Kevin Frost, Artist and Internet Technologist

Welcome!

Thanks for stopping by my mini-site. Here you will find information on my high-tech and artistic activities, as well as links to interesting things elsewhere on the Web. Plus the occasional picture.

I am a visual artist, an internet technologist, a writer, a gourmand and bon vivant. By day I work as a high-level software engineer fighting spam for a major multinational corporation. By night I paint, party and occasionally cook up a crazy little project on the Web.

In the remaining slivers of time I put on my thinking cap and investigate this rapidly-changing Webiverse and its impact on human culture, locally and internationally.

I live in San Francisco, in the beautiful and dynamic Mission District. In the past I've lived in Hungary, Germany, and various parts of Northern California.

This mini-site serves primarily as a landing page for people who are generally curious who I might be. It is not updated very often; for more current news I encourage you to visit my main project portal, Frostopolis.

Current Projects

Here are some of the little projects I'm currently tinkering with.

Five Worst - The Negativity Portal.
iPhonesque - iPhone insights starting in July 2007.
Medienkunst - my first website, getting a facelift soon.
BetaVote.com - dormant but returning in 2008!

Professional Profile

I work as a team- and thought-leader on complex mission-critical systems that have a direct and positive influence on customers' lives and, by natural extension, on profitability. Most of my work involves Perl, databases, and cutting-edge web-application technologies (AJAX and related buzzwords).

I'm happily employed and not looking for work, but I am congenitally curious and always like to hear about great ideas that can change society for the better and make money doing it.

Specialization

Internet strategy
Object-oriented (and procedural) Perl, mod_perl, & friends
Web applications (community, social network, CMS)
Rich web clients (OO Javascript, "AJAX" &c.)
Data architecture, database design and development
Server-side application development
EDI and client-server integration

Industries

Internet/Intranet
E-mail processing and protection (anti-spam, automation)
Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology (Clinical/Safety)

Please refer to my plain-text CV/résumé for more details.

Contact

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Again, thanks for stopping by!

temporary sculpture

FROSTOPOLIS

Frostopolis is my "project portal" and front line of webby experimentation. It gets updated more often that this mini-site, and has a lot more fun strange things. If you haven't been there, hop on over!

Other Frosty Pages

Frostworld - portfolio in progress
LV8.US - archived art
Medienkunst - media art
biztos.blogspot - occasional blog
biztos.com - the secret thing

Recent Sightings

I was recently pointed to a place called Video Sift, which socially aggregates YouTube content. It's a really cool site, though small; but it's also an example of something that's becoming more and more common: the business as feature of another, larger business. I'm not yet sure what I think of that idea... on the one hand it's very innovative, but on the other hand your only long-term value is the brand and any onerous patents you can squeeze out of the corruption that is Washington.

Need cork stoppers in Central Europe? Of course you do! In which case, have a look at Procork in the EU. I know these guys and I know their products: top quality wholesale corks at fair prices. Which reminds me, I need to do something with the parafadugo page.

Check out Bullet Shih, a crazy New York artist in sunny Budapest. You might especially like the funny pictures he paints on free postcards, which he sells for something like 200 Euros a pop. (Hint-hint, all you budget-challenged collectors!)

Web Standards

It turns out there actually is a Right Way to make web sites. I offer these links as pennance for all the pages I've made the wrong way. Read and learn; if you're in the web business your future probably depends on it.

Jeffrey Zeldman always knows where the new stufff is. He also edits A List Apart, where you can learn all sorts of neat tricks.

Standards, meet Beauty. Let the CSS Zen Garden blow your mind. Then go to the Web Standards Project for some ideology.

Of course, your CEO/PHB won't care about accessibility for another year or so, so you will need to make the business case for standards. Get a head start on that with essays from Andy Budd and Jeffrey Veen, and this indispensible interview with Mike Davidson of Disney/ESPN.

Other Interesting Things

My brother is a manager and researcher of intelligent autonomous flight vehicles at NASA, and of course he has a web site.

Older Links

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