Overview Diagram & List of Contents for Sanstudio.com

Here’s some hot questions for ya’:

1. Do you think theories about reality help us, or just confuse us?
2. If you’re a nerd, can picking up women be conducted as an intellectual activity?
3. Why do we lose friends, anyway?

There's also an About the Story page with press reviews and ancillary notes.

The copyright on the Web version of this story says 2003, but it’s really a minor update and webification of a print story done in 1990.

You think you know what would make you happy? Are you sure?

This second Radnor tale makes it official: Radnor Wentworth’s Theories of Life™ is a series!

There’s also an About the Story page that discusses, among other things, why the drawing style has changed.

This story has received the most favorable feedback from readers. (Of course it’s been around for a while.) It’s a tightly scripted tale that blends elements of Buddhism, film noir, and science fiction, which is an unlikely combination—but see for yourself.

There's also an About the Story page with press reviews and ancillary notes.

This dream—nightmare, actually—gives new meaning to “waking up in a sweat.” If you harbor any delusions that your life has a purpose, read this and you’ll get over it. You like nightmares, misery, and existential angst, don’t you? Sure you do. Try to stay calm, and bring a towel.

There’s also an About the Story page with press reviews and ancillary notes.

Full title: Why do we trace raster images into vector form? It stars an ape of the species Pongidae Hollywoodus. Experienced art directors already know about this, but it provides a good visual overview for the uninitiated. [PDF file]

This sheet shows Daniel the dog detective (star of my graphic story The Hurricane) reproduced in three different raster (or “paint”) formats: grayscale, bitmap halftone, and bitmap line art; as well as in vector (or “draw”) format. Includes brief descriptive material. [PDF file]

A list of ways that will and will not work to get in touch with me. Plus a message box you can type into if you don’t feel like using your own email program. Plus a bunch of screwball cartoons. Who says contact pages have to be boring?

A few words about what I do for a living and how it relates to this Web site. Told in the third person as though somebody else had written it. (That’s how you know it’s the “professional” version!)

A page with the more personal version of my biography—although it’s still centered on the work I do (since that’s how I spend most of my time). Explains my weird name and touches on my even weirder childhood. Told in the first person; illustrated with some of my pencil sketches.

You’re currently on Sanstudio.com, my graphic arts site. Perhaps I shouldn’t admit here that I’m also a professional writer, since art directors looking at my illustrations might think me unfocused. But I decided to link to my writings here anyway because…

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I can’t claim that building the world’s first “patient-centered” radiology website was my own idea—it was, in fact, the client’s. But the site was certainly groundbreaking at the time, won awards, and (casting modesty aside here) helped pave the way for medical sites aimed at patients, not just medical professionals. So here’s a blast from the past—the Stone Age of the Web.

Boston is world-famous for its hospitals, and when two hospitals affiliated with Ha rvard Medical School decided to merge, they asked me to create a new website that would showcase their newly expanded medical center. This page briefly discusses the site I built for them, and includes some pictures of how it looked back then (very different from how sites look today).

Here you’ll find brief descriptions and images from a few other sites I’ve created or worked on, such as a portfolio site for another artist (who just happens to have the same weird last name as me); a webzine I once created and ran for an employer; and bits and pieces I’ve created for other websites, such as a logo and illustration for a technical-college site.