April 05, 2005
Rock Stars & My Dad
So I spent this past weekend in Scottsdale Arizona (near pheonix) seeing my dads first big gallery opening featuring him and his photographs. It was so neat to get to experience that with my mom and dad!
Rock Star Gallery is representing my fathers Fine Art Photography prints. The store owner, his wife and young son were really sweet. I also met their awsume framer and his signifigant other. They were just so nice! I got to speak to the guy who is a partner in the mutlimedia company that created the website for the store, he was there to film the whole event and he was also cool.
Mom and Dad, now married over 30 years!
Entry way to the store, my dads famouse Led Zepelin print.
All my dad's photo's on the walls
That's Jim Morrison in the middle top photo, and Paul McCartney (sp?) in the left middle, lots of other Lez Zepelin's hidden by the people.
More photo's along the temporary black wall
It was so neat seeing my fathers photos all up on the wall, and big, the way I always wanted to see them. My father's photo's are truley peices of art. He sold I think like 10 prints that night which was just amazing! I'm so proud of my dad! It's awsume that after all this time he's getting things going again, I hope he has many more shows like this one. We wound up going out to eat, just the three of us after the show and it was just really nice.
I treated myself to some pretty jewlery that rock stars wear.
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March 31, 2005
Print Gocco - Customized Notebooks
I have a fun little plan for work, but I'll just have to see how it works out.
It's going to involve this notebook from staples. Once I a test one I'll be able to see if I can silkscreen the front of it. It was very difficult to find a blank notebook! This one is called a "Chemistry Notebook" but i would just say it's an attractive notebook.
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March 30, 2005
Jesse's face, all over the place
A continued venture into the Japanese Print Goco;
I got some blank postcards from the craft store on the way home, and a few t-shirts. Jesse requested blue ink on the postcards, and I already had planned to have his t-shirts match his website.
Postcards
t-shirts
I'm fairly please considering it's my first time trying to print on cloth. I have lots of inprovments in mind for next time, the print was to dark near the bottom and it didn't burn the screen correctly, but it lends itself to a nice rustic feel, heh.
Update: I got Jesse to put it on, don't know if I can get him to wear it in public haha...
Here is the image I used to create the design from;
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March 29, 2005
Don't look if you're Jesse
A few months ago I had been readin about this really cool Japanese toy called a "Print Gocco" which is basically a proffesional screen printing kit for anyone and everyone. My mom sent me $200 for my birthday/xmas so I got the Print Goko, the book, the print stamping kit and some extra cloth printing inks.
Tonight was the first time I actually tried using it. I was going to make some t-shirts for Jesse or a cool business card for his website for when we went to Australia, but he never got around to giving me the "content" ehem...
So tonight I tested it on a fun little geeky birthday card for him (His b-day is april 19th btw if your wondering, hehehe).
So here are the fruits of my labor;
I was extremly impressed by the prints. It was a horrible hand drawn sketching and it's amazing how much each print looks hand drawn but much better then my drawing (cleaner because of the inks). The original is the all black one, it's messed up because it got some ink on it. It was hand drawn with a pen the kit comes with.
In the bottom left of the photo is the printing mechanism, and the master is up agains the top of it. To the top right is the "lamp" thing which you use to expose and create the "master" from.
I purchased all of the supplies from Think Ink and was VERY happy with their customer service. It wasn't able to ship right away and so they actual waited a few days once they got it before it was mailed so it would arrive right when I got back from XMAS in VA and not sit outside in the cold on our front porch.
So being so pleased, I just ordered more bulbs and masters and some yellow cloth ink.
If you have ever wanted to make your own business cards and be in complete control of the design, this looks like it would be FAB. I have a project in mind for work that I think will be lots of fun, I'm all about the cloth printing kit!
I found a cool looking t-shirt website. I'll sleep on it while I come up with my plan!
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March 24, 2005
Beautiful Buttons AKA Beautiful Buttons *without* images!
First lets start out by saying this is for a company intranet that supports IE only. They don't look horrible in firefox, but they don't look as nice.
What happned was the developers needed to be able to "disabled" input buttons, and when we had a static image it would have required creating disabled states of all the buttons… That would be a lot of work, and on top of that coding it on the developer’s side is just too much effort for the time allowed right now.
So I was all sad, but then a co-worker of mine, Shelley Kennon, found some awesome code that looks F-A-B in IE.
link so you can view the source
There is also an option to have a repeating background image within the button as well, but I won't go into that here.
Microsoft's Documentation - this is a great page detailing the filter code. It also shows how you can make a DIV with a filtered background.
I am really excited about this because we have a side navigation bar that has a slight gradient running behind it. I of course can't wait till Shelley comes in so I can tell her about using the filter in a div, even better you can place a div BEHIND it so if a person does not have IE you can just have a static colored background for Firefox etc.
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