It’s fast. It’s fun. It’s bright and colorful. If you want some editorial art that doesn’t look like your run-of-the-mill stock art, or need something to accent the corner of a print piece, here it is. Chalk à la Photoshop!
This tutorial will show how to use channels to create a “fixed” texture not unlike working chalk on a real canvas. Click to Continue »
Going green isn’t so special these days and most people don’t even know what they’re doing. If you’re a celeb, you’ve probably got a “natural” t-shirt line going. Your t-shirt advertised on a 50 page catalog will be delivered in 7 to 10 days via a fuel guzzling jet, ship, train and truck, wrapped in tissue and plastic, inside a cardboard box, safety-pinned with a cool tag about your “green company”, accompanied by a receipt printed on paper with carbon. Enjoy! It was probably even manufactured by a 7 year old child in a some developing nation. Consumerism, by nature, is wasteful. Click to Continue »
Wow! In any given month, owning your own business means coming in early on a Monday to vacuum the leased space so you don’t make too much noise for your fellow leasers downstairs, filling the fridge with 4 o’clock a.m and p.m munchies, negotiating an employee’s vacation time, checking to see where that freelancer is at 9:30 a.m., fighting bogus charges from your last landlord, estimating on a job you know you won’t get, educating a client on the differences between vector and bitmap and sitting on Lynda.com to brush up on the software you will never get good at because you own your own business and crap has to get done. Click to Continue »
Check the quality of your tap water at home. You can get water testing kits from the hardware store. If the drinking water in your area does not meet with your standards (that means odor, too, because if it doesn’t smell good either you won’t drink it) use water filters. Water filters can be mounted right onto the faucet, under the sink, or to a pitcher (such as Brita®). Initially the cost can run from $20 to over a $150, plus your time for installation but you’ll make up for the expense and the cost to our environment in no time.
Beans, beans, a healthy meal; the more you eat, the faster earth heals. Besides having more fiber and no cholesterol, beans are more versatile and keep much longer and safer than beef. Working parents can make a 15 bean stoup Sunday night for dinner and have a few lunches and plenty of left over for hectic nights.
In a really large pot, saute one chopped yellow onion, 3 chopped carrots, 2 chopped stalks of celery, Click to Continue »