About HappyFt

Mission

HappyFt Travels, a world of creativity, seeks to spread the freedoms of creative resistance and full enjoyment. Originally concepted as an underground travel agency, this Web site is now an underground hub of creative content, radical thought, and personal perspective. Linking different art forms together on one neat blog, the HappyFt community opens its digital arms to people that hope to find a personal creative spark.

HappyFeet Travels began in 1999 as a learning tool for Dreamweaver-based html Web site design. HappyFeet sought to be the travel agency that you’d never seen before. We connected viewers to the seedy underbelly of San Francisco life via the many links, creations, and available tours. It was a grand idea that has generated many spontaneous tours of the City.

So, during the 2002 advent of Stencil Archive, a redesign brought HappyFeet Travels into its second life. The links grew, along with pages for other interests like puppets, sound arts, and politics. A pseudo-blog was created with monthly entries about life in San Francisco, political rants, and a HF creations page.

Stencil Archive soon outgrew its mother site, and left home for good. Now orphaned by the many visitors that came to HappyFeet for their stencil fix, the site soon fell into neglect. In 2004, the huge task of redesigning Stencil Archive led to the interest in using blog technology to create version three of HappyFt Travels. V.2’s design already had the organizational structure for a great blog site, so the first attempts were made to turn this site into an actual blog.

Movable Type was impossible to install and PostNuke wasn’t the right approach. The designer of Stencil Archive suggested WordPress, so 1.2’s easy installation led to the 2005 release of the HappyFt blog design. A few weeks, and a few mistakes later, the site is now running on 1.5.2 and better than ever.

Over the years, the HappyFt philosophy has branched out into other creative areas: DJ HappyFt regularly spins hip hop, funk, world, breaks, and noise, HF Designs is working with a growing number of clients on multimedia/design proejcts, and the artist HappyFeet continues to do the street art thang.

All these art forms, along with other types of content, will hit this site often. Hopefully, the HappyFt universe will continue to grow and spread the freedoms of creative resistance and full enjoyment. Oh, and tours are still available if you’d like to buy one!

Thanks for visiting.