Tiny announcement: Some of you know that I’m finally offering mugs for sale. If you’re thinking about buying a few, you should also know that Cafepress is having a special until July 15. — If you’ve read my online journal for a while, you know that I sometimes hide “Easter Eggs” on my site. I’ve put up another one today, and the first one to find it gets one of my prints. You’ll know which print I’ll send you if…
A clean cut Beach Boy song on the radio prompted H.E. to wax didactic about songwriter Brian Wilson’s not so clean cut ways. As with everything, H.E. was a knowledge cornucopia of the Beach Boy’s pharmacopoeia, but especially so because he’d met the man, and the man in his later wisdom told him that he couldn’t recall the years of his life during his heaviest drug use. Years! Wilson would be shown a photo of himself and others, and he…
Apparently I giggle when I sleep. Tense with a headache and too exhausted to do much else, I fell asleep while getting my neck massaged and ended up time traveling again. This time I went a mere two hours into the future with my friends to attend a dinner party, and as we waited for the food we watched a gray-striped kitten hang upside down from a ceiling fan like some circus performer. I giggled myself half-awake at the kitten’s…
You’ve seen my tutorial for making fire in Photoshop, and you would see one for making water as well… if I could only remember how I created this graphic: I did this from a blank canvas in Photoshop some two years ago and unfortunately failed to take notes before flattening the file; all I remember is that I used the Chrome filter at some point and a bunch of other standard Photoshop filters, but for the most part the technique…
Osculate me. I’m a Celtic nut. I’ve mentioned before my little penchant for making Celtic knots in Adobe Illustrator, and after I developed my own little way of making them I decided to look up other ways. I found a tutorial by Marc and Shelly Wallace, one by Christian Mercat, another by Yvonne and Stephen Hughes, and even a small collection of tutorials over at Craytech. Frankly, all of the tutorials I found online make the art of Celtic knot…