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2021 Diehard Skeleton Crew Shirt

Did you know the NIH’s National Library of Medicine has a fantastic digital collection on their website? The content ranges from early historic medical texts (often with wild illustrations!) to health PSAs from the modern era – all high res and available to download. I’ve been waiting for a good application for the old anatomical illustrations and finally got it this fall.

The 2021 FTWDSC shirt design began with an equilateral triangle for the year of Delta, and a secret society aesthetic with the all-seeing eye and a Skull and Bones vibe flowed nicely from there. Add a splash of gore, and voilà! Ready for the Halloween season!

 
The skull and femur illustrations were sourced from The Anatomical Atlas, illustrative of the structure of the human body by Henry H. Smith, published in 1844.

The skull and femur illustrations were sourced from The Anatomical Atlas, illustrative of the structure of the human body by Henry H. Smith, published in 1844.

 
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New Rotoscoping Project

I just wrapped up a new music video for the song The Divide from Bound’s 2020 album Haunts. The video release will promote an upcoming northeast tour in December. The release date is still TBD while folks pitch the video for press coverage, but here’s a little sneak peak.

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Creative Jam

Last night I participated in my second Creative Jam with the fun folks at Into Action. For Mental Health Awareness Month hundreds of artists and animators came together last night to create digital graphics promoting mental health and advocacy for it. Participants were given a couple briefs and a virtual program including interviews and music. Here’s what I cranked out:

 
 
 
Customization for Private RSVP Pages on Squarespace
 

For a myriad of legitimate and illegitimate reasons, when I got married I rejected the conveniences of a pre-fab wedding website service. My portfolio page is a Squarespace site, and I wanted the same level of design control for the wedding page. That meant I needed to improvise some features that are not standard on Squarespace. One notable challenge was the +1 problem. To put it simply: Not everyone could bring a date. I wanted guests without “plus ones" to have a different RSVP form than those that did get dates — without it being painfully obvious.

It took a lot of effort to find this solution, so I thought I ought to document it. If someone else scours the internet as hard as I did to find a solution, they’ll land here eventually.

Our save-the-date and invitations directed guests to our wedding homepage where they could find hotel info, view the registry, and fill out a password-protected RSVP form. It seemed simple enough; all we needed was one password form field that directed guests to different pages depending on the password provided with their invitation. But nothing like this exists out of the box on Squarespace.

 
 

I found my solution by adapting code shared by sf.digital. It was created for a photographer who wanted to send clients to specific galleries. It’s a simple fix that directs users to a different subpage based on the password they provide. It’s not high security, but the CSS can be easily customized — which was my priority.

Sf.digital’s instructions are very clear and easy to follow. This trick does require a business level Squarespace account in order to inject code into a content block though.

Note: be sure to turn on the “Hide Page from Search Results” option for each RSVP form page under Page Settings > SEO.

<div id="submitCodeWrapper">
  <input id="event-code-input" type="text" maxlength="5" class="box" autofocus />
  <input id="event-code-submit" class="myButton"  type="SUBMIT" value="Submit" disabled="disabled">
  <div id="feedback"></div>
 </div>
<script>
  var eventCode = document.getElementById("event-code-input");
  var codeSubmit = document.getElementById("event-code-submit");
  
  eventCode.addEventListener("keyup", function () {
    if (eventCode.value.length < 5) {
      feedback.style.color = "D31219";
      feedback.textContent = 'Code is not long enough yet...';
      codeSubmit.disabled = true;
      }
    else if (eventCode.value.length = 5) {
      feedback.style.color = "green";
      feedback.textContent = 'Code is correct length';
      codeSubmit.disabled = false;
      }
  });    
  codeSubmit.addEventListener("click", function () {    
    location.href = '/' + eventCode.value; return false;
});
</script>
<style>
.myButton {
  height:53px;
  margin-left:10px;
  width: 145px;
  padding: 10px;
  background-color: #0ba4d9;
  text-transform: uppercase;
  font-family: futura, sans-serif;
  letter-spacing: 20px;
  color: #fff;
  border-radius: 0px;   
  border: 0;
  letter-spacing: 1px;
  color: #fff;
 }  
#event-code-input {
  height:48px;
  font-size: 20px;
  padding-left:10px;
}
#feedback {
  margin-top: 10px;
  color:red;
}
</style>

01/26/22 UPDATE – Wow. This blog post gets way more visitors than I ever expected. Did you find the information you were looking for?

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July show just announced!

 
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