Finally! my handwriting = custom font.

http://www.yourfonts.com/

Make Your Own Handwriting Fonts For Free

YourFonts.com is a FREE online font generator that allows you to create your own OpenType fonts within a couple of minutes. Go make your own handwriting as a font!

• Your own handwriting turned into your very own font for free
• Optionally include your signature
• You’ll have your very own font within 15 minutes
• Make as many fonts as you like
• Use your fonts on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux
• Personalize your digital scrapbook pages
• Make your own “family handwriting history”
• Use your fonts in Microsoft Word, PowerPoint and every program that you own
• Make fonts that cover one or more of the following languages:
  English, French, German, Dutch, Italian, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Polish, Spanish, Portuguese, Basque, Estonian, Faeroese, Frisian, Irish, Galician, Hungarian, Icelandic, Albanian and Esperanto.

High Quality Personal Handwriting Fonts

YourFonts allows you to upload large templates (up to 4000 x 5000 pixels) and it has the most advanced raster to vector conversion algorithm. Together this results in unbeatable high quality personal fonts.

Free Photoshop Course.

The guys at Creative Techs are having a multi-week Photoshop webinar for 1,000 participants starting at 2pm today. I am enrolled and about to start the first course on tool shortcuts, and interface. For more information, on this class and others, visit Creative Techs Tips Blog.

or just register now:

https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/944277320.

Free Online Image Editing- and it’s good.

Sumo Paint is a new (at least for me) online image editing tool that looks a feels a lot like Photoshop. If you never have a need to use it (i.e. you already have CS4) I would still give this a look, it’s pretty impressive for a web tool. Brushes, layers, filters, wand tools, cropping, its all there.

Female Republicans are pissed about Newsweek cover.

I have seen some recent broadcasts about the anger over the recent Newsweek cover of Sarah Palin. The adjoining article, entitled, “The Palin Problem”, paints a very negative picture of the folksy VP candidate. The sub-headline of the article reads, “Yes, she won the debate by not imploding. But governing requires knowledge, and mindless populism is just that—mindless.” Click here to read the article.

Take a look at the Newsweek cover below and judge for yourself it it was appropriate for print-showing Palin in 100% real lighting, real close sans Photoshop.

An important question to ponder, “Do we want leaders who are everyday folks, or do we want leaders whounderstand everyday folks? “

Furniture for my candy-coated dreams.

“Jellio is about combining childhood fun with interior design. It’s placing a few memories in your home, in a very unique way. Jellio home furnishings are a reflection of your sense of humor, and a great way to keep your memories close all throughout the day.

Bottom line…we make things that make you smile!”

This Brooklyn-based company cooks up some fun pieces that bring back memories of playtime and pre-school.

http://www.jellio.com

Turbo Gene Test- Gorgeous site.

Click here to check out the Turbo Gene Test, from agency Lowe Brindfors and Saab. 

Gorgeous site, sound, and movement, and creativity. Take the test, and see where you end up.

Hump-it-out.

Busy day folks! I went from producing a Spanish ad for a Latin NYC paper, to rushing around Chelsea trying to find a embroiderer/seamstress to make a custom patch for a pro-Boxer, to depositing my tax return and Vespa Sale money! (jello Trip fund for me!)–and finally on to more elusive plans that I cannot tell you about at this juncture–but know this, it will be great. Definitely defeated the boredom of hump day, and helped release the doldrum memories of yesterday. Now I am on to creating a webpage sample of photos of a sailing trips to be possibly used on a website/collateral for Shearwater Sailing.  

Then I want to go through my cousin Kori’s wedding photos to send them out to the fam. There are some great shots there and most of them contain family members that have not been together for several years.  It was a special time and almost served as a beautiful family reunion. My cousins are spectacular. Oh and can I say that Ashton Gardens is the most gorgeous wedding chapel I ever knew existed? Bravo Kori for the idea, it was transcendent. Harp music, sunlight, trees, flower petals, *tear.

Well-on to jump the B (or Q) home. Does any other New Yorker out there try to beat their commute time everyday? I am always in competition with the fastest commute time home, I can’t help it. It keeps things interesting for sure, I thought it was mostly a guy thing. The best time I have done is 35? Lets shoot for 34 today. Oh, and I’d love a seat, too.