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Excessable Christmas eBook
I finally made Excessable Christmas into an eBook! Excessable Christmas is a book I self-published in January 2010. It’s a PDF format for now, although I learned a lot about making ePUB and MOBI books too. You can download it for free using the link below. The file is huge because I like my graphics to be sharp. Right click and save target to download book.
Let me know how you like it!
the making of "get out of the trees" video
This project was created for a contest that AT&T is doing through zooppa.com. Here’s the concept, as posted on AT&T’s site.
The AT&T Simplify Your Life video contest is a chance for you to make your own video about AT&T’s Online Services, such as Paperless Billing, Account Management, AutoPay, and Online Support. Each of these services can help to make life simpler.
So here’s the video. PLEASE click on the link and vote for it on Facebook by clicking the “like” button.
my idea
My idea for this was to make a stop motion video using my collection of rotary dial phones, making them into a tree. At first, I was going to use a person as the tree trunk, but then I thought that would be a long time for someone to be wrapped up in phones and I wasn’t sure the cords were long enough.
The concept is to stay out of the trees, meaning the phone trees and paper trees, and to use the AT&T online services. Continue reading
marketing concepts & fun at the mall
Fun? At the mall? Yep. Fun to me is processing my surroundings. This includes activities like people watching, looking at marketing trends and seeing current styles while taking photos of all these observations. If you need to know my underlying reason for poking fun of some of these products, it’s because they’re so over the top and heavily profit driven. This is just my quirky view on ‘the mall’. Read the full blog post on rethinkgood.com.
Angry cartoon women wearing makeup. This was the first thing I saw in Nordstroms. It’s the new Villain line of Mac makeup put out by Disney. Now I don’t wear much makeup, sometimes a little eye shadow and lipstick, but I’m really not wanting to look like Cruella Deville, Isma or a wicked witch. Does evil cartoon characters on cosmetic packaging really make women want to buy this stuff? Maybe so, but I don’t get it. The colors are fun and the display grabbed my attention, but I’m ADHD, so any shiny object will do that. And the cosmetics department is full of highly attractive and graphically stunning displays that don’t require ADHD.
Brushes with genius. This is a set of magnetic brushes. Smart, maybe, but it’s not creating world peace or curing diseases. Again, these are good and probably great if you carry makeup stuff with you.
Trash display. I’m not sure what the product is here, but it did make me laugh that it’s displayed right over a trash can. Interesting merchandising concept. Maybe not the best subliminal message on this one, but this one? I get it. Continue reading
graphic designer’s ‘get out of jail free’ card
Capital One had a commercial for their new Venture card. I didn’t hear much of the commercial, but the image I saw on TV intrigued me. The card pictured had the name Lee N. Cardholder. At least I thought it was an ‘N’. If it was an ‘N’, that would be ‘lean’ or ‘lien’, which being a graphic designer, I can recognize a subliminal message faster than the average bear. I do it, all graphic designers do it. It’s creative and fun, a hobby of sorts for us. It’s like a designer’s secret language.
I also see that Jimmy Lee is one of the guys heading the national small business lending division of Capital One. So is Jimmy Lee actually Lee M.? I have no idea, but I do know this. This is the designer’s ‘get out of jail free’ card if some non-designer cracks the secret language code. If you’re a designer, keep a few of these with your business cards. ;)
See the full article on rethinkgood.com.
Thanks for coming to MinistryCOM!
Thank you to all that came to my breakout session at MinistryCOM this year. I’m also glad you made it to my blog, as my digitalfondue.org domain was not working. I’m so sorry! I had to transfer it, and in the process the forwarding got turned off. It’s back on! As Terrell said, I will be blogging the process our church used to enhance our industrial wall space. Stay tuned…
Social Media – The Cyber Reality [detailed presentation]
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Social Media – The Cyber Reality [ministryCOM presentation]
This is the screen notes / presentation from the social media breakout session at ministryCOM 2010.
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Session Description:
Social media is a reality and necessary for business and churches alike, but one size does not fit all. In this breakout session you will learn:
- How to get started
- Your strategy
- Maintaining your conversations
- Tips & resources
- Case studies
- Tracking what works
If you have questions you would like answered or social media topics you would like to discuss, please tweet to @embracechaos. #smreality
The Pink Motel
The Pink Motel by Carol Ryrie Brink (1959)
Nothing exciting ever happens to Kirby or Bitsy Mellen–that is, until their mother inherits a motel in Florida from her great-granduncle Hiram, complete with a roster of eccentric guests. New this winter are the Browns, obsessed with their suntans; Miss DeGree, obsessed with her poodles; and two mysterious men, obsessed, like Kirby, with trying to find Uncle Hiram’s rumored secret treasure.
For the 1959 original book, available used at amazon.com, click the link The Pink Motel
For the 1993 paperback version of the original, new or used from amazon.com, click Pink Motel
global-give-green, an exercise in repurposed art
These small pieces of art are made on painted MDF panels that were about to be thrown in the trash. The words are cut out of magazines, the leftover magazine skeletons went to the recycling bin. Most of the paint is leftovers from other art projects. Most of the painting embellishments and lines were painted with pizza boxes leftover from lunch. The photos are just snapshots, I need to take some good photos of them. ;)
