While Adobe Illustrator is the preferred tool by most designers for illustrating and drawing digitally, Photoshop can also be used for some types of illustration. This post includes a selection of tutorials that cover the process of drawing various objects in Photoshop. Creating a Cartoon Hot Air Ba...

Ok, now the iPhone Kindle application is earning its keep–even though it was already free. As mentioned before, The Cook’s Illustrated How-To-Cook Library is freely available from Amazon’s kindle and it’s big. I’m already a big fan of Cook’s Illustrated and Americ...

I got a phone call telling me I got accepted to grad school. Trying to work out funding options before the package gets here and whether it's worth it (sorta complicated situation, details inside). Help? Okay, so I applied to one school-- the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan. A bit atypical, but I...

Worse and worse: The CPSC put up some new "helpful" powerpoint slides for their staff today (you can read them all here). Here's the line that's got me ready to move to Australia. Or, better yet, ready to make Congress move to Australia and let the country start fresh. Page 6 has the guidance on chi...

These are my links for March 5th through March 9th: Sharing Is Caring: 12 Unexpected Examples Of Car Part Prostitution - How car parts are re-used. YTMND - it’s drinking the water - The greatest invention in the world. HearJapan - Japan Nite US TOUR 2009 Sampler - Six interesting free songs fr...

Happy Sunday!  Happy International Women’s Day! We had friends (not tigers) visit for dinner tonight. I made lasagna again - and it was pretty delish. I am very big into the lasagna thing at the moment. It’s an adaptation of my Mum’s bestest recipe and my mate Kim’s bestest ...

Former beefy lineman Tony Mandarich has recently admitted to the world that, yes, the incredibleness of his bulk was actually acquired not just by G'N'R and caffeine, but steroids. In the latest issue of SI, Rick Telander revisits the man he lionized and made extremely wealthy with his 1989 SI cover...

The rigorously hard working team over at Mr.Bingo HQ have been evidently putting the hours in recently as (finally) their site has been updated. A beautifully extensive folio of work for a real range of clients from The Mighty Boosh to Microsoft, consistently delivered with a certain wit and swagger...

It’s not about preaching, but this clip brought tears to my eyes. Jesus in his people didn’t just talk…Jesus in is people did....

“Chuck vs. the Beefcake” March 2nd, 2009 Two weeks ago, I spent a great deal of my review discussing what I feel is Chuck’s achilles heel, the relationship between Chuck and Sarah. I want to clarify that I am not against their pairing: Levy and Strahovski have great chemistry, both...