October 21st, 2009:

New page header is up. I think I’m pretty happy with it and I’m gonna call it gold. Done. Fin’. Over. Complete. Finito. All of that. Next up, cover art for the audio files.

The album art / rss feed art. These were composed with the demo version of Pixelmator. I’m definitely buying this app. It does all the stuff that *I* need it to do and it’s far, far, FAR cheaper than Photoshop. It’s also lighter weight… loads much faster and operates faster on my MacBook.

300×300:

144×144:

Last night James and I Skyped up and recorded a promo for the podcast. We had a loose script from which to work. We did three takes running completely through each time, after taking a few minutes to edit the text for flow and terminology. I think we have good flow. The last take was the one we chose to edit and publish. I had a small flub in it but decided to let it go as-is.

I think we both need some better microphones; there are some audible artifacts from our “s” sounds and some minor popping. Good hardware will come later. For now, I’m happy we’ve got some topics queued up to discuss, we’re on the same page on nearly every topic and on nearly every idea of how we want things to proceed.

The things about which one of us doesn’t feel so strongly, the other does and has chosen to take the lead. I’ve been concentrating on site and RSS feed setup, graphics and verbiage, while James has taken on sound editing, setting up a Twitter account, general show-prep documents and has gotten us organized with a Google Docs library.

We’ve also started picking out “official” graphics. A modified version of the page header’s sign saying “The Pace” will appear as a key element in (likely) all of our graphics. The road in the header graphic is Tracy Road, near Lake Placid, NY. That road embodies many of the ideals of riding for fun that James and I share; a fun road, bereft of traffic and crowds, in a far-away place, thus making it all the sweeter when riding it.

The master copy of the sign: