Stop SOPA

Lisa Goodlin Design is participating in the January 18, 2012, SOPA Strike

In late August I started shooting a new photo project. This image was taken in Mounds, Illinois. Mounds is eight miles north of Cairo, Illinois, where the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers converge. The whole area is rural, culturally Southern, and poor. My mother went to high school in Cairo and worked in a coffee shop when Cairo was still a thriving river town.

The photo below was taken in Cairo in the old downtown area. Many buildings have trees growing up right through the middle of them, and some of them have caved in on themselves.

There has been a proliferation of That One logos since the October 7th debate. This is my contribution.

The CNY Skeptics site is done. Now it’s on to the next project: a website for the Potter-Jones Agency.

Today it took me twenty minutes to do a job I thought it would take two hours at least to do. The MIMMT site was displaying in all its IE Quirks Mode Glory, and I had to do something about it. What I decided to do was create a separate IE style sheet and call it with a conditional. At first it wouldn’t work. I used “at import”, and it just wouldn’t import. Then I found an article on conditionals at Elated that worked perfectly in getting “less than IE 7″ to call the CSS.

Very quickly I was able to modify the style sheet to satisfy quirky IE and was done in twenty. Glorying in my victory, I hooted and shook my fist in the air like some doofus major league sports star.