Archive for September, 2006

One of my favorite things about High Definition programming

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!You can read signs in the backgrounds. Take SportsCenter, for instance. The college football crew was in Iowa City and there were maybe two thousand Iowhiners (what do you call people from Iowa anyway?) cheering. And cheering loud. There […]

Perfect time to leave?

As many of you might know, I quit my agency job last week to take a position at Flying Dog Brewery. Not just a beer bottler or anything, I’ll be the new Creative Manager of said brewery. Today should have been my last day, because Bloglines has ceased to work on my G4 (single processor) […]

I bet they’re going to dig there.

This just in: The China Bowl will be the first NFL-Licensed professional football game on August 8, 2007 (Patriots vs. Seahawks). This marks a time in the world when people are more excited about sports than, say, feeding people. Oh wait, that’s all the time.

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Picking up the pieces

Yesterday evening I was watching a little TV (yes, so nerdy on a Saturday night). First up, Swingers. A movie I can always watch. I watched from the “Is he brown? Let him in if he’s brown” part through the “What do you drive?” section. One of the tunes highlighted on the amazing soundtrack is […]

September 22 SKIING

I wish I could do that!
http://www.silvertonmountain.com/gallery/album86/aab

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Yonder Mountain String Band

There’s a thread on the Yonder Mountain Yahoo Group about how many shows people have seen. The max is somewhere in the 100 range (as far as I’ve seen). I thought I had been to a lot of their shows, but it only ended up being like 30 honest-to-god Yonder shows. I guess I’ve seen […]

I think I just invented a new form of porn.

While shooting some product photos for a sports website I administer, the silver mannequin’s hand (accidentally, mind you) got stuck. In my pants. It’s not exactly my thing, but a friend said that this may in fact be the dawn of a new trend. I’m terming it “mannequerotica” (batteries not included). I’m sure I’m not […]

Everyone thinks I’m an idiot when I make them play “Rock Paper Scissors”

See? It has real world applications. (via Kottke)

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I love drawing beards on people in Photoshop.

Here’s a pretty decent tutorial. I’d recommend using a small variety of brushes to achieve some better results.
Just wait for my Franz-Josefs to start popping up on Flickr.
(via Kottke)

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The “I won a contest” hyperlink roundup post

As I previously mentioned, I won a kottke.org contest. I’ve received my prize - a 1955-1978 History of Rock and Roll poster from historyshots.com. I thought it was the best poster they offered. The other posters weren’t designed especially well. Someone should let them know that it’s ok to use some photography in their posters […]