Dogmatic

A work-in-progress: The site that won’t see the light of day

Back in September of 2003, I was contacted by South Florida’s Gods And Monsters. The guys were a young up and coming band and upon a recommendation from Universal Records sought out myself to design and develop their new site. Since September, I had developed a great working relationship with the band’s lead singer, Joshua Reed, and we proceeded to build the band’s site piece by piece. I was very proud of where the site was heading and we were all looking at a February 1, 2004 release. Today I received contact from Joshua who informed me that the band would be calling it a day. The site would, obviously, not be going ahead. It felt like I had just been kicked in the guts. I was bitterly disappointed as there had been hours and hours poured into this project. I wasn’t disappointed in the financial loss of this project - even tho the band had paid us for the work we had done so far - but I was most disappointed that this site won’t ever be completed. The entire site was being constructed in Flash - and featured some wonderful animations of various ‘insects’ and ‘beetles’ scurrying around the design at certain moments. The site was developing into something very atmospheric and I was very confident it would have been a wonderful site.