While in Guatemala late last year, I worked with  Common Hope.  The goal of Common Hope is to empower down on their luck Guatemalans to improve their situation, something I see parallels with even in web design (if you want to get into a philosophical discussion about the true goals of Content Management, let me know).  We built a home for a family without one, and when I returned to Minneapolis, I contacted the organization and asked how can I continue to help.  They of course had a project that needed some development.

Please check out the Common Hope Volunteer Network, which I’ve given some extra functionality to as well as hours of best practice consulting.  Excited to be working with them on an upcoming forum where volunteers can continue to communicate after their work has been provided!

aka, where did Clint go?  Been pretty busy actually!  After 6 months of being very picky and fielding many different full time offers, I’m glad to say that I took a position over at Help/Systems.  I really wasn’t sure how I would feel about leaving the world of freelance/contracting and go full time, but I’m really glad I did.  I work with some awesome people, and really kind of run the show as head of all things internet over there.  Nice be able to call all the shots and not work through project managers to actually get things done :).  While I am a consultant almost for our entire media presence, the bulk of my job is Drupal Development.  Getting WAY into the Drupal community and very excited about the whole new focus for my work.

What will become of this site?  I’m not really sure.  Right now the plan is for Sine Interactive to slowly turn into a Drupal shop and maybe ClintCarlson.com will just be a personal blog site that isn’t all about work and portfolios.  Playing it by ear :).  As for any freelance work, I’m going to continue to work outside of my full time gig, but it’s really going to be geared toward my volunteer projects.  So stay tuned, there’s more to come, it’s just evolving ;)

-Clint

Here is a flash banner ad I did for Steinlager, enjoy!

So it seems that a few great sites I’ve done have slipped through the cracks from the latest redesign of my site. Great ones like Greg Zrust, who despite me never having much contact with barbers (no hair) entrusted me to create a site for him that brings out both his style and a load of information.

While I can’t say from experience that he’s an amazing barber, I can tell you he’s a great, funny guy with a huge fan base from his work!

Greg Zrust – Master Barber

Doing a lot of work with a few up and coming graphic designers in the Twin Cities by fleshing out frameworks and giving them some specs so they can have input in the creation of their online portfolios.

First is Sara C. Moe – Graphic Designer.  Built on a javascript jquery backbone, images can be swapped out easily just using a file structure that Sara was given a crash course in.

Enjoy! – Sara C. Moe