ricky & elizabeth

A New Season…

ricky — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 16:38:13 +0000

As many of you are aware, I’ve been spending my summers working for iD Tech Camps at ASU, UC-Irvine, and most recently Princeton. It’s been a beautiful fit with freelancing during the Fall/Winter/Spring. As of December 1st, I took a full-time position with iD Tech Camps. Now the job that I loved in the summer is my year-round gig.

As a company, we’ve scaled down our services pretty dramatically. Ricky will be focusing on his new role at iD and Elizabeth will be maintaining some of our current clients. For new projects, please contact us and we can let you know a reasonable time frame, if we’re able to handle it. We are limited in our additional time though.

Baby Josh Is Here!

ricky — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 15:57:43 +0000

Pictures coming soon!

We’re excited to announce the birth of my son Joshua Isaac Bennett! He’s quite the looker. (Must be the genes.)

“Tie Chairs” Are Pretty Neat…

ricky — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 12:17:50 +0000

So, I do monthly updates (I didn’t design this site, don’t want to steal credit) for a Mom & Baby Boutique in Gilbert, AZ called Chicky Bella. Lisa & Josh have a lot of cool stuff, but I have to admit this product that I just uploaded is brilliant. It’s called a “Tie Chair” and it basically converts any dining chair into a high chair. There are ZERO buckles or those really annoying backpack-strap-tighteners…am I the only one that hates those things?

Here’s a photo:

Even better…here’s a link to the store where you can buy one!

Craigslist Complaint

ricky — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 18:23:30 +0000

So, I understand when people have small budgets…it makes total sense, things are tight. Don’t take your 20 hours of “design” or “copywriting” and call it an “internship”. The PRIMARY purpose of an internship is for the student LEARN something. Not for a company to get FREE LABOR. Sure, that is a benefit, but it isn’t the reason you have an intern. Okay, that’s all.

Here’s a Luke (the intern) photo:

Luke at morning staff meeting.

New Bound4Life Personas Skin for Firefox by Splat

ricky — Fri, 29 May 2009 07:13:03 +0000

Everyone should add on the Personas function to your Firefox browser…and then go to “Causes” and select this cool little skin designed for Bound4Life…using the images from their site. All the cool kids named Ricky are doing it. (And 4 other people in a number of days!)

Auto-tuning History

ricky — Wed, 06 May 2009 08:41:52 +0000

I don’t know who this guy is…but I think this stuff is really cool. It’s a filtering/pitch-bending software used by artists like Jamie Foxx and T-Pain. I wonder if Imogen Heap used it to…I’ll have to look into that.

Anyway, here’s the video playlist with Winston Churchill and Martin Luther King, Jr.

Must See Video from John Piper to Obama on Abortion

ricky — Tue, 05 May 2009 07:01:34 +0000

This video is from Desiring God, a ministry of John Piper. I honestly don’t know much about this man…I won’t pretend I do. However, his delivery and presentation on the topic of Abortion in an open statement to President Obama is simply moving.

the end is near?

ricky — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 22:19:28 +0000

Interesting article on reaching the end of the internet…for real this time. CLICK HERE

I don’t think I fully understand what all this means. I do know that this could be a crippling blow to streaming media over the web (the primary bandwidth hog) and Cloud computing. Hope we can avoid a mega-crash, Digital Pearl Harbor.

For those of you that are highly disappointed in the overboard of digital talk…I give you a photo of Luke. :) *I do what I can.

: Click to enlarge

EXCELLENT VIDEO…MUST SEE (FOR EVERYONE)!

ricky — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 21:30:33 +0000

From the award-winning documentary, “Playing For Change: Peace Through Music”, comes the first of many “songs around the world” being released independently. Featured is a cover of the Ben E. King classic by musicians around the world adding their part to the song as it traveled the globe.

Hat Tip: Chris Moore, strongest man I know…

JACK JERMANY PROMO VIDEO

ricky — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 21:34:29 +0000

This was a promo video for the youth at our church. Yes, the exposure is intentionally blown out.