About Nuclear Pixel and Admiral Potato
Last updated by Admiral at 2010-05-31 12:48:56
What is Nuclear Pixel?
Nuclear Pixel is the personal website of Admiral Potato. Admiral's objective in creating this website is to share his coolest designs, his works of passion, and his discoveries in the realms of web and information technologies. Unless otherwise specifically stated on a per-post basis, Admiral is the sole creator of all content and designs displayed on this website.
As a visitor to his site, Admiral strongly encourages you to learn any lesson that you can from it; Analyze it's code, reverse engineer it and play with it, or even use it as is; View the design elements and use them as inspiration for your own creations; Download and play with any of the graphics that inspire you, then abstract and derive your own from them. If you do end up creating works of your own that incorporate any of Admiral's graphics, he only asks for attribution for his part of the work, and that you not use that derivative work for profit.
If you have any questions about anything, comments on any of his works, or suggestions on how he can improve the site, feel free to get in touch with him via Email, and Admiral will get back to you at his soonest convenient moment. Admiral reads and replies to every non-spam email he is sent.
Who is Admiral Potato?
Admiral Potato is a Computer Graphics Artist, a Web Developer, a Mad Scientist, and an active Mentor at a local community center. Admiral can be spotted wearing his Lab Coat and Goggles around his neighborhood and in other public places that he frequents. Admiral lives in the 9th & 9th neighborhood of Salt Lake City, Utah, and works a day job performing as the Senior Web Developer and Senior Production Artist at a local design firm.
Admiral likes to spend his free time making pretty graphics, learning how to implement the latest in web and information technologies, creating collaborative works with local artists, playing video games, and volunteering to help kids learn about computers and the internet.
It should be pointed out that while Admiral lives in one area of the world that is known for certain strange flavors of religious fanaticism and certain weird-ass cultural practices, Admiral is a devout Atheist who takes pride in actively practicing a strong set of morals. Admiral has crafted his morals specifically for the purpose of keeping his mind and body at their purest, with emphasis on the value of seeking the best possible outcome of any situation through the analysis of facts, and evaluation through logical thought processes, then taking the actions needed bring the reality of a situation closer to the desired objective. Yeah, that's right: Admiral has Vulcan blood running through his veins.
How does one get in touch with Admiral?
One can always find Admiral's most up to date contact information by following this link.
While using the phone is always the easiest and most reliable way of getting in touch with Admiral, he would ask that you do not call it on week days between the hours of 03:00 to 17:00 Mountain Standard Time (GMT -7) unless it is an emergency, or to quickly make plans with him for that evening.
Email is the best way to contact Admiral about complex inquiries that require detailed responses, or for sharing information, inspiration and project ideas. Email is also the preferred method of contact for communicating first introductions and other such formalities.
Hire Admiral to create your next Website
Admiral offers his web design and development services to freelance clients at a rate of $50 an hour. If this rate seems outrageous to you, it is only because you have yet to understand the value of how a high quality website can positively affect a potential customer's perception of your brand. Crafting a positive brand image will make or break your success, and with the skills and creative mind of this professional on your side, your success is not far off.
Some of the clients already benefiting from Admiral's skills through his day job include:
Skill Set:
- Graphics & Design
- Yes. All of it.
- Front end web development
- Standards-compliant HTML5
- Standards-compliant CSS3
- Javascript familiarity: Raw DOM, AJAX, Scriptaculous
- Adobe Flash Actionscript 3, familiarity with Papervision 3D & Tweener frameworks
- Back-end web development
- MySQL
- Procedural & Object Oriented PHP
- Experience administrating LAMP environments
