Now that’s thinking outside the box…

In Columbus Ohio, life — and apparently paint — comes at you fast. This eight-story advertisement for Nationwide Insurance required dousing an office building, a nearby parking lot and some cars in about 75 gallons of yellow paint, according to Orange Barrel Media, the ad agency that constructed it. The three-panel billboard proved one company’s willingness to take a risk on a prominent High Street building and another’s ability to carry out a client’s crazy plan.

Orange Barrel Media specializes in “Landmark Advertising” and has a handful of other brilliant projects pictured on their inspirational (yet, surprisingly slim on content) website: http://orangebarrelmedia.com/

Original post from: http://www.columbusalive.com/live/contentbe/EPIC_shim.php?sec=arts&story=alive/2008/best/arts/09.html

Retina Quality CSS

Setting Up Your Files
Designing for Retina Quality devices such as the iPhone require two sets of images. Let’s take for example this image:

images/myImage.jpg

On a normal device, this would appear at 150×75. But when designing for a device with RQ display, you will need a second image in the same directory, at 300×150.

The Code
Unfortunately, older devices such as the iPhone 3 do not support the same codes that the iPhone 4 and iPad support. This means, we need two separate sets of CSS code. The first set will display the image as it should appear on non-RQ devices.

.myImage {
height: 75px;
width: 150px;
background: url(“images/myImage.jpg”);
}

Now, we have to check to see if the device has an RQ display.

@media screen and (-webkit-device-pixel-ratio: 2) {}

Now simply add your css code inside this check, like so:

@media screen and (-webkit-device-pixel-ratio: 2) {
.myImage {
height: 75px;
width: 150px;
background: url(“images/myImagex2.jpg”);
background-size: 100%;
}
}

Notice the image is myImagex2.jpg. This is your image at double it’s original size, which is resized by the device’s browser to the container’s size, thus doubling the pixels shown.

Latest Photoshoot & Event

View photos from Ashley’s latest project, a baby shower in Sacramento CA. Services included invitation design, event planning and photography. Samples from the event here: http://ashleymporciuncula.myphotoalbum.com/view_album.php?set_albumName=album03

 

Photography by Ashley M. Porciuncula

The Face of Equality

At the San Francisco Pride festival, thousands upon thousands of people joined together to celebrate and support, not only LGBT pride. They celebrated equality of all sorts. Every man, woman, child on this planet, each one of us born with a heart and mind, dreams and passions, flaws and talents. They gathered to show the power of freedom, tens of thousands of people strong. We use that freedom to love whom we choose and BE whom we choose.

 

We choose equality.

 

The face of equality… Is it male or female? Black or white? Young or old?At SF Pride, I completed a photo essay that shows the answer to this question is, all of the above. My goal was to show the wide spectrum of people – real living breathing people – who represent a joined love, making a statement: “I Am Equal”

 

These people don’t just exist at the times that we choose to see them. They live among us, every day. We are all here. Together. Equal.

 

 
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Prints available upon request
Recommended Listening: Together as One, by DJ Earworm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKoBye__Txw