Thursday, August 18, 2011

Survivor/Chuck Palahniuk

Survivor: A Novel


I was in Aruba on vacation with the family for the past five days.

I brought this book by Chuck Palahniuk (yes, the guy who wrote Fight Club.  yes, Fight Club was a book before it was a movie.) ended up being on OK plane read (there's a plane crash in it.  I had to put the book down when during a bout of turbulence the plane passengers all erupt simultaneously in nervous laughter.  Nice to know that if we're all headed to an untimely end, we'll be chuckling our heads off.), but a really awesome beach read.

The only problem was that it was too good,
and I ended up having nothing to read on the plane ride back to Philly except for a Skymall catalog.



My favorite item in the Sky Mall catalog.   For $115.00 you too can have your very own "Barefoot Garden Yeti"!

*****My birthday is coming up, hint hint!  Make my dreams come true!!


The problem with evil.

Uban.  2010.

This is cool.  Found it on coromandal.wordpress.com!



Sunday, July 3, 2011

another unfounded theory.

i have this theory that somewhere there is a parallel universe where every set of lovers gets to live their fairy tale, and beautiful dreams of happy endings in this realm don't go to waste, and they are only transfered to this place where every precious moment is saved for exact copies of people who love each other and learn to forgive and grow old together and live ever after.  and what didn't work out here in this world, works out for someone else somewhere else.  its nice to think that somewhere in the vastness of creation, love truly did conquer all.  somewhere in the universe the person you love loves you back.  somewhere in the universe the person who loves you has your love in return.  and you get to be together forever like you had dreamed about.  somewhere in the universe the love that had been created doesn't disappear, but lovers get to rejoice in it and live on it like water.

Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Photoshop Text: Smoke, Philadelphia, Gangsta

I didn't have work today so I decided to hang out in the Graphics Lab at the Tech Center, and learn some photoshop since all my fin aid got screwed up and I didn't get to take the Computer Imaging and Digital Imaging Studio courses I was trying for...  

I'm by no means a Photoshop expert... not that I haven't tried before.  I just don't have Photoshop and use GIMP on my laptop for any editing I need to do.  But I thought I might as well learn the industry standard... for fun?  Anyway, here's what I came up with and their tutorials in the order I finished them... I like the sparkley one the best.

Smoke Text Effect.

Grungey Text Effect.


Sparkly Text Effect.

LEARN THIS TECHNIQUE HERE.