Jennell ran 12 miles!

Jennell Haynes, a 30proof founding partner, has reached the 12 mile mark in her training for her first marathon. She is running for the Team in Training program. To read more about it go to her website.

New site launches!!! Coming in July.

We are proud to announce a new line of websites coming this July! We are beginning the process of individual websites for a large chain of IGA grocery stores throughout Illinois and Indiana, a new layer of Natural Sound for Google Earth (commissioned by Wild Sanctuary, the largest collection of nature sounds in private hands), a destination travel website for Odyssey Travel in Sonoma CA, an e-commerce website for Coturri Winery in Glen Ellen CA, and a portfolio site for the talented architect Robert Baumann based in Sonoma CA.

Keep checking back with us as we develop and launch these sites... Happy Fourth of July!

- Jesse Evans

You need to get away!

Today we signed on to do a new website for Stephanie Shackelford, owner of Odyssey Travel in Sonoma, CA. She has lots of experience in her field of helping people find their perfect vacation get-aways. She also organizes tour groups for wineries and radio stations. Her current site is at Team Odyssey. Our new remake of her site should be live by late July, but don't wait that long to look her up and book a trip!
- Jesse Evans

Keva announces its 2008 collections

Just before their website created for Keva jewelry is released, Keva announced today that their 2008 collection will contain pure platinum bangles. The work is already becoming a sought after collection in LA. On a personal level, Lead Designer, Keva Clements, shies away from attention and prefers to keep grounded and focused on creating classic work.

- Jesse Evans

Jennell Haynes tops the 10 mile mark!

She ran 10 miles today!
Our partner Jennell Haynes, as we have mentioned before, is training for the Team in Training program to run the LaSalle Banks Chicago Marathon this October. Team in Training is an organization that helps people and families suffering from Leukemia and Lymphoma. The deal is that the participants agree to raise a certain amount of money in exchange for the training to do their first marathon.

Just today, Jennell ran 10 miles along Lake Shore Drive in Chicago. This is her farthest distance so far. Each week the mileage gets upped as she trains.

Read more about it on her blog, RunJennellRun.
Please donate to her effort!
She needs to reach a goal of raising $1400. You can help her by going to her Team in Training site by clicking here.

New Images from Trevor Meeks!

Intrepid photographer and wunderkind Trevor Meeks recently returned from shooting a destination wedding in western Mexico. These are two of the images he brought back. 30proof has been tasked with creating a new website for Meeks which will be released later this summer.
As Meeks says, "OMG".

- Jesse Evans

Two new sites are launched

Our long-time client Vance Sharp has commissioned us to recreate the websites for his two companies, Sharp Cellars Wines and Sonoma Sausage. Both sites went live today.
-Jesse Evans

Check out USA Today...

The Christian Science Monitor story written by Ray Sikorski has been reprinted in today's edition of USA Today. You can read it here.
-Jesse Evans

30proof on the O'Reilly Radar

According to Brady Forest of the O'Reilly Radar: "Relevant sound is something that we don't often experience when researching a location on the web. Whether it be by Flickr, Google Earth, Virtual Earth or 43Places it is a silent experience. Bernie Krause of Wild Sanctuary (turn down your speakers) has the largest private collection of soundscapes in the world. Each one is date-stamped and geotagged. At the Where 2.0 conference on Tuesday he released KML files that can be consumed via Google Maps and Google Earth. The KML hacking was done by 30Proof.

Bernie and his wife, Katherine Krause have traveled the world and have used their collections and skills for research projects. A project from 2003 is An Analysis of Snowmobile Noise in Yellowstone National Park. During his talk he demonstrated the damage that logging had done to a wilderness area. The difference wasn't apparent on the map, but was very evident when listening to the soundscape."

Thanks for the great mention, Brady!
-Jesse Evans

30proof in the Christian Science Monitor

Freelance writer Ray Sikorski just finished a great piece about Wild Sanctuary, the KML layer and 30proof's programming. It was published today in the Christian Science Monitor in the Technology Section.

'"You can immediately hear a difference between the places," says 30proof Media creative director Jesse Evans, explaining that police sirens and even just the traffic set the cities apart. "Once you start paying attention to it, you hear it immediately," says Mr. Evans, who with his brother/partner, Sam Evans, created the sound-embedding program.

Any programmer can add a layer of data, known as a KML layer, to the Google Earth program; in the case of The Wild Soundscape Tour, Google was impressed enough to give 30proof access to one of its developers to assist the project.

"When we see such truly spectacular KML layers, we do reach out with advice and support," says Megan Quinn, a Google spokesperson.'

Thanks for your great work Ray!
- Jesse Evans