Mafe Maria: A Creative Playground by Maria Q. Stultz
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For any of you who may have bumped into a FAT RED warning message when visiting this web site, or who may have seen a “this web site could harm your computer” message from Google search results… Fear no more. I have spent numerous hours this weekend repairing all the damage that a mass hacker [...]
With only a couple of slow days after the hectic month I’ve had, my brain is starting to play its typical games… Those where it tries to make me feel guilty for not being busy, for not being immersed on accomplishing something, for not tackling the items on my To–do–when–I’m–not–busy list… Only after TWO miserable [...]
This comes from my days at business school… Whenever it was time to study for final exams, I used to get this unstoppable urge to clean. I’d start with the bathroom, then with the rest of the apartment. It was a huge surprise when I learned that I wasn’t the only one with such crazy [...]
A little over a year ago, when I was a free, childless, freelance web designer, I had plenty of time to do things like: Encrypt my style sheets so plagiarists wouldn’t have such an easy ride with my portfolio site Put and manage traps to find out when somebody downloaded my portfolio site with a [...]
After three years of doing this, our e-Christmas Card has become sort of a tradition many of our people have come to expect. I’ve always loved receiving people’s Holiday cards and letters telling us about their year. When we got married, Joey wanted us to join the tradition, but I’ve never thought I’m a very [...]
Ahhh… The beauty of candid home videos… Since Joaquin was born I’ve been shooting several short videos of him with my very old digital camera. The main purpose of these is to help us remember all the cute little things he does before he stops doing them, and then of course to share life action [...]
An “ad whore”… That’s the latest sutileza from my dear husband. He’s called me that a few times over the last few days, and specially when I told him how much money I’ve earned in advertising revenue since I began the evil experiment. Well, he’s not interested in my explanations, but now that you all [...]
I guess the novelty (not the joy) of blogging has finally started to wind down, but after over a year of having started Mafe Maria, I’m finding myself caring less and less about how many feed subscriptions this site has. For one, I am not sure that all 21 subscribers currently reported by FeedBurner are [...]
Oh yeah… Some time this week Mafe Maria has turned one year old, and an enthusiastic “Spanish” song is in order: Japi verdei tu yu… Japi verdei tu yu… Japi verdei Mafecitaaaaa… Japi verdei tuuuuu yuuuuuu About a year ago I began writing publicly — and secretly. Today, on my best day, FeedBurner reports 29 [...]
—Why are you making that culo face? —[silence] —What’s wrong??? Are you mad at me? Have I done something wrong??? —My server is down again. I can’t work —Again?… Seems like you need to change hosting companies… —I can’t. Media Temple is supposed to be THE BEST —Oh —Yeah [back to culo face] What are [...]
I’m not one of those insatiable designers who redesign and reboot compulsively only for the pleasure of creative change. As the pure ISTJ that I am, behind everything I do, I must always begin with a reason why and some concrete goals to direct my work. Without such direction I just get lost and don’t [...]
Documenting some sort of epiphany in my process as a visual designer… I’m not sure of how long the thought will last, so it’s important to quickly write it down to remind myself… before I continue producing poopoo designs for my own use. It’s true. When it comes to doing any design work for mafemaria.com, [...]
I currently own two web sites: MQStudio, my business and portfolio website, the older, wiser, and responsible child; and Mafe Maria (this site), the second, more curious and adventurous yet somewhat insecure child. Each site has a completely different purpose and voice. These are their stories.
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