GAAHHHHH!!!!
AARRGGHHHH!!!!
AAAAAAAA!!!
WAAAAAAA!!!
AAAAAAHHHHH!!!!
AAAAAAHH!!!
AAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!
AAAAAAHHHH!!!!
*whew*, that’s better.
Sorry, just needed to get that off my chest.
Unnecessary and unexcused AWOL writing hiatus over.
Back to our regularly scheduled blogging.
I just had to re-post this incredible shot of Vancouver in it’s current state of pea-soupiness:
Courtesy of the one and only Accordian Guy
I guess some people are a little upset...
Source unknown, forwarded email.
Who Watches the Watch…Peanuts?
Hate it when this happens… a funny/interesting/scary/cool pic catches my attention as I’m cruising through the ‘tubes, I download the picture to post later (I prefer not to scrape bandwidth when possible) but I forget to bookmark where I found it in the first place. Weeks or months go by, my “Pics2Post” file builds up, eventually I remember to share my bounty with you and…… crap. I hate not being able to give credit where it’s due.
If anyone knows who’s work these are, please let me know and I’ll update the post.
Your desktop is probably the one picture you’re going to look at more often than any other during the course of your day. Why not make it an enjoyable view?
Spicing up your computer desktop or documents is a cinch with the right fonts, wallpaper or icon set – but finding the best ones isn’t an easy task. Googling free wallpaper or fonts turns up a gaggle of random sites with flashy ads and mediocre art. In retaliation, today we’ve gathered up our favorite sources of quality, good-looking free desktop wallpaper images, fonts and icons for your downloading pleasure.
If you’re a font or icon newbie, check out a few helpful tutorials on putting your new downloads to good use:
Lifehacker readers come through with more additions to the list, like:
I’m trying to stay on top of a few basic tricks with GIMP… hoping to be able to play around a little more once we finally get a decent camera and start really shooting!
Cross platform, open source image editor GIMP is a powerful alternative to Photoshop that has many useful features waiting to be unlocked. Some of GIMP’s intermediate features are demonstrated in this short video tutorial by the VnTutor weblog. The demonstration includes: working with gray scale, adjusting brightness and contrast, adding noise, and working with layers (which can be very difficult for novice GIMPers to understand). The video above is just 1 of 10 GIMP video lessons if you’re itchin’ for more intermediate tutorials.
Can’t wait until the Dreamgirl finally gets her adorably cute little hands on a decent camera… I’m hoping stuff like this will allow me to at least contribute a little to her meteoric rise to becoming the next… uhhh… <insert famous photographer here>!
Web 2.0 tracker Mashable has compiled a monster list of more than ninety online photography tools and resources.
You can find online photo editors here, as well as photo sharing sites, free photo hosting, photography blogs, mashups, photo printing helps, and a lot more. Personally I’m loving this list, as I’m trying to get more out of my camera and pictures, creativity and productivity wise.
Fun with webcams… other than that.
Web site Cameroid lets you play photo booth with any webcam in the comfort of your browser.
The web site is basically a web version of Mac’s PhotoBooth program, offering you different effects for your pics, from colorful filters and scenes to the popular morph settings. After you take a picture, you can save the image to your desktop or their public page, email it, or print it out. If you’ve got a webcam and an internet connection, Cameroid promises hours of free fun.
This ugly mug o mine needs all the help it can get!
A reader at the Canon Digital Photography Forums demonstrates how to remove skin blemishes and imperfections using Photoshop. The tutorial is a comprehensive guide that’ll show you how to give your pictures that “Photoshopped” look you’ve come to know and love. The tutorial is 12 steps and chock full of screenshots. Finally you can edit away that horrifying blemish you had on prom night 20 years ago! The tutorial is doable for anyone with beginner to intermediate Photoshop chops.
There we were, up in Canmore on a sunny Sunday. We had just finished a 10K run that morning and were trying to decide what to do for the afternoon. Wanted to enjoy some mountain scenery, but didn’t have the energy for a hike.
Then it hit me. Dreamgirl’s never seen the Columbia Ice Fields. Or Jasper. Or one of the most beautiful mountain roads the world has to offer.
This calls for a roadtrip.
It was over 30 degrees out, perfect blue sky, tons of snow melting off the mountain peaks creating endless rushing waterfalls and fast moving rivers cutting through the forests as deep dark green as an emerald dream.
We left Canmore around 2, I knew it would take about 3-4 hours to drive to Jasper, then another 2-3 hours to Edmonton after that. Get us home around 8 or 9 I figured, no problem.
Of course, I didn’t take into account that we might want to stop for a picture. Or two.
Or two hundred.
Or take a tour of the Ice Fields, or stop in Jasper for pizza.
We may not have got home until the wee hours of the morning, but the lack of sleep was totally worth a day like a dream. There’s a reason this trip is listed everywhere as one of the places you have to see before you die.
Listening to…
Work Blog
Black Flag Hair Timeline
Epic Battle
D&D Flowchart
Ninja Squirrel
10. Pixelgirl (wallpaper and icons)
9. Dual Screen Wallpapers
8. Veer designer wallpaper
7. exljbris (Fonts)
6. Crystal Clear icons
5. Windows Vista wallpaper pack
4. TypeNow.net TV/Movie/Brand-themed fonts
3. Public Domain Icons
2. InterfaceLIFT (wallpapers)
1. Fonts 500 (fonts)