Childhood Nostalgia
I was looking through some of my old stuff recently and found my BurgerTime game. This was my favorite handheld video game. It was made by Mattel in 1982. You play as a chef who has to make burgers by climbing the different levels and dropping the burger layers down to the bottom. When the evil hotdog, steak, and fried egg attack, you have to sprinkle them with pepper. I know, pretty violent. I popped in a battery and surprisingly it still works! I even saved the instruction booklet. I'm not sure if it's worth anything, but for sentimental reasons I think I'll hold on to it.
Connect Four
I had to use a work van to pick up a few things today and noticed the interesting pattern of circles and lines. Kind of reminded me of the old game Connect Four.
There are 2 sides to every pumpkin...
Another reason why this is the best time of year, these cool little pumpkins.
Dirty Dishes
I know it's not pretty, but a lot of things in life aren't pretty. It could be a lot worse...
Pulling the Plug on Comcast
We just cancelled our cable TV service. Comcast is such a rip off! With Netflix, iTunes, and the free over the air HD channels available with an antenna, we can definitely live without giving the greedy cable companies our hard earned money every month. Plus, watching less TV is not a bad thing. More and more people I talk with have gone this same route with no regrets. I'm pretty certain that Netflix and Apple will continue to ramp up their streaming content as time goes on.
Corian Calla Lilly? ...Yep!
Today is our 8th year wedding anniversary. I wanted to pick my wife up some flowers on the way home from work. Problem was, she had the car and was going to pick me up (It was raining, I couldn't take my scooter). I thought to myself, "If I can't buy flowers, why don't I just make some?" So I grabbed some scrap Corian and got to work. I'm not sure if they look like they're supposed to, but good enough I guess. At least they'll last a little longer than the real thing.
Photography as Art
Of course, photography is already art, but it doesn't have to stop there. With a little imagination and creative vision, ordinary photographs can be transformed into more artistic pieces. Photographers and artists have been doing this for years. Here's my latest creation in collaboration with my wife who came up with the idea. 1. Here is the one of the original photos from last year in Paris. Kind of a cool shot, but nothing special.
2. In Photoshop CS5, I removed the elements that I liked from the background. I played around with the threshold, cut out, levels, and contrast settings, and then created a pop art style background.
3. I uploaded the final 10" x 10" images to Mpix to be printed. They arrived in 2 days and looked great!
4. I cut 3, 10" x 10" pieces of 1/2" plywood and painted the edges black. After masking the painted edges, I mounted the prints to the plywood using spray adhesive.
5. I cut a small notch on the backside for hanging.
Here's the final product!
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