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13 Months of Sunshine Title Sequence
2008-03-24 00:00:00
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Grounds Zero Title Sequence
2008-03-22 00:00:00
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Lavinia's Heist Title Sequence
2008-03-22 00:00:00
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Kona and Content
2008-03-13 00:00:00
I asked my local roastmaster AJ what he was drinking behind the counter, and he told me it was Kona coffee from the Greenwell coop in Hawaii. He's not offering this coffee on the menu currently, because it's so expensive....
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Feeding My Urges
2008-03-12 00:00:00
I have been playing around quite a bit lately with feeds and social networking. Twitter is one app I've come to really enjoy using, mostly because it appeals to my personal coda of less = more, e.g. one can do...
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6BUY345
2008-03-05 00:00:00
6BUY345. It had become a mantra. 6BUY345. The Eastern said it would be six days, 345 million units. Half would go toward the front, the other re-routed to some camp outside Kabul. He could net a hefty profit. But Ware...

Comment Issues
2008-02-26 00:00:00
If you have tried to leave a comment on Fringe and been redirected to a "Your comment is being moderated" paged, then that means this blog is LYING to you. It is in fact being shuttled to some nether region...
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Floyd County GIS
2008-02-18 00:00:00
With the need for a clean and crisp GIS site, Floyd requested a site design that would also reflect a thematic connection with its mountain location. The site utilizes a fully liquid layout designed to expand or contract depending on...
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Floyd County
2008-02-18 00:00:00
Floyd County administrators saw a way to increase awareness of Floyd County's many positive attributes and characteristics by redesigning their website to be more user-friendly and filled with content that would prove useful to both residents and visitors. The new...
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Surrey Builders Inc.
2008-02-18 00:00:00
Needing an online presence to compete with local and regional custom construction businesses, Surrey Builders Inc. came to Fringe Design with a simple request: make a website that's easy to use and contains information vital and highly relevant to our...

The Smoking Room
2008-02-18 00:00:00
Fringe redesigned Washington DC journalist Greg Piper's bi-coastal political blog to match the quirky name and feel of intimacy of the original site. Utilizing a backend Movable Type blog CMS, The Smoking Room offers comments, trackbacks, and of course, Greg's...

Resolve Entertainment
2008-02-18 00:00:00
Resolve Entertainment needed a placeholder site for simple web presence. Presenting the user with a focused selection of project Resolve is currently working on keeps the site small and highlights everything the company wants to be known for....

BassClef Wood Furnishings
2008-02-18 00:00:00
BassClef needed a simple redesign that accented the small home wood furnishing business's excellent wood working skills, especially outlining the work it had already done for such clients as local chapels and parishes, and residential work. To this end, Fringe...
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Time and Again
2008-02-18 00:00:00
I'm always doubly and triply astonished at the manic pace of time for me these days. There's simply no hint of moderation or even sad but useless regret--it's just gone without a whisper, without a trace of its former glory...
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A Slight Change in Wording
2008-02-18 00:00:00
It's time to say what is surely on the hearts, tips, tongues, lips, and toes of everyone who has encountered the shameful farce of Valentine's Day: Is Western Culture this desperate? The answer, in case you want to skip the...
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The Nudes
2008-02-03 00:00:00
Many times he tried describing their curves. The task was monumental, too captivating. Photos only hinted. Words suggested. Even actions--painting, stroking, feeling, breathing--fell short. What would capture the essence? He never tried loving them, until glaucoma took his eyes. Memory...

How Future People Fly
2008-02-03 00:00:00
Strange, the principle that brought interstellar travel to the far-flung gallery of planets that had, by then, multiplied to over their allotted capacity. It arrived as formula, sequential mathematics combined with a strange, Judeo-Christian coda. E=mc2 was the algorithm, seventy...
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Fisherman
2008-01-30 00:00:00
Reel it in. Clip the line. This one's a fighter. Beating fiercely against waves and the metal bit stuck in its lip, like a modern kid with rebel sensibilities. The old man reached over the edge and grabbed the wriggling...
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Conservatory for Coffee, Tea, and Cocoa
2008-01-30 00:00:00
Fringe was contracted by this popular family-owned coffee and tea spot in downtown Culver City to redesign the shop's website and offer the ability to place bulk orders online. Governed by a sense of place and time, the new design...
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Cloverfield
2008-01-24 00:00:00
If you're wondering what Cloverfield is to American film making, you must look no further than YouTube to find out. It is the quintessence of what I'd like to humbly suggest calling a "meme film," that is, a genre of...

Brief Respite
2008-01-16 00:00:00
He stared at last year's decorations. Lots had changed since...She had gone, for good this time, leaving him with the young one and a house payment. His hours had been cut back. The world spun, deliriously ignorant of his state....

Massive Fringe Redesign
2008-01-12 00:00:00
Fringe is and has been undergoing a massive redesign over the last month. The purpose for this change is to focus on a complete branding and marketing of the Fringe name as more than a blog, but as a destination...
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Fringecast 25
2007-12-16 00:00:00
Delivering up freaking hilarity like never before, Fringecast returns for a 45 minute special on weddings. Hey, it's the season, right? Tim, Joe, and Sara Z are all here with host Jeremiah Lewis (that's me!) to bring you a pile...

My Criminal Life
2007-12-05 00:00:00
It is important to remember that despite having an unhealthy interest in thrift store fashions and coffee shop writing sprees, and having a modest income and an even more modest sense of decorum in professional and intimate social gatherings, I...
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Travel The World
2007-11-13 00:00:00
Certain people in my family are due to emerge relatively unscathed from military action in hinter parts of the globe. Noel, I'm looking at you. Noel's plans post-Army primarily involve traveling to distant lands to engage in self-discovery and explore...
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The Music My Car Makes
2007-11-09 00:00:00
Monday. A time for speculation, gray matter scratching, pondering, waking up slowly, and meandering inside the comforting and familiar space of a coffee shop. At least, that's what most Mondays are to me. Not today. Took one of the roommates...
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Fringecast 24
2007-11-03 00:00:00
S'marvelous. S'wonderful. S'Fringecast. That is right, gentle and wrinkled people of warm and cold climes. Fringecast has returned. Amazingly, we've noticed nearly a 100% drop in listenership (is that a word?) since we stopped airing Fringecast nearly a year ago....

The Great Divide
2007-10-30 00:00:00
He gave her options, but she remained firm. It wasn?t another man, or a woman for that matter. She could never sufficiently explain to him just how a woman feels. That despite the memories and dreams, and all his promises,...
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Gone Baby Gone
2007-10-23 00:00:00
Gone Baby Gone is the perfect crime movie from debut director Ben Affleck, a working class movie with more than its share of cynical wonderings and explosive excitement, with thoughtful moral commentary behind every frame.
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The Ethiopian American Reviews 13 Months of Sunshine
2007-10-23 00:00:00
Check out the Ethiopian American 's review of 13 Month s of Sunshine . Some key quotes: "The American dream is like beauty ? it?s in the eye of the beholder. For coffee barista Solomon, his American dream is the opening of one...
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