An Intro...
Hi there. Welcome to the personal web space of me, Justin Mundy. I've been meaning
to update my site and make it all W3C
compliant,
and to move it away from the older tables based layout that I had been using
up until the time I started reading more of Zeldman and
learning all about the movement to separate style from content. So, I've just
finished a couple of big projects and my life seems to be stabilizing and so
before everything returns to normal, I thought I had better bring my own site
up to the level of CSS
coding that I am now capable of...
What's the deal with the Toaster?...
Well... When I was taking a Canadian Business Law course at Camosun
College,
many years ago... My Prof said, that as a divorce lawyer he'd seen couple go
to great length's to get ownership of toasters. Which seemed kinda silly as toasters
are reasonably cheap to buy... But he said, it wasn't about the toaster it was
about the ability to make toast. Which I took to mean it's one of the basic human
needs in Maslow's hierarchy of needs, the need to be fed. So the whole thing
seemed kinda absurd to me. But I could understand where folks are coming from
in a situation like that. So, the phrase "It's not about the toaster, it's about
the toast..." has stuck with me all these years.
I guess it could also be a metaphor for the IT industry. Folks go into a job all fresh and soft, and sooner or later they get all hard and burnt out, and have to get out of the toaster before they burn out. (Just a thought...)
About My Changing Website...
I've just updated my web hosting package so I'll have more space
and I plan on putting it to good use.
I've recently purchased a digital camera
(Nikon
CoolPix 4300)
and I've been taking LOTS of pictures. I've mostly been using it at work capturing
fresh images of Camosun College's Lansdowne and Interurban campuses, as the
pictures that I have had to use have been from the late 80's early 90's and
look quite dated. If you go to the Camosun
College home page you will see some
of the landscape images I have taken, in the top left. Just refresh your browser
to see different images. I think there are something like 36 or so in there
now...
So, what does this mean? It means I'm going to be placing a bunch of good stock images of beautiful Victoria B.C. Canada up on my website for folks to use, because I haven't found a good resource for local pictures. So I'll just make my own for folks to use. :)
I'll most likely be placing my past flash work samples back on the website too, and I'll also most likely be placing links and screen shots of some of the projects I've worked on. I'm in the process of figuring out how best to present them.
I doubt if I'll be putting my resume back on-line any time soon. I was getting waaaaaay too much spam as a result of having it posted.
Information about the artist David Michael Kornik
Born and raised in a small town in Massachusetts, Dave Kornik began drawing at a very early age. Recognizing his love of art, he started his art training as a child and continued until he graduated from The Art Institute of Boston with a BFA.
Upon graduation Dave Kornik was recruited by Foster Grant Sunglasses as their Art Director. During this time he created art for magazines, commercials as well as shows and exhibitions. In 1987 he and his wife Julia started their own design agency creating innovative and award winning designs for their internationally recognized cliental.
After over a decade in the graphic design art world, Dave and his wife moved to Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada, where he began to explore new horizons in painting. Drawn to images with strong highlights, deep shadows and vivid colours, his present style emerged. Influenced by the classic illustrators such as Norman Rockwell, Bernie Fuchs and Michael Dudash, Dave’s acrylic paintings reflect the world as he sees it-bold, colourful and beautiful.
David Michael Kornik's website is located www.dkornik.com