Month: May 2019

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Headers

I know several of you have asked about downloading my headers without having to right-click-save on each and every one of them. Want them all? Click on the image above to download a zip file (approx. 350MB) of all the images in the library (currently something like 600 or so), many of which you've probably never seen!

I've also added a permanent widget at the right of the screen in case you want to do this later.

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PSA – Alternatives to Adobe Software

IF YOU DRAW OR DESIGN

Instead of PHOTOSHOP, try GIMP
Instead of LIGHTROOM, try PAINT DOT NET
Instead of ILLUSTRATOR, try INKSCAPE
Instead of INDESIGN, try CANVA or SCRIBUS

IF YOU MAKE PICTURES MOVE

Instead of PREMIERE, try DAVINCI RESOLVE
Instead of ANIMATE/FLASH, try OPENTOONZ or BLENDER
Instead of AFTER EFFECTS, try WAX, BLENDER, or FUSION

IF YOU BUILD WEBSITES OR SOFTWARE

Instead of DREAMWEAVER, SPARK, or XD, try WIX, WEEBLY, WORDPRESS.COM or WORDPRESS.ORG

YOU DO STUFF THAT REQUIRES THESE OTHER PROGRAMS

Instead of AUDITION, try AUDACITY
Instead of ACROBAT PRO, try FOXIT READER or PDF ESCAPE
Instead of INCOPY, try LOVING YOURSELF AND USING LITERALLY ANYTHING ELSE (Who uses this, anyway?)

IF YOU NEED STOCK PHOTOS OR FONTS

Instead of ADOBE STOCK, try PEXELS, UNSPLASH, or PIXABAY
Instead of ADOBE FONTS, try GOOGLE FONTS or DAFONT
If you need FREE MUSIC OR SOUND EFFECTS, try YOUTUBE AUDIO LIBRARY or SOUNDBIBLE

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Thought for the Day

If there truly are an infinite number of universes with an equally infinite number of possible timelines, that means that every piece of literature and film, every television drama or comedy, every character, every plot line, is playing out—or has at some point played out—in reality.

Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, the entire MARVEL universe, DUNE, Harry Potter, all the works of Shakespeare…for chrissake, Bewitched…all are real.

In addition, in some alternate Universe, John F. Kennedy served out his Presidency, and likewise Hillary Clinton is in the White House and Donald Trump is cleaning toilets.

Just because we don't have the privilege of living in those Universes, doesn't mean they don't exist.

Unfortunately there are also Universes where Germany won World War 2—a la Man in the High Castle.

Enjoy the weekend.

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So This Happened

"Apple has expanded the existing keyboard repair program for all Apple laptops containing the butterfly design keyboards (including even the brand new MacBook Pro models they just released today, which is interesting, but should be reassuring for those purchasing new Mac laptops)."

What I find most disturbing about this is that the brand. new. models. are included on this 4 year replacement program, indicating that Apple itself doesn't have much faith in whatever changes they made to the now fourth generation butterfly mechanism.

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Thought For Today

Future historians, sifting through the still-smoldering rubble of the 21st century will ask, "Why didn't they just drag the motherfucker out of the White House and string him up?"

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Please Enlighten Me

My first thought upon seeing this picture was, "How?!? How was this even built?" If you look closely there appears to be a winding staircase leading down from the obviously massive carvings that disappears into the jungle below, giving the photo a sense of scale. Mind boggling.

It was labeled buddha at nguyen cha taktsang monastery bhutan, which led me on an internet search to get more information. All I came up with were a dozen or so pinterest "places I want to go" sites showing the exact same photo and a couple other sites about the monastery itself that make no mention of the carvings or provide any other photos of them.

You would think something of this immensity (at least 30 stories from the look of it) would have at least one other photo online, right?

At this point, I'm going to write this off as Photoshop unless someone can provide me with another explanation.

Followup: Yup, it's fake (thanks to reader Eric for the link).

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Gratuitous Gavin Leatherwood

You might recognize him as Nick Scratch from The New Adventures of Sabrina on Netflix.

Not my usual type, but we all need to eat a well-balanced diet.

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Quote of the Day

What angers me the most about the Republican Party's attempts to turn the U.S. into a far-right Christian theocracy is how dishonest they are about it. At least be forthright about your desire to subvert and dismantle our democracy into a creepy theological order led by a mad king." ~ U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Preach, sister.

They'll never do this, because they know the American public will outright reject it. But if they do it under the equivalent of the cover of darkness, like boiling a frog no one will realize what's happening until it's too late.

Fuck the Republicans. Each and every last one of them.

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What a Difference 20 Years Makes

I remember the first time I saw someone using a laptop in a restaurant. I don't remember the establishment itself, but the image was seared into memory and I was completely aghast that someone had dragged his behemoth of a computer in with him and then had the audacity to be working on it while eating. I thought, "Really? What is so important that you have to work on it while you're eating out?"

This was obviously long before our current 24/7, always available society we live in now. My, how times have changed.

Now you don't even bat an eye when you see someone tap, tap, tapping away in pretty much any venue these days. And let's not even start on cell phones.

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Cautiously Optimistic

Like so many others, I was so completely disappointed with the mess that was 2007's The Golden Compass, that I really wasn't all that upset that they weren't proceeding with filming the other two books in the series. In fact, I was wondering how they'd even film them, considering they'd so throughly removed the spiritual aspects of the story in order to make it "family friendly" and not offend  any Catholics in the audience.

HBO, however, seems to be throwing that philosophy out the window, promising to remain faithful to the source material. The series—unseen—has already been renewed for a second season, so the possibility of actually seeing book 2,  The Subtle Knife, on screen looks good.