Category Archives: wysiwyg

The Death of the Newspaper

By tone | Published: April 11, 2009
The Rocky Mountain News is a casualty in the war of lost revenue from ads to keep newspapers afloat in the age of the internet. The press began when the first bullet screamed from Civil War guns that ripped flesh of discontent. Many papers will feel the same demise as Ed Stein from The Rocky Mountain [...]
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Schulz City: That Little Such-and-Such

By tone | Published: March 14, 2009
Schulz City: That Yellow S.1 by ~ninjaink on deviantART What if Frank Miller drew Peanuts?  This would be the result.
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Ignore Everybody: and 39 Other Keys to Creativity

By tone | Published: March 11, 2009
Here is perfect business sense if you succeed. Ignore Everybody. That is what Hugh MacLeod did, as a struggling young copywriter he had a bad habit of doodling on business cards. You can give a pencil to an artist and he will find a way to scribble in the purest form the genesis of originality. [...]
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Aviary Online Image Editor

By tone | Published: October 28, 2008
When it comes to image authoring software from Adobe and Corel, there is not much choice out there. Most programs are mimicking the two big players in the market. The cost to have both Adobe and Corel can buy you a TV.  The serious illustrator will invest for his profession. For the [...]
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Julius Wild West Bananza

By tone | Published: October 10, 2008
Paul Frank Industries is in the clothing business and also a children’s book writer/illustrator of Juluis. This unique visionary is leaves you in stitches with his books. He should know because he is in the needle trade. Juluis is today’s Curious George but with style. Paul George’s line of clothing [...]
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Structura: The Art of Sparth

By tone | Published: October 1, 2008
Structura: The Art of Sparth. Some of the best science fiction imagined worlds are created today. Gone are those days of pulp magazines where some of the best artists graced the covers each month. Now with Photoshop, Illustrator, and Painter it is very easy to conceptually design very elaborate scenes unseen in the [...]
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Metallica Death Magnetic

By tone | Published: September 15, 2008
Death Magnetic The boys are back in town. Metallica is back in full form with their new album. Metallica’s Death Magentic is controlled chaos in the purest sense. After the self titled album or as some refer to as the black album, things have not been [...]
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Falling: The Goblin Edition

By tone | Published: September 3, 2008
Card games are not as popular as they were before television. Give credit where it is due, some companies are trying to be as imaginative so that they can to compete with the video gaming world. Falling: The Goblin Edition by the Paizo Publishing, LLC [...]
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Kimya Dawson’s Alphabutts

By tone | Published: August 26, 2008
No buts about it the latest craze for kids is funny oddity. Kimya Dawson is the architect behind Alphabutt music for kids. Here are songs that Raffi would never venture into. As you might surmise it’s all about butts. What  a way to make your kids remember Kimya’s little songs. Forget old MacDonald, Alphabutt [...]
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Cuil New Search Engine

By tone | Published: July 29, 2008
Cool! Kewel! Cuil? Cuil is the newest search engine that might give Google some competition. At one time Yahoo was king and a little lacklustre simplified search engine with a goofy name Google came out of nowhere and cleaned house. Cuil has some promise considering it was bankrolled by [...]
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