Like I posted before, I’ve been listening to a lot of Ryan Goslings band “Dead Man’s Bones“. Since Halloween was near my wife and I decided to cover his song “My Body’s A Zombie For you”. Since the original version had a children’s choir we decided to ask our highschool small group to sing along with us. Make sure to check it out and download it for your Halloween party!

I just started listening to Dead Man’s Bones (even though it was released in 2009). This project by Ryan Gosling (yeah the movie guy that all the ladies like) and his buddy Zach Sheilds is more then awesome. I love the unpolished honesty behind it. Both Ryan and Zach decided to play all the instruments on the album… They even set up rules for themselves like: not using a click track while recording, or taking more than three takes per track, letting any imperfections highlight the strengths of the music. To add to the semi creepyness of the album they enlisted Silverlake Conservatory Children’s Choir to sing along to the songs.

Listening to the whole album throws you back into a time of classic horror movies, and cinematic black and whites tales. Make sure to check it out on iTunes.

I’m a huge fan of Mailchimp.. This just made me love them even more!

Fun way of showing what the back of a website looks like.. if only you could flip your computer around and see that. I would hate to see what a .net site looks like….. bla

found over yonder.

Directed by Xaver Xylophon “Joy Of Destruction” is stop motion short film That is both funny and disturbing.. Loving the style and the music.

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Been a life long fan of Tetris! not sure why it took so long to come up with something this simple.

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This picture made me smile today. Who would win?

Pretty cool project by Looptaggrs Ariel Schlesinger & Aram Bartholl. Drive by stencils now as easy as spitting your gum out your car window

Grab your can and hit up a wall today ;-)

People, this is the year 2010 (almost 2011) why are you still using the default setting for your dropshadows.. better question why are using dropshadows? Just because you use a dropshadow does not mean it’s a better design, or  it make your image/picture “POP” more. Design is just as much about taking away as it is adding.

By using the default settings for a dropshadow you are doing 2 things:

1. Dating your design back to 1997
2. Making yourself look like you have no clue what you are doing.

Myths about the dropshadow:

It’s going to give my image more depth: Have you ever seen an image floating on top of a table with a 120º dark shadow floating to the right of it.. even when you have 6 light sources?

It makes my text Crisp: Or it causes distraction.  If you know what you are doing you should be able to place your text  in a location on an image to keep it crisp.

In Other words.. Dropshadows are a great way of saying “I have Photoshop, and no clue about what I’m doing”

Please do not take offense to this post if you are one of these people, although I stated my views I still believe dropshadows do have a place in design when used correctly.