WordPress Dev + Web Design + Interactive Data = New Media
I do it all. If you can describe it, I can build it and teach it: custom WordPress and database-driven solutions for organizations which need something more than something off the shelf.
I do it all. If you can describe it, I can build it and teach it: custom WordPress and database-driven solutions for organizations which need something more than something off the shelf.
Museums & galleries; foundations; law firms; journalists; restaurants; thoroughbred stables; energy companies; pro rock bands, & many others.
Interactive web design; book design; data visualization; art history; animation; post-production, much more. Now a Lecturer in Fine Arts at George Washington University.
WordPress dev; interactive web design; new media storytelling with data-driven maps, charts, galleries & timelines; audio & video editing; much more.
Upon being expelled senior year I became a high school drop-out; before that, aptitude tests reported I was best suited to be a farmer.
I threw out my television more than 25 years ago, which leaves me plenty of time for reading.
My work studio is a co-mingling of the obsolete and the cutting edge, a regular Collyer Mansion for the modern man.
It took me awhile to go digital – a penultimate apostasy in my book. Want to see what I can do with a crummy camera?
I cannot read or write a note of music — I taught myself by ear to play different instruments & write songs in sundry styles & genres.
These are mostly time-lapse experiments – I shot the imagery and composed and performed the soundtracks.
Highlights of lectures, client and faculty work, proofs of concept in JavaScript, graphic design, live data sets, animation, information design and more.
Recent additions to this site: web projects, design projects, photo galleries, original music & video — you name it.
An archive of articles which tie into the web projects I build, the university courses I teach and the lecture audiences I address.
I work inside a growing piece of art. A simultaneous overlay of a gallery, a performance space, a design office and a recording studio, this installation evokes the better elements of a New York loft, a Berlin nightclub, a London used book & record store and an LA pawn shop. All in a Washington cellar.
Working with clients of all sizes, I am highly skilled at creating custom database-driven interactive solutions using WordPress, PHP, mySQL, jQuery, AJAX & Bootstrap. Database management is a specialty.
Most people in my field do web development *or* web design – I do bothL back- and front-end. I am well-versed in creating innovative applications serving up API-driven rich content from Scribd, Flickr, SoundCloud, YouTube, Twitter, Google Custom Search, Disqus, Wufoo and others.
And I’m an adjunct professor at George Washington University, teaching interactive digital communication design courses.
I remixed & animated this classic rock song for one of the New Media Photojournalism graduate classes I taught at the Corcoran College of Art + Design.
The idea was to introduce people to observing sound with their eyes, not their ears.
Intro to an Art History lecture I delivered at the Corcoran College of Art + Design.
I put together coverage of the 1937 Hindenburg disaster using obsolete media to fuel the discussion: "How will we communicate 75 years from now? To what extent will contemporary modern media be extant then?"
This is a small sampling of original songs, audio collages, time-lapse videos and photography I’ve composed, recorded, shot and otherwise created over the years.
This includes musical work I composed for instruments I cannot play (violin, cello, piano, baritone saxophone, tenor saxophone, others.)
I played in a lot of bands, made recordings, saw some parts of the USA that whet my appetite for travel seen through the windows of a band van.
Give it a listen – consume this content – you won’t find anything like it elsewhere.
All words | music | arrangements | videos | photography copyright John Carmody, Washington DC ©
Since 1992 I have been studying American heritage while living a pop culture hermitage.
That means: no TV, no Facebook, no Twitter, no Instagram, no texting, no celebrities, no sports, no video games, no crummy music, no credit cards, no debt, no logos, no smart phone, no trends…
You get the idea.
338 Books Read between
January 2010 & February 2019.
That's 1 book every 9.9 days
or 3.07 books a month
for 9.17 years.
Each title on this list is a 100% real book, of course: not one was consumed on a device.
Average year of publication? 1961.
Aptitude tests in high school reported I was best suited to be a farmer.
Expelled my senior year from Gonzaga College High School in Washington, D.C., I was a high school drop-out for awhile until I was accepted by the Catholic University of America without a high school diploma, GED or SAT scores.
For over 25 years now, I have been studying American heritage while living a pop culture hermitage:
Click here to see more photos from the Washington Post Magazine shoot, as well as other photos taken over the last 18 years as this space has evolved.