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Freaked Out Tuesday
Everybody Like This!
So, Hank Harris just stopped by to drop off the a copy of his latest album “Shortcut to Hanksville”. I’m listening to it now, I’ll report back with a review after I’ve spent some time with it, but for now I wanted to show you the stunning graphics designed by, who else, ME!
We’re working on getting the album up on his site soon I’ll keep you posted as soon as we get that done.
It was a fun project. We’ve been Hank fans for a long time. It was fun to design an album for him. The album is a mix of songs, emotions and styles. So far the songs Everybody Like This! and Vacuum are my favorites. Other musicians who play with Hank on the album are:
Jimmy Goings, Mike Miller, Jeremy Hegg, Jon Hegg, Peter Neussmann, Ricky Jacobsen, Kenny Putnam, Matt Berry, Matt Wallace, Tommy Hartig, Jimmy Sanchez, Andrew Reinartz, Genevieve Goings, Tony Baker
The complete track list is:
1. Amanda Lee
2. Everybody Like This
3. Women Choose
4. Typing and Entering
5. Vacuum
6. The Way to Heaven
7. I See Your Face
8. Love Doesn’t Stick
9. Nothing 2 Wear
10. Voodoo Avenue
11. Hope Dies Hard
12. What Am I Gonna Do?
13. Hypnotized
14. After All
Termes Openhouse & Online Sale
Every year around this time our friend, family member and favorite sphere painter Dick Termes opens up his gallery for a Holiday Open House. He overs great deals on Termespheres but also on his many smaller, very cool Termesy things to buy.
This year we went out a little farther into the marketing world and made fun posters and used Facebook and Twitter to try to help promote the event. So far he’s already had a reported 3 visitors to the Gallery BEFORE the event’s even started. I’m taking that as a sign that our extra effort has payed off.
Below are a couple sample graphics of what I created to help spread the word, enjoy:
Lets talk downloads…
I recently switched form CS2 to CS4, there are things I like and things I don’t and even something’s I don’t understand yet (imagine that).
Back a while I was still a CS2’er I discovered the exciting new world of downloadable presets for Photoshop. Brushes, Custom Shapes, Gradients, Actions etc. When I made the switch to CS4 I thought I had lost all of my previos downloads and was heart broken. Alas, today my day was brightened when I discovered they still worked. This sent me on a quest to find more – I found this site www.ladyoak.com you have to register but once you do you have access to a bazillion custom shapes. I’m not going to tell you how much time I spent downloading them this morning.
www.qbrushes.com has proven itself awesome for brushes and there is always www.deviantart.com which is chalk full of useful downloads for all sorts of purposes.
The point to this post I guess is that even though Adobe is awesome there is much more out there that can be added to make it even more awesome.
If you know of any secret sites out there I’d love to hear about them.
Photo What?
When I was 10 my dad got this really cool program for his computer. I think it was called Photoshop. He showed me how to use a couple of the tools, I remember specifically the “smudgy finger tool” was of particular interest. I played with it for a while and made (drew) a picture of a candle. I remember thinking the program was incredibly cool but didn’t know at the time how much of my future I would spend using it.
18 years have passed since that fateful day in Ohio, and I have grown with each upgrade of Adobe. I was there when they gave layers, history, clipping masks, filters, and vectors. Heck, I even remember the “big electric cat”.
Just say no to Internet Explorer
… I’ve been pulling my hair out this past week because of my dear friend Internet Explorer. Now, I could sit here and type on and on about why Explorer sucks and why you shouldn’t use it, but quite honestly I don’t want to and a quick trip to Google would provide you with more than enough reason to make the switch.
What baffles me though it the objection we get when we suggest this change. Maybe it’s because people don’t like change or they are afraid they won’t understand the upgrade to a cleaner, faster, superior browser that has sweet bells and whistles, I don’t know.
Here’s my point, I’ve put a lot of links in here for Firefox and i’m not even nessicarly telling you you should use Firefox, but for Pete’s sake (we must always look out for Pete) if you are still using IE 6 or less, it’s is imperative that you upgrade.
I will leave you with this analogy:
If you were using a brand of oil but went to a mechanic and he said, “You know you should really use this oil because that oil is going to destroy your car.” Wouldn’t you at least give it a thought?
Don’t ever rush a good thing
Good news for all of you great folks we work with – after ten years of bumping along on our semi-organized trail, we are finally going to start using our time/project management software to do just that; manage our time (which we have done for years) and our PROJECTS. Soon we will be communicating with you and you will be able to communicate with us via web-based software that will encourage collaboration. You will be able to see our to-do lists, add to them and make edits. You will also be able to send your images, text and questions directly to the software. So all correspondence will happily live in one place. Gone are the days of hand written to-do lists, postit notes and crashed email files.
We are working on the client setup now. We will keep you posted on our progress. Stay tuned.
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Don't ever rush a good thing
Good news for all of you great folks we work with – after ten years of bumping along on our semi-organized trail, we are finally going to start using our time/project management software to do just that; manage our time (which we have done for years) and our PROJECTS. Soon we will be communicating with you and you will be able to communicate with us via web-based software that will encourage collaboration. You will be able to see our to-do lists, add to them and make edits. You will also be able to send your images, text and questions directly to the software. So all correspondence will happily live in one place. Gone are the days of hand written to-do lists, postit notes and crashed email files.
We are working on the client setup now. We will keep you posted on our progress. Stay tuned.
Social Media Stumbling
If there is one thing that can be said about me, it’s that I Stumble a lot. What’s that? No, no, I don’t trip over everything, I use Stumble Upon. It is a plugin for most browsers that will (after a brief survey) deliver websites tailored to your interests.
Being a tec and web savvy kinda person, I tend to Stumble Upon many sites that are based on social media (Facebook, Myspace, Youtube, Digg and the like). I’ve been holding on to a 2 sites that are about how to handle yourself when you start using social media.
This article is based around social media etiquette. Proper etiquette is important for gaining traffic, mostly becuase of the fact that people will stop paying attention to you if are annoying. Excellent article.
This article teaches you how to properly tap into the current knowledge base that we call the internet. After gaining that knowledge, you are then taught where to go to continue learning about your specific field.
And, for a laugh, just in case you ever wondered why it is that your printer doesn’t quite work, the good folks at College Humor have finally documented an internal debate between your computer components.
Inspiration…
Its easy to create when the project is itself an inspiration.
I want to share a logo I did for CHS Players (Central High Theatre Department)
I designed it for the State One Acts competition. The kids go east river each year to perform an original piece written, directed and choreographed by Justin Speck. There has been a reoccurring theme each year, each show starts with the letter “E”.
This year’s “E” show will be the last of five in the series. To tie the whole concept together the department decided to name this year’s show Echoe, the misspelling is intentional and symbolic of the beginning and end of a truly amazing project. I am blessed to get to work with Justin (and Joey) and the CHS theatre department. What they have done is amazing and it’s a joy to be able to stand in my little corner of the dream and participate in what makes it so amazing.
