CSS Sprite Technique Using Color Overlay in Photoshop
As a web developer working with designers who provide me with a plethora of assets, I often find myself in situations where I need to create rollover states in Photoshop for text assets whose fonts I don’t have installed on my computer. Keep Reading
Selleck Waterfall Sandwitch
Absolutely hilarious blog dedicated to collages of Tom Selleck posing with a waterfall and a sandwitch. I want to see a lot more stuff like this.
Courtesy of Collin Kelly
Visit Selleck Waterfall Sandwich.
Absolutely epic video, courtesy of my favorite guitar god.. The backup musicians crack me up and if you can last until the end, you get a healthy dose of trumpet accent love. Gorgeous. Makes me reconsider my life path.
Hilarious video of South African group Die Antwoord. Courtesy of my favorite South African creative Director.
Wednesday #3
This is the third installment of my “weekly” design series. I guess I should have been more realistic in regards to how consistent I would be with this project, but thankfully only a week slipped by.
Blue, orange and concentric circles are in full effect here. These are a few of my favorite things.
Tuesday #2
Just got back yesterday from snowboarding in Stowe, VT. Its been amazing progressing with my wife and it was a ton of fun hanging out with a big house full of people.
Because of that the design day got pushed back, so here is the updated version.
Now that I (already) broke the pattern, I’m wondering if I should start a new pattern with this. In other words, make next week’s design arrive on Wednesday, then the following Thursday, etc. We’ll see how it goes.
Monday #1
This is the beginning of (hopefully) a weekly occurrence. In an effort to set aside some quality time for creativity, I’m going to attempt to update the same PSD every week on Monday. I will add, edit, subtract, whatever to the same document and post the results. The idea is over time it will grow into something completely different than what it is today. It should be fun to watch the evolution as it grows, like one of those dinosaurs you soke in water and they get huge as they soak up the water (genius).
This is getting ambitious, but hopefully I can force myself to do this enough to want to do more pieces like this in a series and eventually have at least a couple in strong rotation.
Check back next Monday or subscribe to my RSS feed for the first revision to the above document. Comments and criticism welcome.
2010
2010 is promising to be a fantastic year, however its going to take some time to get rolling with it personally. Unfortunately, I still have stuff to clean off my plate from last year, but once that happens hopefully I’ll be on my way to being happier and healthier. Here are some things that are going to take up a lot of my focus this year:
My wonderful wife and I moved out of Manhattan this year and into Brooklyn where we have a little more space. So we converted our second bedroom into a recording studio, but its not quite there yet. We’ve got the beginnings to quite a few songs, definitely enough to make an album, so this will be a major priority to start developing our sound. We’re both really excited about it.
2009 hurt. Pushing my self to the limits, biting off WAY more than I could chew, and simply working myself to death took its toll on me, both mentally and physically. With this in mind, its an extremely high goal of mine this year to become healthier, manage my time better, and focus on what’s really important. This includes going to the gym, finding a good chiropractor in the city (suggestions?), working less, doing less freelance work and sleeping a lot more.
While not the most social animal out there, I feel like I’ve lost touch with a lot of people and need to do better with staying in the loop. Much of it has to do with the “work myself to death” problem highlighted before.
A lot of people have the exact opposite problem as me. They can’t pry themselves away from video games, tv, whatever and do work or personal projects. I’m pretty sure I’m in the market for a video game console not because of the entertainment value it provides, but because it will provide an excuse to not do anything for a couple hours. Weird I know, but it needs to happen.
I’m very much excited about developing professionally, artistically and musically over the course of this year, I just need to focus on keeping control of my life and not run at such a breakneck speed. It will require me saying NO to things, which will be the hardest part, but I’m hopeful that 2010 will be a great year.
Wishing everyone a happy, healthy and prosperous 2010.
I’m super excited to have just received jQuery 1.3 with PHP from Packt Publishing to review. I’ve only just begun the read but I can already tell its going to be an extremely powerful resource to refer to.
It is written for PHP developers who are looking for ways to optimize their web applications, reduce strain on servers and create sexy user interfaces that work hand in hand with the power of PHP. Its chock full of AJAX and other delicious bits and thoroughly explains whats happening on the front-end as well as the back-end.
I will post the full review when I’ve finished the book, so in the meantime, you should buy the book here or read my review of another Packt book, Magento Beginner’s Guide.
Clients from Hell