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Vivid and inviting colors, blended with carefully crafted designs. Exciting and visually appealing illustrations, with those little extras that makes you smile.
links for 2008-04-29
Posted on April, 29 2008 at 12 PM
- Make your own book with Blurb
Quick to pick, trailer schtick
Posted on April, 28 2008 at 01 PM
Here we are, at it again. Saturday night’s trailer judges gave an average score of 7 (except for the German judge … 5 on that one). Enjoy the treats!
Meet Bill
Jimison – “Meet Stupid … he brought Bill with him.”
Shotgun Stories
Jodie – “Is he at least wearing pants at the funeral? Or is it just an undershirt and tightie whities?”
Oscar – “Is that even how you spell tightie whities?”
My Blueberry Nights
Jodie – “Tomorrow … we’re having muffins!”
Courtney – “Blueberry ones!”
Deception
Oscar – “Lies … all lies.”
Pineapple Express
Courtney – “Oh, this is what happens to all those freaks and geeks after they graduate from high school.”
Flight of the Red Balloon
Courtney – “The ballon is stalking that boy!”
Oscar – “French people make boring movies … but good toast.”
Chapter 27
Jimison – “Well that was at least 3 times better than Chapter 7.”
The Tracey Fragments
Jodie – “Geez, banana. Shut your freakin’ gob.”
Redbelt
Jimison – “That trailer made no sense. Stop trying to figure it out.”
Jimison – “Tim Taylor is back … in ‘Tool Belt’.”
Righteous Kill
Jimison – “Next week on Righteous Kill …”
Jodie – “That was one righteous kill, man.”
Sex and the City
[skipped … duh]
The Incredible Hulk
Everyone (except Jimison, who is still sick from the last Hulk movie) – “Yay!”
Movie trailers. So hood!
Posted on April, 26 2008 at 10 PM
There were full couches at tonight’s trailer showings … Nathan, Tyler, Courtney, Jimison and yours truly. Enjoy the goodness!
The Wackness
Nathan – “Apparently, a movie about nothing.”
Oscar – “That’s so wack!”
Quarantine
Jimison – “The movie you were not meant to see … but we want you to see it!”
Lakeview Terrance
Jimison – “This movie just tells me not to live next to Samuel L. Jackson.”
The House Bunny
[Let’s just skip this one … ‘kay?]
Henry Poole Is Here
Tyler – “When do the good previews start?”
Four Minutes
Nathan [sings] – “YOU’VE ONLY GOT FOUR MINUTES TO SAVE THE WORLD …”
Oscar – “Uh … this isn’t those for minutes …”
The Fall
Nathan – “Oscar, watching your cat chase a ball of fuzz was more enjoyable than this trailer.”
Falling For Grace
Oscar – “Huh. She’s like Lucy Lu’s unpopular sister.”
Hitching up the Movie Trailer again
Posted on April, 24 2008 at 02 AM
We realized tonight that it has been a while since the four of us have gotten a chance to enjoy some yummy movie trailers together, so Jodie, Courtney, Jimison and I got together and worked our way through a few of the over 130 trailers we have missed. Hope you enjoy!
Blindess
Jodie – “Danny Glover with an eye patch. Nuh’ said.”
War, Inc.
Jimison – “The Cusacks go to war!”
Glass, a Portrait of Philip In 12 Parts
Courtney – “Oh, he said it … I don’t have to listen to this! And I won’t.”
Fugitive Pieces
Jodie – “Wait, he traded in the blonde chick for a Jewish girl? She must be a shicksa.”
Chaos Theory
Jodie – “This is a crappy movie. Crappy crappy crappy.”
Brick Lane
Courtney – “Hello, nose ring!”
Jimison – “That is where I keep my keys, too.”
The Children of Huang Shi
Courtney – “This is definitely worth renting. hehe”
Jodie – [continually shouts out indescript Chinese names]
The Strangers
Jimison – “I’m going to stop the trailer and I want you to run!”
Mister Lonely
Courtney – “IT IS scarier than the last trailer!”
Hellboy II – The Golden Army
Courtney – “I wanna see the first one!”
Oscar – “We own it.”
Courtney – “So let’s watch it.”
Oscar – “Ok.”
Water Lilies
Oscar – “The real tagline … Things aren’t always synchronized.”
Mongol
Jodie – “Oooo …”
Day 2008-1-6
Posted on April, 24 2008 at 02 AM
Day #31
Have you missed these as much as I have? Hopefully, I can get things back on track. ;)
links for 2008-04-23
Posted on April, 23 2008 at 12 PM
- Easily create grid patterns
Making better thumbnails
Posted on April, 20 2008 at 09 PM
During a recent project, I came across the problem of creating a number image gallery thumbnails at a specific size and saving them into the appropriate folders. Sounds easy, right? There should obviously be a great third-party Mac OS X app already out there for this, right?
Apparently not. I mean, there was at one time a great app that I was using to create my thumbnails, but between Mac transfers and not needing that particular functionality, I seem to have lost track of it. I even spend a couple of hours this weekend trying out all the shareware applications that came up in my searching of Macupdate. No luck, though.
Without a dedicated tool (or even a pre-built Photoshop automation), I had to settle for creating a custom Photoshop action. The final product (which is available on my Pownce postings) is a near-perfect droplet that will nicely produce meaningful, consistent thumbnails, with a tiny footprint. The source images do need to be at least 400px to 500px wide, but the only real drawback is that the limitations of the Photoshop “Save for Web” dialog doesn’t allow for complete processing and file re-naming. That part you will need to do yourself. But don’t worry, the time saved and the output thumbnails are worth the effort.
For the sake of discussion and posterity, why not take a look at some of the elements that I found missing from any of the current thumbnail generating applications/actions:
links for 2008-04-18
Posted on April, 18 2008 at 12 PM
- handy javascript for loading content from thumbnails
Updates on the Hot Plates
Posted on April, 17 2008 at 10 AM
Have you been missing me? I know I have. Things have been pretty busy for me lately, but I have missed drawing, so I plan to make plenty of wonderful updates today and later on as well.
In the way of a conciliatory gift, I offer you my new project, Paper the City. Enjoy and see you soon.
links for 2008-04-16
Posted on April, 16 2008 at 12 PM
- Resize browser window to standard sizes for testing
links for 2008-04-10
Posted on April, 10 2008 at 12 PM
- Fast domain name search and WHOIS
links for 2008-04-08
Posted on April, 08 2008 at 12 PM
- Create and share MP3 playlists from anywhere.
links for 2008-04-05
Posted on April, 05 2008 at 12 PM
- An excellent archive of history.
- sweet art and music