Archive for August, 2006

Pluto isn’t a planet anymore

Sunday, August 27th, 2006

Well, the International Astronomical Union has voted to demote Pluto to a “dwarf planet” instead of being a full planet. I’m not sure whether that’s a good thing, since a lot of changes will have to be made to textbooks, planetarium shows, computer programs, and a host of other things. Space.com has an article covering [...]

American Greetings Tour

Wednesday, August 16th, 2006

Today, I went on a field trip to American Greetings in Cleveland with a bunch of graphic design students. I knew three of them, as well as the instructor, before as I had worked with them on a couple of Design Studio projects. (Design Studio is an opportunity at school where, right now, graphic design [...]

The Broken Road Teaser

Saturday, August 12th, 2006

I’ve been helping out where I can on the production and marketing of The Broken Road, an independent film a friend of mine is directing. While they are still in production, here’s the teaser he just recently released.

Trio Photo Touchup

Saturday, August 5th, 2006

A couple weeks ago, Greg asked me if I might be able to do anything with a few of the photos he took for his mother’s trio. So, here’s what I ended up with. First, the original photo.

And then this is what I fixed it up like.

Much better, don’t you think?

Prey by Michael Crichton

Tuesday, August 1st, 2006

I’ve mentioned before that I try to snag an audio book to listen to on my way back and forth home during breaks. Makes the trip seem not quite so long (though 6 hours isn’t really that long of a trip). For my trip during last break between quarters, I picked up Prey, by Michael [...]