I did this in one day. The idea was silly- maybe even dumb- but sometimes, those are the best kinds of ideas. I was working on location at Gorilla Nation at the time, and I came up with the concept during a brainstorm session with the sales team, who were pitching ideas to promote the would-be cult classic film Snakes On A Plane, starring Samuel L. Jackson.

It was a huge hit- G4 talked about it on their Attack Of The Show TV program, and it was featured as an outstanding campaign in a Gorilla Nation company profile published in the July 2007 issue of Business 2.0 magazine.

It went over so well with the client, they did a sequel to the game (also designed and developed by me) when the DVD came out. I’ve archived both versions here:

http://iamskwerl.com/misc/soab/theatrical-release.html
http://iamskwerl.com/misc/soab/dvd-release.html

I’ve only told a couple of friends this secret, but I baked into both games secret codes that would remove all the snakes. Try typing naughty words while playing to see if you can find them.

I maintain several sites on the WordPress platform that require a robust delivery system for streaming audio and Flash video, hosted locally for full monetization. Rather than lock myself in a proverbial basement and build it from the ground up (as I might have done a few years ago), I found the best open-source product and joined the development team as a volunteer contributor.

My contributions to the WordTube project include working with LongTail Video as a beta tester to refine their advertising solutions for JW Flash Players deployed on WordPress, as well as adding features to WordTube itself. I enabled playlist-driven media players to continuously play through a series of items (with a CMS toggle to allow the end-user to control this behavior). I also enabled the WordTube system to display the media player in WordPress excerpts; they would only display when viewing single posts prior.

View source code for some of my changes and more at the Google Code Repository for WordTube. View single-item players delivered by WordTube here, or XML playlist-driven players delivered by WordTube here.

I did some photography for SheKnows in October of 2008. Yahoo! picked the one below from the Associated Press, and it was the fourth most emailed photo on November 1st. 

The photo shoot was covered by KCAL 9 News:

Check me out at about 1:05. My buddy Chris Laughter of Enjoy Human is representing with the video camera at 0:45.

Incidentally, Johnny spotted this on a blog today: