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About Me

In a nutshell, I design and develop Web sites for the entertainment industry (which, to me, doesn't include sports or gaming...those are industries in and of themselves). Now why, pray tell, am I not only interested in but qualified to serve this business called show?
It's because I really know of no other way to be. I worked as a model and actor for twelve years. I've got over ten years of musical experience under my belt. I spent five years in New York City studying acting and working at some of the hottest Broadway shows at the time...The Lion King, Ragtime, Fosse, The Full Monty, and Seussical, to name a few. The few spare hours I had left were devoted to volunteer work for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS and the Drama Desk Awards. All told, I've worked alongside Eartha Kitt, Heather Headley, Bebe Neuwirth, Max Casella, Craig Bierko, and Samuel E. Wright and hobnobbed among countless more luminaries.
So naturally, it would follow that after I got hooked on graphic design back in 1999, I'd decide to combine my personal and professional background with the skills I picked up as a designer and give back to my beloved performing arts community in a unique and useful way. However, there was only one place I knew of where celebrity culture truly runs rampant and would therefore fuel my business aspirations, so I set my sights on a design career in Los Angeles. And here I am.
Why not check out my work? Get the whole shebang (read: all the samples and info you can handle) at www.ladesigngirl.com , or head straight to the sites I've done with these quick links:
Beauty and the Beast: A Latter-Day Tale
Freak Winds
Everything You Want
Honey! Creative
Laura Caputo, Ms. T.
Jimmy ReidAll links open in a new window, so don't worry about losing your MySpace place! My top friends are a mix of past and current clients, designers, and other creatives...hardly randomly selected!

My Interests

Art & design - music - movies - television - logic problems - writing - board games (nerd alert--Trivial Pursuit's my favorite) - computer games

I'd like to meet:

To be honest, I'm always on the lookout for new clients. But I'm also looking to meet:

Other designers. Doesn't matter what your medium is -- graphic/print, Web, Flash, MySpace, or broadcast. If I can't take a job, I'll need to find someone who can! Web programmers. If you can set up a decent e-commerce program/database system/thing that requires extensive programming, I can handle the front end, so let's pair up. Other visual artists. This includes illustrators, photographers, and anyone else who performs a service for which I may need a subcontractor or a referral.

Music:

Prince - George Michael - Zero 7 - Tony Lucca - Coldplay - Led Zeppelin - U2 - Rooney - Madonna - Josh Kelley - Lifehouse - Keane - Elton John - Collin Raye - Joe Firstman - The Monkees - The Ramones - The Elected - Linda Eder - John Lennon - Josh Groban - Sting - Peter Gabriel - Lynyrd Skynyrd - Rilo Kiley...just to name "a few."Some of my favorite songs (according to iTunes, anyway):"Hear You Me" by Jimmy Eat World - "Strange and Beautiful (I'll Put A Spell On You)" by Aqualung - "The Scientist" by Coldplay - "Love's Divine" by Seal - "Precious" by Depeche Mode - "You And Me" by Lifehouse - "Untitled" by Simple Plan - "Collide" by Dishwalla - "All The Stars" by Eastmountainsouth - "Boulevard Of Broken Dreams" by Green DayThen there are the unsigned/independent folks, some of whom are dear friends and almost all of whom you can check out on my friends list:Orlando Seale - Peter Tork & Shoe Suede Blues - Zachary Provost (usually accompanied by the incomparable combo of Tariqh Akoni, Craig MacIntyre, Tim Curle, Eric Holden, Dino Meneghin, and Sharlotte Gibson) - Todd Herzog - Matt Morris - Jimmy Reid - Corrinne May - Ernie Halter - Marla Sokoloff - Amanda Avila - Mylin - Randy & The Bloody Lovelies - Tim Jones - Tommy Fields - Heather Waters

Movies:

All-Time Favorites: Lady and the Tramp - Little Women (with Winona Ryder) - Labyrinth - The Wizard of Oz - Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory - What's Eating Gilbert Grape? - Somewhere In Time - Clue - The Back to the Future trilogy - Weird ScienceSocially/Spiritually Relevant Favorites: John Q - Contact - The Life Of David Gale - Signs - What Dreams May Come - RENTFreaky Favorites: The Butterfly Effect - Carrie (of course) - Stanley Kubrick's The Shining - The Ring - The Grudge - Rosemary's Baby - The Amityville Horror (with James Brolin)So-Bad-They're-Good Favorites: Urban Legend - I Know What You Did Last Summer - I Still Know What You Did Last Summer - Jeepers Creepers - Jeepers Creepers 2 - The Brady Bunch Movie - A Very Brady Sequel (basically anything with a sequel, right?) - Thirteen GhostsMy Amazon.com DVD Wish List

Television:

Current Favorites: Heroes - Medium - Lost - Smallville - Supernatural - Kyle XY
All-Time Favorites: I Dream of Jeannie - The Monkees - The Brady Bunch - Boy Meets World - Full House
One-Season-Wonder Favorites: The Others - Miracles

Books:

Special Book Friends: The Conversations With God series by Neale Donald Walsch - Flowers For Algernon by Daniel Keyes - An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser - Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn - The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon - The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov - Galapagos by Kurt VonnegutRecent Reads: The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger - On Writing Well by William Zinsser - The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson - On Becoming A Novelist by John Gardner - Extravagance by Gary KristCurrently Reading: The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America by Erik LarsonNext Up: The Metamorphosis by Franz KafkaMy Amazon.com Book Wish List

Heroes:

"Save the cheerleader...save the world...."

My Blog

How To Pick A Web Designer, Part II

A Client's Guide to Designfrom the American Institute of Graphic Arts(http://www.aiga.org/content.cfm/clientsguide)Direct from the American Institute of Graphic Arts, the design community's profession...
Posted by L.A. Design Girl on Thu, 01 Jun 2006 11:56:00 PST

How to Pick a Web Designer

How to Pick a Web Designer By Dave Taylor (http://www.intuitive.com/articles/web-designer.html) One of the best articles I've seen yet on this topic. If you know you need a Web site--or even th...
Posted by L.A. Design Girl on Mon, 29 May 2006 10:25:00 PST