World's First Full-size Lego House

Came across this article the other day... Pretty amazing. Of course, I'm pretty neurotic about having all the same colour pieces!

Happy Earth Day

In light of the all the doom and gloom of the economic down turn, it's refreshing to think that humans haven't lost sight of the things that are truly important in life. So put on some boots and go for a walk, get your hands in dirt, plant a tree or just in enjoy the outdoors. Make a conscious effort to be a part of the solution, not the problem.

Happy Earth Day.

I pitty da Fool

Cruise over to National Geographic and get a brief history lesson on the ever popular April Fool's Day.

October wallpaper calendar

With my fascination with skulls (I doodle them on everything) its no wonder that Halloween is one of my favourite holidays. With that in mine, I made myself a new wallpaper calendar for the month of October. I drew it in Illustrator and set it up in Photoshop. I created multiple sizes to share with the peeps.

So if you would like one, you can download the zip file and select your desktop size.

Download Calendar

eco-geek

Found this over at Engadget…A USB flash drive made from recycled newspaper. Coolness for the eco-geeks.

USB Flash Drive (recycled newspaper)

Happy Birthday Bro

Shout out to my bro Ben.
Have a good one!

And One for my Homie

R.I.P. DT.
We will always love you.

Transparent Gradient in Illustrator

I recently completed some vector illustrations for an up-coming project. Upon review, a friend asked me how I made transparent gradients in Illustrator. Now compared to Photoshop which has opacity is built, this may seem quite difficult to achieve in Illustrator... but using these four steps make it easy.

Step 1.
Create a solid filled object.


Step 2.
Copy and paste the object in front (Control/Cmd + C, then Control/Cmd + F).


Step 3.
Select the solid object on top and make it a gradient from the gradient palette. (Window > Gradient)


Step 4.
Select both objects, now go to your transparency palette. (Window > Transparency)
Open the fly-out menu and click Make Opacity Mask.
Voilà!