Eric O. Beestrum

Holiday Excuses

Eric — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 22:03:26 +0000

Look, I can make-up excuses with the best of them. What does that mean? It doesn’t matter. Lying in a cabinet for years were my screen printing supplies. Sometimes I would look in that cabinet and feel pangs of guilt. “I should start screen print more often” I thought. (Light bulb. Meet brain.) “Let’s make some lousy holiday cards.”

Behold: Lousy Holiday Cards, 2011 Edition.

Wax Cathedral Preliminary Logos

Eric — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 16:32:21 +0000

Here’s a trio of preliminary logos I created for Wax Cathedral Records (they’re a new imprint from Music Direct). They didn’t choose any of these, but I thought they were the pick of the litter. In any event, they deserve a moment in the sun.

Photo Gallery = Done

Eric — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 21:13:38 +0000

Look, let’s not talk about it. It took longer than expected. Everything else in the pipeline was pushed back. Right now, nobody’s happy. The good news is that there’s a photo gallery. It’s been coded, tested, re-coded, re-tested, and now it’s ready for prime-time.

Without further ado, here’s the Official Beestrum.com Photo Gallery Doodad – featuring a few photos I took while stalking the neighborhood a couple of weekends ago.

Chugging Along…

Eric — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 19:42:26 +0000

Ever start a project thinking that it may take a day or two to complete – only to find that it’s taking a gazillion times longer? That’s where I’m at. I was hoping to have an photo gallery up and running by now. In the meantime, enjoy this single image from a bunch of photos I took last weekend.

Want more? You can find the whole set here. I promise to have the whole set posted here soon. Double-promise.

The Soft Launch/The New Site

Eric — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 00:00:59 +0000

The missus and I bought our house little over a year ago. It’s our first. We always knew we wanted a house, but knowing what you want and getting it are two separate things. It took us 6 years to get it. Paying off credit card debt, enduring job losses, saving our money, finding the right house, and finally – diving in. It took awhile, but we here. It may not be much, but it ours.

The house we moved in to was a rough shape. The bones were in good shape, but everything else had fallen into disrepair. Worn floors, pock-marked walls, broken tiles, drafty windows. What we saw, though, was a place that we could make our own. The mid-century kitchen fixtures, the original brickwork, the turn-of-the-century woodwork, the modest backyard. In this house, we saw ourselves.

It’ll take us years to fully realize this house. The electric panel needs to be updated, the roof needs replacing, the porch sags, the garage floor could use a resurfacing. In the meantime we’ll keep working at it.

It’s been nearly 4 years since I had a web site for myself. In the intervening years I had built dozens, but none of them felt right. I was a dog chasing my own tail; dissatisfaction was the result. I started assembling this site in early July. It came together quickly. It felt right – just like when we found our house. It was time to dive in.

What will this site ultimately resemble? I have an idea. I’ll have comments enabled within the month, a link to my Flickr account, a Skype number. That’s just icing, though. I want my site to be a place to show nice stuff. It’s getting there/it’ll get there. Until then I’ll keep working.

Stumbling into iPhone/iPad Development

Eric — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 20:34:24 +0000

They say it’s good to celebrate accomplishments (no matter how small), right? Who is this proverbial “they” and what do they know? Regardless, let’s not call this a celebration – rather let’s think of it as an observation. After a lunch-hour filled with confusion, mysterious buttons, control-z’s, compilations, an iced tea, and more confusion – I finally barged into the iPhone development game. Witness “Beestrum Labs iPhone Application No. 1″ – a button that flashes a “Hello World” message upon pressing.

It may not be much, but it’s a start. Sigh.

Highly Detailed Summer Coop Drawerings

Eric — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 20:18:22 +0000

The chickens will be needing a new home – and while that new home is being built – they’ll be housed in a summer vacation coop. Behold, the highly detailed summer coop drawering. Photos and details to follow…