Last year was a good one to remember; a year filled with challenges and disappointments, serious milestone moments for family, for the kids, Kris and me, my siblings, my friends, my colleagues, the world. But I wonder, as 2010 already pours itself over me like torrent (have ten days of the new year passed already?), [...]

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A piece by David Ellis, who works in a technique he calls “motion painting” in which he captures his painting process with digital time lapse photography.

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Ernesto on June 13th, 2009

Drawing pictures with the kids this morning – here’s mine.  I guess reading the New Yorker’s summer fiction issue this week has got me imitating a certain style here…  And no, I haven’t gotten any writing done yet this weekend.

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I just finished writing my 100 page (102, really) screenplay in 30 days. So this is going to be a really short blog post. I decided to take on the ScriptFrenzy.org challenge for a number of reasons — none of which had to do with me having free time to kill.  In fact, I have [...]

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Ernesto on April 5th, 2009

In keeping with my note a few days ago regarding PC World’s 10 Business Lessons Learned from Battlestar Galactica, I came across this post by Michael Arrington on the TechCrunch blog today: “Grok This: Forget The Business Books, Go Sci-Fi To Stoke Your Imagination.”  Arrington says of business books that most “are a chapter of advice [...]

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Ernesto on March 4th, 2009

In my visual design projects (no chortling from my artist friends and colleagues, please), a wide range of stock photos certainly speeds things along.  Sitepoint just twittered a link to a list of 30+ free stock photo sites they’ve posted. Sweet.  Also of note are the two free stock photo search engines listed:  http://www.everystockphoto.com and http://www.openstockphotography.org. Note [...]

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Ernesto on February 28th, 2009

Leafing through old (very old, these days) notebooks from college attests to the fact that I was back then (and occasionally still am) a doodler. Which does not mean I wasn’t paying attention in class. In fact, the secondary task of doodling can demand just enough cognitive function to keep the mind more attentive to [...]

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Smashing Magazine has a great collection of free wallpapers designed for the iPhone designed by some amazing creative artists.  But even though Smashing Mag’s inspiration was the iPhone, which they refer to as an, ahem, “magical masterpiece”, these 320×480 pixel pieces of art work very well on the LG Dare (the phone I use) as [...]

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Ernesto on November 8th, 2008

Help Im flod.
I know how this creation of Sofia's (as captioned by David at her request) feels… I am too. Help! Then again, who isn't? On a different note, I love that David [...]

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Ernesto on September 30th, 2008

A New Hampshire-published dark literary fiction magazine, Shroud, just signed a four-year distribution agreement with Ingram Periodicals.  Great news for Shroud — exciting to see new fiction publications succeeding.  And no, I'm not just happy for these guys because they published one of my stories. But that made me happy, too.  Press release within.
Shroud Publishing Signs [...]

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