Category: news

08 Mar

logo on ice.

Yay! If you’ve been following along from my post about Fort Collins new awful logo.
New city logo put on ice
The city will stop the implementation of a new logo until it can talk more about the design.
City Manager Darin Atteberry sent a memo to city staff with those instructions Thursday following complaints by residents [...]

06 Mar

so close.

My Mirror mirror. image submission to JPG Mag a few months ago made their online outtakes pdf: “The images we wish we could have squeezed into the FashionIl http://www.qualitapoker.com/poker-rooms-stanza.html è un gioco di carte. theme in Issue 12″
Check out the PDF, page 7!
So close! I’m telling ya, one of these issues I’m going [...]

05 Mar

snort.

Strange fact of the day (from WIRED magazine):

You may have enough cocaine in your wallet to attract a drug-sniffing dog. Studies indicate that blow can be found on between 70 and 100 percent of US bills. Of course, that doesn’t necessarily mean your greenbacks were used to snort the stuff. ATM mechanisms quickly spread the [...]

04 Mar

welcome video.

I’ve decided to get into video. Simple as that… in theory. The reality is that the world of moving imagery is significantly more technologically complex than still photography. I’ve the basic concepts, but some of the more complex considerations elude me for now.
Take for example, monitors. For photography, you get yourself a decent monitor [...]

02 Mar

seam carving.

A press release recently passed my desk announcing that onOne Software acquired a new resizing technology to be released as a Photoshop plug-in. The killer was info about the origin of the technology and a link to a video demonstration.
This is an amazing technology, best explained by just watching the video. It all [...]

28 Feb

circulation.

Booksmart Studios contacted me kindly a while back with info about a call for entries for a project called Circulation. It seems like an interesting premise. Check it out; submit!
Call For Entries Artists of All Mediums: Circulation
The strength and value in art is located not solely in its visuality, but also in its ability to [...]

25 Feb

what a shame.

The City of Fort Collins has created a firestorm (I hate that word, by the way; it’s a such an overly dramatic news media term) of criticism over announcement of the city’s new logo. Supposedly, city council spent $80,000 on an overhaul of Fort Collin’s image, including a new logo. The logo is at the [...]

28 Dec

parker.

We had our ultrasound today and… it’s a boy! Please welcome Parker Lee VanAlstyne to the family!
The ultrasound was a strange experience. It’s confusing, disconcerting, and somewhat overwhelming to watch a sound-driven tool dissect our tiny boy into real-time images on a monitor. I don’t have much experience with medical equipment as it is, so [...]