Projects

Selected Writing

My personal favorites, here and elsewhere.

Sudden Abundance of Friendship: Technology isn’t making us lazy. We are.

Growing Old With Computers: Solving transactional problems with technology.

Reasonable Perspective: We haven’t mastered the tools we already have yet.

On Critiques: What criticism does, from an artist’s perspective.

The Great Age of Pirates: A recommendation for my favorite story of all time.

Feeling at Home on my Mac: The first apps I install on a new computer.

5by5craft: Mob Farming Changes: A post for the 5by5 Minecraft community, explaining how we solved technical problems affecting gameplay and server stability.

Recent Projects

Things I’m working on now.

JosephRooks.com - Where I write about creativity & technology.

Large Bandwidth Collider - My tumblog, sometimes a staging area for new ideas.

Doodle Stream - Drawings straight out of my sketchbook.

5by5craft - Where I keep the 5by5 Minecraft server from imploding.

Random Nerds - Where I write about great stories and other nerd topics.

Dalrympled - The definitive tribute to Jim Dalrymple’s beard.

Color Merlin! - A Merlin Mann coloring adventure for the young at heart.

Pokémann - A Merlin+Pokémon mashup.

Past Projects

Notable things I’ve worked on, contributed to, finished, etc.

John F. Morrison & Kathy Rooks Estates - I suddenly inherited two estates and sorted them out while attending school full-time. (completed)

Eagle Scout (Boy Scouts of America) - Seven years of camping, hiking, tying knots, and serving in leadership roles, ending with earning Scouting’s highest rank. (completed)

One Piece Episode 53.1 - I edited a couple of episodes of the One Piece anime adaptation to make it more consistent with the manga it was adapted from. (completed)

The Clock Crew - I co-led a community of 10,000 Flash animators from 2005 to 2008. (retired)

Clock Crew TV Collab 2 - I directed a collaborative animation project featuring work from 50 animators of all skill levels from around the world. (completed)

Flash Academy - I co-founded a weekly internet meetup for practicing Flash animation and creative critique. (retired)

The Official Moon Base Party of the United States of America @ Virginia Tech - I participated in a fake political party turned accidentally real student organization as an exercise in “what’s the most absurd thing can we get away with?” (retired)

Social Links & Other Ephemera

Things that aren’t projects, but have my name on them.

Twitter - My preferred social network.

Instagram - Photos taken with an iPhone.

Pinboard - A collection of interesting and useful things I find on the web.

Readmill - My highlights from books I’m reading.

Reddit - I mostly discuss technology & One Piece with fellow nerds.

YouTube - Where I make a fool of myself in front of a camera.