Katie Sexton is a freelance developer, designer, and wearer of many hats. She currently works as Associate Publisher of One Story Magazine, and resident Guru of music&art sites big and small.
Her experience spans such fields as database creation/info culling, all the way to non-profit literary magazine circulation. Along the way she has used like so many stepping stones technologies such as: MySQL, perl, php, MSVB, Access, Open Office, DBD::Excel, Svg, and more.
At times, she has even been employed as copyeditor (wherein she found TWO class-A typos for a globally-distributed lit rag), copywriter (her so-called elegant copy could use some work), and even–writer.
You have stumbled upon her newly-conceived personal playground. You will find links to professional work, the occasional project, tutorials that should be easier to find on google, eventual explanations of why posting a tutorial would make it easier to find on google, warm-up doodles, and more.
Katie can be reached for all personal and professional inquiries at katie@phobo.us.
ONE LINE DRAWING
What is the deal with the “one line drawing” all over the art section? This would probably be the most frequently asked question about phobo.us, were explanatory questions routinely asked.
large-scale One Line Experiment via maedastudio.com
One line drawings are simply an art exercise as old as the hills, requiring the artist to create a complete picture without lifting the pen. From the point of view of one k. sexton, the one line drawing is the perfect warm up for the day: manual dexterity and creative visualization are both required to make a one-liner of any quality. The trickiest part of the one-line drawing would have to be maintaining proper perspective–lifting the pen allows the brain an additional vector to organize the transformation from 3->2d, giving the mind more space in which to “see” the compacting of the curves.
Is there something or someone you’d like to see done in one line? Send an email and you may be pleasantly surprised.
HOUSE OF DINOSAURS
Here at phobo.us, the favorite technologies are often considered “dinosaurs” by the kind of people who believe a new paradigm should be created every time a basic website feature makes it into the “big time” (for example, social link sites), complete with a self-compiling web dev language and framework for “rapid scalability”.
Someone may notice eventually, that my site currently has around ~37 errors according to the w3c. Why is that, you may be wondering. Take-I no pride in my work? Well, no. The w3c takes no pride in its work. The current spec has nothing to do with how browsers work, how programmers program, or how users use the web. It has everything to do with fixing minor humanitic/semantic flaws according to the top “info architects”. As a result, the xhtml2 website fails to load in basically every modern browser* … yet this is the spec that they are pushing on us all as soon as they finish it!
I for one, do not look forward to wrapping all “optional” xml elements in
TRANSLATION: I am a fan of things like cgi and perl, and even things like the