2010!

The first decade of the new millennium is in the bag. Drag yourself out of the post holiday season party slouch and start making it happen. May you excel at your passions and thrive with the company of friends and family.

ChwYrVtmns

My good friend and colleague Matt Yerman has started dabbling in the DJ world like so many young computer savvy individuals who have embraced the exploding new technologies that empower them to wildly manipulate digital music. He has launched a music blog called ChwYrVtmns, a hilarious quip on the brain bending chemicals munched on by so many party goers striving to maximize their techno genre enjoyment. While him and his fellow CYV blog authors are profiling works of any and all artists in the electronic genres, Yerman is sure to start offering some fantastic, exclusive, original music on the blog. From a few teasers I have heard of his work, hot offerings are in the near future. He is also a stunning graphic designer, now operating under the trade name MadeService, meaning all posts are accompanied by graphically stimulating images.

MYFDB

Los Angeles based My Fashion Database company has been quietly building an impressively massive, motion adorned and graphically razor sharp, online fashion directory. Following in the footsteps of an internet giant, IMDB.com, which pioneered the concept for the film industry, MYFDB sets itself apart with a honed and beautiful website that is going to put it's older, movie industry comparable to shame. It is also filling a vacant online networking site niche, and those are hard to find these days. The site is finally ready for full fledged traffic, and has been getting tons of media chatter at places like the Wall Street Journal.

I was commissioned to do a screen captured 'sizzle reel' of some of the features of the site. It finally is on the front page, and MYFDB is go for lift off.

Colorado Art Wire Logo

We put together a little logo for the blahg. Some people love the Colorado flag, others hate it. We think it definitely needs an overhaul. It looks like something designed by a stoney Nederland Native in the 70s. Perhaps a statewide flag contest? Colorado is artsy enough, there could be some real treasures out there.

Jiberish 09/10 Lookbook

Denver based Jiberish Clothing has posted a 22 page lookbook peek at their upcoming 09/10 Fall Line. The drop will be a large one, featuring over 50 items, from crewneck pull over hoodies to jeans and plaid button ups. There are a few samples floating about the Denver/Boulder area and from checking out the improvements in cut and sew design and production, huge strides have been made since last year. Big ups to the epic Denver dudes at Sans Clothing for continuing to empower a small emerging company like Jiberish to make these production advancements. The items should start showing up at retailers in early November. You can find the full collection for purchase online at ABSTRACTmall. first.

Work Timer by gersh.no

If you find yourself struggling to monitor your internet dabbling in today's hyper saturated interactive webbing while needing to be on the computer all day, productively self motivated enough to actually work 8 hours, we feel your pain. Perhaps the free Work Timer app by gersh.no is worth a try for you. It takes some dilligence to actually start and stop it every time, but there is a great little editable spreadsheet attached below that can be tweaked for ball park dabbling reductions. Find it HERE on Version Tracker. Only by scrolling all the way down past legal mumbo jumbo could I see who was responsible for graciously distributing this Freeware trinket. It's Gerhard Sletten from Norway at http://gersh.no Thanks GERSH!

Wikipedia Presidential Debate Jokesters

While casually enjoying the third presidential debate between Barrack Obama and John McCain in the company of my roomates, the term 'litmus test' came up at least 3 or 4 times. Enough times for me to realize, I really had no idea what that jargon means in political discussion. So where to but the first hit on google for concise and complete informational tidbits but, Wikipedia. But when I got there, the first sentence read a little different than it should have, and I took a screenshot.
Everyone be cruising the net on their laps during TV time these days, especially the web 2.0 practical jokesters. Well played guys, well played.

Adobe Type Contest Romania

I came across this adobe typography contest entry on Behance. Spectacular. The humble broken passage from artist Stefan Lucut makes me even more pumped on it. "Adobe is one of my favorite typography project. I've made it for the Adobe contest / Romania where we need to redesign the "A" from the Adobe identity. Of course I didn't won but for me remains one of my favorite projects because of the hard work I put into this type.

*I was trying 6-7 months ago to convert it into a font, but is a pain in the ass. Sorry guys."

I haven't seen the winning type, but if I were judging this would be a winning contender without a doubt. Check the full series.

07/08 Reel

Scope the hot video clips below.

High Dynamic Range

This amazingly unique and vibrant photography technique was unknown to me until I was turned onto it by a friend just a year ago. Basically, the process works by compiling anywhere between 2 and upwards of 15 tripod identical shots set at all different exposure levels ranging from very under exposed all the way up to highly washed out.
[An example of an exposure series for input into an HDR algorithm. Wikipedia/CC]

The pictures are compiled using programs like Adobe CS3 or Photomatix where a new image is created which highlights the correct exposure on a huge array of differently exposed areas. The brightest bluest sky exposure is apparent alongside the richest color textures of the darkest shadows of a tree. The result is breathtaking, almost taking on the appearance of an illustration or painting.
An HDR shot in Del Mar California by my BOY, Dillon Morris.]

Often times HDRs have very useful applications other than just making a picture look epic. Photographers use HDR to capture the inside of churches to show the detail of the very bright stain glass with the much darker inside architecture in one image. HDR images are also used to render ultra enriched 3D gaming environments found in many of todays first person shooter games.
[Church detail illuminated by HDR. Photo digitalcameratracker.com