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Biodiesel infographic

By Patricia On December 12, 2008 In Graphics With 2 Comments Permanent Link to Biodiesel infographicPermalink

Infographic about how to make Biodiesel at home…

The version that ran in the paper was slightly different, since we (Techinically, Buddy Golfen, car master who will be dearly missed after he volunteered for the recent layoffs) found a different photo of a car that uses diesel, instead of a random photos.com car. I needed it to be a certain angle and show the little gas door, so props to Mike Meister (beloved photo God) and Buddy.

Things are slowly but surely falling apart here in good ol’ Phoenix. A shame really, because I was having a good time till now.

Things I do

By Patricia On October 28, 2008 In Graphics, Music, Tempe With 5 Comments Permanent Link to Things I doPermalink

Another graphic that went well with editors.

Two things that they wanted to show: geographical zip codes and home value data. I thought making a map at some sort of perspective would serve both purposes. Anyways, it was good to get some positive feedback.

I shot this concert a few weekends ago. I didn’t think any of the shots were spectacular, so I was in no hurry to post them, but since Christina asked.

Ask and you shall receive….

The main band was Anberlin. I didn’t think they there terrible. Sounded the same as most middle of the road rock bands, to be quite honest. But they were nicely dressed! Which is not only rare to see nowadays, but after experiencing the band right before them, it was a nice surprise.


I wanted to give them more of a chance, but really, I was slightly annoyed because a) security at the entrance made me feel 25 percent molested. Not even at the freaking airport have I been patted like that, and I had to take of my shoes! WTF? I asked why the security crackdown, and I pointed out it had not been like this when I came to see Sigur Ros. The guy goes “well, it depends on the type of crowd we think we’re going to get.” This made even less sense when I got inside and discovered that the crowd consisted of tweens and teens, some with their mothers. And b) the local band that came right before Anberlin, some guys called Scary Kids, Scaring Kids, was just down right awful. I’ll preface that we saying that I personally don’t like bands that make only “noise” instead of music-related noise. Obviously I had to stay for their whole set, but I couldn’t really tell you where one song started and the next one ended, it was all a continuous combination of screaming, running around like a crazy chicken, shirtless-ness and more noise.

So let’s just say that by the time it was Anberlin’s turn, my patience and tolerance was at an all time low. But I did have one slightly interesting shot from this bunch…

That was before the keyboardist decided to lose the shirt. Combined with the extreme low-rise jeans, I was thinking we’d have a guaranteed wardrobe malfunction. PS: flip flops are not very rock ‘n roll. Put some damn shoes on.

But I want to conclude on a good note, and say thanks to the security guys by the stage, who are always very nice and helpful. They prevent me from getting crushed by the people they pull from the crowd… always a plus. And they even recommend some good upcoming shows. One mentioned a metal band with cellos!? Interesting…

Graphics galore

By Patricia On October 16, 2008 In Graphics With 2 Comments Permanent Link to Graphics galorePermalink

A few recent graphics. I work a lot with maps. Mostly locating places. 

       
           

 

 

 

To the right, I have a graphic that ran on A1. And better yet,
it was on the upper half of the paper so everyone walking by the newspaper on the stands definitely saw my graphic. Well, they probably were more concerned with the plugging Dow and their disappearing 401k than my actual graphic.

Although I liked the original headline of Slaughter in Wall Street. Perfect with all the red! Looking back on it, I should’ve put my name on it, even if it did make it deeper… I’m sure the designer could’ve spared a few points, right? Probably not. 

 
Here’s another good one that was also a bit of a challenge. The reporter filed two sets of numbers: the fluctuation of gas prices in dollars (amounts in the $3, $4 range), and the fluctuation of oil prices (in the $90-$120 range) which he wanted to compare as two lines. One set of numbers fluctuated by a few cents or dollars, while the other changed by 20, 30, 40 dollars. 

 Plotting them together would have  giving me two lines, yes, but it wouldn’t have been visually interesting, since  one line (the gas prices one) would have been a straight line, with no visual  fluctuation. Once again it was a problem of scale, which I always find tough  to explain. 

 So to the left you can see what we ended up doing. Instead of showing  actual dollar amounts, we showed percent change from the start of January  2008. This way we visually showed what the reporter was trying to get at  with the story, that even though oil prices are going down below January  prices, gas prices are not dropping quite as fast. 

 Ayrel and I were discussing for a while how we would calculate that percent  change, which led to massive math related profanities. But reporter Russ  Wiles decided to intervene with his sharp math genius, right after he heard  me say “I’m going to have to Google how to do that”. 

 That’s that with graphics for now. I have a few others I want to post but I  don’t have them in my personal computer.

 I’m photographing another concert at the Marquee this weekend. I might try  to get there earlier to avoid the stupidity of their parking situation.  

 

Random graphic

By Patricia On September 28, 2008 In Graphics With 3 Comments Permanent Link to Random graphicPermalink

Alternative Storytelling? To me it just looks like an infographic… 

Alicia Keys concert photos coming up soon! 

Project is up!

By Patricia On August 20, 2008 In Graphics, Multimedia With No Comments Permanent Link to Project is up!Permalink

The project that I did the pampered pups photoshoot for is finally up on azcentral.com, so go check it out even if you have already seen it, so I can get more hits!  Go to azcentral.com/pets and scroll down to the black menu looking sidebar, it’s called Pampered Pups.

Or go to this link although I’m not sure if those visits count as hits. Eh, either way go check it out! This project tested my Photoshop skills to no end, well, at least my cutout skills. Major thanks go to Actionscript maven Dan Kempton for helping me figure out how to add all the items up.

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