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SFMOMA Artists Gallery Warehouse Event

Update: this exhibiton is over but they continue to have my work in stock — all the pieces are  framed and available for sale or rental.  Visit their introductory info page at sfmoma.org and the actively updated  SFOMA Artists Gallery Blog with many images (although not a complete catalog). Here’s a blog post about my panoramic [...]
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Robert Hartman Lecture: Color Infrared Aerial Photographs

Join me at this event this Saturday…   Robert Hartman will give a lecture and show slides and prints of his photographic work with a question & answer session to follow. I expect we will have a good turn out to this exciting talk and slide show.   Exotic colors, abstract art, and abstract geometry [...]
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Eco-friendly signage: Paperless “Poster” on glass

Here’s an innovative idea for putting ink on glass. This avoids using a plastic substrate to adhere to the glass. But not nearly as easy and convenient to use. In the end, Speedball’s nontoxic water-soluble inks, though not endorsed for window applications by the manufacturer, held up well while being a more environmentally responsible choice [...]
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WordPress forum tools: bbPress vs phpBB comparison

bbPress vs phpBB comparison Both bbPress and phpBB are PHP based forum softwares. However, although their primary goals are both to aid in the formation of an online community and to easily allow your sites visitors to discuss topics with each other, the routes they both take to achieve that goal is quite different. bbPress [...]
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SFMOMA Artists Gallery: New Work at the Gallery

  My work was featured on the SFMOMA Artists Gallery blog today. I just delivered this new work to them last week and will deliver more new work soon.   via SFMOMA Artists Gallery: New Work at the Gallery by Ari Salomon.
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Gravity Forms vs. Wufoo for WordPress

Gravity Forms just updated to version 1.5. So it’s a good time for me to talk about how much I love this tool. It’s got tons of features and can get really complex but also allows for a quick and robust simple contact form. One of the key features that puts it above the rest [...]
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The best permissions setup for WordPress and Plesk

Years ago, when I first installed WordPress on my Plesk-based server I had some problems with file permission issues. I could not upload images and WordPress could not edit the .htaccess file. The best solution to these issues was to use a few command lines to set the ftp username for the domain to the [...]
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Exhibition: FOTO at ARC

FOTO: Pushing Boundaries juried by Ada Takahashi, Director and Partner, Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco March 5–26, 2011 closing reception and artists talk: March 26th, 12-2pm Arc Gallery, 1246 Folsom Street, San Francisco I have 3 vertical panoramic images in this juried show.      
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DNS propagation viewable on a world map

I just discovered a great tool for anyone who deals with the arcane world of DNS. It shows how DNS changes are propagating across the world with a neat world map view. It’s great to have a visualization tool for something so abstract. I can dig the command line for its simplicity and power but sometimes [...]
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Free WordPress Workshop by HelloARI: Web sites for Performing and Visual Artists in Chicago

  Peter McDowell and I will offer the free workshop “WordPress Web sites for Performing and Visual Artists” at the 2011 Creative Chicago Expo on March 12, 2011. The Expo is held at the Chicago Cultural Center, 78 E. Washington and offers free admission. Using dynamic discussion and visual examples, this workshop will go through [...]
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