really enjoyed making the ones I’ve had time to do - in fact, I think I may shift gears and work on design more than anything else for a while because I do enjoy it so much. I also want the themes on this site [...]]]> http://fyrewurks.com/2009/11/themes-galore/ OK, you can now get the Tiki Time WordPress theme (that I released for Savvy WordPress Themes a few days ago) right here under the GPL license. DEMO | DOWNLOAD Enjoy! ]]> http://fyrewurks.com/2009/11/tiki-time/ I’ve just created a new theme that highlights content with wide, open space and subtle use of color amidst black & silver.  Introducing Filmix: DEMO | DOWNLOAD It supports gravatars, is widget-ready, Adsense-ready, dark, modern, clean, and released under the GPL license. ]]> http://fyrewurks.com/2009/11/filmix/