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I just posted my first Youtube video, a commercial for this blog… sort of.

Inspired by simple sayings like how do you eat an elephant? And A Journey of 1000 miles begins with… watch it and you’ll see.

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A good way to learn to use the pen tool is to try this “follow the circle” exercise.
Drag this circle image (Fig A) to your desktop or right-click/save to desktop.

Open the image up in Photoshop and blow it up to 300%. Select the pen tool by hitting the (P) key. Follow around the edge of [...]

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I’ve been listening to Dr. Wayne Dyer a lot lately and this is one of the translations for the Tao Te Ching that he recommends. He also recommends to start reading a section a day and thinking throughout the day about each one of  the 81 sections.
Each section of the Tao is short and should [...]

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I found these 5 articles on the web recently and found myself returning to them several times, so I decided to make a post about them.

Graphic Elements – 27 Indespensible Resources for Graphic Designers
Design Trends and Predictions 2009 – Web Design Trends in 2009
Cheat Sheets – Cheat Sheets for [...]

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Here’s a blog post that lists 17 people who changed the Internet forever. It’s good to see the photos of the people who are affiliated with these companies. My only problem is that it’s missing the guy from democracydesigns.com.
I guess it’s because it hasn’t yet launched so that must be where the problem is. Democracy [...]

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