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Beth

I am here for Friends

About Me

Presently I'm a User Interface Developer, teacher and occasional speaker. I also do freelance web design and digital illustration. I specialize in standards based design and development, information design/data visualization, usability, accessibility and SEO.You can hire me to design something, or read my blog. I'm also an editor for Designorati , an online magazine about design.

My Interests

Surprises, things I'm allergic to, recessive genes, glasses, sleeping, guitar, banjo, strange animal pairings, ocd, sleeves, polka dots, industrial structures, nearsightedness, and pixels.

I'd like to meet:

Yoko Ono and Janine Antoni. Not your crappy band.

Music:

Azure Ray, Throbbing Gristle, Team Dresch, Delta 5, Bride of No No, Neko Case, Numbers, Dolly Parton, Erase Errata, Mr. Airplane Man, Retsin, Freakwater, Ladytron, April March, The Need, Tracy + the Plastics, TJO, Loretta Lynn, Lovers, Sleater-Kinney, Carissa's Wierd, Black Heart Procession, Memphis Minnie, Black Mountain, Blonde Redhead, Pentagram.

Movies:

Storytelling, The Coal Miner's Daughter, Office Killer, Polyester, Me and You and Everyone We Know.

Television:

DVR is ruining my life.

Books:

The Double, Songs of Innocence and Experience, More Pricks than Kicks, We the Living, Feminist Visual Culture, My Gender Workbook, The Well of Loneliness, Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art, Women Art and Society, The Fountainhead, The Visual Display of Quantitative Information.

Heroes:

My Mother.