Boom Goes the Dynamite!

Posted on February 25, 2009 by Mike Rankin

This post really is this week’s “Lunchtime Links,” but after Will Smith’s reference to “Boom Goes the Dynamite” on the Oscars, I just can’t help myself. It beyond-cracks me up. I say it and I can’t stop giggling. It’s one of those things that somehow bypasses my consciousness and links directly to the spastic laughter [...]

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Lunchtime Links

Posted on January 21, 2009 by Mike Rankin

Macworld has an article on Twitter for Mac Creatives. I found the comments interesting too. There’s definitely a line in the sand between those who “get” Twitter and those who don’t. As with anything, YMMV, but I think those who complain about the lousy signal-to-noise ratio just aren’t following the right people. Sure, there’s a [...]

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Test Drive A Hybrid Workflow

Posted on April 2, 2008 by Mike Rankin

You never know where inspiration will come from. Yesterday it came to me in the form of a traffic jam slowing my ride to work. Sitting on the commuter bus, mired in “bumpa-ta-bumpa”, I stared out the window. Life on pause. I imagined the lake of gasoline that was fueling all these cars, puffing out [...]

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Family Cookbook 2.0 continued

Posted on March 28, 2008 by Mike Rankin

When we left off with our project, we had transmogrified the cookbook Quark file into InDesign, and a made few observations about the potential work needed to make it the apple of our cross-media eyes. Remember, what we (I) have to work with is Quark Xpress 4.11, InDesign CS3, Acrobat, and no scripting knowledge, Xtensions, [...]

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