Scarab was the brainchild of my close friend Jeremy. He was outraged that his alma mater, Wesleyan University, was buying back textbooks for scraps at the end of the year then re-selling them at a ridiculous margin the next year; what college doesn’t? But Jeremy, having been thoroughly trained to challenge all social order (ironically, probably in a large part by going to Wesleyan), decided to do something about it. He wanted to make a simple online forum for students to fill out forms to look for textbook buyers online. Because textbook choices vary between schools, having an intra-campus network would surely be more effective. Of course, he had to name it with a very obviously forced acronym.

So I designed a database, forums (or is it fora? It totally should be fora. I took Latin for 3 years), and a couple HTML/PHP forms to do just that. Not exactly sure how much Jeremy put them into use, but the site disappeared with his graduation.

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The Cosmanic Flux went through yet another lineup change in 2006, replacing its drummer and adding another guitarist. The second phase of the band drifted more toward jam-heavy rock, and many followers protested this change. We eventually fired the second guitarist and tried to root ourselves back into hard rock until we officially disbanded in 2007.

The Flux Mark II featured a much more stylish website as shown above. All-Flash content and animated menus made it one of the most artistic websites I have ever designed. Unfortunately, shortly after the band broke up, my external hard drive also fried – and the website was lost forever.

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The Cosmanic Flux was a classic rock band I played in when I was in high school. The brainchild of Jon Horowitz and myself, we wrote over 40 originals by the time we disbanded. The website on the left was created shortly after we underwent a name and lineup change from the Flux’s predecessor, Population Control.

Because I was still learning about the various web design techniques at the time, my band(s) went through websites like I went through Moby Dick (I closed it after “Call me Ishmael”). After many pure-HTML websites with IFRAMEs (eek!), I decided to go all Flash, and here is my first crack at it.

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