Web Sites

• Geist Arts (this website), owner, designer and webmaster
• AlaskaLawHelp.org, assisted in initial development of site, including training of stakeholders and contributors on how to develop and upload web content.
• Lectrosonics, Inc., redesigned older stale site to improve navigation, expand content and incorporate online (html) product catalogs. Responsible writing/editing majority of web content for current site.
• Midnight Sun Intertribal Powwow, designed and developed original site for 2002 event (website was redesigned shortly after I left the organization)

Video Productions (Video Samples are Windows Media files)

• Why We Dance, The Story of the Midnight Sun Intertribal Powwow (2003 Goldie Award winner, Alaska Broadcasters Association), field producer for multicamera Alaska Native/Native American spiritual event.
• High Resolution (Cable or DSL)
• Low Resolution (Dial Up)

• Arctic Man Ski and Sno Go Classic (1989 and 1990), a five camera production of the most exciting speed skiing and snowmobile race in North America.
• High Resolution (Cable or DSL)
• Low Resolution (Dial Up)

• Yukon Quest 1,000 Mile International Sled Dog Race (1990), field producer for daily broadcast coverage of one of North America's most grueling endurance events.
• High Resolution (Cable or DSL)

Technical Writing (including on line help applications)

• Venue Receiver, Reference manual for modular Digital Hybrid Wireless receiver system used by major television and film production companies.
• SM Operating Guide, Reference manual for SM-Super Miniature Digital Hybrid Wireless transmitter used on television shows (Oprah, Desperate Housewives, etc.) and other entertainment companies.
• Section 8, DATA DIRECTOR, a chapter from a software manual for a multi-computer electronic test system, covers both hardware and software concepts. The original was developed on a UNIX-based system. This version was scanned into MS Word 2000 and Adobe Photoshop 5.0, then imported into Adobe Framemaker 6.0. (PDF 1.7M)


• SDMS Help Application and Reference Guide - selections from the printed aspect of a single source project (on line help and user guides) for a Spatial Data Base Management System (SDMS) developed by BLM-Alaska. SDMS sould ultimately digitally record all legal land surveys performed in Alaska on Federal lands since pre-statehood. Three publications, in addition to two online Helps, were produced using RoboHelp to develop the source code. The SDMS Reference Guide focused on the interface and processes for entering survey and ownership data into the data base. The SDMS Web Users Guide was designed to assist individuals accessing SDMS from a BLM public site. The SDMS Quick Reference Guide was designed as a handout for individuals accessing the data base from the Internet. It would be available at BLM public access sites, or downloadable from BLM-Alaska.
  • SDMS Reference Guide, Introduction - Introduces the concepts behind SDMS and the user interface data entry personnel would use to enter, edit and verify data.
  • SDMS Reference Guide, Rectangular Surveys - Describes the process used to enter rectangular survey data.
  • SDMS Web Users Guide, Introduction - Introduces SDMS to web users and describes steps required to navigate BLM website.
  • SDMS Web Users Guide, Query Tools - Introduces Internet users to the query tools available for searching and retrieving information from SDMS.
  • SDMS Quick Reference Guide - a double sided quick reference sheet to help users at BLM public access portals.>
  • SDMS On Line Help Application, link to web-based help application developed for the public access portal to the Spatial Data Management System. (Select the operating system to load the interactive map, then select HELP to view the on line help application.)

Alternative Energy/Appropriate Technology

• Underground Greenhouse - Everett Drashner's unique greenhouse raises vegetables year round in the heart of Alaska. (PDF 1.9M)
• Waste Heat Increases Growing Season - MTNT, and Alaska Native Village Corporation over 200 miles Northwest of Anchroage uses waste heat from FAA facility to heat commercial greenhouse. (PDF 1.5M)
• Novel System Provides Heat and Hot Water - Pat Yourkowski of Homer, AK uses innovative , multifuel Heat and Heat Storage Apparatus to keep his house warm. (PDF 1.6M)
• Willie Nelson Regulates Power Output - Chester Johnson uses Willie Nelson record and array of light bulbs to regulate power from his homespun power plant. (PDF 750K)
• Freon Steam Propels Turbine - Art Mannings unique power plant uses heat from Chena River to evaporate freon and spin turbine. (PDF 1.4M)

Product Catalogs

• Accessories Catalog - Includes photographs and descriptions of all the accessories Lectrosonics manufactures for its wireless microphone and audio processing products. (PDF 2.9M)
• Sound Contractor Catalog - Identifies all the products and accessories available to Sound Contractors certified to sell Lectrosonic products. (PDF 1.5M)
• UHF Vendor Catalog - Identifies all products and accessories for vendors certified to sell Lectrosonics UHF Wirless Microphone Systems and audio processing products. (PDF 1.4M)

Consumer/Trade Publications

• Fairbanks Arts (selections from the bimonthly 16-page magazine produced for Fairbanks Arts Association:
• Lael Morgan - a profile of one of the founders of Epicenter Press (Seattle, WA). (PDF 1.2M)
• Claire Fejes - a profile of one of interior Alaska's most remarkable artists. (PDF 1.2M)
• Always Getting Ready - highlighting Jim Barker's ethnophotography of the Yukon/Kuskowkim River Delta region.
• Utemon - Yupik playright draws heavily from his past to write a play about the future. (PDF 1.6M)

• Harrowsmith Magazine
• Instant Heat: Just Add Water - about Dr. Dan Hawkins amazing studies of Zeolites for home heating. (Also letter from Harrowsmith about articles response.)
• Spectrum Magazine (Alascom, Inc.'s in house magazine)
Alaska gets "big picture from space" -describes how satellites are used to do everything from fighting fires to monitor volcanic eruptions. (1.2M)

• Cabin Magazine
• Harnessing Alaska's Wind - history of wind power projects in Alaska (1.6M)

• Alaska Land and Home Magazine
• Eagle on the Yukon - story about Dennis and Sheila Layman and the Eagle Trading Post, Eagle, AK. (1.2M)

• Instant and Small Commercial Printer
• Wilderness Printer Puts Delta Junction on the Map - Chris Brann started with a newsletter and became on of Alaska's premier high-quality small printers (1.0 M)

• Insurance Review
• ...And Nothing But The Truth - a look at Forensic Engineers and how they support or disprove insurance claims. (2.1M)

Marketing Brochures/Flyers

• The R/V Alpha Helix, eight-page booklet describing the history of the University of Alaska School of Fisheries and Ocean Science's research vessel. Booklet was used during effort to replace the aging R/V Alpha Helix with a newer research vessel. (PDF 2.3M)
• Midnight Sun Intertribal Powwow flyer, poster for the 2002 Midnight Sun Intertribal Powwow, July 5-7, 2002 in Fairbanks, AK.
• 2002 Midnight Sun Intertribal Powwow newspaper ad placed in Indian Country News for Midnight Sun Intertribal Powwow.
• Investing in the Arts, funding promotional flyer for the Fairbanks Arts Association.
• Feel Like Your Swimming Upstream?, promoting the services of the University of Alaska School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences, Academic Servcies Department.
• 64th Parallel - postcard announcing opening of 64th Parallel Juried Art Exhibit

Proposals

• Alaska Military Housing Maintenance, lead writer for a proposal for the complete maintenance of all Army military housing (on- and off-base) at Forts Richardson (Anchorage) and Wainwright (Fairbanks). (Proposal has been modified to remove names of submitting organizations.) (400k)

Newsletters

• SFOS News, monthly informational newsletter for the University of Alaska Fairbanks School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences. (PDF 650K)
• C-Breeze, semi-monthly marketing newsletter for ComputerLand-Alaska (Fairbanks, Alaska). (PDF 2.4M)