I was asked to produce the cover art for the upcoming Ajammination self titled debut album. The idea was presented by Stan Pleskun, founder and lead singer of the group. He wanted a big shiny text logo hovering over the earth with lightning and fire all around. I produced a bunch of sketches and a preliminary but here is the final result.
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Okay, it has been up off and on for the last several months but now it is officially launched. I will be improving on it as time goes by, but for all intents and purposes it is done. Anyway, I figured that I should announce the launch officially right here on the blog.
I used WordPress for the blog, obviously. The site structure was easy using the 960 Grid System (12 column layout). I used jQuery Tools a fantastic, easy to implement Javascript library to spice things up a bit.
I have quite a few more projects to add to my work portfolio and I will be creating another section where I will post my experiments and other work that doesn’t quite fit in the work section. Keep checking back for that!
Take a look around and let me know what you think! - www.vir2osodesign.com
Here’s a 3D render I completed quite a while ago. This was mostly an experiment. I wanted to re-create an image that I had seen on the web, customized for Vir2oso Design. This image was modeled and rendered in Luxology Modo with some post-processing done in Photoshop.
Sprinkle Vir2oso Design Seasoning liberally on your next project. 
Just a quick post on how cool the new Content Aware Fill feature in Photoshop CS5 is. It saved me a lot of work removing cars from a photo as you can see below. All I had to do was select the area I wanted to effect and chose ‘fill’ with the content aware option selected and, voila!
I know it won’t be this easy every time but this is one amazing tool that I have already gotten my money’s work out of.
Everyone who owns an Apple laptop and uses a MagSafe adapter understands that they can be a bit fragile. After some time the thinner cord at the intersection of the “power pack” can become frayed and the adapter stops working. I have had to replace mine three times in three years, but to be honest part of the problem was the way that I handled the adapter. I pack and unpack my laptop two to three times a day and, in the past, did not always take the time to wind the cord and store the adapter properly. That would have helped with regard to the life of the adapter so some of the blame for the failure rate falls on me.
Apple has recently updated the design of the adapter. Whether or not the changes will help with regard to this particular isssue will be seen in time. I still feel though, that the cord is not very sturdy and having to be sooooooooo careful with it is a bit of a pain.
That said, the last time I needed to buy I new cord I tried to go cheap. I found a vendor on Buy.com advertising new, not refurbished, brand new 85w MagSafe power adapters for around $50.00 plus shipping. This seemed like a great deal so I went ahead and bought one. Below are the pictures of what I received from the vendor.
Needless to say I was more than a little miffed.
The good news is that the vendor quickly refunded the purchase price of the item as well as the shipping costs (after some not so subtle coercing). The bad news is that, as my first Buy.com experience, it has soured me to the entire site. I receive emails with all of these great deals on Buy.com but I am too scared to take advantage of them. I could be missing out on some great stuff but, this one vendor made Buy.com look so bad in my eyes that I am not willing to take another chance by purchasing from another one of their vendors.
Again though, part of the blame falls on me. I tried to go cheap at the price and get a deal that was too good to be true. Even the refurbished adapters I have found online cost $55.00 to $60.00. I should have know that anyone telling me they were selling a brand new one for $50.00 was not telling the truth. I bought a brand new adapter from an authorized Apple reseller near my home. It cost me $79.00 but, you get what you pay for.