Have you ever found a piece of media that works so perfectly in the way it’s presented that you feel like maybe everyone else should stop trying? Ok, so perhaps it is just me, but “Storm,” the animated short from Tim Minchin on YouTube, is what the medium should be. It’s not clickbait or the...
I edit photos for my primary job at the moment. Nothing grinds my gears more than people hiring photographers only to ruin every single photo by having them or a family member holding up their phone. No, your photographer or editors are not going to remove every single one in Photoshop. If there...
In today's weekend posting, two recommendations about things that are not free (which is a first) and a rant (which is very much in brand for this blog). Drawing faces with JLJ On a previous blog entry I complained that it's very difficult to find a good drawing tutorial because many, many...
Note: I wrote this article in August, but I didn't realize it wasn't published until October. I kept the published date as it was, but if you didn't see it before well, that's why. Are you familiar with a small streaming company called "Netflix"? If so, you might recognize their opening sound. And...
So, it's that time of the year again. Apple has unveiled its new ad-blocking technology for the latest iPhone, and people on the internet are losing their minds about why ads are good for you, and how this will be the end of the internet as we know it. To which I reply: no, they are not. And good...