Splash Photo Archives
When I redesigned the site in 2002 to the “Minimalist” design, I also redesigned the splash page (example seen at right), which, from February 2001 until June 30, 2012, was the first page people saw when entering the site. Until August 2002, the splash page contained the logo in large size and the URL, with an invitation to click to enter. With the 2002 redesign, the splash page reduced the size of the logo and added a picture of me, which I changed monthly. This was the splash page’s design for more than nine years, with only minor color changes throughout the years until the splash page was discontinued with the completion of the site’s conversion to WordPress in 2012. At that time, the splash photo feature was temporarily moved to the Welcome page. When the site was redesigned in September 2012, the splash photo, though now smaller in size, was placed in the upper right corner of every page.
Since August 2002, I have run many photos in the spaces where the splash photo has resided, with “whatever I find interesting” as the guideline. All of the photos that have come and gone over the years are listed here, and I hope that you will find these photos interesting, too…
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November 2019Making a somewhat more serious face while sitting in a Strandmon chair at IKEA. |
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October 2019Selfie at Penn Station in New York City. Notes: For more photos from this outing, see "Philadelphia? How about New York?" in the Journal. |
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August-September 2019Wearing a beefeater hat from the costume rental department at Malabar Limited in Toronto. Notes: Sam Crenshaw is shown wearing this same hat in the Today's Special episode "Costumes". |
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July 2019Posing with the mannequins at the Macy’s in Fair Oaks Mall. |
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June 2019Posing for a selfie with the freight elevator at the former Morgese-Soriano mannequin factory in Toronto. |
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May 2019Staring out the window on an elevator door at a store in Toronto. Notes: For more photos from this outing, see "Toronto in a nutshell…" in the Journal. |
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April 2019Posing for a photo with my friend Sarah Lanthier at Hudson’s Bay in Toronto, i.e. the store from Today’s Special, in August 1999. Notes: For a recounting of this trip, see " in Odds and Ends. |
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February-March 2019Elyse told me to put on a surgical mask while we were waiting in the doctor’s office, so I did. |
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January 2019Standing in an elevator, apparently looking forlorn. |
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December 2018My sister and me on Santa’s lap, 1985. |
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November 2018Selfie in a wooden chair. |
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September-October 2018Taking a selfie in a selfie booth. |
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July-August 2018Trying on sunglasses in a convenience store. |
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June 2018Posing with a DASH Orion V at Commonwealth Coach in Roanoke, Virginia. |
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May 2018Picture perfect! |
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April 2018Something about a hat (or at least a wooden bowl)? |
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March 2018Posing with my Kia Soul at Towson University, August 2014. Notes: This splash photo is run in memory of my 2012 Kia Soul, which was destroyed in a fire on February 7, 2018. |
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January-February 2018Over-the-head selfie while shopping. |
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November-December 2017Posing with the Whole Foods sign in Clarendon. Notes: This is a spoof of one of the scenes in Remy Munasifi's Arlington Rap. |
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October 2017Wearing a promotional sign that Elyse stuck on my head. |
