Peep in my mind

Warhammer Online is currently having a Squig contest. The contest is pretty simple go download Spore Creature Creator and make your own version of a Squig. Once that is done post it on youtube and submit your entry to war-contests@ea.com. Oh make sure u signed up on warhammer online. Contest ends July 14, 2008.

Here is my Squig entry for warhammer online. I wanted to do a bit more with it but since the free version is very limited this is the best I can do for now. Good luck to everyone who is entering! and here is a link to the video of my Squig.

An animated theme with Cloud from Final Fantasy Advent Children.
Feel free to post it anywhere but please put a link back to “http://peepinmymind.com/” Thanks!

For Sony Ericsson with screen of 176×220 (z610,k610,618,z710,W710)

For Sony Ericsson with screen of 240×320 (k800, W850, k790)

So a friend of mine brought over a bottle of Hpnotiq last night with some warm 7up. Now usually I would be jumping for joy but the Hpnotiq was warm, and I had no ice. But luckily I had some Freezies! So we grabbed some blue and white freezies and mixed it in our drink! and OMG was it ever good! So without further adieu here is my Hpnotiq Freeze recipe.

3 - 4 oz of warm Hpnotiq.

2 -3 Small Blue or White Freezies.

Take the Hpnotiq and Freezies dump them in your shaker and shake it till the Freezie has melted. If you don’t have a shaker just dump it in the glass and twirl the Freezies in the glass. Cheers

Picking the right colors for web design can be hard at times. I know I’ve ran in to those days where any color I pick just don’t work with each other. Or I just ran out of inspiration and really didn’t feel like creating another blue or black themed web site. So I go online like most people and start searching the web for great ideas.

As I go through zillions of site with titles like ” Top site for color inspiration” or ” Picking colors the award wining way” I’ve noticed one thing they all use the same colors “blue, white, black” (yes yes black and white is not a color” but I’m sure you get the point). Any hoot enough of my ramblings and time for the meat.

So here my tip on trying to use different colors. Try using the color explore from Behr, Benjamin Moor, or whatever paint matching application you can find online and start picking some colors. What I like about these applications is that they pick some nice accent colors where you can start working with to generate your overall web theme. Another bonus is that the colors that are generated are nice and soft and easy on the eyes.

Well I hope you all give this a try. With some minor tweaks and adjustment you’ve got a great start on your next web site that is not blue.

I thought I would share with you all one of the best drinks in the world.

1oz Sambuca
1oz Kahlua
1oz Blue Curacao
1oz Bailey’s Irish Cream

1. Pour the Sambuca and Kahlua into martini glass.
2. Light the glass on fire, and start drinking it with a straw.
3. As the person is drinking it pour the Blue Curacao and Irish Cream together.
4. Drink it all till its gone Cheers!

Scanning can be very beneficial in every stage of your design; it can greatly decrease your design time in the early stages or help you through quality control in the latter. Let me give you an example. Say you made a prototype part and you’re ready to create CAD? You could quickly scan your part, start surfacing the data and have your scan as reference to make sure it’s accurate to your real model (imaging surfacing the part above +/- 0.05mm with out any scan data.).

Mid-way through the process hand changes where made to the part/tool. How would you justify the change? You could CMM a few points or quickly scan the object (the part above took 5min) with billions of points it can accurately show what has changed when compared back to CAD.

Oh and the billions of points makes it really nice to see what going on with your part. Hopefully this has been a good intro to implementing scanning in to your product design. The part above took me roughly 2 hours to scan and generate a cad model (Not bad for +/- 20 microns).

1. Download XAMPP you can download XAMMP or light version doesn’t matter.

2. Install in your C drive You can skip the next few steps if you want if you’re not installing WPMU

a. C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\host change localhost to localhost.enter_a_name

b. Go To apache\conf\httpd.conf

c. Change

#LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so
to
LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so

Continue with WP/WPMU install.

3. Download wordpress or wordpress-mu extract the files into your c:\xampp\htdocs dir.

4. Now run C:\xampp\xampp-control.exe and click on start button for apache and mysql.

5. Open your web browers and enter in the url: http://localhost/ or http://localhost.enter_a_name if did steps a, b, and c.

6. Select a language and click on phpMyAdmin.

7. In the Create new database fields enter wordpress and select utf8_unicode_ci and hit the create button.

8. Change url to http://localhost /your_word_press_folder/ or http://localhost.enter_a_name/your_word_press_folder/ in the Database section enter the following

Database Name:wordpress

User Name: root

Password: erase whatever is there and leave blank

Database Host: Leave it as “local host”

9. Fill in your Site Details and press Submit and your done!

1. Create black background.

2. Create New Layer and draw white lines to define shape.

3. Give it a Gaussian Blur (just blur it so that it’s nice and soft and you can still kind of see the strokes).

4. Filter\Other\Maximum to give it some shape for the center of the smoke lines

5. Duplicate the smoke Edit\Transform\Warp and Warp it a little to make it look more natural.

6. Apply a Twirl filter Filter\Distort\Twirl.

7. Adjust the opacity and you should have your smoke.

Another animated theme I made its the shot after the big Sasuke and Naruto fight.

Feel free to post it anywhere but please put a link back to “http://peepinmymind.com/” Thanks!

Download Link:
Animated Naruto Sasuke Z610 or 176×220 Resolution Theme

I recently made this animated Wow Wrath of the Lich King theme for my cell phone and thought I would share.

Feel free to post it anywhere but please put a link back to “http://peepinmymind.com/” Thanks!

Download link:

World of War Craft Wrath of Lich King Z610 or 176×220 Resolution Theme

World of War Craft Wrath of Lich King W580 or 240×320 Resolution Theme