So, a few months ago, I came across this video of a 5-yr-old's perspective of some famous logos. It is, of course, very cute, and some logos she knows or mentally connects with person events. However, it got me thinking about how That video lead me to look at some other interesting videos on logo...
Continue reading ...We often hear that the average American reads at an 8th grade reading level (shameful, that). Most newspapers, I believe, are even written as low as at a 4th grade reading level (painful statistic). But, what does that mean, and how can you know the level at which you are writing? You could have you...
Continue reading ...As a child, I was an extreme Legomaniac, extreme I tell you. i'd spend hours and days building intensely detailed and large vehicles, structures, creatures, etc. When I got more into my teens, I still had my Legos and ended up making more functional things: phone holders, bowls, a guitar stand, etc....
Continue reading ...I’m thinking most of my readers of the "new" blog are writers to some capacity. That is to say, I’m betting you’re sitting on an incomplete draft of some novel, article, story, academic paper, etc. While it’s relatively easy to get (re)motivated by some conversation, epiphany, read, etc., I'...
Continue reading ...I came across goanimate.com, a cool site that lets you make your own professional animated videos. There are a ton of backgrounds, characters, themes, etc., and you have much freedom to change how it all looks. It's all drag-and-drop for storyboarding, and then you record your own audio. And the ch...
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