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Work Highlights

Someone once asked me for three pieces of work. The question was brilliant in simplicity.

Highlight…

a piece of work that pertains to your career.
a piece of work that highlights you personally.
a piece of work of which you are particularly proud.

Ancient Observatories

During a Solar System Ambassador call in 2005 for Sun/Earth Day, I conceived this idea using imagery from the IKONOS satellite. I created the web feature using Flash ActionScript, assembled the imagery and wrote the content. The feature was extremely popular (and continued to be so) that year. The site was featured on the NASA website for a time as well as garnering an Adobe Site of the Day award. Note: You will need a PC to view this feature. It was written in Flash Actionscript. Support from Apple on the Mac ended a couple of years ago and I am in the process of updateing for cross-platform viewing in HTML5/CSS. If you can play a SWF, you can view the page.

Saturn Beach

My son called me a philosopher of stars after creating this particular piece of space art. I’ve always loved astronomy and space art is the epitomy of our explorations. Art shows a Universe full of imagination and possibility; what-ifs. I’m drawn to create this way. Saturn Beach is a fairly complex photo-illustration in Photoshop using my own images, imagery from Hubble Space Telescope and the Cassini spacecraft.

Hubble Star Cards

Hubble Star Cards provide teachers and students a fun and exciting way to explore the universe using imagery from the orbiting telescope. The images on the cards motivate and engage students to read while developing strategies in learning about objects in space. The cards won a Hubble Gold Star award from NASA and IGES for innovative use of Hubble imagery in informal science education as well as an Independent Book Publishing Award (IPPY) in children’s interactive. Game cards include 60 cards divided into general sections of planets, planetary nebulae, supernova remnants, nebulae, star clusters and galaxies. The cards include an image, a basic description, a key to the type of object, location in the sky, constellation, and distance from Earth.