I went to Appleberry Farm in Marshalltown, Iowa yesterday and took a bunch of photos on my phone. I edited them in snapseed on the road trip back and got some pretty good shots.
Appleberry Orchard
Downtown Des Moines
Kings of BBQ photos
Picture Iowa just posted photos from Friday Night at Kings of BBQ. Check them out! And here is the 2013 results of the competition. Oh yea and check out that HOT banner I designed.
Bank Entry
Polk County Courthouse
A Vision of Peace
Kings of BBQ shirt
Birds of Prey
This is from my family's hike around Thomas Mitchell Park. We hiked around 3 miles with our baby Ryker on our chests. At one point there were 6 hawks circling above us!
Cowles Commons panorama
This is a panorama from the plaza in front of my office at the GIADC. You can see the Kirkwood Hotel, Capital Square, Renaissance Savery Hotel, Crusoe's Umbrella and the Des Moines Civic Center.
Choose wisely grasshopper
Kings of BBQ poster design
Kings of BBQ NEXT FRIDAY!
Alyssa and Ryker Merry-go-round GIF
I love the #AutoAwesome feature of Google+. It makes similar photos from my phone's instant upload into instant GIFs.
Base 3 logo
Base 3 logo
Base 3 icon
Last month I helped my friends at RXA Technology with their event called Base 3. I designed the logo and icons for their site. Check it out and you can read more in the press release below.
PRESS RELEASE
RXA Technology is proud to announce Base 3 – a one-night entrepreneurial speaking event featuring Dan Wubbena, Crowd Funding Expert, Karla Santi, Creative Director and Partner at Blend Interactive, and Lance Morgan, CEO Ho Chunk, Inc. The event will take place on October 1. Tickets are free and available at rxatechnology.com/base3.
Launch Week, a week full of entrepreneurship events in the Siouxland area, will take place between September 30Day hosted by Sioux City Go on September 30. Coworking will follow and Wire Me Awake will be the final event taking place on Wednesday and Thursday.
Springboard Coworking is located on the 2nd floor of the Stifel Nicolaus building at 700 4th Street. The workspace has 11 desks spread over 1,466 sq. feet. Each desk is available for rent on a monthly or contract basis. Each full-time desk is outfitted with a chair and a two-drawer filing cabinet that locks. RXA Technology and Springboard Coworking are teaming up to put on the Base 3 event with hopes to ignite the startup community in Sioux City. Sean Richardson, the co-founder of RXA says, “The startup movement in Sioux City is really starting to pick up. Organizations such as Creative Fire, Sioux City Chamber, Sioux City Go, and the City of Sioux City are at the forefront of this movement. There are many entrepreneurial events in Siouxland, such as Swimming with the Sharks, Biz Brew, Innovation Market and Wire Me Awake, but I can see many more popping up.”
Co Founder of RXA Technology and junior at Morningside College Blake Anderson added, “Sioux City has been such a giving community. Being from California and not from the area, I have been blessed to meet great supportive people. A strong entrepreneurial community is beginning to form in Sioux City. I am proud to say I am a part of this movement.”
Screenshot from the Base 3 site
Ryker - One Month
My son Ryker is 1 month old today!
Need a photo edited to look super awesome?
I just joined Fiverr.com which is a site where you can buy services or products starting at $5. So I am now offering my photo editing service on there so that you can easily send your files or links to your photo and I can easily get paid 5 bucks. Try it out! I can pretty much do whatever you want and get it back to you within 48 hours.
Book of the Month: Dad is Fat by Jim Gaffigan
I started reading this book 2 days before my son was born. I just finished it as he is almost 1 month old. It was very funny and I actually laughed out loud a few times. The guy has 5 kids that he is raising in a 2 bedroom apartment in New York City and has some hilarious stories that I am now relating to. It kinda makes me feel like I don't have it so bad with just one kid.
Old Briggs Family Photos
I just got a pack of old Briggs family photos from my grandma. I scanned them all and am going to go through and restore some of them.
PushLoyalty Logo Ideas
Here are some of the logo icon options I created during Startup Weekend Spencer. You can see the final brand in my original post http://rileyb.me/blog/2013/6/18/push-loyalty
DOOM SUSHI
This is a logo I designed for fun. I was trying to create a logo for a sushi restaurant in Des Moines, Iowa. Originally it was DSM instead of DOOM. DSM is the abbreviation of Des Moines. Then I came up with this better idea with the 2 sushi rolls.
DOOM SUSHI