This website is the repository for the collected works, thoughts, experiments and noodlings of Quentin Rogers. It’s not a portfolio or resume site per se. It’s far too informal for that. But hopefully you’ll get an idea of some of the work I’ve done, some of my more artistic endeavors and hopefully a bit of who I am and what my interests are.
Curriculum Vitae
Summary
I am a Front End Web Developer with a wealth of experience and a passion for delivering websites and applications that help organizations and individuals meet their goals. I find excitement in utilizing the new directions and technologies the web has to offer, has to offer while keeping in mind the practical needs of my clients in order to take the most pragmatic approach. The nature of the web guarantees that there will be something new every day and I am always up for the challenge.
Work Experience
Dazil Internet Services
Design, development and maintenance of WordPress installations for a variety of government, corporate and real estate clients. These projects utilize WordPress, Smarty, PHP/MySQL, HTML, CSS, Javascript, jQuery amongst others, and are optimized across all platforms.
www.dazil.com
Talking Dog Studios
UI design and development of mobile responsive websites and web-based game apps. Projects included MagicGlass360, a responsive website for the hosting of 360 degree panoramas, developed with multiple control options such as mobile gyro and touch, and included 3d positioned audio and video; and a game for Sasktel that used javascript based head-tracking to allow users to control the character with their own movement. These projects utilized HTML5, JavaScript/JSON, CSS3, WordPress, 3Ds.js and the Web Audio API.
www.talkingdogstudios.com
www.magicglass360.com
CBC Music
UI design and development, ads and statistics integration, and content creation/curation on CBC Music’s desktop and mobile site. Worked on marketing campaigns for Apple, Toyota and others on large-scale sponsorship campaigns and the integration of ads into the desktop and mobile versions of the site. We worked using the Agile workflow methodology. Some of the technologies we used included C#.NET, HTML, CSS, LESS, JavaScript, Bootstrap, Prototype, jQuery, REST API, Site Catalyst, SVN and Grunt.
music.cbc.ca
Xtranormal
UI design and development of an online animation tool and e-commerce site which sold 3D assets and rendering utilizing Paypal and shopping cart workflows. I also worked on YouTube integration and graphic design of email newsletter campaigns. We worked using the Agile workflow methodology. PHP/Django, Python, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, Prototype, YUI, SVN, YouTube API, Photoshop, Illustrator and wireframes were tools used to develop this project.
www.smallcircles.net/xtranormal/
Stage 3 Media / ISWID Productions
UI design and development of an e-commerce, social networking site for the SciFy program “Sanctuary” which sold digital downloads of the show utilizing Paypal and shopping cart workflows. Also created DAMES (Digital Assets Management System), a system that allowed the VFX Supervisor to track the progress of shots as they move through the production process. Provided interface design and development services on the Drupal based BC Agri-food Knowledge Platform for the BC Agriculture Research and Development Corporation. PHP/MySQL, Python, XML, JavaScript, AJAX, HTML, CSS, XAMPP, Photoshop and Final Cut Pro were used in the development of these projects.
www.smallcircles.net/stage3media/
CBC British Columbia
Design, development and maintenance of CBC’s BC and Northern regional websites, micro-sites for national programs and the CBC Provincial Election Website template which was deployed across the country. Creating and managing media encoding and streaming services. Some of the tools I used for this project were HTML, JavaScript, CSS, RealAudio, Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash, and Premier.
www.cbc.ca/bc
Freelance Experience
Smallcircles Consulting
Design and development of websites artistic media projects. Some of the sites I have developed are:
Inthemonument.com canadiannativeproducts.com chilliwackmetropolitan.com loribrotto.com cinestir.com peaceworksnow.com
Some of the tools I used for these projects were HTML/5, PHP/MySQL, CSS/3, JavaScript, jQuery, WordPress, Shopify, Photoshop, Illustrator, YouTube APIs, Facebook APIs, and Google Analytics.
www.smallcircles.net
Sitemax Systems
Worked on the installation and customization of a set of Angular.js and Drupal based project management tools, integrated with a series iOS apps, for clients in the construction industry.
www.sitemaxsystems.com
Interfilm Productions
Designed and built a responsive WordPress based website for the interactive documentary on Holocaust memorial. And consulted on site optimization for the roll-out of a multi-user WordPress site for an adoption issues awareness website.
www.InTheMonument.com | www.knowadoption.com
Sakewewak Artists Collective
Created an animated, historical timeline of milestones in the organizations history, as well as maintenance of the existing site. Some of the tools I used for this project were CSS3, HTML5, JavaScript, JSON, jQuery, D3.js on a Squarespace hosted site.
www.sakewewak.ca/historical-timeline/
Stories First Productions
Developed company website and collaborated with on a number of web and video based artistic projects. Some of the tools I used for these projects were HTML5, CSS3, SVG, JavaScript, jQuery, WordPress, Photoshop and Final Cut Pro. Projects included:
Sense of Home – Coding of eight channel video installation utilizing HTML5, CSS3, SVG, JavaScript and jQuery. I also produced a number of videos for this project. The project won “Best New Media Award for Interactive Media” at the 2012 ImagineNative Film + Media Arts Festival in Toronto, ON, and has also shown in Santa Fe, NM and Boulder, CO.
www.storiesfirst.ca/SenseOfHome
The Heist – Editor of 7 min video shown in festivals in Vancouver, Toronto, Berlin, and Helsinki.
Geeka (Water’s Edge) – Editor of 7 min video shown at the 2009 ImagineNative Festival, Toronto.
www.storiesfirst.ca
Other Experience
Decibel Festival, Sept. 2007-2013 – Seattle, WA
Volunteered as a Sound Technician, Stage Management and Artist Liaison.
Soundwave Festival, July 2004-2009 – Ucluelet, BC
Volunteered as Stage Crew, Lighting Technician and Performer.
Teamlounge, 1994-2004 – Vancouver, BC
Ran an ambient/downtempo music focused collective that put on various events and club nights throughout Vancouver. Was involved in all aspects of the productions, including graphic design work, technical production and performance.
Temple of Sound, 1994-1995 – Victoria, BC
Co-owner of Victoria’s first DJ focused record store.
Tools
Expert
Agile Development
CSS/3
DOM and web standards
Front-End logic and UI
HTML/5
JavaScript/ JSON
jQuery / Prototype
Photoshop / Illustrator
PHP / MySql
Responsive Web Design
WordPress Knowledgeable
API’s (YouTube,Google Maps, Facebook, etc…)
CMS development
Drupal
LESS/SASS
Material Design
Mobile/Touch Development
SEO/Google Analyitcs
Site Optimization
SiteCatalyst/ Google Analytics
SVN/Git Familiar with
Angular.js
Apache
Augmented Reality
Backbone.js
Bootstrap
C#.Net Visual Studio
Django/Python
React.js
RequireJS
REST API
Video/Audio Editing
Education
2013 Hands on Technology Transfer
ASP.NET programming Using Web Forms
2000-2005 CBC Corporate Training
Project Management, Design for Accessibility, Website Marketing,
Streaming Media Design, Flash Design
1995-1996 UBC Continuing Studies
Multimedia Program
1991-1994 University of Victoria
BFA with Honors (Visual Arts Major)
Awards
Radio and Television News Directors Association
2002/04/05 National Award for Best Canadian Regional News Website – cbc.ca/bc
2002/03/04/05 Regional (B.C.) – Best Canadian Regional News Website – cbc.ca/bc
References are available upon request.
The Road Home
Skylab
We’d been so very quiet as… hiding in our bunkers, calibrating the equipment, running tests, calculating co-ordinates and escape routes… emerging, wrapped in space blankets, our core modules synced with red-shift calculations to guard against malfunction as we approach the event horizon. It was time to run the experiments again…
The Hobbyist, Dave King, Andrew Van Hassel, Rim, Tim Healy, Hasselhoff and HexBank all crammed onto a tiny launchpad and took a packed Lido off into outerspace. Like all improv jam missions, we meander on and off course, navigating our way by the stars and the odd baseline. all crew made it back safely… the alien life found along the way was friendly.
The audio playing below was recorded March 3, 2016 at The Lido in Vancouver B.C.
HexBank & Hasselhoff (on Pender Island)
HexBank (BinHex and Robin Banks) and I jamming at an island getaway, with me on the synths while they dug deep into space… wasn’t planned. all the gear was set up already, and I just couldn’t help muscling in. magic resulted.
Photos, Spring 2015
NASA – See the Light Tour, 1993, San Francisco
November 14, 1993, San Francisco.
I was incredibly fortunate to see NASA’s See the Light Tour with Aphex Twin, Orbital, Vapourspace, Young American Primative, Moby, Djs Jonah (spacetime continuum), Dj Tim (Utah Saints, Jeno and Dj Alex… This was just as techno was starting to break across North America, with this being the first proper tour of heavy weight rave acts to spread the good word. Seeing it was a total fluke… a rare case of right time, right place…
I stumbled across an archive online where was found a recording of Aphex Twin’s set that night, so I thought I should archive it here… would love to hear the other sets if they’re out there somewhere… Hearing Orbital play Halcyon and Chime that night from the top of the 4 story atrium the show was in, made time stop. That, and hearing Gravitational Arch of 10 for the first time, played live by Vapourspace, and the entirety of the insanity that was those early 90s Aphex Twin live sets… 3 seminal techno moments for myself, all in one night. head a’splode!
Download Aphex_Twin-Live_NASA_Tour_93.mp3 here.
Phil Western (RIP), Robert Shea (Map Music) and Christopher Flett, three major influences in the Vancouver/Victoria early rave days were also there… Robert being smart enough to bring his video camera which caught the following:
Vapourspace: Gravitational Arch of 10, live
Vapourspace/CUSP – Drome um Futurisma, live
Teamlounge
A collection of flyers and photos from way back when some friends and I ran an ambient music collective. We’d throw ambient events in disused movie theaters, friends lofts, a place known as “the underwear farm” and others, always with a focus on listening rather than dancing, though a lot of that happened as well. We also worked with a number of like-minded friends in different sub-scenes, such as HQ Communications (responsible for introducing a lot of people to drum n’ bass), the B-Sides Collective, Shrum Tribe and more. Ahhh youth…
Random Photos
A small collection of photos from trips up north and abroad
Numbers
Pictures taken while wandering around the docks of Prince Rupert back in 2010. The warfs were full of derelict fishing boats, testimony to what was once a vibrant fishing town.
Broadcasts via Mixlr
While working away in Regina, in the deep freeze of the Saskatchewan urban prairie, I’ve employed a number of strategies to keep myself entertained. One of which being the discovery of this great webcasting site/app called Mixlr. I’d been booked to play The Art of Beatz show on Vancouver’s Co-Op Radio, earlier in the summer, and wasn’t able to make it back in time, so we settled on a hybrid live/dj netcast. Worked great, and the site has a super handy archiving feature, so forgetting to hit record is a thing of the past.
My Art of Beatz set, plus a pre-show warm-up is on Mixcloud, here.
Check out the site, and maybe I’ll be on-air…
Hasselhoff
Have a listen to some ambient tracks I’ve been working on over the years…
Mostly done with a hodge-podge of cobbled together gear… cheap craigslist finds, little droids by people like bleeplabs.com, monotrons, mopho’s, a simmons sds8 controlled by a 707 and the formidable Wavetek 135 LIN LOG Sweep Generator, amongst other things…
Listen here, or click on the bezerker to launch the playlist in the site’s player in order that you may be able to further browse the vast offerings of my site in style ;p
You can find my soundcloud account at http://soundcloud.com/hasselhoff
My dj set’s are here on my site, and are on mixcloud at http://mixcloud.com/hasselhoff
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What’s in Farmed Salmon
Sense of Home
In 2012, I worked with multi-media artist Leena Minifie to produce this 8 channel video touchscreen installation.
Built with html5 and javascript, 8 videos “slices” are displayed in a circle surrounded by a north-west coast native formline design by Tsimshian artist Morgan Green.
Video artists were asked to create a short video that represented home to them, with a soundtrack of minimal electronic music done in the key of C, C being the key that the cicada’s of the SouthWest sung in.
Viewers could then trigger the videos via a touchscreen, creating a new mix of music depending upon which videos were playing
Originally exhibited in April, 2012 at the Institute for American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico. It has since been exhibited at the Communikey Festival in Boulder Colorado and at the ImagineNative Film Festival 2012 in Toronto, where it won the award for Best New Media piece.
View it here | Read the artists’ statement
EXHIBITIONS
- 2012/10/21 Sense of Home, ImagineNative Film + Media Arts Festival, Toronto, Ontario
Received Best New Media Award for interactive media - 2012/04 Sense of Home, Communikey Electronic and Digital Arts Festival 2012, ATLAS (Alliance for Technology, Learning, and Society) Institute, Boulder, Colorado
- 2012/04-05 Sense of Home, IAIA 2012 BFA Student Exhibition, Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico
- 2011/05 Sense of Home, Currents New Media Festival, Santa Fe, New Mexico
CREDITS
Created in collaboration with people from different perspectives and different places.
Concept by Leena Minifie
Video:
Quentin Rogers
Matthew Bettlej
Thomas Jirku
Brooke Swaney
Leena Minifie
Audio:
Quentin Rogers
Thomas Jirku
Matthew Bettlej
D’arcy O’Connor
Programming:
Quentin Rogers
Paul Senet
Formline:
Morgan Green
HDR vs RDJ
A certain L.Minifie had this great idea after finding a treasure trove of Richard D. James sheet music online. “Let’s get your Dad to play it… he can play anything…” So off we went with a small pile of sheet music.
We started with Avril 14th, which is actually Mum’s birthday… funny that. And of course, he’s never heard any of it, and pretty much nails it the first time through. We had a few lumps in our throats… He thought it a “simple little melody… quite cute.”
A while later I came across the mp3s and thought I’d chop one the up a bit during my “start a track, finish a track in (preferably) an hour or less” phase, which I did to get myself out of a rut. I recommend it!
Dr H.D. Rogers performs Aphex Twin’s ‘ Hy a Scullyas Lyf a Dhagrow further re-interpretted by Hasselhoff
Breathe… Faster…
Recorded during the heatwave of August, 2010… It was super damn hot, at least for Vancouver. I spent the next summer in New Mexico, and the one after that in Montreal, which led me to the conclusion that we’re kinda wimps over here…
Tracklisting
Keynell 1 by Gescom
Memorandrum by Voice Stealer
Errorlove by Smash TV
Do Not Break by Ellen Alien & Apparat
Ke Be Bop by Kone
Psychodelik by LFO
Yuri by Meat beat manifesto
Shoot by SebastiAn
Infra Red Spectrum by SUBURBAN KNIGHT
Ponteio (Bonus Beats) by Da Lata
Malfunction by Njoi
Black Planet by 2 Frenchmen
Computer Madness by Marc Romboy vs Paris the Black fu
Happy Birthday by Modeselektor
Over And Over (Solid Groove Remix) by Hot Chip
Like The Way by The Mole
Die Kosmichen Kurier by 3mb with Juan Atkins
Crystel by Autechre
The Black Block (Byetone remix) by Modeselektor
Arcadia (Telefon Tel Aviv Remix) by Apparat
Olympic Airways (Supermayer Remix) by Foals
Let Go by Spooky
Take My Breath Away by Gui Boratto
Freeze by LFO
Take me back by Herbert
Bang On by The Breeders
A Little Bit of Feel Good (Son Lux remix) by Jamie Lidell
Tierra Del Fuego (Pascal Feos remix) by SCSI-9
(I Can’t Sleep) Without Music by Modeselektor
Horse Fly by Longwalkshortdock
Southbound I-80
I was spending a lot of time driving between Vancouver and Santa Fe NM for a while there… seemed to always be on the road. This was a reflection of that…
Tracklisting
O’Locco (Sei A Remix) by Sun Electric
Two Dots (Reverse Engineered) by Lusine
It Never Changes To Stop by The Books
Paridse Circus feat Hope Sandoval (Gui Boratto remix) by Massive Attack
The Garden by MLO
B-Chance by Coblestone Jazz
I Built This City (Michael Mayer remix) by Blaxendale
FatBlex by Lowfish
Nervous Acid by Bobby Konders
Jeffer (Modeselektor Remix) by Boyz Noize
Cosmopolitan lover by Bumper
Burn Less Brighter feat Paul Conboy by Bomb The Bass
The Greasy Beat feat Bootsy Collins by Claude Von Stroke
Shinkansen by Tom Middleton
Do It by Metamatics & Norken
Autodidact
Tracklisting
Starlight (Echospace Dub) by Model 500
Kite by Wndfrm
I Can Take It by The Parrish
Love Or Go (KiNK Remix) by Nina Kraviz
Getting Me Down by Blawan
Wildfire (Objekt Dub Mix) by Sbtrkt
Over and Out (Original Mix) by Marc Romboy & KiNK
U-29 by Untold
Love And The Machine by Robag Wruhme, Martini Bros
Raw (Marc Romboy’s Sub Attack Remix) by Max Cooper
Hold Your Secrets To Your Heart by Miracle Fortress
Falling Acid by Tin Man
Lucky by Lusine
Zap Zap by Cut Copy
Prettier Than That (Hrdvsiovsiivosvsiosvin Remix) by Hrdvsion
Life (Rose Rework) by Dadub
Drive (Original Mix) by Justin Berkovi
Captain Storm by Anton Zap
Untitled by Polygon Window
Dolend by Kettel
Progress is measured by how much we lose…
For all the old school peeps, esp. Teamlounge and the old Victoria crew. Some tracks from a rich ambient past… I don’t think any of them are newer than 1995…
“Progress is measured by how much we lose” was originally the name of the radio show the Peter “the homeless guy” would do after our Lounge World show at 6am Sunday mornings on CFUV FM102 (UVic)… It was truely a show like no other… I wish I had tapes of it. Stream of consciousness ramblings and old 78’s played off of a portable record player that he mic’d… liked to use his own gear. Anyways… Peter had a way of blowing minds, and probably had a greater effect on those he encountered than he realized. At least to those who’d listen to him. Wisdom in an insane world is a great burden, I think.
Note: I stole the orb + fuse mix from fellow teamlounge dj, binhex… Always loved that mix, thought it needed airing out again…
Tracklisting
Startoucher by Biosphere
O.O.B.E. by The Orb
Siac by Fuse
Liquid Sky by Solar Quest
Seashell by Skylab
Symphony In E by The Irresistible Force
R2D2 by Speedy J
From Heaven by Manna
Sick Porter by U-ziq
Speedlearn (Empathy Mix) by Higher Intelligence Agency
Speedlearn (Reformed by The Irresistible Force) by Higher Intelligence Agency
Homeward Bound by Ritchie Hawtin & Pete Namlook
Circles by Meatbeat Manifesto
Opaque by Dtune
SYm-phon5 by Beaumont Hannant
Dream or Reality (Into the Dream Mix) by Robert Leiner
Ageispolis by Aphex Twin
Wimborne (Daniel Pemberton Mix) by MLO