Stumbled across two new websites this week;

I was tempted to sign up for a splash page at About.me but was too embarrassed to when I realized my page would have about 20 links. It appears to be a site that creates a splash page with links to all your virtual hang-outs. Why you couldn't do this on a personal website, I dunno. There seems to be no place for false modesty in this social media...

While I was watching the latest Pirates of the Caribbean in D I started wondering about how 3D 'hacks' what we know about the brain's visual processing.

• Colin Ware's great book about visual perception in design
• Ramachandran has some interesting observations here

As 2D artists we're constantly battling with how to render a three dimensional world on a 2D screen or printed page. It's fascinating...

So I'm playing around with Firebug on Mozilla (it let's you 'try out' CSS on a webpage). Reading white text on a black background is murder to read on my Mac ... so I thought why not change the background color to something less migraine inducing? After I found the code for the background color I replaced the black with a medium gray ... and voila! It worked a treat. I'm...

I finally got around to making a Facebook page. Part of the process was unfriending all my design resource pages in my personal account and then refriending (is that a word?) from my page. What was so nice was cleaning up my news feed. Now I only get the news from family/friends in my personal feed.

It's really nice to have all the Photoshop/art feeds in one place instead of mixed in...

It's hard to balance between promoting your work and producing it.



There are an endless myriad of ways to promote yourself online from simple blogs (Twitter, anyone?) to full blown websites.

I'm having a blast investigating the possibilities - Wix, Weebly, Wordpress, Tumblr, Blogger etc. And it's really fun to update my skills since my HTML/Frontpage days. But I seem to be wandering...