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Category Archives: Art & Photography

They let ANYONE drive these days…

This… guy… gave me a double-take as he was waiting at the Winstead’s on the Plaza.  Thankfully I had my camera and could stop laughing long enough to take several pictures:

PSD2HTML: Terrible Pricing for Web Development

I was absolutely disgusted by the pricing strategy at PSD2Web. Here are a few examples, and an explanation as to why the practice feels shady.

An Asymmetrical Evening (and weekend)

Wow… this was a wild, exercise and art-filled weekend. After 18 holes of golf on Saturday morning, I attended the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art‘s An Asymmetrical Evening, which celebrated the opening of the new Bloch Building.  It was an evening I won’t forget anytime soon. The new building certainly leaves an impression… I’ve had a stronger appreciation for [...]

New Picture Technique

Refer to: http://ebin.wordpress.com/2007/03/21/how-to-turn-your-photo-into-movie-like-effect-using-photoshop/ Here are my attempts using this technique: Here are the before and afters, raw image to edited: Just for giggles, I also attempted the the “300 effect,” proposed within the comments of the Digg post:

Creating a Personal Business Card

Now that I’m at the conference, I’m getting asked for my contact information… many times. Cerner wasn’t able to justify printing official business cards, (“Why does a non-client facing engineer, translation: geek, need a business card?”). So… I had to create my own. What do you think? (click to open larger version, in a new [...]

More Albums Uploaded…

I’ve been uploading albums to my Picasa web share as requests come in. Check ‘em out… hit the ‘Albums’ link. Let me know if there are any collections you want to see!