Recently, I ran across this video of An Ha Lim on a French cabaret show on youtube: First, let me explain what you SHOULD be appreciating. It doesn’t matter if you know how this is done. What matters is the skill and showmanship of this piece. An Ha Lim, so far in my viewing of …
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Update: The kickstarter campaign ended, so now this is on indiegogo: Daytime Ghosts by Steven Langston on indiegogo: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/daytime-ghosts-by-steven-langston/x/2618584#/ I had written the first chapter of “Daytime Ghosts” a while back and filed it away for a future project. Today, I decided to try to get the novel funded via kickstarter. I put the first …
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Kickstart This!
I have been toying around with the idea of a mobile slot game that would allow you to insert your own images as the pictures on the reels. (Just because I would love to play a Spongebob-themed machine!) So, it blossumed into a full-on app design. Of course, my first thought was to attempt to …
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My campaign got a couple of backers, so I felt it was time to attempt a logo. I also wanted to visualize the “swirl” slice, so here it is: Kickstarter for Xack’s Original Ketchup Slices
Trying out yet another Kickstarter for my ketchup and mustard slices. No more messy burgers! Like roasted tomatoes? Throw a ketchup slice on your burger right before it comes off the grill. Check out the Kickstarter and donate to make this new product a reality! Xack’s Ketchup and Mustard Slices on Kickstarter
This HBO documentary about the life and art of Edith Lake Wilkinson initially got me to watch by saying that she was put into an insane asylum and never heard from again. As I have mentioned before, art from “insane people” is usually the best, so I was interested in seeing what kind of demons …
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A few weeks ago, I came up with the idea for learning a new language by reading a familiar book with words replaced/translated, sparsely at first, then, by the end of the book (hence the name of the website: http://bytheendofthisbook.com ), the text will all be in the new language. I started an example on …
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I was implementing slick slider on a page with 2 sliders and was attempting to get adaptiveheight to function, and it would not work for either one. I went through all the js files, trying to find a hard coded height and couldn’t. I started playing around with the CSS and voila! Found the offending …
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I was watching The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack again and came across a comedic method that I had not defined nor noticed before. I will call it breaking the 4th wall unknowingly. Here’s what set off about 10 minutes of laughter for me. K’nuckles was in drag and pretending to be the figurehead of a …