I’ve been a little absent this week, in posting and with dropping on Entrecard. I will get back into the groove later this evening.
Thanks to everyone that dropped this month. Here are the top droppers for August.
1. Reenashwina
2. Atniz
Thanks again for stopping by everyday and dropping a card.
I have been playing around with Adobe Photoshop for a little over ten years. It seems like only yesterday I was running a Rage Against the Machine fan site and abusing the hell out of Photoshop filters. Back then, I couldn’t have enough text engulfed in flames. It was a magical time. Fast forward to today and my photoshop skills haven’t really progressed. I go through spurts where I will soak up a ton of PS knowledge, then not touch PS for months. When I do go back to it, I have forgotten everything I learned previously. Well, last week I sat down in front of PS again and began my dabbling. In my playing I created some things I thought would make cool backgrounds.
Here are two of the ones I created. I have more but haven’t exported them yet.
Here is a little tribute to my obsession with flames in my own designs.
If you’re interested in the downloads, I will have them up in the Downloads page shortly.
I have had a ton of requests (read: 2 people) to post the SirRobbieRob.com Wordpress theme. So, I have gone ahead and packaged it along with the .psd files. Feel free to pass this around to everyone. The only thing I ask, customize the theme to fit your site. Have some fun with it.
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We can now scratch off Barton Springs from our to-do list.
In the ten years I have lived in Austin, I can count on one hand how many times I’ve been to Barton Springs. It’s kind of sad because this place is freakin’ awesome. The water averages about 68 degrees all year round. In the winter, I’m told, it feels nice and warm. On our 100 degree Summer days, the water is nice and refreshing.
We went on a day it was 102 degrees outside…and it was only 11AM. Originally, we had planned to spend the day at the Austin Ice Cream Festival but that ended up being horrible. You would think an Ice Cream Festival would have free ice cream from a variety of places. There were like 5 different businesses there. All of the unknown venders were charging an insane amount of money for their products. I have never even heard of your dinky shop and you want me to pay $5 for a scoop of your organic ice cream…HA! You best be taking your game elsewhere, or I will shiv your ass and make you my prison bitch.
Anyway, after soaking in the crap festival we decided to go to Barton Springs. It was a blast! Even though I haven’t been a ton of times, I’m surely going to miss this place.
If you’re ever in Austin on a warm day, you should think about going to the spring. If you do, make sure you work up a sweat. It’s just that much better after running around. Also, be prepared to have your breathe taken away when you get into the water. It’s quite chilly and will produce shrinkage.
Way back in 2000, a co-worker sent me a music video of a Indian pop singer. At the time I didn’t know it, but his name was Daler Mehndi. When I first set eyes on the awesome ‘Tunak Tunak Tun’ video, I laughed my ass off. I had to have watched that thing a hundred times just that day. Every time, laughing at the cheesiness of it all. But soon, the laughter turned to amazement. It reminded me of all the things I love about the 80’s, bright colors and good music. I started looking into other bhangra artists and I hit the mother load. I couldn’t understand a single word they were saying but damn if it didn’t kick ass.
I went from listening to Indian music to watching clips of Bollywood films. Imagine the most awesome thing you can…now times that by a million. That is how awesome the Indian entertainment industry is. I would love to live in a world where things could be solved by breaking into dance and song. Sounds like a perfect world to me.
Check out one of Daler’s music videos.
If you haven’t seen the Tunak Tunak Tun video, search any video site. It’s everywhere.
A small example of Bollywood awesome-ness. There is a movie called, Shootout At Lokhandwala. The movie has guns and a bunch of bad ass gangstas. In between popping caps in asses, they take a time out to bust into song and dance.
See, you’re never too hard for some dancing with your fellow gangstas. The Bloods and Crips should be watching this. They could learn a thing or two about real Thug Life.
