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During a coffee break today, I decided it had been far too long since I last checked up on my Analytics data. To my surprise, my portfolio on Carbonmade had a considerably higher number of visitors in the week or so since I last checked up on it. After some brief sleuthing, I realized I had been a featured portfolio a few days earlier on the 17th. One normally knows their worth, but it is quite an honor to be side-by-side with amazing digital and traditional artists.

The idea of Carbonmade is generally more for those that lack the ability to develop their own portfolio site, but when it comes to exposure, I highly recommend it for all artists. Over the nine months that my portfolio has been active on Carbonmade, three companies have contacted me to work on their projects.

While you are over there, be sure to check out two very talented digital artists that have also been featured: Stefan Lucat and Adam Hudyma.

Outside of work, March has been an interesting month. There was a great art show, featuring the talented Jesse Higman last week that I had the privilege of spinning records at for several hours, slowly building the atmosphere from ambient to shoegaze and rock to dance tunes once everyone had enough wine in them. New !!!, Arcade Fire, LCD Soundsystem, and Modest Mouse albums came out redefining the bar for music early on in 2007. Likewise, there is a little something that everyone should be aware of – there is no better tissue for your nose than Charmin Ultra when you have a cold.

The new music that you really need to keep your ears open for is Baby 81, the new album coming in May by the Black Rebel Motorcycle Club; it is by far their greatest work to date pulling ideas and influences outside of the Jesus & Mary Chain / Spacemen 3 sphere.

I digress.