Easter egg tutorial. If you’re a beginner at Illustrator (like myself) these instructions are not step-by-step. The author assumes you know how to to do certain things and you’ll have to play around the controls to figure out what he did exactly. This would have been a much easier tutorial if it was just, better written. So…..good luck.
Yeah, another one of these tutorials and I’m gonna look for a new job/project.
Tutorial from Transfuschian.
The hardest part about this tutorial is cutting the extra lines before you apply color to your background. It took me several hours before I figured out the perspective and which lines I had to cut. Tip: select the letter on which you are removing extra lines, and if none of the back lines extend into the space of the letter on the right, then you’re done. If there are lines that do extend into the the letter on the right, select the path of the line, and cut the parts that are in the next letter. That was probably made it more confusing but it’s easier to show than to tell.
I got lazy with the mesh grid so the highlighting effects didn’t turn out very well. A tip for this step: make more grids with smaller spaces so you can control the color and highlighting effect better.
On a side note, because of the futuristic theme of the tutorial, I had the “Space Oddity” (Cat Power’s cover of David Bowie) Lincoln MKZ commercial stuck in my head while I was working on this.
It only took me four tries before I got it somewhat right.
I had the most trouble doing the radial gradient. I couldn’t quite get the lighting effect right and in retrospect probably should have applied some opacity, I dunno. The color of the tiles on the disco ball isn’t to my complete satisfaction either, but I got to the point where if I edited it any more, it would just look more crappy. So I stopped. And this is what I got.
HAH! I knew it wouldn’t last long. This system was doomed to fail from the beginning. This little, expensive clear card ($100) was in concept, a frequent flier’s dream come true; it was supposed to let you smoothly bypass the security lines and speed up the security process before approaching your gate.
It would have actually worked if the six week approval process w/background check actually let you bypass the whole security thing entirely, but all you get to do is go to the “head of the line” (like you’re in high school) and then wait in a shorter line to load your carry-on luggage onto the belt, strip your body of all things metallic and walk through the metal detectors sans shoes.
Fail.
Project Natal what? This is exactly the type of technology Xbox and Wii are lacking in order to bring motion sensor accelerometers to gaming, in particular FPS.
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Some of the things I’m currently in love with. Highly likely to change next week.
Author: Jose Saragamo, he is the author of Blindness and writes about ordinary life struck by fantastic situations
Boutique: Club Monaco, they just announced 20% all merchandise with valid student ID!!
Skincare: Pevonia, amazingly affordable for spa-like treatments (pampering not included)
Magazine: Smashing Magazine, an online magazine with everything you need for graphic design
Music: Cat Power, she did the cover David Bowie’s “Lift Off” for Lincoln’s MKZ commercial (too bad it wasn’t a full recording)
Style: Anything light and airy in fabulous fabrics, bohemian with an edge (think Alexander Wang’s pocket racerback tanks in silk, or Haute Hippie)
Restaurant: Boccato, located on Wilson, has delicious gelatos; can’t speak for their coffee or tea but it smelled good. Opens late too, perfect for summer nights.
seriously, i think this is the first time i’ve upgraded my jailbroken iPhone software successfully without having to do it more than one.
no fail here.
UPDATE: before i upgraded, i did a last-time sync to retain the most recent data from my iphone. i noticed that i only had 4GB free and thought to myself “oh, i guess i really did use almost all 8GB.” just now, while updating from a restore, it said 14GB free storage…. which reminded me that i have a 16GB iphone, and not the 8GB. UBER FAIL.
Get the Facts is an attempt to promote Internet Explorer 8. It contains a chart that compares IE8 to Firefox and Chrome. Needless to say, IE 8 comes out as the clear winner, with MS suggesting it is the only browser to provide features like ‘privacy,’ ’security,’ ‘reliability.’ It even claims to have Firefox beat in ‘customizability.
YIKES.
Some comments worth mentioning:
“Actually, the ‘customizability’ advantage comes from the fact that IE can be quickly customized by third parties, online, in real time and without even needing to notify you.” -Thanshin
“You know what’s not nice? Having to write in my freaking javascript if(IE){ do tons of fucked up shit } else { everybody else’s predictable behavior }. You know what else isn’t nice? The scourge of websites that will forever taint the web because you couldn’t get your shit together for IE6 and then you let it fester for years.” -eldavojohn
“They’re using the definition of fact that says: “fact : a statement accepted as true as the basis for argument or inference ” The catch is, it’s biased people at MS who “accept it as true” on the “basis for [inherently flawwed] argument or inference” Microsoft is becoming infamous for these bogus get the “facts” campaigns, which are really marketing attempts to use Microsoft’s truth to distort common belief, replacing the facts with MS’ contrived point of view.” -mysidia (so true, reference MS’s PC campaign)
I’m sorry, I usually don’t like to complain -on my blog- but I can’t hold it in any longer.
IF YOU DON’T KNOW HOW TO USE A MAC IN A WINDOWS ENVIRONMENT, THEN DON’T.
Our company has recently upgraded our mail servers from Exchange 2003 (?) to Exchange 2007. While my company hands out IBM ThinkPads to every new hire on day one, some people have opted to use Macs instead (myself being one). But when the mail servers started getting upgraded to Exchange 2007, tons of people were having trouble getting Entourage to work and couldn’t get their inbox functioning.
WHAT A BUNCH OF FUCKING IDIOTS.
Not only did I get about 15 emails every day for the past week with the same dumb question “has anyone experienced problems with Entourage since the Exchange 2007 upgrade?” but NO ONE seemed to know how to fix it.
And I’m referring to people more senior and older than me who are asking these questions.
Well I finally had my mailbox upgraded to Exchange 2007 tonight, and you know what? NOTHING CHANGED. You know why? Because I wasn’t using the webmail link to receive email in Entourage. I was connecting *directly* to my mail server. And if you can’t figure out how to do this, you’re shit out of luck.
It is amazing how any of these people are getting paid more than I am.
