Marie and I Are Famous, El Rey Style!
Marie and I bought a few t-shirts and some prints from El Rey (aka James Barnett), a bad-ass (yet super-nice) artist living in San Francisco. We liked our stuff so much we took some photos and sent them along. As of this writing, we’re right on the homepage of his blog. In addition, I sent along a pic of the “X-Ray Spex” print I bought and hung above my computer. If you’re into monkeys and/or robots and more than just something you can buy at Target hanging on your walls, please check him out. We’ve comissioned a painting from El Rey and he has shown us some preliminary mock-ups that look great. When our artwork is in place in the house, I’ll make sure to take photos and show it in all it’s glory. All hail the Zip…whoops - don’t want to get carried away and spoil everything. Here’s some linky-linkage for James:
Buy some art!
Have a relaxing read!
See Marie and I as t-shirt models!
See my cool 23″ display complete with El Rey print!
Buy a t-shirt so you too can be as cool as Marie and myself!
But don’t think about asking for a pair of glasses like his model Edie has. In appreciation for our order and our commission, he sent us his other pair! How cool is that?
Sorry for this being off topic but I can’t find an e mail link here.
Just read your post about moving to Wordpress. Looks like you made the switch. I’m a Typepad user currently & growing increasingly tired of its limitations. I’m considering moving to either MT or Wordpress.
I’ve got down pretty well much of the technical stuff I need to know to run a TP blog, but I have no php skills to speak of. How difficult would it be to set up wordpress, migrate my TP posts to it & convert my TP templates (a few of which are slightly customized) to Wordpress?
Any thoughts you have on the MT vs. Wordpress comparison would be gratefull appreciated.
# Sun, May 22 2005 @ 3:14 pm (3 years, 6 months ago)
RIchard, I am going to add something to my site explaining what my email address is because you’re not the only one who has had trouble figuring that out.
As far as the migration to WordPress - I would argue that for the ‘casual’ user who doesn’t have much knowledge of PHP it is fantastic. There are literally hundreds of plug-ins written by a very supportive community. And with the new version 1.5, you can easily ’skin’ or theme your blog to match your style. Customization is not difficult - my pages are pretty customized (granted some are still ‘not correct’, but hey, there’s only 24 hours in a day) and it was not difficult to implement. I would suggest finding a skin that resembles something you’d like to end up with and modifying each section (header, sidebar, footer, etc.) to fit your needs. The page setup in WP 1.5 is very easy to understand.
WordPress also has the famous 5-minute install, which in my experience works as advertised.
As far as transferring your existing posts, I don’t think I can speak with any authority about that. There seem to be a few posts on the subject on the WordPress forums. Try this post as a starting point. Good luck! By the way, cute dog.
# Sun, May 22 2005 @ 6:51 pm (3 years, 6 months ago)
Ryan, I wrote a script for Recent Tunes (in case no one else got around to it) I just yesterday saw your comment, so if you want it, use it… otherwise, throw it to the monkeys..
http://www.liquidnexus.com
# Fri, June 10 2005 @ 4:00 pm (3 years, 5 months ago)