My Sketches from the 80’s
June 29th, 2009Found some old sketches when I was a kiddo. Will be posting them throughout the next few months on my flickr.
Funny Ads and Signs - New
June 17th, 2009Hello guys, I have been waiting to post some of these because of course as always I want everything to be perfect. I wanted by this time to have my new blog design but work has been keeping me pretty busy. I will hopefully be getting it out before the fall. I am going to be posting most of the pictures that I take to flickr and re-uploading old ones there too. There will be feed here for it on the new design. Until then enjoy or send some of your own for me to post.
My rapping days in the past.
April 30th, 2009As promised from about a year ago here are a couple songs from back in my rapping days. I know I have some more and will be digging for them to post them here.
Now I know my ABC’s
April 22nd, 2009I came across a post at booooooom.com where Rhett Dashwood created a collage of the alphabet from google map aerial views.
Cool post and led me to find others out there.
Google Maps Alphabet (In original post there is google maps links to each letter)
Google Maps Typography (original post)
… next won’t you sing with me.
Disc Golf a fun time for the summer
April 18th, 2009I started playing disc golf about 1 month ago with some buddies of mine in Corpus Christi. After playing a few games I was hooked. Here is a post from Hans and I playing here in McClain Park in San Antonio, Texas with some video and his review of the park.
Inexpensive collapsable camera light box
February 15th, 2009I began this journey first looking at several tutorials on how to get excellent product shots. Of course you can go purchase a light box and expensive lighting and be done but where is the fun in that. Below are several tutorials I found for creating your own light box on a budget. The only thing that troubled me was that we really don’t have much room to have a box sitting around. So I came up with a way to create a collapsible camera light box.
The tutorials I found:
How I approached the collapsible light box
Materials needed:
- (2) tri-fold display boards, I used 28in x 40in with a white inside
- (1) poster board that will curve inside the box
- (1) foam core, I used a 32in x 40in
- Velcro straps (you can do other ideas here)
- (1) while translucent shower curtain or white sheet
- Also used a small velcro tab for inside curved poster board
- (2) home depot can lights
- (2) bright bulbs
Tools needed:
- Duck tape
- Glue
- Scissors
- Xacto knife or blade to cut foam core
- Ruler
- Pencil or pen to mark areas
Step 1
Use duck tape to tape the ends of the poster boards together so that the newly formed box is still able to fold.
Step 2
I measured the size of the box over the foam core and cut it. Now it was exact but that is okay it’s main purpose mainly for support. I then attached four velcro pieces to each side of the foam core, and glued a middle foam core piece to support the folding parts of the box once it will be attached.
Step 3
I cut a foot square out of the middle of the display board on two sides of the box. I made sure to cut the sides of the display boards that do not bend. I then cut a piece of the shower curtain to tape over the square hole.
Step 4
I ducked tape the other velcro sides to the outside of the actual box. I cut the poster board to fit the width of the box. When you place the poster board inside the box make sure it has a nice curve with no creases so you can have a seamless shot. You can use clear tape to tape the bottom of the poster board but I used white velcro tabs to go underneath the poster board. You don’t need to do anything to the back of the poster board as it will naturally curve and sit on the back.
Now I just used a regular light from home depot with the brightest bulb I could find. Place each light to each of the cut squares.
Now after you have the box up it is easy to disassemble by just removing the inside poster board, the back foam board and fold the sides in.
I still have to mess around with the white balance settings and will probably run fstop on the next shots a little hotter. You have to compensate for the yellow overglow from the lights. Below are the shots after editing. The last two I posted the before and after and took a little extra time washing out the few background.
So there you have it. This was a fun project to work on and I am going to start shooting shots for my new blog design (which I know is behind schedule now). Leave a comment or idea if you would or did something different with your light box.
First sketch mockup of new blog design
January 27th, 2009Here is my first preliminary sketch of the new design… looks a little confusing but my ideas were running wild. Not sure if all elements will make it but this at least gets my ideas flowing.
Blog design update
January 21st, 2009Starting from square one again. I starting picking out design elements that would go into this new website design piece and it seemed like I was too literal with my choices and the pieces I was picking were too fabricated. So here we go again hopefully I can meet my own deadline.
Spent time on new design today
January 14th, 2009Ha! I set aside 30 minutes to begin my design process for my new layout. Getting really excited about it. I start out almost every design on paper first. Seems it gives me a boundless amount of space for ideas to spill out on the page before I meet any computer restrictions.
Will continue to keep you posted.
Look for new design
January 13th, 2009Well here I go putting my foot in my mouth hopefully so I have some sort of accountability. I am looking to launch a new design for this website by February 15th, the day after valentines. The reason I am choosing that date is because on February 14th, 1998 is when I assumed my first business name for doing graphic design. The name was (don’t laugh). Pearly Gate Graphics, then when I moved to Kingsville I joined forces with a video editor and that changed to Nowtyme Graphics and Video. Some time later we broke ways and I started Tri-Omni Graphics (my former website domain, now this site). After learning web design with my current partner we formed Echo Design Solutions (San Antonio Web Design). So February 14th, 11 years ago marks my business beginnings.
Now I had to announce the new design so you guys can hold me to it if it is not done. I am really going to try to get it done by then with a different artsy feel to it. Feel free to nudge me, twitter or facebook me if I am not done by then.
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