I was going to wait till I collected more of these pictures but just couldn’t wait.
The Om Pot!
Only meat market we found selling boneless hicken breast for 1.99/lb.
The other meat markets were charging 2.30/lb for it.
I will admit that I thought for more than a bit of what the title of this post should be. Yesterday for the first time in a while (long while) my wife and I actually unplugged ourselves from technology. We sat and chatted about life, goals, our kids, our relationship, the future, her dreams, my dreams and my business Web Design San Antonio (shameless plug or unplug to go with the theme here). It was the sweetest and most needed conversation we had in a while.
We both have computers here, she has two (lucky, one for her work), and our week usually consists of Elaine and I switching off with the boys. She needs to make calls and do data entry on her laptop for her job and weekly home visits. I tend to work a lot on the projects that are sitting on my desk or making new contacts. In our off time we are playing, cleaning or watching our boys rule our lives. We have a 4 year old and a 2 year old boy. When the bubs are in bed Elaine and I have our own relaxing outlet. She spends some time on Myspace posting pictures of us or posting a new blog on her website. I tend to create my own list. Updating my twitter, updating mypsace, posting a new blog (which I love guys, so please keep coming back), create some other idea that has been sitting in the back of my mind for a while.
Yesterday I told Elaine let’s not jump on the computers at all, let’s not turn on the tv and let’s just talk. Elaine is the sweetest woman and the best friend that I will ever have.
The point
There are a lot of great things to do online and a lot of great things not to do. Through all the emails, text messages, phone calls, business transactions, social networks please do not forget the things that are important to you in life. Remember to love, remember to create memories, talk with your significant other, play with your kids, laugh A LOT and live life without any regrets. My challenge to you is to unplug yourself so you can connect!
Came across this from Smashing Magazine’s article Monday Inspiration: User Experience of the future. After reading I found another interesting article about the future of TV and some predictions on Hologram TV: Better Than HDTV? I remember the first time I saw something like this was in the Star Wars movies and of course like everyone else thought hey that is my idea. See the videos below
Sorry I completely forgot to post this. Our assignment for this project was to design a typographic collage poster. This project as all projects with this class were a bit of a struggle. I can always come up with designs that are based around pictures and seeing how images speak. It was hard to get into that zone with text. It is something that I will continue to work on with my future upcoming classes. Judging by my grade I have come a long way. Below are the process book and the final project poster design. I did my design on the 10 commandments.
Final Poster Design (PDF, jpeg version below)
Came across an interview with Jason Fried, CEO of 37 Signals and creator of Basecamp.
View interview (BIF-3 Collaborative Innovation Summit)
Say no more and keep it simple!
I am sitting here at about 1:45am. I just finished working on a logo for a client, I glanced down at my to do list and was astonished to find out that I crossed out everything. Wow this is the first time that this has happened. I realized I only had four things on my list today and usually I have like 20. The point is keep your to do list short (realistic) so you will accomplish what you need to. If you do have a long list then prioritize it so you can accomplish what really needs to be done.
Additional reading: Six Slam-Dunk Time Management Tips
I have had an interesting past few days starting on Thursday (Nov 8th). President Bush was in town visiting the Brooke Army Medical Center (President Bush Visits SA). I didn’t think I was going to see Air Force One on the way home but we did and were able to snap a quick picture.
Next day Friday we went to a Veteran’s event with my father-in-law. I also can’t stay away from Barnes & Noble and Borders so I went and purchased PHP 5 in Practice to do some catching up on. Seems like a great book so far.
That same day my beautiful wife and I went to H-E-B to get some sandwich stuff. There we ran into Veronica Montelongo from the show Flip This House. You can visit their website at Armando Montelongo. We kindly asked for a picture and she agreed.
My mom and brother came in town so we had a full house. With Elaine’s parents and my mom and brothers. We piled in the vehicle and visited one of the favorites places to go La Cantera. I showed my father-in-law and my brother the new iTouch at the Apple Store there. Now all three of us are in a competition to see who can get one first. We then went to Pico De Gallo for dinner… OMG it was great.
Working on my new school project, where we have to college a poster together either monotone or dual tone and I will post the process book and final project when it is done.
Over the weekend I created a Twitter account, MyBlogLog account and I am going to be adding some of their widgets to my blog.
So it has been a great, busy but fun weekend and I can’t wait to have more.
Olivia Munn, the host of G4s Attack of the Show, makes a really funny mistake when reading the teleprompter. I’m Ron Burgundy?
We were given an assignment to redesign an Annual Report from a company of our choosing. The company I chose was Creative. It was a hard design to do because there was nothing but text to deal with. Along with some determination, coffee and the help of my classmates the overall design came out great. Below is the process book for my design that explains the process I went through to get through my design. Second link is the final I turned in to my teacher. Then on to our final assignment, a poster design, which I will post when it is done.
Project #2 Annual Report Design
Here are the final pictures of the printed design.
Caught this off of digg. Was great to see the changes to the photoshop logo through out the years.
I have been using Adobe Photoshop since version 5. How about you?