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Flashback
Ditching old technology, updating the portfolio, rearranging the basement (again)
The folder for updating LV’s website was created five years ago. It’s actually been on the to-do list for more than six years. With Scrappy moving into the basement, it was time to copy some files, post an update, and say good-bye to a lot of stuff
It's time to get rid of the 2002 Gateway desktop
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We couldn’t take down the Christmas tree (which turned 16 (that’s Meg in 2005)) until I knew where it would live after the basement was rearranged. (It’s actually not in the basement anymore.) The last time LV’s site was updated, Boom was new to the world (photographed on the iPad mentioned on Page 19).
Boom loved this year's decorations
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Meg in front of the new tree in 2005
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iPad photo of Boom in 2012
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Luis' notes for his portfolio update in 2012
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The oldest photo on this page is Meg in wrapping paper, then LV with his notepad during a shoot for his portfolio site, then baby Boom, then Boom hugging the tree, and then the 2002 Gateway desktop.
A how-to video for fixing bi-fold doors literally had Madeline's name on it, but then we didn't re-hang the doors. See more basement plans in the desktop version
Issue 108 also used a pattern of Lego pieces on the cover because Madeline had just reorganized the basement. The map’s magenta lines are in addition to the yellow lines from Issue 108’s game plan. The article in that May 2021 issue referenced Issue 87’s cover of Betty jumping off the basement sleeper sofa. To recap, Madeline took the photo for Issue 87 in 2020 in the middle of the basement where the previous owners had dumped it. Then she moved the sofa to “the stage.” A year into the pandemic, she moved it all the way to the other end of the basement in 2021. She liked the way sunlight was introduced in the 2021 arrangement, so rather than move the sofa in 2022, she moved the loft bed as far as it could. It was the only way to get Meg a clearly definded space. Be sure to visit luisvegadesign.com
An old picture uncovered in the work to backup everything. See more in the desktop version
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WHAT WERE YOU DOING IN 1997?
While Luis was playing with super models, Madeline was obsessing over yearbook
For of Luis' issues we found when updating his portfolio, ranging from September/October 1997 to March/April 1998
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Armed with film cameras and early desktop publishing, the goal was to show as many people as possible with the longest captions that would fit (and steal some magazine headline styles). Madeline was the sports editor on the 1997 and editor-in-chief on the 1998 editions of this 300-page beast.
MV had to put four more action photos on the sidebar because seven weren’t enough in the main design
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Being EIC meant designing the footer and changing the style on photo credits. MV also took a Field Biology course in 1997 that was really just a giant roadtrip.
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From old iPad photos recently recopied: 1) MV had to put four more action photos on the sidebar because seven weren’t enough in the main design. 2) Being EIC meant designing the footer and changing the style on photo credits. MV also took a Field Biology course in 1997 that was really just a giant roadtrip. 3) Why did we set up templates to put the subject in the gutter? 4) The “Student Life” section didn’t have professional photographers (we had a huge budget), so MV walked around with a camera in addition to assigning articles, editing photos, designing layouts...
