Disappearing Posts? It’s time to start the move!
As hinted at in the past, I am working on a new site. While I have been Urban Bachelorette in some form since 2009, it’s time to step up my site and move to a better fitting moniker. I am proud to announce that as of April 30th, UrbanBachelorette will be fully transitioned to StainsOnThePage. Between now and April 30th, […]
Graphic Design: 2013 Calendar
The newest project I submitted this week, required a themed calendar for 2013. Given vampires as my theme, I couldn’t have been happier with the way they both turned out. Only one was required, but we had to digitize two designs and choose the best to submit, but I liked both and finished them. The one submitted for a grade was […]
Graphic Design: T-Shirt
This project required a t-shirt design with a music theme, two colors plus black, on any color t-shirt we wanted. The idea behind it shows how to design with layers for each color that would transfer to a screen printing press. It was a challenge to think in three colors, but I think it turned out well. I recently discovered a video […]
More of That Takes the Cake 2012
Instead of publishing these in small groups, I decided to share the remaining pictures of these truly amazing cakes with you here. Please click on the small pictures to see a larger slide show as these need to be seen in all their detail. I particularly like the Zombie Bunny at the end, and am considering it for […]
Graphic Design: Logo Project
It’s almost Spring break time and the mid-semester exams are under my belt. My recent project for graphic design entailed designing a logo for a shop using my initials or my name in the title. I chose to do a flower shop and a tattoo shop, and the tattoo shop came out better than the flower shop, so that’s what […]
That Takes the Cake 2012: Dragon Adventure
This year’s That Takes the Cake show was AMAZING! The theme was Cake-a-Lot: Knights of the Turn Table and there were so many wonderful entries. I took so many pictures that I’m breaking this post into a series, so keep an eye out for many more beautiful cakes. This is probably my favorite piece on display this year. […]
Graphic Design: Typographic ID Project
These were the results of my typographic ID project for my graphic design course. Some of them came out very well, while others could have been better. I’m enjoying learning all about design as well as tricks and tools in Illustrator. Allergies and Music made it to the final project. Suggestions from others confirmed my […]
Graphic Design: Negative/Positive Icons
My second project for the graphic design class is negative/positive icons. I had fun with this project, although not as much fun as the project I’m working on (Logo Project) or the Typographic ID project I just turned in. I have to say I dislike the pen tool in Illustrator, but I’m sure with practice I will get better with it.
Graphic Design: Black Boxes
My first assignment for my graphic design class was the well-known Black Boxes. It seems that everyone who has ever taken a graphic design course does this project. You are given 12 words and must use four black squares to represent these words. From the 12 preliminary designs, you choose the four best and create them […]
OpEd: Word Choice and ‘Dumbing’ It Down
I’m sitting in my Technical and Business Communications course and tonight’s topic focused on word usage. In particular, we discussed the ‘Ladder of Abstraction” and how word choice is important in your writing. I understand the importance of choosing the correct word to convey my point. I understand that not everyone’s vocabulary is as extensive as mine. […]
Review: Alice: Madness Returns
Despite being stuck at the bottom of a waterfall for a very long time, I loved the original PC game. I had high expectations of the new version, and American McGee did not disappoint. It took me a while longer than expected to obtain the game, but once I did, there was no going back. The first night I played for three […]
OpEd: SOPA/PIPA and Copyright Law
The world has been up in arms over the SOPA/PIPA bills introduced into the House and Senate. I am against both, and was happy to see them pulled and the support people showed for those opposing it. However, I don’t know how many people noticed that while that was in the forefront of our minds, the Supreme […]
Review: Fry’s Price Match? Not Really.
Let me start off by saying, Fry’s is a great store if you need a computer part. Their staff is usually helpful and knowledgeable, and their prices are competitive. I’ve shopped there on several occasions, and recently purchased some new memory for my computer. If they carried my video card, I would buy it there. That is until […]
Review: Up by Jawbone
I purchased the Up back in December and have used it off and on for a while now. After the initial new gadget happiness wore off, it wasn’t much what I expected of it. It’s basically a glorified step tracker. It doesn’t really tell you how good your sleep is, but it does tell you how long you […]
Review: Kindle Fire
I received a Kindle Fire as a birthday present and I’ve had it for a week now. It’s time to tell you my opinion of it. Let’s start off with my praise of Amazon’s customer service. I received the Kindle Fire on the Saturday before Thanksgiving, plugged it in, connected to the Wi-Fi, downloaded the software update and […]
Wordless Wednesdays — Woman, Umlauf Sculpture Garden, Austin
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Waiting for — Alice: Madness Returns (American McGee’s Alice 2)
I CANNOT BELIEVE I JUST FOUND OUT ABOUT THIS!!!!! How did I miss it? What a fun filled Alice related week this is turning out to be. It seems it was released on Wednesday and I didn’t even know it. But that won’t stop me from obtaining it this weekend and spending some hours loving it (hopefully just as […]
Plinky Prompt: What game show would you like to be a contestant on?
This is an easy one. I would love to be on Jeopardy. Although I’m pretty sure I would get my butt kicked, I do pretty well answering them at home. As a child, we had a Jeopardy game on our Commodore 64⁄128 that I would spend hours playing. I guess my love of trivia and random bits of knowledge are good. Although […]
Status Update First Third of the Quarter
So let’s look in and see how I’m doing on my goals for this quarter: Career: While I haven’t sent out my resume as much as planned, I did land a contract position, and now that I have a few weeks under my belt here, I am going to start sending it out again, updated, in the hopes of finding a permanent […]
