Sean A Sullivan

The other night, I caught the better part of a very interesting show on the National Geographic channel about the building of the Bank of America Tower at One Bryant Park in NYC. One of the really cool things about the construction of this building was the fact that the company shelled out extra funds to really make sure this thing was of a new generation of eco-friendly skyscrapers. Read the rest of this entry »

While visiting Lansing, Michigan this past weekend, my friend and I decided to take an impromptu tour of the now defunct General Motors factories that once covered the city. Now, if you know anything about automotive history, you’ll know that Lansing is where over 14 million Oldsmobile’s were made, as well as many other makes of GM vehicles. With the automotive giant scaling back operations in Michigan, there have been a number of plants shut down and now in the stage of being demolished. Read the rest of this entry »

For some reason, doing a design for this site was harder than others I’ve worked on in the past.  Maybe I was driving myself into paralysis by wanting it to be too perfect.  But, what I eventually decided I needed to do was crank something out.  I did just that the other night.

I have always had solid design sense and can navigate my way around Photoshop in a very competent fashion; however, I have had my nose buried in nothing but code for the past couple of years with very little opportunity to do any graphic design.  So, I had to knock the dust off.

As I was working on a design for this site, I wanted to created something slightly edgy with lots of potential for change down the road.  Since my goal with SeanASullivan.com is to write and share a variety of things related to my life, I felt it best to take that into account.  I, myself, am a very dynamic person so I needed some colors and design sense to help convey that.

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