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Free Stock Image No#3 (WAS $0.00 NOW 70% OFF) October 21, 2009
Free Stock Image NO#3
Abstract | Spark | Light Effect
Free to use and abuse, just don’t peddle it off as your own
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Fully Sick Illustrator Tutorial Cartoon October 19, 2009
Oh dear rather crass and fully anti-design styled cartoon tutorial about custom patterns etc for Illustrator featured on blankbots.com
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Free Stock Image No#2 (I Must Be Rich/Drunk/Pirate?!) October 15, 2009
Free Stock Image NO#2
Free to use and abuse, just don’t peddle it off as your own 
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Free Scratched Metal / White Paint Texture
Free Stock Image No#2
Free Stock Image Just For You Freeloading Camera-phobic Freaks October 15, 2009
Hey Puppies!
I thought i would spread the love and give you some freebees
First one is a neat light effect stock image for you to have… (taken on bus in rain long exposure…) looks like lightning.
I surrender it you for fun, educational, commercial use. Just don’t go selling it on or claiming you took it
If you do make millions off of it or find it remotely handy… please have a look around my sites as payment (hahaha your soul is mine!)
Free Spark Stock_1 by democrazy
keep your brain peeled for more soon
New Shirt in Competition – Check it out or vote and you could win your very own Ninja Swim Suit Model October 12, 2009
one eyed eater of souls - Advanced Capitalism as told by a 7 year old
A shirt of mine in a competition needs your votes, its up on Infectious.com they do sweet vinyl prints for cars, walls, i-phones, laptops, i-pods etc and also skateboards, shirts etc pretty cool just to have a look around at the crazy talent…
I should really stick up some more close up detail shots, there is a lot of little things in there including:
Army men, Wizards, RPG Elves, trapped souls, New Zealand, obnoxious aliens etc…
Please click on image to vote or just be nosey… (you will have to sign in to infectious.com or use your facebook profile ) much much much thanks…
This is SATA! – Hard facts about hard drives September 30, 2009
Hard drives are cheaper than a 3 pack of socks these days…
There is no excuse not to buy a bucket of them… buying them is the easy part, actually installing them and using them is a little harder (not hard like getting a driver for your Audigy 2 sound card tho…)
SATA, ATA, WTF?
Like everything hard drives get faster and cheaper… new techy parts are added blah blah blah. What you need to know is “will this new neato hard drive work in my computer?!”
If you have an older motherboard you should check if its SATA or ATA… (they don’t plug n play nicely with each other… like USB and Firewire) SATA is the newer kid on the block shes faster and has less messy cabling… your power supply and motherboard need to have SATA for it to work as the power supply for SATA is also different…
Space / Installation
Another consideration: Does your computer case have any room for another drive?
First of all check were your original hard drive is? Most of the time there is another bay there to slot in another drive… make sure its got a few cm of breathing space for air flow purposes (heat is a big thing to be aware of when modding and adding to a computer ;D ). If there doesn’t seem to be much space a good trick is to have a look at the other drive bays (eg. where the disk drive is /was or if you have a second DVD/CD bay). Then its just a job of screwing them in place… you want them to be moderately tight (stop vibrations or movement damage). Some drives bays (eg. some Dell or good gaming cases etc) have other means of installing which can be dead easy requiring no screws / finger wounds…
Also you will need for each new drive:
A power cable and a data cable (going to one of the sockets on the motherboard)
Also something to consider is types / length of cables…
You will obviously need to install them somewhere where both cables can reach the hard drive (duh)
Often power supplies have more than one power connection per cable so if you have two drives close by they can daisy chain off one cable…
You can also get right angled plugs etc for SATA if its in a tight spot right up against the case lid etc…
50% Less Electrocution Sale!
Ok something to think about is static electricity in regards to your shiny new drive and computer components… try scuffing your socks on your carpet and randomly touch all your computer components… see how now they are all dead? Yes the lesson here is static electricity is a computer component killer.
You can go out and purchase a star trek looking anti static wrist band and be the coolest geek on the block or failing that just be sensible and when ever you touch computer components do the following:
Make sure you turn everything off, don’t do any modding or installations on carpet in socks (i am guilty of this), touch the case or ground yourself on something before you touch anything… sweet…
Turning Your Turtle of a Computer into a Ninja Turtle on Crack
Hey here is an idea if you have a little bit of money… buy a large cheap 500 – 1000 gig drive for all your files and an expensive nice smaller drive maybe a solid state one for your operating system. Check out reviews online for a good one (they can be rather expensive)… this can speed up your start up time by a crazy amount and boost your overall performance by an uber amount… having no moving parts makes them quiet and quick…
WTF IS RAID?
Yes i could go on to explain RAID etc but there are much better resources on this side of things out there…. go explore monkey…
EXTERNAL ORGANS
A lot of the info i have given really is more relevant for people with larger cases and most likely PC computers, i-macs etc may not have the space inside for an extra internal hard drive.. But what about an external drive? These are great.. you can tote them around swap/steal data of other people etc.
There are many kinds, some are powered by usb etc others have there own power supplies you have to plug in… some use USB, some use ESATA or Firewire etc… There are two sizes for the drives 2.5 or 3.5 (internally 2.5 is for laptop and 3.5 is for desktops… Shop around.. you may find it cheaper to buy a the case and the drive separately.
Things to think about:
- Do you have a spare USB, ESATA or Firewire port?
- Is having a drive with its own power supply a problem? is the case the same type as the drive? (a mistake that is common is that people buy an external enclosure that is ATA and then buy a nice new SATA drive that wont fit in the external enclosure)
- Is noise a problem? Cheap external drives are often more noisy, prone to vibrations and even may cause interference (plays buggery with the TV reception)
Now go fill up that new hard drive with: Crap pop music and porn…
New Shirt – Top Of Game – Colour September 27, 2009
- Click to learn more or even buy the sucker…
Expect to see a more mature greyscale version soon
All shirts are available on http://www.redbubble.com/people/o0odemocrazyo0o
Creative Projects saved my life in freak electrical towel scenario September 24, 2009
Rant over Coffee with Guest speaker: Austin Alder Altbutton
Creative Projects, saving Graphic Designers bacon since a while back:
Building a portfolio, having evidence of mad skills, standing out, can and is a hard thing to accomplish. Especially if you are cramming that baby full of your regular 9-5 work. Going to a job interview equipped with your terribly exciting 10cm x 4 column newspaper advert for “Mens Clinic Discount Bonanza” ? Trying to woo a company with that lovely branding you did for that colour-blind accountant who wanted his pet dog incorporated into the logo? Yeah it can be hard proving you have creativity as well as showing work that reflects your style and areas of interest…
Thats where I find personal projects come to the party, be it:
- Learning a new program through making a project – A great way to learn programs like flash is to jump into the deep end and make a little game, movie whatever (Use tuts off the interweb to help…)
- Entering a competition – shoes – t-shirts can be a really good selling point in a portfolio (you don’t have to win, they just look sweet and legit on them contest templates)
- Making a sweet poster or art piece etc (go nuts creatively, get out all that junked up imagination)
- Keep all your doodles / tattoo designs / shopping lists / Haiku / Just not those angst poems you wrote at 15…
Adding in this kind of work to your portfolio, that reflects your skills, style and personality will hopefully help you land that sweet job! Just you remember me when you are up there in your sweet new studio looking down on us peons (not pions thats a type of pine tree, with edible seeds, native to Mexico)…
Mmmm time for another cup of crank….
Custom brushes in Illustrator in the time it takes you to leave the toilet seat up September 24, 2009
Bam! You have got exactly point three of a second to make a custom brush in illustrator!
Make a splotch, a scribble even scan in your favourite pet and vectorize it… then just select it and throw it onto the bushes palette… it’ll ask you what kinda brush choose New Art Brush on a whim and then bam! (thats two bams in one post) you have your own brush…
You can use this in many many ways… go explore.. scan in some scribbles, ink splotches, spray paint, crayons, whateva… Trace them in illustrator…Enjoy…
