Last weekend looked like this.
One of those glorious indian summer days that always seem to be ordered up by the chamber of commerce for California in January. I snuck off to the beach and caught this golden sunset over the Monterey Bay.
Life in the real world is impeding my progress in the virtual [...]
This week’s winning Spoonflower fabric is by Rachel of MammaMade fame.
Rachel has been posting extremely detailed tutorials on designing fabric using vector art created in free software tools like Inkscape, a new SVG authoring program (shameless plug for SVG, a web technology I worked on years ago). In fact, she details her complete design process [...]
I know our new president has a whole bunch of stuff on his plate right now, but somehow I can’t help but think that the world would be just a little bit better place if President Elect Obama would take up Quincy Jones’s suggestion that he create a new cabinet position, “Secretary of Arts”.
I know I’d [...]
Have you checked out Spoonflower, a site where you can upload your own fabric designs and have them digitally printed onto fabric?
I made this small quilt using one of my beta tester swatches of Spoonflower’s first printed fabrics on Kona cotton. Spoonflower has subsequently switched their print stock to Moda cotton (Bleach White from the [...]
This is my cat.
This is my cat on Spoonflower.
Even though I worked at Adobe for over 20 years, I am not a Photoshop expert. I can tell you a whole bunch about the technology inside the software, but I am like most folks who own Photoshop or Photoshop Elements and use it occasionally rather [...]
I read books. Nothing better to me than curling up with a wonderful novel and reading until I can no longer keep my eyes open. Oh I read other things as well. The New York Times daily. A glance at the front page of the Wall Street Journal. My favorite blogs. A few news sites. [...]
