It’s easy to get wrapped up in all the well wishes and thoughts of warm fuzzy blankets and laughter with the baby. Then I spotted this ad in one of Jess’ pregnancy magazines, and it smacks you back into reality about what is REALLY to come. It’s a creative ad, but I still haven’t come [...]
Booksmart Studio has come out with a line of inkjet printable aluminum metal sheets. The sheets are available in five finishes: satin, matte, and brush silver, satin gold, and a satin white. Apparently the sheets work very well for black and white prints. I imagine them looking something like an aluminum soda can. They come [...]
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I ran across this website, and knew that I had to tell the dailies community all about it. Etsy.com is a site devoted to the buying and selling of handmade crafts. Anything and everything, all handmade. And we’re not talking macaroni necklaces here. Beautiful jewelry, art, anything you can imagine, some using techniques that I [...]
Visual arts don’t often make an appearance on television, but PBS has a four-part series starting tonight that may be of interest. The series goes into the artist’s studio, including “interviews that reveal how 17 noted artists think, work and respond to the world around them.” The series is divided into segments on romance, protest, [...]
There are some extremely cool outdoor furniture pieces I stumbled upon on Veerle’s blog this morning. I’ve seen some of them before in ads in Wallpaper magazine, but definitely not the ad campaign that features models wearing giant animal masks. Makes you do a double take; first at the head, then at the gorgeous [...]
Time to vote again! My latest JPG submission is for the theme “Tools of the trade.”
My last submission is still open for voting in case you missed it. The theme is “Passport.”
If you’re not up on JPG… check out my original post mentioning it or read this: Each month, JPG has three themes that readers [...]
After a lot of setup, money, and research, I am finally getting down to making custom wood frames for my photography. Ideally, I’ll be using weathered and worn barn wood, but I also like the look of new rough sawn exotic lumbers as well. I supposed it depends on the customer and the photo being [...]
This is a fantastic video for those of you interested in marketing, advertising, or the human psyche. We are all highly impressionable and susceptible to unconscious memory shaping. This video rolls on two marketing pros who are thrown into a setup that unconsciously molds their ideas to an uncanny degree. I can’t speak for [...]
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