2 posts tagged “beach”
Vox, you have finally made me feel cool. If you haven't seen it, the picture I took at the beach of the lightning (http://flickr.com/photos/kuyman/855396117/) was featured on the Vox homepage today in the "This is Good' section. Whoever submitted my picture, I love you and you have totally made my summer. Thanks to anyone who bothered to look, it means a lot to me.
Thanks again everyone, I love you all.
Feedback is a thing to be cherished in this here online world. You see, whenever someone posts a comment, it gets me thinking about the next post. Then I get more comments and more posts. It's a vicious creative cycle.
For anyone who couldn't see the logo's typography:
I forgot that Internet Explorer 6 (and previous as well as AOL) have a terrible time rendering translucency in PNGs and that the background on my blog is black.)
The original image that I worked from is this one:
It's the same sand dollar, sans bad scan grain and the type. Then I added in another side with the airbrush tool in Photoshop, duplicated and rotated one of those little slit thingies on the sand dollar, ran a few blur filters to remove some of the grain, erased the free floating assorted nastiness, and finally ran a cutout filter to make it look smooth and get rid of what was left of the grain. I think it turned out rather nice, and I really like the font I picked. But I understand the branding thing... But I think the previous font would look absolutely horrible on a website, especially the website I have in mind...
Next topic is Perspective: A Series of Shorts. I think I convinced Stephanie (Girlfriend of four months and best friend of... more than four months) to co-author my series of shorts with me. I also had the idea that it could be a digital release in the form of a program that had animated pages with short stories, videos playing, photos, and other assorted kinds of stuff. I think it's a pretty cool idea, and I'm going to start working on it pretty soon. I also thought we could have the shorts in order from least to most complex, but we could also arrange it in sections based on content type. Only time will tell.
The last thing I wanted to mention was Safari 3 Beta. It's still really, really fast. I think it uses less RAM than Firefox on the Mac does too, but I haven't done any sort of scientific tests on it to really see. But it renders text so much better and has way better Mac integration than Firefox does. It also has resizable text fields for forms which is nice. The RSS reader is phenomenal and the whole package is much slicker than Firefox is, all in all.
Peace out.
