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.
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
Scripture tells us that “joy cometh in the morning.” I certainly hope so because my nights are filled with hate and anger as I read comments from gaming forums. Forums that once served as sanctuaries for gamers have transformed into warzones where various factions vie for ultimate control. This rise in gamer-on-gamer hostility can no longer be written off as childish actions from a disillusioned minority; It is an elaborate attempt to divide all gamers by the Church of Fanboyism. Why would this congregation of gamers prevent us from experiencing harmony? Because they’re jerks.
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