I Have the Best Husband….
Posted by Lauren in Pictures, Randoms, Trips on November 20, 2005 | « Back to main
He did it! For awhile now, I’ve been asking Josh if we can go to Paris and visit Tiffany. (I’m not that high maintenance, I was mostly kidding.)
Well, around 9:30 last night, I got a phonecall from Josh.
“Hey. We won.”
“Are you serious?!?!”
“We’re going to Paris.”
“Stop it. That’s not funny.”
“No, for real, we’re going.”
Way, way too calm for someone who just won A DESIGN COMPETITiON and will go on to COMPETE IN an INTERNATIONAL competition in PARIS!!!!!
My incredibly talented husband entered a 24 hour design competition with his friend Kevin and two other guys. They had from 8:30 in the morning until 8:30 the next morning to build a website up from scratch. And no, they had no idea what the theme would be until the night of. They had no preparation, ran on no sleep, but just brilliant design.
Their website won. On to Paris, and dare we hope, international acclaim?
I am so incredibly proud of you, Josh.
Josh’s Edit: You must have Flash 8 (don’t worry: It is a free, safe thing to download) to view the site we created. Not much really to the site, but boy was it ever a fun event! And here’s some photos from the event.
Bonus: Here’s the other competing sites. The only thing we had to design the site by was this: “To act or not to act. Our planet in 50 years time.” Thanks, Lauren. See you in February, Tiff!
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Congratulations! That is awesome. The website is very cool. I love the drag over effect.
I am curious what other websites you could creat with the right prompt, like “Chess surpasses NASCAR and football as the #1 spectator sport.”
Have a great time in Paris.
November 21st, 2005
Joanne said:
Very impressive and yet, depressing at the same time. I mean, I hope things don’t turn out like the “before” pictures. But the site was thought-provoking. Now on to Paris, the City of Lights! Bring home a trophy!! You can do it!! Lauren, I am so glad you wrote the blog—I hinted at Josh’s accomplishments in my comment on the previous blog!! I, too, am very proud of him and the team.
November 21st, 2005
So, Josh, I’ve been bragging about you all day today. Everyone in my class was so impressed really looking forward to meeting you and Lauren. I am soooo thrilled to have such a talented brother!!!! I’m so proud of you!!
I cannot wait to see you guys here in Paris!! Woohoo!!
November 21st, 2005
Wow, Josh! Congratulations! I really can’t believe you guys did that website in 24 hours - no wonder you won! I’m so excited for you and your trip to Paris!
November 21st, 2005
After thinking about it all day, I guess I was not supposed to look at the website’s content but rather at the design expertise. Unfortunately, I am ignorant about such things but I thought it was very clever, easy to use ( a must for me as I could not get several of the other sites to do anything)and extremely interesting. I loved the way you used the colors to differentiate between the future possibilites and I loved the chain and the transformation from one scene to the next by dragging the mouse. I also loved the introduction which reminded me a little of “The Fairskinned Italians” design. Great, great job, Josh!!!
Joanne, again!
November 21st, 2005
Proof: Victorious yet humble.
November 21st, 2005
Could there be a better picture? So HUGE.
November 22nd, 2005