Love exploring all aspects of life. I love the colors the sunset made in this one photo. It soothes my soul and makes me feel peace. In the second photo, there is something about the structures in this photo just draw me in and make my mind work and create stories. For example to me it was a secret weapons base and some spy managed to get some photos.

These are some random photos from some of my adventures abroad and here in States. Some of locations are, San Francisco – California, Black Rock – Nevada, Brooklyn – New York, Long Island New York, Wilmington North Carolina, Paris- France, Croatia, New Zealand and Australia. If you woud like to purchase one please email me at epickreations@gmail.com. Purchasing one will help me get more of prints out there! Thanks in advance for your support!!

Sometimes when life has stunted your growth, its time for a change. It can either be large change or sometimes just a temporary change of scene to get yourself fired up!

I went out west for a long weekend with some friends to go snowboarding. I needed a break from the negativity that was starting to cloud my mind. So what does your mind think about when your heading down a steep black diamond trail? How fast can I go and how do I not hurt myself. Well luckily keeping my mind focused on just those two simple things changed my perspective. I didn’t have time for any doubts, I didn’t have time to think about other things. So the universe picked up on the positive vibes I was feeling. The freedom of flying down at my peak this weekend which was 43mph cleared my doubts my fears and brought about a new sense of pride and joy.

The universe greeted me with some new job opportunities. I have a phone interview this week, and possibly some others. So if your feeling blue, tired, bored, or just not yourself. Find a way to push yourself, to test yourself, to challenge yourself, and yes get in touch with nature! It helps to enjoy life when your seeing the world at 6000 + feet! Thank you Steamboat Mountain for the trails, for the lifts, and the gorgeous views!

Why are there those who don’t want to hear reason? Why are there those who only want to hear YES. Why are there those that regardless of research, or data to prove their ideas are on the wrong path still want to push forward?

Why penalize those individuals for speaking their mind? Why shun those who want to grow, and learn from mistakes, who want to read and research things before executing plans?

Why not listen to the skilled and trained employees you hired?

I’d rather be the employee that listens, that questions, that researches, that comes up with ideas and solutions to problems. I’d rather be acknowledged not for agreeing and seeing projects fail, but for questioning and seeing possible issues before we waste the time and money on execution. I value my time and my work, wouldn’t you want an employee whose ideals are in your best interest than those who just agree with you?

From the inception of our game, I have been advocating that we should release Red’s Journey as a free app. I have researched and read articles about other developers trying to get the reach they were looking for, and through their trials and tribulations have come to the same conclusion.

There are times that you have no control over the strategy, the execution of the marketing plan. Regardless of the data you provide, the research you provide, sometimes it’s out of your control and you have to let those in charge fail, and see what could have been done to make it a success, hoping that they see how my recommendations would have made it a success.

My plan was to showcase the app as how a Eye Glass Company was breaking barriers by exploring new avenues. To release the game as a free app, and donate our AD revenue to the charities we partnered with. That plan was not approved regardless of the data that was provided.

So with the current marketing plan, with our partners advertising the game as well, and showcasing our app at a Vision Expo with an estimated 20,000+ of attendees and vendors, this was our final stats.

386,350 Impressions (Daily Average) – The number of times your app showed up on the App Store.

1,827 Product Page Views (Daily Average) – The number of times your app’s App Store page has been viewed on devices with iOS 8 or tvOS 9, or later.

45 App Units – Each app purchase on a device with iOS 8 or tvOS 9, or later.

34 Sessions – The number of times the app has been used for at least two seconds.

As one of the team members, it saddens me that this could have been more successful, that we could have raised a lot more money for charity, had they looked at the data, and looked at the research, and looked at my recommendations with an open mind.

I watched these two videos, and I think that they are very eye opening and inspiring. So I wanted to share with you! Hope it resonates with someone.

Really interesting video – “design need not invoke grand gestures or sweeping statements to be successful, but instead can focus on the little things in life, the obvious, the overlooked”

Design is in the details

Showing a series of inspiring, unusual and playful products, British branding and design guru Paul Bennett explains that design doesn't have to be about grand gestures, but can solve small, universal and overlooked problems.

www.ted.com

Also how GoodYear is thinking outside the box for the future of tires…

Goodyear Presented They Futuristic Tire Concept - A Sphere!

We are used to seeing all sorts of crazy futuristic concepts, but this one took it a step further than anybody else. Their vision of the tire for the futur

BuzzSpeed

So I built a wordpress site for my company, I made them a template for creating parallax areas. Everything was working perfectly but then…. dun dun dun! The request came in to upload a mobile version of the image.

Normally this wouldn’t be an issue, but the problem lies that I was creating the section with inline style of the background image.

I tried doing some javascript checks and that worked perfectly when the page loaded for the first time. The resize function created all sorts of a mess!

The solution creating a media query and inserting my php variables of the background images, so before each section i am adding some styling and that was my non elegant solution. But one that works!!!

Here is link to the work in progress… wordpress parallax template

The light
The light guides me
The light calls to me
It’s the beacon that will show me the way
But the darkness
The darkness is engulfing
Like a thick fog rolling in over the sea
The darkness grabs onto my heart
The darkness with its thorny icy hands grabs onto my heart
The darkness binds thick chains to it
I struggle,
I struggle to free myself,
I struggle to remove the chains,
I struggle to see the light once again,
The light
The light peaks through the darkness
The light feels like a warm ray of sunshine after a cold rainy day.
But the darkness
The darkenss is pulling me down,
The darkness is drowning me in sea of perpetual turmoil.
The light,
The light with it’s warm embrace calls to me
I cannot stop,
I have to keep fighting for the light…

On this dreary Friday day, I had to stop the car and admire what I saw. The beauty behind the dreary day. The sun peaking through the trees reminds me that there is hope, that there is good, and that all is not lost.

The cold rain hitting my skin,
The wind blowing past me,
The visor building up drops as I ride,
I’m up to 75mph and only thoughts of flying enter my mind,
The rain at that speed feels like specs of dirt hitting my skin,
But those pings of pain keep me grounded,
The pain that I feel growing,
The pain that is spreading through my core.
Continue…