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Design for Work

Diversity FairI’m happiest when I’m getting to create and so today I am very happy. I accidentally created this image today and I am quite pleased with it. (You can log on to flickr and view the larger sizes for a more detailed view)

The thing is, I got Photoshop CS3 Extended edition and so now I’m totally trying out new things and enjoying just having the software program again. I haven’t had photoshop since I updated computers back in January and I feel like I have been walking around with a missing finger – I felt very incomplete.

The great thing about this image is that it was an accident. The colors, the black flowers, the overall design – all by chance. I had started with a totally different design in mind and then I was feeling bankrupt in the creative department and I just stated playing around and this is what came out of that creative randomness.

I’m quite pleased with the result. Now I can see why Van Gogh liked to be hopped up on drugs whenever he painted, sometimes the best design comes from an untapped creative source that cannot be reached when we are trying to reach it.

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WordPress, Design, Blogroll

My new template is having trouble loading my blogroll. I am still new at learning WordPress and editing PHP files and so you will have to bear with me, I want you on my site, sharing my beloved PostedNote with me, but bare with me as I figure out this bug.

 Wordpress has been a delight. It takes more time to fix stuff, but all of the functionality is very cool. I highly recommend it to everyone who loves to blog.

Also, this design is compliments of Utombox.com and I never did give a shout out to them for this amazing template. I cannot take credit for any of the design other than the simple header image. In time, I plan to make this more me.

 Also, I plan to post some cool pics and fun stories about my weekend retreat and so if you are here looking for that post, it is in the works.

Much Love.

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The New Look

So I changed the site and went back to a minimalist design.

Vanilla Brown Sugar is a nickname.

029, well, I hope you can figure that one out.

Love ya!

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One Mo

This is my latest paying gig…

http://www.postednote.com/know.htm

I hope they like it, I have been into brown lately for some reason. It is a really cool concept. It is a website for teens mostly about pop culture and what MTV and Reality TV are doing to kids these days. What are they doing? Well, you will just have to read the site when we are done. Don’t worry, I will let you know when it is done.

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Enter the Dragon

I titled this new design after a Bruce Lee movie – one of his better ones I might add. Growing up I remember my first Bruce Lee movie, I don’t recall the name, but I do remember this guy chasing Bruce, and a group of Bruce’s Posse, up a hill and one by one he was killing off the posse with this thing that looked like Saturn cut in half. It was literally a shiny steel bowl with a ring around it and a chain attached to the top. When he threw it, it would soar through the air and then if it landed on your head it would saw off your head with these internal blades, and then the guy would pull the chain and pop! the head would come off. It sounds gruesome, but they showed very little blood back then and it seemed more cool than gross at the time. Sometimes when I am driving I wish I had one of those devices- I would hurl it right through the back windshield of the person that cut me off and then pop! there goes their head! I would feel disturbed and upset about my actions later, but at the time spurred by righteous indignation I will have felt triumphant, if not down-right giddy.

The Chinese Writing on the left says “Posted Note” in Chinese

Some people have been curious about the Chinese writing and what it actually says, well, I went to babelfish.altavista.com and typed in Posted Note and had it translate it into Traditional Chinese, it actually had the option for simplified Chinese and Traditional- very cool.