2008 marked the 8th anniversary of Digital Avenue. We represent one of the premier web development, graphic design, and audio production companies in Rochester, Minnesota.
With a client base ranging from Rochester, to Minneapolis, Phoenix, Florida, all the way to Virginia, our growth has reached a plateau. It’s now that we must [...]
A couple days ago, I stopped by McDonalds on my way to a work meeting. I was just gonna swing through the drive-thru to grab something off the dollar menu. I was dead set on having the McChicken and a small Diet Coke. $2.14 would be my total, it always is.
As I pulled up I had [...]
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I went through all my previous blogs and updated the “Tags”. I minimized all the tag clutter and applied only the most appropriate and reoccurring tags to each post. Now the site will be easier to navigate between related posts. To see what I mean, select a tag from the “Tag Cloud” on the right [...]
While working on one of his inventions, a colleague asked Thomas Edison why most of his inventions failed. Thomas Edison replied something along the lines of, “None of my inventions have failed, I’ve just proven hundreds of methods that don’t work.” I love this quote. If Edison had quit working on his inventions when one [...]
I decided to throw together a small collection of some artwork I’ve done recently. A lot of these are done for the fun of it/practice. Also, quite a few were done simply to test a idea that I might later use. It’s all about easing the boredom and having a little fun so try not [...]
I’ve been working on a Alice in Wonderland themed poster lately. Nothing’s ever “finished”, but this is as close as this one will get. Maybe I will revisit it another day. This is done mainly in Photoshop. I did some of the grass and tall tree/leaf type things in Illustrator, then imported them into Photoshop. [...]
Last week was the 8 year anniversary of Digital Avenue. It came and went and I didn’t even notice. It seems crazy that I’ve now owned Digital Avenue for 8 whole years. That’s 96 months, or 2922 days. Even after all this time, I feel like Digital Avenue is really on the brink of reaching [...]
Having spent the majority of my years in hotels, working every hotel job from top to bottom, I have been given the opportunity to meet many extremely unique people, as well as experience many unexplainable things. I believe I have been put in every situation feasible, and found my way out of it, sometimes good, [...]

