FlipSide5 games are now available for purchase
At long last and with great anticipation, the Apple App store is now a reality. And it’s that reality that has me excited to finally see the FlipSide5 games finally available for the public to purchase. It’s not that I had never believed it would happen, it’s just that as a web designer, I felt cheap by building a site for things that didn’t really exist until now. Now it’s official; you can click the button and the iTunes app is launched and you are taken right into the Apple app store. It’s a pretty neat feeling, being part (a small part) of something this big. So of course there are a few changes to the site, most notably the refreshed graphics that now show the iPhone 3G. But there are now some new products on the site too; Touch Tennis and Touch Hockey. Apart from their banner graphics I had nothing at all to do with the artwork on these (was already made available to me). I wish FlipSide5 all the success they deserve. Uploaded with plasq’s Skitch
FlipSide5 4InARow Touch on page one
Oh yeah! How cool is that? My artwork can be seen on page one of the “All iPhone APLICATIONS” page of the Apple App store in the new iTunes. Let that be a lesson in naming schemes, lol, always start your product names with a number. 
It is seriously an honor to have worked with FlipSide5 through all of this. I really feel that seyDoggy has been part of everything going on with iPhone and not just watching it. Uploaded with plasq’s Skitch
Turkish Wedding
Exactly 1 month after the wedding day I’ve completed the color balancing to a fantastic Turkish wedding I had the honor of shooting. The data contained on two CD’s has been mailed priority post to the other side of the country where I hope the results will be enjoyed for many years to come. Congratulations once again to the lovely bride and handsome groom. Uploaded with plasq’s Skitch
It's the whole package that counts.
Sometimes it’s not the big things that make all the difference in how a company is perceived as either professional or amateur. Sometimes it’s the littlest, nearly overlooked details. A perfect example of this is how a DMG is put together, or how an installer is skinned. This is how I came to find myself killing a few hours today by rebuilding all of the most recent update installers for seyDesign theme updates.
Some time ago, seyDesign.com became the first RapidWeaver theme developer to use update installers to deliver their theme updates in the form of an application that installs only the changed components as opposed to distributing the entire patched theme to end users. seyDesign.com recognized that many users, having had made many modifications to their themes, or having added bits and bobs to their themes innards, did not appreciate all of the work involved in returning their theme to their custom state. Update installers avoids many of these troubles, most of the time.
Being an early pioneer of these practices I hadn’t taken a whole lot of time to learn how to make this process my own, instead, treating it as a utility, not another opportunity to spread corporate identity. Since the seyDesign 2008 relaunch, however, I knew that the time was now to make things pretty, to follow suit with the look of the site.
Next up I’ll be rebuilding all of the theme DMG’s to look just as good.
Turkish Delight
I have been working for a few hours going through the fruits of a recent Turkish wedding I had the honor of shooting. What took my breath away more than any other aspect of this wedding was the beautiful, ornate dresses worn by many of the Turkish women. All of them with stunning patterns and lavish colors. As you can see, this young beauty stood out with what I can only describe as nearly the most beautiful dress I have ever seen, second only to that of the bride. Uploaded with plasq’s Skitch
OMG this hurts!
I went camping at Pinehurst Lake and all I got were these stinking bug bites! LOL, man am I allergic to mosquito bites or what? And this is WITH bug spray! Each and everyone of the bites on my feet turned into a blister, and three of them got nearly as bad as the the gruesome monster under my ankle. Thankfully I work from home so wearing shoes is not an issue. Wow am I ever itchy though. I REALLY wish I could scratch these! Uploaded with plasq’s Skitch