We just re-launched c4ios.com with Version 2.0 of C4: the creative coding framework for iOS. Here’s how it all came to be… It’s been just over 3 years since the first release of C4, its existence has been peppered with bursts of energy, periods of rest, tons of supporters, and…

On working with people, properly. — I’m really interested in working with great people, one of whom is Lewis Bennet – a film producer from Vancouver. I’m also really interested in not taking advantage of people, and want to make sure that I can pay them, make sure the work I’m asking from them fits the…

We were faced with a pretty tough client last year and even though we had a signed decent agreement made up front, it took a long time to finish off the project. Our original agreement was for a fairly short nine-week term, but the expectations were really high. Throughout the…

This is just difficult, pure and simple. Managing a difficult client is extremely tough, especially when they just don’t make sense or are panicking or whatever else is going on. …

I had a few topics I wanted to write about, but I’m getting tired of complaining so here’s a synopsis of all of them. — The Big Picture This is a term we heard a lot from one of our clients last year. In all our meetings and correspondance they kept refering to “the big picture” and how we needed to have a vision for that. From our perspective it was pretty clear that they didn’t have a…

I’m pretty sure I just had a dream where I was walking through a building and you and a few other people were doing a photo shoot. You were wearing a costume made of cube lights, and it was a sort of square pixelly slinky, you were doing backflips in it with all the lights on and people were cheering you and taking photos. I was dressed up like Super Mario. Wtf. Good morning. T Aug. 23, 2013

When I took on a new client last year they were really insistent on getting me “onboard” with their company. …

Balance, it’s not that easy sometimes. — We started working on our new contract, pulling together preliminary ideas, timelines, possible directions for tech and contingency plans for executing properly within the tight 6-week timeline we had been given. …

2.5 months into my time at Slant and along comes a… — I had been working at Slant for two and a half months and, still feeling a bit new, I thought I needed to bring in a lot more contract work than I was currently responsible for. …