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World Cup at Smoke & Barrell

Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010

I took my camera to Smoke & Barrel in Fayetteville to take pictures of people watching USA vs. Algeria in the World Cup. Here are some of the pictures I took.

Artist Point

Tuesday, April 27th, 2010

This is an overlook from U.S. Highway 71 near Winslow, Arkansas. I made this to practice some more with stitching together panoramas in Gimp. Click on it to see the full size (about 7 MB).

Changes

Thursday, April 22nd, 2010

I’m messing around with themes at the moment, so the site may look weird for a little while. Things will be back to normal soon.

Photography

Tuesday, April 13th, 2010

Today I went to Mt. Magazine. I took some pictures and edited them with Gimp. It was just real minor touch-up stuff. Here are a few:

Phraseology

Saturday, March 20th, 2010

When I go to the grocery store, I like to look at the packaging on all the wonderful things for sale. I like the way a photo will be placed here, a banner there, with 3D text to grab your attention. I look for ideas in the store. I also like the wording that sings praise to the quality and value of the product. I imagine they choose those words very carefully to sound just right. Today I was doing a little shopping, and I saw this on a package of corndogs:

Exactly how does one make a stick with turkey and pork? Maybe sometimes they don’t choose their wording quite so carefully.

What’s the funniest food packaging you’ve seen? Post a comment and tell me about it.

Seedling Film Association

Thursday, March 18th, 2010

Here in my town, Fayetteville, Arkansas, is a nonprofit called Seedling Film Association. I attended their St. Patrick’s Day celebration with Christopher Spencer of Ozarks Unbound, and good times were had. Cassie Self (I think that was her name, but I’m hard of hearing) described the association as a networking group for connecting talent to other talent. Arkansas State Representative candidate Bill Ramsey, D-Fayetteville, made an appearance. One highlight of the night was the “Leprechaun Limbo” contest: