There are days I really love living in the media capital of America. Yesterday was one of them.

We started last night at Rockefeller Center, watching NBC/MSNBC's election coverage. They had a giant map on the ice rink and guys pulling banners up the side of the building to count electoral votes.


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I haven't posted in forever.

I have been trying to cut down on coffee, and attempted substitutions have resulted in me becoming completely addicted to making this: Hot Cocoa Chile Chocolate. It is utterly amazing, easy as hell, keeps well, and great both chilled and hot. (Also particularly tasty with a dash of cinnamon and a sprinkle of salt on ( Read more... )

I leave for the UK in less than a week. Can barely wait. I'm working for the first 2 weeks of the trip, but after that I have real, live vacation time! It's going to be wonderful to finally get to spend an extended amount of time with David, particularly the bit sans work. We're hoping to find a little B&B somewhere in the Lake District and enjoy a ( Read more... )

New Photoshop tutorial: Okay Paintings.

Wow. My long-given-up-for-dead laptop has returned! It's eaten three hard drives, so I'd been reluctant to feed it another, but David got Ubuntu running on here from a CD boot, and the wireless connection just... works. So now I have use of the pretty, pretty giant screen on here again, and I can hook up an external drive for Actual Work purposes. ( Read more... )

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Yay new Photoshop tutorial!

This one took some figuring out, but I've done the hard part for you. All you really have to do is download the brush and layer style and plug 'em in.

Embroidered Text Effect

I finally got the rest of my GIANT after effects tutorial posted on my website. I've been working on that thing for way too long.

My question is this: I want to post a video at the end of the finished results. Quicktime or FLV?

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Things you can choose as a prefix if you book a flight with American Airlines:

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