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Archive for October, 2008
Rap vs. Metal – Star Wars Style
Well, so which one wins? Both are so cheesy that I think WE’RE the losers, actually, but let’s suspend disbelief for a minute, and enjoy what a bunch of nerds can do with the miracle of technology we call the Internet. Gangsta Rap Metal
Election-Year Soapbox
I don’t usually post about hot-button things that will get people riled up, but things are boiling over in my head right now, and I need a place to vent some of them. There are a lot of arguments being made about the direction America should go under the next president. I have to take [...]
Learn To Rock A Photobooth With Jay Reilly
My good buddy Jay Reilly is doing a one-day seminar focusing on doing a photobooth-style portrait setup at weddings and events on November 14, 2008. Jay has a bitchin little studio literally a couple blocks from the pier in Oceanside, CA (which picks up NW swells pretty well – good place to surf in the [...]
Took Me A Second To Get This One
But it makes me laugh… I don’t know why… but it’s just random enough to make me chuckle out loud when I think about it… I love how they added a DOF effect, too, so that the face in the back is more OOF than the others. I don’t know how the hell people entertained [...]
Join The Totally Rad Team!
Do you like helping others? Are you handy with Photoshop? Do you have both sets of our actions, and use them all the time? Does your friendly personality come across well in emails? Do you have a few extra hours a week that you’d like to make some money with? If you can answer “yes” [...]
Photoshop CS4!!
Just released yesterday. Yes, I have it. Yes, there are a handful of things that will be broken with both TRA1 and TRA2, due to some internal things Adobe mucked around with. And yes, I’ll be fixing them, and issuing an updated version of both sets. Probably a couple weeks… it’s high on my priority [...]
Back from New Orleans
And tomorrow it’s off to San Francisco, then LA, and then, finally, back home for a while. Been on the road so much that it’s been hard to keep up with the real world. ImageX was a blast, and New Orleans is a great town, full of wonderful people. And yes, it’s still all fucked [...]
The Bible in Legos
I have an affection for odd juxtapositions of things… Elvis songs in metal style… Gangster rap in a lounge style… Mega-Man kicking Samus Aran’s ass… stuff like that always tickles me. So I couldn’t resist sharing something I stumbled upon this morning, which I think is just fabulous… the bible, illustrated with Legos, over at [...]
Double-Vision
I saw a couple clips recently on YouTube that reminded me of one another, so I thought that I’d get a reality-check… are these two minute-long clips eerily similar? Or am I just another elitist, radical, country-hating liberal… Seriously… Someone please explain what the hell is going on in America right now. Edited to add: [...]