Decided to design another movie poster, went with dark theme as I usually do. Used images textures and Photoshop CS3 for majority of the work, the “mask” part was from online, could not find source.
Mask Movie Poster
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Illustrative Typography, Part 2: Designed this logo in Photoshop Class tonight, used photo I had taken with my DSLR and rest was created through Photoshop.
Illustrative Typography, Part 2
This is the start of my 45 second final project rendering, using techniques they provide in the book. So far the CS3 version is pretty good, will be using CS5.5 for Aftereffects soon. Hopefully that has more features and effects! Below is just the very beginning of my video.
You may need to, right-click save as to view it. It was rendered for Quicktime. 
I was pondering this a while back, if paypal had more outlets that accepted them and not via a visa or mastercard I would use them probably for my entire banking needs. They have all the requirements I would need for a bank.
Office Depot, the second-largest retailer of office supplies in the U.S., is testing PayPal’s new point-of-sale system in a limited number of locations according to Reuters. “It’s at this point in a small number of stores … because there are still some rough spots in that experience,” said Kevin Peters, president of Office Depot’s North American unit. “There are some limitations on who can use it, service carriers that support that.” PayPal’s new payment method, known as the wallet in the cloud, lets shoppers who have PayPal accounts pay by typing their mobile numbers and PINs at checkout counters. Customers will also be able to pay by swiping a PayPal card and entering a PIN. PayPal started testing in-store payments at 51 Home Depot locations with plans to offer the service at 20 major retailers by the end of the year, however no additional participants have been named. Peters said the company is eager to experiment with anything that helps with faster checkouts, although nothing will be widely available without further testing. “At this point, we are walking very, very slowly. The last thing we want to do is to roll out technology that doesn’t appreciably change the customer experience,” he said.
Source: BGR
Recently I planned a surprise for my Husband a one night getaway to the Hotel Parq Central in Albuquerque, NM. After our stay, I decided to write a small review of the hotel amenities and our experience, as this hotel started out as a Hospital in 1926 and then a Mental Institution for the remainder of its time.
A look at the amenities that pertained to our stay; the provides continental breakfast (included with your room) also free shuttle service, free wireless internet throughout the hotel, our room came with the standard television channels which were completely acceptable! Our room also had a great bathroom with Luxury Bathrobes as well as all the toiletries you would expect in a four diamond hotel. Hotel Parq Central also advertised 300 thread count Frette linen sheets, and they were! The King bed we had for our room was inviting and comfortable.
We did not take advantage of the Apothecary Lounge as during our stay it was very busy, but we have sampled the hotels Lounge before and the drinks have always been consistent and priced accordingly. The one thing my Husband recommended we do was to take advantage of the outdoor Jacuzzi, it was fantastic with the 40 degree weather we were having, and the Jacuzzi felt around 90 degrees, the area was clean and private!
Overall our experience was fantastic and would recommend the hotel to anyone who wants a luxury stay without the price tag that would be associated with it.
For more information they have a direct site http://www.hotelparqcentral.com/
Looks to be good news for making that already super slim Smart Phone even smaller!
Sony today announced a new back-illuminated CMOS image sensor for smartphones, tablets, and other devices. Sony says that this sensor was made by laying the “pixel section containing formations of back-illuminated structure pixels onto chips containing the circuit section for signal processing.” According to Sony, the chief benefit of this design is to reduce the size of the image sensor to be installed in end-user devices. Other benefits include the ability to handle higher-quality images, faster processing speeds, and lower power requirements. The sensor will begin sampling in March, and Sony says that devices using it will offer RGBW Coding for low noise and good low-light performance, as well as Sony’s new HDR Movie processing for better color in bright light.
Original Sources: Phone Scoop & Sony
- There are four women in wedding dresses in a gay bar. #
- Some work I designed, Logo Concept: Cortex http://t.co/nRHl2it1 #
- World is a great place if you want it to be. #
- Tell Congress: Don’t censor the web! http://t.co/5J3J4Vrw #
- Wish me and the Husband were at any Disney Park right now! #
- It is time, if I can get married in Washington DC why not everywhere? #LegalizeGayMarriage #
- Forgot to put my phone on silent last night, had nightmares about beeps. #
- The words “abstemioius,” and “facetious” both have all the five vowels in them in order. #uselessinfo #
- Didn’t even watch the golden globes tonight, my baby needed his Desperate Housewives and Once Upon a time fix. #
- The Planters Peanut Company mascot, Mr. Peanut, was created during a contest for schoolchildren in 1916. #uselessinfo #
- Betty White, you have many more years to come! #HappyBirthdayBetty #
- Siri on the IPhone does not understand the word lesbian. #siri #
- Husband has wine up his nose. #
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Another round for Logo design concept and ideas, this one I used Photoshop filters such as, Blending Modes, Quick Mask, Drop Shadow.
During class I designed this concept logo as a side project. Items I used were images I had on my storage drive. Photoshop CS3 filters, smart layers and Masks.
Reposting this from the official WordPress.com blog, we are all agents of change.
Normally we stay away from from politics here at the official WordPress project — having users from all over the globe that span the political spectrum is evidence that we are doing our job and democratizing publishing, and we don’t want to alienate any of our users no matter how much some of us may disagree with some of them personally. Today, I’m breaking our no-politics rule, because there’s something going on in U.S. politics right now that we need to make sure you know about and understand, because it affects us all.
Using WordPress to blog, to publish, to communicate things online that once upon a time would have been relegated to an unread private journal (or simply remained unspoken, uncreated, unshared) makes you a part of one of the biggest changes in modern history: the democratization of publishing and the independent web. Every time you click Publish, you are a part of that change, whether you are posting canny political insight or a cat that makes you LOL. How would you feel if the web stopped being so free and independent? I’m concerned freaked right the heck out about the bills that threaten to do this, and as a participant in one of the biggest changes in modern history, you should be, too.
You may have heard people talking/blogging/twittering about SOPA — the Stop Online Piracy Act. The recent SOPA-related boycott of GoDaddy was all over the news, with many people expressing their outrage over the possibilities of SOPA, but when I ask people about SOPA and its sister bill in the Senate, PIPA (Protect IP Act), many don’t really know what the bills propose, or what we stand to lose. If you are not freaked out by SOPA/PIPA, please: for the next four minutes, instead of checking Facebook statuses, seeing who mentioned you on Twitter, or watching the latest episode of Sherlock.
Some thoughts:
- In the U.S. our legal system maintains that the burden of proof is on the accuser, and that people are innocent until proven guilty. This tenet seems to be on the chopping block when it comes to the web if these bills pass, as companies could shut down sites based on accusation alone.
- Laws are not like lines of PHP; they are not easily reverted if someone wakes up and realizes there is a better way to do things. We should not be so quick to codify something this far-reaching.
- The people writing these laws are not the people writing the independent web, and they are not out to protect it. We have to stand up for it ourselves.
Blogging is a form of activism. You can be an agent of change. Some people will tell you that taking action is useless, that online petitions, phone calls to representatives, and other actions won’t change a single mind, especially one that’s been convinced of something by lobbyist dollars. To those people, I repeat the words of Margaret Mead:
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
We are not a small group. More than 60 million people use WordPress — it’s said to power about 15% of the web. We can make an impact, and you can be an agent of change. Go to Stop American Censorship for more information and a bunch of ways you can take action quickly, easily, and painlessly. The Senate votes in two weeks, and we need to help at least 41 more senators see reason before then. Please. Make your voice heard.
Source: WordPress.com
