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Subtle Stylesheet Tweaks for Mobile Site

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On the mobile version of my WordPress website, I made the subtlest stylesheet tweaks — adjusting the date text a few pixels to the right to align with the title text, resizing the comment box so that it fits on the screen, adjusting the whitespace ever so slightly.

Most of the world will never notice [...]

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Making an “Annie” Promotional Video

My good camera is out of commission… there was a class action lawsuit against Canon for the “lens error” flaw in the camera I bought, so perhaps I’ll be able to get it repaired for free. I volunteer doing PR for a local theatre company; while I was sitting in the waiting room during my [...]

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Shatoetry iPhone app lets you put… words… in… William Shatner’s… mouth

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William Shatner and technology go way back, but it’s taken him until today to get his own smartphone app. Then again, he is a man known to take long pauses. Dubbed Shatoetry, the new app (iPhone-only, for the moment) lets you string together a variety of pre-recorded words — each with three different versions — [...]

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Cover your Backside with B-roll on Vimeo Video School on Vimeo

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Great resource.

Cover your Backside with B-roll on Vimeo Video School on Vimeo.

Now consider this:

We Got That B Roll!!

 

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After e-literature, there’s no going back

What is with the five-year-old photo illustrating this story that was published yesterday? That Kindle is ancient.

Born digital describes works that are created with a computer and are meant to be read on the computer. They’re not works that you print out. The computational aspect of the work is part of its aesthetic and [...]

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The Best Halloween Costume Is a Robot Halloween Costume – Atlantic Mobile

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Awesome robot costume is awesome.

The Best Halloween Costume Is a Robot Halloween Costume – Atlantic Mobile.

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Star Trek The Original Series

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Amazing mural. Amazing.

 

Star Trek The Original Series by *dusty-abell on deviantART.

 

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Comic book heroes lift spirits, fight grime at Children’s Hospital

Great photo, awesome headline.

Comic book heroes lift spirits, fight grime at Children’s Hospital | TribLIVE Mobile.

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Churning Out More Non-profit Arts Promos

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As part of my volunteer work for a local nonprofit arts group, I make promotional videos for online marketing.

Thursday I was sitting in the waiting room during my daughter’s ballet class, when the artistic director asked me to interview the new ballet mistress. I went and got some video of my daughter learning that [...]

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Omaha schoolgirl dresses as a different historical figure each day

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Voilà, she is Billie Holiday, in a black dress with a red tissue-paper flower tucked into her strawberry-blond hair.

Behold, she is Grace Kelly in pink satin lace on her wedding day.

Poof, she is Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, wearing a hat her aunt got her in Vietnam.

The [...]