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The Mass General/North Shore Center for Outpatient Care microsite launched several weeks ago but I’ve been so swamped I forgot to brag about it. 
This was a SUPERFAST RUSH RUSH RUSH job. Since it’s a fairly uncomplicated, temporary landing page, I figured I’d give Actionscript 3 a try. Wow, that was NOT a good idea. My hope was that building smooth scrollbars would make more sense in AS3, but NO, the scrollbars fought me the whole way just like always. And then, to make matters worse, AS3 ended up requiring 3x as much code for the simple things like creating button links and rollovers! Maybe I just don’t get it. Clearly, I just don’t get it. But I’ve since gone back to AS2 faster than a PC user to WinXP from Vista. I just don’t think AS3 is good for what I do. Of course, feel free to go ahead and tell me how wrong I am.*
Despite my personal hardships, the site came out great! Of course, I was only the developer, not the designer, so I can’t take credit for the site’s beauty. If I had had more time (and less frustrations with AS3) I would’ve liked to have added some more intro and outro animations similar to the opening animation. Ah well, maybe next time.
*I welcome your thoughts on AS2 vs AS3, and I really REALLY welcome your scrollbar code. I’d love to have something reusable so I can stop pulling my hair out over the damn things. 
HOORAY!! Hours upon hours and days upon days of blood, sweat and tears (or at least several achey wrists and fingers) have finally come to fruition! I am so proud of the latest incarnation of IFC.com.
I worked with a fabulous team, many of whom I met in person for the first time only last week at the launch celebration! My responsibilities included the design of the Media Lab Studios pages, both the main page and the templates for all upcoming contests, as well as converting most of the Web Series pages over to the new templates. As if that wasn’t challenging enough, there was plenty of opportunity for new creativity in designing the customized background images.
Some selected works:
The Stagg Party
Little Big Planet
Z-Rock
Absolut Indies
Getting Away With Murder
Get Hit (my favorite background image)
And, somewhat unrelated, Facebook apparently knows me all too well, but consequently fails at actually advertising to me. Yes, I am aware of the new IFC.com. And YES, I LIKE FREEZEPOP ALREADY!!
