Remember I told you guys about the songwriter’s site I was creating? I’d like you to meet Rich Marcello, listen and download an mp3 or 2.
Cheers!
yet another linky-dinky
hmm, missed this one… vectors a little bit dif than the usual. Gracias TutsKing!
Flash Dance & the end of good fonts
This little number is a teeny-tiny preview of what’s to come from the awesome photographers that Jennie had for her wedding.
The photographers, Whitney & Jesse, were so wonderful & fun & accommodating. I wish I could hire them to spend a week in my life, and just take a bunch of photos whenever I wanted them to. Sort of a documentary of my life—in pictures… umm, that would be pretty damn exciting come to think of it. A web cam sitting on top of my monitor could do the thing. Yup, my life. At the desk. Silly me. Not that I’m complaining, not at all. I like my life and I like my desk. There just wouldn’t be a lot of action shots, ya know?
What I was going to say about fonts, I don’t think there’s a font out there that I need anymore. Oh, of course I don’t have ALL of the fonts that I ever ever wanted, but there’s nothing *new* anymore, know what I mean? I was looking around for the font that I want to use on the redo of FMG, but I’m really not sure of what I want to do. Maybe when I have a better idea of the direction I’m going with the site, I’ll know, but until then… nada. There’s one font that I was in love with and purchased, but I have never ever used on ANYthing and I don’t think I’ve ever seen it used anywhere else either. That would be the most logical… but it’s pretty specialized… I’ll think about it and let you know, k?
I’m currently designing a web site for a song writer who wants his mp3s on the site for both listening to and downloading, AND, he said the magic words regarding the design—”Do anything you want, the more creative and weird you can make it, the better!” Ooooo, fun. But you know what? Sometimes that can be more difficult. It’s like creative overload! More decisions, more options, more difficult to decide, ya know? Sometimes that can be paralyzing for me—the deciding part. I just have to go with my gut feeling and stick with it. I have a tendency to try too many different things, and that can waste time, especially with me.
4 more days until the Woodstock Anniversary!
Redesigning my web site
It really takes more time & thought to redesign my own web site than any others. Probably because I’m more critical of myself and what I do to represent myself than how I feel otherwise, ya know? Plus, I need to feel totally satisfied with it so that I don’t have to do it again anytime in the near future.
FullMoon Graphics has gone through a handful of revisions over the years (about 5 versions in 12 yrs…). I think the teal, retro-ish kitty was my fav. And it’s looking a little worn out & dusty to me… heck, the present design is from 2004! whoa. No wonder I’m sick of it!
It will take awhile. I recently made a vow to myself to take more time out to tend to my own needs instead of working practically ’round the clock… and getting burnt out & less efficient. duh. *light bulb moment*
So ya. I have a tiny seed of an idea that I’m going to play around with… but I will guarantee that I will do my best to not look like a million other designs out there, k?
Beaded curtains, ooo-la-la
Oooo, ooo, I just had a blinding idea—literally! One of my office windows is above me and to the right, facing west. In the afternoon, the sun gets pretty bright (and hot) when it’s directly on top of me. Sooo, what I thought would be really cool(er) is to hang some sort of beaded curtain… one that would still let the air blow around & in & out, as well as allow the light in, just not blinding sun beams in my face (yes, I know I may be deserving of the ethereal glow/halo, but it does get pretty warm).
And I’m sooo excited because there are mucho web sites that sell such things, more shapes & colors & glittery-goodness than I could imagine! Yippeee! Yes, I imagine certain styles may reflect even more light, but can you just picture how colorful & reflective they would be? Now I just have to decide which ones to get.
But later… must finish working… yes, later. See how I get off on tangents??
**couple days later here**
I think I’ve found the ones I want , but they’re out of stock (of course). Will have some in a week or so… And they’re really easy to cut & make them thicker, more dense. Look how easy… yippeee!
FREE free Free!!
Are you guys as obsessed as I am about downloading good freebies from the plethora of “free stuff” sites?
Sometimes I get so mad at myself ‘cos I can spend w-a-y too much time browsing and downloading things that I will probably never use for as long as I live!
Like tonite for example… I found a few new icon sets (like I really need more icons), and all of a sudden I was in download overload. *Danger Danger* (picture the kmart blue light special bulb flashing around my head and sirens blaring)… what the hell was I doing? I really didn’t care about downloading anything more… I was tired and crabby and debating whether I should go to bed early, but instead I was downloading the umpteenth hand drawn Facebook icon to a folder where I would probably forget which hand drawn icon I had placed in it. ugh.
Of course I dream of some day having a library-like Dewey Decimal System of all of my icons and downloaded vector files and Photoshop brushes and on and on… (that’s how Adobe Bridge should ideally be set up ya know), but until that day, I really must stop this obsession of mine. Or at least wait until I need something in particular. Right?
Speaking of Photoshop brushes, I had downloaded the AbrViewer awhile back, but I didn’t use it much… thought it was a bit clunky. But I just downloaded the AbrView, and I like it! Short & sweet and a lot cleaner than the other one. So I guess I did benefit from my little downloading spree tonite.
And just in case you feel like you’re missing out on all of these freebies I’m talking about, here’s a short list… with Smashing Mag being the big Mac-daddy of ’em all (I think they’re amazing!).
- www.hongkiat.com/blog
- www.tripwiremagazine.com
- abduzeedo.com
- qbrushes.com
- qvectors.com
- www.bittbox.com/category/freebies
- www.blogperfume.com
- www.dafont.com (ya, I know, who doesn’t browse dafont?)
- www.instantshift.com
- www.brusheezy.com
- www.vectorportal.com
Remember, I warned you… can never just download one.
xoxo
**OH, one other thing I wanted to mention about these sites… WHY-O-why do they all. look. the. same?? I mean seriously. Content on the left, chances are there’s a big link graphic first, above the post… then squares and squares of ads on the right. And of course even the ads are all the same. I honestly don’t get it. Am I missing something?
