I’m hoping that my childhood isn’t ruined any further by Hollywood come Friday. I’m looking at you GI Joe: The Movie.
I was cleaning out the apartment since I’m making a move to a bigger and better place and ran into my old toys. Since the new GI Joe movie is being panned by just about everyone, I wanted to remind myself just how much fun this franchise used to be.
I am praying this won’t be as bad as I hear, but I am cautiously optimistic. Hollywood already ruined Transformers for me, I hope they don’t fully destroy my childhood memories with GI Joe The Movie.
I received a Nikon D60 in January 2009 as a birthday gift. It was my first digital SLR EVER and I was eager to learn as much as I can about photography. Several months passed and I became very accustomed to the 18-55mm kit lens the camera came with. The kit lens takes very good pictures, but the depth of field and sharpness left me wanting more.
I read several fantastic reviews for the new Nikon 35mm 1.8G lens and quickly placed an order on Amazon on the first of May. The lens finally arrived on June 15th and it was well worth the wait. First of all, I had to get used to walking towards and away from the subject since the lens does not zoom (it is a prime lens after all). At an aperture of 1.8, the depth of field is just sick, for a lack of a better word.
I’m not going to review the lens because there are far better and more professional people out there that have done so. I’m blogging about the lens because I’m excited for the projects I’ve been inspired to create. Thanks Nikon, it was well worth the month-long wait.
More pics with the new lens in a bar with low light:
With the 99Design.com win fresh in my head, I feel it’s important that I upload and share as much of my work as possible. I recently designed these graphics for the up and coming band out of Pittsburgh, ‘Yours Truly.’ I’ve known one of the band members, Justin Portis for a few years so I had a sense of what his style was. Soon, these designs will be seen on t-shirts and other products from the band.
99Designs.com recently held a contest to design Veronica Belmont’s twitter page. Being a fan of hers for years, I went head first into the challenge. It was very easy to come up with the idea since I had designed something for her in the past. I had photoshopped her head onto the Mona Lisa for a CNET project back in 2007 and I played with the Renaissance concept again. And since the new movie, Angels and Demons, is out and every channel is replaying the Da Vinci Code, it was only natural to do a Da Vinci style background.
It was really exciting to see my design chosen among the many other entries and even more exciting that 550 + thousand people will see it.
I recently saw the entire HBO mini-series, John Adams, in one sitting. Needless to say, I experienced a heightened sense of patriotism and had an urge to create something to capture my feeling of euphoria.
I choose to recreate the Declaration of Independence using the wingdings font as an attempt to combine my love for history and the digital world. The symbols can be translated back to the regular alphabet showing the entire statement as seen on the real Declaration of Independence (line breaks, character spacing and the names of the signers).
Download the PDF version to see the original and translatable file. Warning: 10mb file
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