From 2006 to 2010, I worked at Fashionbuddha. We made a lot of cutting-edge Flash sites before focusing more on experiential and experimental work. Much of our clientele was in the non-profit and art worlds. Pay was admittedly not great, but the work was challenging and rewarding.

Most of my tenure there preceded touchscreens. Touch was a fairly new concept, and we had to build our own interactive display systems, and best practices for using them. We relied a lot on infrared emitters and filtered cameras, which gave rise to systems where we tracked motion away from the display itself. "Minority Report" wasn't that old, so what we were doing was very sci-fi.

Some of my favorite projects there included creating a font by tracking the motion of ballet dancers forming characters with their bodies using our IR system, one of the first depth-camera-based body-tracking Interactive billboards for the Children's Museum, and a recording booth at the Portland Art Museum for capturing stories about meaningful objects in visitors' lives.

Fashionbuddha was also where I first went deep into open source, writing reusable systems and libraries for openFrameworks and Cinder.