Great Strides Walk - Results

Posted on May 18, 2008

The great strides walk was yesterday and went off without a hitch. Thanks again to everyone that donated. Our team beat our goal by a long shot because of all of your help! The fundraising goal for the Charleston chapter for the year is about $41,000 and this walk gathered about $36,000, so we’re almost there for the year goal! Here are some pics from the walk and the full slideshow is here.

I made some t-shirts for our team…I thought my nephew would get a kick out of the “gangsta” look.

Any time “In the Mood” plays no matter where, my mom and stepdad cut the rug.

The walk begins…

I’m always looking for details that might look good on my wall. I love the light play on the palm fronds.

Blue sky + kids + firehoses = Always a good time!

Our team…a good looking bunch methinks.

-JG

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Making Great Strides

Posted on April 30, 2008

Thanks to everyone who has donated so far towards the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Great Strides walk I’ll be participating in.

Because of you guys I have now surpassed my personal fund raising goal, but my team still has a little way to go overall.

Here are my teammates that still need some help reaching their goals.

My Mom

My Stepdad

My fiancee

If you haven’t donated already and you’d like to, please do so at one of those links above. We could use the help!

If you have donated, thanks so much. It means more than you can imagine to have your support.

-JG

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Just In Case You Didn’t Know

Posted on April 11, 2008

I’ll make an effort not to use too many “Just In…” references in this post. However, the point of this post is to call out a big thank you to my friend Justin Shearer. Justin designed this new website for me in response to a barter offer I posted back in January or February. Not sure which month…

Justin and I go way back. In high school I was a major band-o at Goose Creek High School. Our marching band had the name “The Spirit of Gold“. Justin went to Walterboro High School which according to Google Maps is about 45 miles away. The Walterboro Band of Blue or Big Blue or whatever it’s called was our biggest marching rival. It’s a good thing I didn’t care too much about marching band because Walterboro was always beating us at lower state. Anyway, Justin and I both played trombone in our respective bands. Justin and I were both band president. Justin and I played each other in varsity tennis matches. Justin and I competed at All Region band competitions. Justin and I ended up at USC together in the same band and in the same acoustical physics class. He ended up being roommates with the members of my old geek rock band. Then he became my boss when I went to work as a designer for his company at the time, Justinsane Design.

Justin the entrepreneur is a force. He’s really come a long way since the start of Justinsane Design. Now he’s the creative director at one hell of a good company while also maintaining his own design business, Justin Shearer Creative. He takes a very simple approach to his work, which is very important in the web driven world. His websites make as much sense when broken down to white space as they do full of Justin’s famously slick, but not over-the-top graphic styling. Need a CSS based website? He’s the guy to see. Need an honest review of what you have in mind? He’s the guy to see.

His payment system is great. The [BLOCK] system should be adopted by everyone in this very subjective and often fickle line of work. As soon as I have an extra $500 laying around, I’ll pass it on to him to add that “contact” menu item up top and eagerly await my change since a simple fix like that shouldn’t cost more than what like a nickel or something right? I mean I could have my friend’s kid do it for free. I think he knows computers. ;)

So blah blah blah Jebb…what are you trying to say?

I’m trying to say this. If you need a solid website sans an over-inflated price. Get in touch with Justin Shearer at Justin Shearer Creative. He’s got more skills than Napoleon Dynamite and Pedro combined.

-JG

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The Trouble with Dogs

Posted on April 8, 2008

Dogs are all the best qualities of humans packed into perpetual pajamas.

Pasquale, the second of the family’s two Bassett Hounds didn’t make it through this morning due to heart worms and depression over the loss of his best friend T-Bone a few weeks ago. It’s so sad and so endearing that they kept each other going this way. We’ll miss Pasquale…his crooked tail, Napoleon-esque stature, and his beautiful amber eyes. T-Bone & Pasquale are at least re-united today even though they left a very big void here on Earth. The beaten path they made skipping from Mom & Gary’s back porch to their dog house may have gotten a lot longer and steeper, but no less clear.

We’ll miss you buddy.

-JG

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Rowland Wedding

Posted on March 18, 2008

I recently had the pleasure of shooting a wedding for a friend of mine with a friend of mine. It was in a beautiful little wedding chapel in Mt. Pleasant. I had no idea the place even existed. Lee is a very fun person and really makes the job of photographing her easy. Here are a few of my favorites. I’m sure a slide show will be up shortly once I get with Dave for the rest of the photos.