Digital Marketing

In 2020, I joined The Nine to build the digital marketing department. When their web design & development clients started asking for help with digital marketing services like SEO, Search Engine Marketing, and Social Media Marketing, Robby White, a friend and owner of The Nine, reached out to me about joining the team.

Every business we’ve talked to wants to invest in trackable growth, which is what digital marketing can deliver much better than traditional marketing.

Digital marketing is exploding around the world. Even in the small southern college town I live in, Tuscaloosa, AL, local businesses are looking for ways to leverage the internet to grow.

As the internet connects the world, you don’t have to burn money on spray and pray marketing campaigns any more. You have the opportunity to can track each dollar and measure the results from your marketing campaigns.

If you want to get more value from your marketing/advertising budget, send me an email: paris@nine.is

Permaculture.

All humans need these three things: Clean air, clean water, and clean food. Everybody wants them. Everybody needs them. Sadly, the concept of a clean “environment” has become politicized and saturated with unnecessary baggage. This is the beginning of my exploration into Permaculture, a way of thinking about and designing the world in such a way that there is an abundance of those three essential parts of human life. Air. Water. Food.

Explaining Pi

One day my wife and I noticed our boy, 6 at the time, repeating something to himself while holding a dollar bill. Suddenly, he says, “I got it!” He then quoted back to us the serial number from the dollar bill without looking. That’s a random 10 digit number that muh boy decided to memorize without any instruction from us. Parental pride beamed forth.

dollar bill serial number

Since then I’ll occasionally give the boy’s hungry brain something to memorize. What better number to memorize than Pi? Pi is the circumference of a circle divided by its diameter. As far as I know its an infinite number. With the first 39 digits of pi (3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197) you can estimate the circumference of all possible circles within the observable universe within a margin of error about the size of a hydrogen atom. Pretty cool.

I set the boy to the task of memorizing as many digits of Pi as he could. He came to my office one day and got to work. I drew this symbol to explain what he was memorizing and we broke it down into chunks.

kid memorizes 14 digits of pi

By the end of our session he memorized the first 14 digits of Pi!

After a mathematician friend complemented what I’d drawn on the board to explain Pi, I decided to digitize the sketch…

pi = c / d

Now you can buy a shirt, and other products, with this symbol on it here: Click here to buy the shirt and other things I’ve designed

pi-definition-1-tshirts

May your art never die.

The Xbox cable brushes against the guitar strings. They mutter a cautious chirp from behind the TV. Frightened, the guitar blasts me with guilt and musical memories. Dazed I stagger back. Hesitant.
A deep ache rises from a forgotten place. Sorcery! That old stringed box works strong magic against my soul, begging to be heard again. But alas, my will proves stronger. Silence!
I turn my back on the rusty siren to bow before the mighty rectangle.
May your art never die.