We had a fun day today. Friends came over for brunch, Liam opened presents, Arden and Liam rode around on my back, what more could you want?
All in all a very good day. Made me not want the kids to get any older.
Secret Message Found In Lincoln Pocket Watch
Amazing wooden machine
An amazing wooden machine.
Found Via (Make Magazine)
Prop 8 legal opposition beginning
Saw this via the Internet:
the lawsuits to overturn Proposition 8 have forced the true powers behind the Proposition 8 battle to step into the uncomfortable limelight, which is something Steve Smith, the “No on 8” campaign’s hired hand, never effectively made happen. This time bishops, ministers, and their lawyers can’t hide behind a slick political campaign and quietly slip fat checks to hired pros to do the dirty work. They’ll be front and center in the chambers of the highest court of California, with millions of people watching via a live TV feed.
The full post ishere.
making pixel art with the kids.
The girls were given a craft kit from Ikea as a christmas present. It is made from the PYSSLA beads kit. You set all the beads on a little frame, put some wax paper on top a little pass with a iron, Viola!
Raw material
I immediately saw the ability to make little pictures pixel by pixel.
Laying out the beautiful masterpiece (McKelvey drew a flower on the grid paper for me)
And a flower for Arden & McKelvey
You can get even fancier by using something to help you layout your pixel art, like Photoshop. I used Pixelego.(link using the Archive.org ‘wayback machine’)
Up for the future:
EVerything you need to know… Can be found in Star Wars
Star Wars Anti-Smoking PSA
New pictures of Bacon-y goodness
I have finally gotten around to posting the pictures from Arden’s birthday. As you can see there was a lot of bacon going on.
We had pin the bacon on the plate of eggs, a bacon piniata, and a bacon looking( but not tasting) cake.
Also McKelvey has had her birthday, and one of her presents was:
Yes Princess Leia hair buns.
Don’t worry we all tried them on, go see the pix.
Got a haircut…
…that makes two of us.
Facebook’s Users Ask Who Owns Their Information – NYTimes.com
Facebook’s Users Ask Who Owns Their Information – NYTimes.com:
This article makes reassures me of my choice to keep my family info and personal images off of sites like Facebook.
I host my blog and post my family pictures all here on my own site. Managed by me, answering only to me. So as much as one can control things posted to the Internet, I can.
Need an outlet?
The answer is yes.
With my office time on the rise, my shop/theatre time has fallen as downward as the economy. My new job as Head of the Theater Department has monopolized my time in many ways. I am only designing one show this year so my next one will be this summer.
So my photoshop and VectorWorks(drafting program) time has gone way down. And my email and word processing time has skyrocketed. I am slightly cursing my college english teacher, he was right, I do need to put together coherent sentences. Who knew? Well I guess he did.
To keep me moving in the office I have been listening to Mashups. Since they are free to download, it really fits my budget. One that I am really digging is this (link to mp3 file). A lot of fun.
To fill up my desire to create, make something I did my first woodcut(linocut?):
It is the logo of the Theater training program I run during the summers. Well I also do the set design and posters. I’m really looking forward designing the posters, that is always fun. It was more fun when it was silkscreened, although that was hard to do during summer when the program was running.
I have an 8×10 linoleum board. I’m pondering what to make with it. Any suggestions?