StyleMeltdown the Design Portfolio of Alex Hackbart

In the days of MP3′s and people stealing more music than buying it, there comes a need to create a strategy to provoke fans to BUY the album, not steal it online. Some people try to add bonus tracks for download in the CD casing, some offer discount cards, some send free stickers and posters to hopefully get the fan excited enough to buy the album.

Enter: P.O.S.

Influenced just as much by Mos Def as he is punk bands like Minor Threat, he fuses his styles seamlessly to produce a unique sound that may put a smile on your face, or may make you want to punch yourself in the face. In order to keep up with the downloaders he released a new album with unique artwork. There are solid slides and 6 transparent slides in the booklet so the fan can rearrange the booklet and create unique artwork for themselves. Pretty cool. Here is a video of the booklet being rearranged.

And here is a link to his first single “Goodbye”

Do you think the artwork will boost sales?

I have been working on getting the new theme implemented on UFC Results for the past week or so and I think it is finally done. I haven’t had to build a theme in a while since I have been mostly doing work on our internal sites but it was good to get back into some coding. We wanted to have it up before UFC 93 on the 17th so it was time to get busy. Working with WP 2.7 was great, I’m loving the threaded comments. I also found a way to make custom gravatars work again by updating it into the functions.php file.

SUCCESS IS MINE!

I have been working to get a site to rank for california contractor general liability insurance in my free time as well, not as easy as it sounds. Insurance is crazy hard to rank for these days.

One thing I don’t think I’ll ever understand is the UFC 93 betting lines, I guess you can say I’m not a better myself. Unless of course it’s at the horse races and I can make $2 bets, ooohhhh boy, big money big money!

And for any of those who care last month I got my blue belt in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. YAY.