Here are some free Grunge Textures that I found on Deviant Art. In being a Photoshop user I'm always looking for different resources to use or manipulate in my graphic work. So with this being said I would like to share it with others so that they may do the same.


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We as people have creative minds. We are always looking for ways to market ourselves when it comes to our business. So whats that first thing that comes to your mind? Well your business card would be one aspect of your business. This is how we market ourselves while we are out and about mingling with others. So what could make your business card stick out. While here are some ideas of creativity for your next business card.


Metal card. Doubles as a cake cutter.


The message is very important if you're going to
bear the extra cost of laser cutting or die-cutting.


Card that grows little plants when placed into water
made for a gardener.


Come up with a fun die-cut.


Make an 3D plastic card

Who doesn't like a business card that turns into a chair.

You can make the holes big enough so you can put
your fingers through to complete the picture, like on
this card for Yoga classes.

This is just funny. Vigra haha!

Lastly watch this video "Your Business Card is Crap".

This weekend I got a chance to see a Nikon S60 camera while at a fashion show. I hadn't seen this camera before. The first eye catcher for me was the full on touch screen. I'm a sucker for technology with touch screens. They have a better ease of use in my view. So I did a little homework about it because I am interested in purchasing one. Here some info on the Nikon S60. Tell me what you guys think. Do you know of any other really cool touch screen cameras? Leave a comment.

10.0 Megapixels for stunning prints as large as 16 x 20 inches. Sharp resolution captures the finest details, crop creatively and produce incredible enlargements.

5x Optical Zoom-NIKKOR Glass Lens NIKKOR optics provide exceptional pictures. NIKKOR lenses are built on a proud heritage of producing precision camera optics that delivers superb color and razor-sharp results.

New, Amazing, Bright 3.5-inch High Resolution TOUCH PANEL LCD offers 160º Wide-Angle of Views enabling easy access to all the camera controls without the conventional buttons to push. The anti-reflection coating applied to the touch panel enhances viewing even in bright light.

Customizable Touch Panel Display enables easy operation with a choice of three different Home displays, and you can even write a personal message on your photos with the included stylus. Conventional buttons, with the exception of the on/off switch and the shutter release, are all accessed via the touch panel making it easier than ever to access all the camera controls.

New HD Pictmotion Slide Shows lets you create slide shows with your music for play back on the camera, your HD LCD or plasma television.

High Quality TV Movies with Sound is now just a press of a button away with your COOLPIX. Record TV-quality movies with sound; duration is limited only by the available space on your SD/SDHC card. Connect your camera to your TV and you have instant home-movies.

Available Colors: Crimson Red, Espresso Black, Arctic White, Burgundy, Champagne Pink and Platinum Bronze.

Much more options and features

I came a crossed an interesting website called reverse graffiti.com. On this site it explains of an artist and a film director coming together to create an environmentally friendly work of art and a film about a philosophy of clean. The artist Paul "Moose" Curtis created his work of art with the use of stencils and water pressure.



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San Francisco’s Broadway tunnel is a highly traveled thoroughfare in the heart of the city. Over 20,000 cars, trucks, and motorized vehicles pass through it per day. Its walls are caked with dirt and soot, and lined with patches of paint covered graffiti from days gone by. It set the perfect canvas to create a beautiful work of art showcasing the talents of reverse graffiti artist “Moose”, and the power of Green Worksplant based cleaner.

So I was playing an intense game of Chess last night with a friend in which I lost. While I was playing this game, I was thinking about some cool chess sets that I have seen online lately. Here is a couple that I have come upon.

Insect Chess Set

Alastair Mackie has made a chess set in which each piece encapsulates a single suspended insect. The white pieces are represented by flying insects.

Platonic Chess Set

Inspired by the chemical elements of carbon molecules, this cool futuristic looking chess set features peices made from the five platonic solids, except for the queen which is made from a spherical fullerenes or buckyball. This a sweet looking Paltonic chess set that I would like to own. (hint: to anyone that wants to get me one)

Glowing Onyx Chess Set

There’s something almost eerie about the Glowing Onyx Chess Table. The table is backlit with a soft glow through translucent onyx creating a hazy checkerboard pattern on the table. To really add to the effect the pieces are glass allowing the light to pass through them as well. Although I don't know a lot of chess players that like to play in the dark. I could be wrong though. It still is a cool chess set.

Chess Set 4000-FM

Flat doesn’t have to mean boring with the stylish planar pieces of the Chess Set 4000-FM. The pieces are made from soft calfskin leather and the board of pear-tree. Distinctly designed, the pieces slide into the board, firmly holding their place as you make each calculated move. $9790

Wobble Chess Set

The Wobble Chess Set allows for more interaction between the board and the pieces. Motion is added to an otherwise still game. A concave landscape stabilizes freely quivering chess pieces, creating a lively interaction between board and pieces.


Alice Chess Set

A chess set that features pieces that “magically turn transparent” when they touch the board.Inspired by the Lewis Carroll's novel ‘Alice through the Looking Glass,' designer Yasmin Sethi developed a chess set that features pieces that "magically turn transparent" when they touch the board.

Carbon Fiber F1 Chess Set

If any Formula One racing fans have never paid any attention to the much slower paced game of chess, they just might after seeing this amazing set. Made from actual parts of the F1 Renault car, the Carbon Fiber Chess Set includes all sorts of parts and materials. Some of the parts used to make this chess set include the suspension, hub caps, wings and more. The set includes a wide range of strong materials like titanium, stainless steel, aircraft grade aluminum, leather and of course carbon fiber. $50000.

Now after checking these out you couldn't tell me that you wouldn't want to play an intense game of chess on one of these chess sets. Let me know what you think. Go ahead and leave a comment.

Introducing Zoho Show 2.0: The online tool for making powerful presentations.Whether you are a professional, a teacher, a student, a businessman, a salesman or anyone looking to put together a cool presentation. Zoho Show's pre-built themes, clipart and shapes coupled with features like drag-and-drop makes it an easy application to use.

Here are some of the features of Zoho Show

• Access from anywhere, anytime
  Access, import, edit and share presentations from anywhere and anytime
• Sharing and Collaboration
  No more emailing around of presentation files. Share your presentations with your friends/colleagues and the shared presentations can be viewed/edited with just a browser.
• Present from Remote
  Give a presentation to a client who is half a globe away. Do your demos while at your seat.
• Embedding
  Make your presentations public. Embed them in your blog or website for easy viewing of your readers.More
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And now for the best part - Zoho Show is completely FREE for personal use.

I have used this application a couple of times for school projects. Here is an example of the application and the presentations.

Mum is an experimental Icelandic musical group whose music is characterized by soft vocals, electronic glitch beats and effects, and a variety of traditional and unconventional instruments. This band has been a favorite of mine for a long time. Mum's songs are strange, beautiful and saturated with an unspecific melancholy. Their sounds can definitely soothe and excite your inner being. Mum has been an inspiration for many people including myself who enjoy the creativity of finding new ways to portray our sounds of music.

On that note, Mum will be releasing its fifth album "Sing Along to Songs You Don't Know". It is set to be released on August 24, 2009. In the meantime while we wait patiently for the new album. Let's listen to the sounds of old and the inspiring sounds of previous Mum CD's.

Discography
Yesterday Was Dramatic - Today Is OK
TMT 2000
Mum Remixed
TMT 2002
Please Smile My Noise Bleeds
Morr Music 2001
Finally We Are No One
Fat Cat Records 2002
Summer Make Good
Fat Cat Records 2004

If you want to follow Mum you can find them here.

As you all may know Twitter is a social site in which you just update your status on a constant bases. So when people come across your Twitter page you want it to look cool. Right? So in the process of making my Twitter page personal I came across this site. Twitterbackgrounds.com a premier site for Twitter backgrounds.

Twitterbackgrounds.com is a bunch of guys who love twitter just like you, and their working hard to build the best Twitter background site around. They have 58 pages of different Twitter backgrounds for FREE. They also have a personalized background where you can upload up to 4 pictures and you have a choice of 8 different backgrounds. They have a custom choose as well but that will run you about $79 bucks to have one made.

I have personally used this site and found it super easy to work through. It has you log into Twitter from their site to upload your new background. It even tweets that you used their site:
"pdragon65Just got a personalized twitter background at http://www.TwitterBackgroun...less than 10 seconds ago from web".

So go and get yourself a new look for your Twitter page.

Dave Bazan fronts the enigmatic rock band Pedro the Lion, with his emotionally charged narratives, and mournful voice. Pedro the Lion first started off back in 1995 and they released their first full-length record, the intimate, charming “It’s Hard to Find a Friend.” back in 1998. I found this band back in 2003 and have been enjoying their sounds ever since. Although in 2006 Pedro the lion parted ways and Dave Bazan continued making music under his own name and he recently signed to Seattle-based record label Barsuk Records. He’s currently working on a new full-length album to be released in 2009.


Headphones, a project led by David Bazan, formed and released one album shortly before the dissolution of his primary creative outlet, Pedro the Lion. The band's sound is marked by the use of synthesizers and live drums and percussion, sometimes drawing comparisons to other indie rock electronic groups such as The Postal Service. If you want to check out the sounds of headphones check them out on Myspace.