Chris Girard: Web Design & Portfolio

The Chris Girard blog offers downloadable conceptual photography via the NINE NINETY-NINE ONLY STORE, poetry, tutoring services, a multimedia art portfolio & a Ph.D. dissertation. The NINE NINETY-NINE ONLY STORE offers free downloadable high-resolution digital fine art prints that can be printed on paper or wallpaper. You will receive a digital copy of your fine art instantly.

Projects by Chris Girard

PhD Thesis by Chris Girard

My PhD thesis comes from five years of artistic research and two MFAs in collage poetry. You can purchase this

Sylvia Plath Collage Installation - Lady/Applicant: The Lazarus

This multimedia collage installation re-imagines the 'authorial identity' of Sylvia Plath from street signs surrounding Plath's residence.

Nine Ninety-Nine Only Store: Free Artisan Wallpaper

The NINE NINETY-NINE ONLY STORE offers downloadable high-resolution photography. Download free high-quality photos for wallpaper or prints!

Other Humans: Strange Documentary Photos

Even as an introvert, it was easy to meet people. I am very attracted to people who have strange and

MySpace Era: 2000s Selfies

I am presenting the pretentious selfie as a not-so-pretentious documentary of my past. These selfies began in the early 2000s

Collaborative Video Comics with ESL Students in Spain

A teacher and I collaborated to create videos using artwork & voice-overs from students in Madrid. Spanish justificantes helped me

All But Dissertation / Todo menos la tesis

All But Dissertation (ABD) is an Edgar Allan Poe inspired story offered in Spanish and English. Santa Cruz is haunted

How to Take a Surrealist Photo

Maybe the lens makes a better Photoshop. But every surrealist photo I have made is like writing a poem with

LIKED: Set of 20 Twitter / Twaiku Poems

LIKED is a selection of 400 Twitter twaiku poems by Chris Girard from 2011-2017. It's featured in 20 pamphlets by

VOTE4ART Winner: Hacking an App

Winner of the VOTE4ART app, Tectonic Trees by Chris Girard was displayed at Art Spectrum & Red Dot Miami by

Questions to a(n Answerless) Specter: Collage Poems

Questions to an Answerless Specter is a book of three & ½ collage poems by Chris/toph Girard with a journey

Death Poem: Shadows/Shadows/Tomb

Shadow/Shadows/Tomb, a video death poem by Chris/toph Girard, runs tombstones on four video screens on a program called Max/MSP/Jitter.

Hollywood Forever Cemetery Poem

A tombstone Poem was taken at Hollywood Forever Cemetery. The film constitutes engravings found on tombstones from not just celebrities.

Detournement of Stop Signs - Law Series

This detournement consists of repurposed photographs of street signs that are either cropped or framed from their original regulations.

Hyperpoetry: The Route Throughout

The Route Throughout is an epic poem self-published by Chris Girard & distributed on a zine in 2003 & turned

A Max/MSP/Jitter Code Poem: Gestalt

Gestalt is a code poem created by using a collage of the codes that run the visual programming language Max/MSP/Jitter

A Book of Hypertext Poems: TRY ME.

TRY ME. is a series of hypertext poems by Chris/toph Girard translated from spam email. A link to the digital

A John Berryman Collage Poem - Henry's Body

Henry's Body: A Thousand Hacks is an audio collage poem made from the all the words taken from poet John

MFA Thesis: Ten and One Left: Eleven-Line Poems

Ten and One Left is a 64-page series of 11 line poems taken and collaged from LiveJournal. This is my

Strength Through Song: Hardcore Documentary

2000s Hardcore Documentary: Strength Through Song

Strength Through Song is a hardcore documentary. It is a look into the 2000s with vegan straight edge members touring

A sleepwalking poem stops the rain from resting

Conceptual Writing Is (Un)conceptual Writing

My approach to conceptual writing is through a postmodern exploration of identity with collage. And how we manifest web and

Blog Posts by Chris Girard

Chris G's Best Yelp Reviews: Cementiri de Montjuic (Spanish Translation) - 4/5 Stars

Cementiri de Montjuïc Funeral Services & Cemeteries Carrer de la Mare de Déu de Port, 56 - 58 08038 Barcelona

RIP Most Useful, Most Funny, and Most Cool Yelp reviews 2008-2018

RIP Most Useful, Most Funny, and Most Cool Yelp reviews 2008-2018 I almost had my Black Elite 10-year anniversary badge...

The Spanish Consulate of Los Angeles Translation Disaster

Gay Marriage, Leaving the Country, Resistance to Trump-ism in a Nutshell On 12/14/16, I got gay married to an Italian

Lala Loves DD Kittisaurus Creamheroes GIF

Enneagram Personalities of Kittisaurus and Creamheroes Cats

The Enneagram and Myers Briggs can be used on animals. This is a list of the personality types of cats

Answering Every OkCupid Question Ever (Data Scraping)

I answered every OkCupid question ever. Then I data scraped them into this page. Through these questions, I got married

Nokia Flipphone Screen Surrealism (2004)

Boxed in a Box: Enneagram 5w4 Sx/So Instinctual Stackings

I am a 5w4 sx/so in the enneagram, which is an assessment system that categorizes personalities into 9 boxes &

Learning Italian for Spanish Speakers on Duolingo

I played Duolingo every day for three years. I attended speaking events in LA. Now I am learning Italian for

Thousands of Years on Bitlife...

I used Bitlife for 10,000 years and after playing many generations worth of people, I discovered many different things about

All But Dissertation / Todo menos la tesis

All But Dissertation (ABD) is an Edgar Allan Poe inspired story offered in Spanish and English. Santa Cruz is haunted

A Portfolio of Open Source HTML That Would Otherwise Be Lost

This is the dark side of the moon. This is a compilation of open source HTML and CSS I have

No Heart: Learn to Say No to Bad Clients

Web Design Manifesto: Bad Clients

Let this serve as a warning for freelance or on contract web designers. Be careful! Some clients are good. But

Bio Sewage: The 36 Questions That Lead to Love

These are my 36 questions by Arthur Aron that provide great questions for conversation starters. As a spouse and LTR

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