MattLeiker.com, v3.0: Collegiate Portfolio
It was awesome. It was retro (even for 2005). And it was mouseover-happy like crazy. Originally conceived entirely in Photoshop, I let one of those crazy Adobe web programs do all the cutup for me. It operated as my primary portfolio during and after college.
Check out some of my favorite or most wacky projects:
- Resident Doortags, yr 2 and yr 1 (2004, 2003)
- The Panty Sail (installation project) (2004)
- Unsolicited (2005)
- Ninja Movie (2003)
- Kneecap New Years (2004)
- Photograms (2003)
- MTV Application (2004)
Or if you’re really daring, view the archived version and check out some of my pre-professional playthings. You’re bound to find some embarrassing videos and pictures in there somewhere.
Note: If you’re viewing the archived site, it’s gonna be a little slow as Dropbox is hosting it. Please be patient.
multiplidentity: iterations of self
senior thesis project, 2005
From the original release:
Visual Studies senior Matt Leiker explores the interaction of identity and self through creative repetition and duplication. His artwork is a realistic digital manipulation touching on the themes of multiple personalities, self-projection and interaction, the nocturnal self, mindless clones, homoeroticism, imaginary friends, schizophrenia, personal space, and anything else you can read into it. He exploits these interactions to comment on society & social acceptability, identity, industry, relationships, personal space, fantasy and reality.
All of these images were originally displayed as a digital composite on photo paper (~54” by 36”). They required a painstaking rotoscopic process performed in photoshop, as well as the addition of some deft shading and shadows for realism.
Check out the archived microsite. Curious how I made it? Peer behind-the-scenes if you dare.
MattLeiker.com, v4.0
Retired January 2012, you were simple, clean, and served me well. But you weren’t very easy to update and had no dynamic qualities. Shame on you. Rest in peace.
View the archived version. (My apologies in advance for any broken links.)
Music forever.
Seriously New Yorkers. Stop it.
The entrance to the Brooklyn Bridge from the FDR is the worst example of this I’ve ever seen. Still not sure how to deal with it.
Source: daniel-marcus
Just in case you haven’t seen this awesome stop-motion, Star Wars-themed project.
I think I’m in love with this site: http://theoatmeal.com/comics/
Be sure to check out this one, too.
Mattsign.com, v1.0
Originally a Blogger blog (remember Blogger?), this functioned as my personal soapbox before the days of Tumblr. I posted anywhere from 5-25 posts per month between June 2007 and May 2010. At a lifetime of 50,000 pageviews, you served me well, Blogger. Check out a few of my (now very dated) favorites:
- My first post
- My mega-mac media center setup
- Eurotrip: a backpacking adventure
- Renter’s Insurance: Explained
- m@’s Guide to Self-Marketing
- m@c madness: macs for dummies
Never fear, I migrated many of my posts here to Tumblr for safe housekeeping and uniformity.
Note: I started this Tumblr in parallel to mattsign.com as a “Page 2” to post quick quips, concert snaps, hysterical YouTube videos and the such. So they’ll be mixed in with content originally hosted on Blogger.
Macinstruct: Dropbox+iPad
Nerd alert! You’re probably getting sick of me talking about Dropbox (referral!), but it just got even better today. It may have had the capabilities all along, but the form factor was such a turn off that it wasn’t worth bothering with. Today’s update of the Dropbox app brought iPad compatibility, however, and now it’s a whole other ballgame.
The best part? You can “favorite” a file and it’ll save a local copy.
Big whoop? Well, what happens if you 1) have a huge backlog of movies sitting around at home. 2) Are on the road and don’t have access to ‘em. 3) Are able to utilize the magic of BackToMyMac to throw a few into your Dropbox from afar. And 4) Can now suddenly download them locally. Fuck syncing files to get them onto your iPad. Fuck renting/buying/streaming on Netflix. Works flawlessly. You can jump ahead in the movie even if it hasn’t downloaded from that point yet. Bring on the local copy. And you can add/remove movies at your whim for easier local management of files should you have gotten the 16gig version. Oh, and in theory, it should work on your iPhone…
It’s no secret that I love Dropbox. Turns out it also has a sense of humor.
(Want Dropbox? Here’s a referral link.)
I wanted to post a few shots from my 70-story race up 30 Rockefeller Plaza. A big thank you to all of the friends and family members who donated in support. I personally raised $800 for multiple sclerosis, contributing to our team’s stunning $13k achievement.
By the way, I made it to the top in 14mins flat (that includes stopping halfway up for a stairway pic with some friends).
Oh, and Tina Fey says “hi”.
multiplidentity: iterations of self
senior thesis project microsite, 2005
This microsite acted as an evergreen digital hub for my senior thesis project. It’s still live in its near-original form. I’ve added my senior thesis images to a separate post in my portfolio here, but you can visit the original thesis microsite and see some of my supporting materials:
MattLeiker.com, v2.0
It served me well in the late ’90s and early ’00s. The site had awesome mouseover .gifs
(noticing a trend?). It sported photo galleries for my family to keep up with (some of) my college antics. And even a snazzy page of web projects I worked on in High School. It even listed my ICQ number listed just in case you wanted to chat me up. That’s right, ICQ.
MattLeiker.com, v1.0
It’s the oldest screenshot I could muster. I believe there were a few previous fits and starts in the early Geocities days, but who knows where those ended up. Oh how cute were the early days of the internets.
Howdy.
