Narrow Buildings Around the World

Skinny Buildings don't look as good as super models.

Seamless Texture - Smiley ;)

Smiley happy people holding hands.... sing it!!! Ok... its really Shiny happy people... but it's my blog and I'll change the lyrics if I want. [raspberry sound]

These seamless textures were created by Patrick Hoesly, and are released under the Creative Commons Attribution license. Download more free textures by scrolling through this blog. Leave a comment if you like what you see.

Seamless Texture - Foam

Styrofoam Cooler. A nice texture for taking that cool beer to the lake.

These seamless textures were created by Patrick Hoesly, and are released under the Creative Commons Attribution license. Download more free textures by scrolling through this blog. Leave a comment if you like what you see.

Seamless Texture - Purple

Miscellaneous purple wallpaper.

This seamless texture was created by Patrick Hoesly, and is released under the Creative Commons Attribution license. Download more free textures by scrolling through this blog.

Seamless Texture - 45 stripes

When you need the 45 degree angle stripes you can't seem to find one anywhere on the web. grrrr. So what is a graphic designer to do? Well make one themselves.... and offer it out to the web for others to use. Simple, but useful.

Seamless Texture - Steps

Stairs and Q-Bert textures.

These seamless textures were created by Patrick Hoesly, and are released under the Creative Commons Attribution license. Download more free textures by scrolling through this blog. Leave a comment if you like what you see.

Johathan Coulton

The music of Jonathan Coulton reminds me of the days I stayed up late listening to Doctor Demento. His music is fun, and refreshing.... ummm... kind of like a coke! So, go over to his website and download a few of his free songs and decide for yourself. Also click over to YouTube for a music video.

Seamless Texture - Blue Dots 2.0

Back when I first started this blog, I posted up one of my more favorite seamless textures, Blue Dots. I decided to kick the tires on this texture and do a few more tweaks to it, and it's sister texture.

These seamless textures were created by Patrick Hoesly, and are released under the Creative Commons Attribution license. Download more free textures by scrolling through this blog. Leave a comment if you like what you see.

810 zone table tv / computer crashed

810 zone restaurant has these near computers at every table. The patron can play games check out the news or watch TV. Not at our table though. Appears a system file for the computer crashed.

Future Crayons and Other Stuff

You got to love the new crayon color names. My favorite is soylent green. Check out more fun 'Future Artifacts'

Air Conditioned Clothing.

I'm not sure if you've been to Arizona in August, but it get &@!!# hot! In my baked state I purchased a neck tie/scarf with gel sewn into it to help keep cool and amazingly, it worked! Ironically, if some of these products were on sale... I might have bought them too... just to stay cool.

• Gel Hat
• Outlandish Clothing
• Cooling Neck Tie
  

Seamless Texture - Cheesecloth

Cheesecloth seamless texture. Mmmm, cheese.

This seamless texture was created by Patrick Hoesly, and is released under the Creative Commons Attribution license. Download more free textures by scrolling through this blog.

Seamless Texture - Dots in Square

This seamless texture is kind of Kandinsky-ish... kinda

This seamless texture was created by Patrick Hoesly, and is released under the Creative Commons Attribution license. Download more free textures by scrolling through this blog.

Test of text blogging.

Seamless Texture - Color Bars/Tile

Color Tile and Bars for the beginning of summertime. Yep, no more snow for the midwest.... at least not for several more months. These seamless textures were created by Patrick Hoesly, and are released under the Creative Commons Attribution license. Download more free textures by scrolling through this blog. Leave a comment if you like what you see.

Seamless Texture - 80's Wall Art.

1980's wall art. Ahh the 80's when zippers were the fad and commodore computers were thought of as cool... well they were cool!!! Also the 80's were a time of wild wall art which today you couldn't give away.... which is exactly what I'm doing. Here is some 80's style wall art for your flashback delusions.

These seamless textures were created by Patrick Hoesly, and are released under the Creative Commons Attribution license. Download more free textures by scrolling through this blog. Leave a comment if you like what you see.

SiFi Building

Designing a building can be easy or it can be a bear. It depends on how descriptive the client can be with how they want their building to look like. I can just imagine the owners of these buildings coming into the architects office and making laser sound effects while playing a CD of star-trek music.

Digital Artist Glossary

Working with digital files, especially 3D models, incorporates a set of vocabulary which must be understood to communicate effectively within the industry. The Digital Art Guild has put together a good glossary of the professional language.

Fast Food Reality Test

Photos of fast food in their marketing shots and reality shots. Yikes!

WebCams and Google Maps mash-up

Webcam mashup to Google maps. Scroll around the map and see where webcams are located. None in the Kansas City area.... at least none from this website. But you can find some Kansas City cams here.

You Tube Full Legth Movies

YouTube has 2 new sections, TV Shows and Movies. Not bad! They even have the 3 Stooges.

YouTube adds a "Shows" button to its main navigation bar, showcasing dozens of officially-licensed TV shows and movies, even if most of them are more than a decade old.

10 rules for buying Apple Products

Seamless Texture - Blue Jeans

Neil Diamond says we are Forever in Blue Jeans Babe!

These seamless textures were created by Patrick Hoesly, and are released under the Creative Commons Attribution license. Download more free textures by scrolling through this blog. Leave a comment if you like what you see.

40 texture tutorials

To Dell, or Not to Dell

What was the question? Oh ya, Dell. A good friend of mine purchased a Dell laptop and... well... has had nothing but grief with the dang thing. See the problem is this.... I own a Dell laptop (Precision M-6300 and before that an M-90) and have heaped praise onto Dell for their great American customer service people and durable computers. she took my recommendation and purchased a Dell... and hates it.

I think the problem exists in how we both purchased our computers (and the issue with Dell itself). See I purchased my laptop from the small business side and purchased additional tech support. I think she got her's from the home section of the website. I knew that the home side had extra software (junk-ware) loaded onto the computer, but I didn't know the tech support was different.

I can understand why the company does this. In order to compete for the low priced laptops, certain things must be cut back. However what I don't understand is why this difference is not disclosed before the computer is purchased. I'm certain that many people would pay a little extra in order to get a higher quality customer service experience.

If you have advice or help, surf over to her site and offer any advice.

High Speed Trains for the USA

President Obama has proposed building high speed train system in the USA. This really is a great idea. Not only will it create jobs designing and building the system, but will create long term jobs for the operation of the network. The tangential jobs will spring up around the train stations.

60 years ago no one would have understood the modern highway system which we now consider normal. 60 years from now I don't think anyone would understand an America without a train network. Too bad most of us wont be around to appreciate the long term plan.... but our children will thank us.

Seamless Texture - Wall

Rendering with the i7 processor.

Seamless Texture - Animal Skins

Abstracted animal skin textures.

These seamless textures were created by Patrick Hoesly, and are released under the Creative Commons Attribution license. Download more free textures by scrolling through this blog. Leave a comment if you like what you see.

Free MP3 Music From Amazon

A large selection of good free music from Amazon. Log onto your Amazon account and enjoy their music.

Seamless Texture - Animal Skins

A few animal skin textures. I've used one of these textures as background artwork in one of my renderings.

These seamless textures were created by Patrick Hoesly, and are released under the Creative Commons Attribution license. Download more free textures by scrolling through this blog. Leave a comment if you like what you see.

Who owns what on TV

Mergers from the past decade have not diversified the media (for the consumers benefit) but rather consolidated the networks. It's no wonder how come all the stuff on TV looks like the other stuff on TV. Ahhh.... progress.
Who Owns TV

Seamless Texture - Easter Egg

Happy Seamless Easter!!!

The nice thing about being senile is you can hide your own Easter eggs.

Q: Why was the rabbit rubbing his head?
A: Because he had a eggache!

Q: How do bunnies stay healthy?
A: Eggercise

Q: Why did the rabbit cross the road?
A: Because it was the chicken's day off.

Q: What do you call a bunny with a dictionary in his pants?
A: A smarty pants.

Q: What do you call a bunny with a large brain?
A: An egghead.

Q: How do you catch a unique bunny?
A: Unique up on it!!

Seamless Texture - Flowers

A few flowers for you just before Easter! No watering necessary.

This seamless texture was created by Patrick Hoesly, and is released under the Creative Commons Attribution license. Download more free textures by scrolling through this blog.

UPDATE: I've remixed this texture and the result can be found HERE.

Glass Sink Cool... ish

Whoooooow... will you look at that. It is so cool, so contemporary, so.... well.... a pain to clean. Really, just because you can have a glass sink, doesn't mean you need a glass sink. I mean, just after one use, it will need the Windex treatment.

Ah well, it does look neat. Does it look like $4,000 to you?

Zombie Survival Test

Take this test to see if you can survive a zombie attack. It short and funny (like one of my roommates in college). Apparently, as I don't own 200 guns and drive a tank, I have a 41% chance of surviving a zombie attack. Bummer!

Also take a look at an earlier post regarding zombie survival.

Seamless Texture - Globe

World Map view of a planet, and it squashed out flat.

These seamless textures were created by Patrick Hoesly, and are released under the Creative Commons Attribution license. Download 'em, Use 'em, Tweak 'em... just please let me know you used 'em.

Download more free textures by scrolling through this blog. Leave a comment if you like what you see.