I Needed an Evil overlord

A to-do list that threatens me when I’m lazy

I’ve been playing around with “to-do” apps on my phone, and I think i’ve just found my favorite. It’s called CARROT. She’s a simple little to-do list that you play like a game. When you finish tasks you get points and level up. Each level rewards you with a joke, or a strange link, or a plot point in some strange story where she buys you a Kitten and treats it according to her demeanor. If you lazy, she gets mad. She also has a personality that’s a good mix of HAL from 2001, and GLaDOS from Portal.

New Trick: Setting up a Green Screen

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I’ve been struggling with a way to translate my work to t-shirt graphics. For this type of printing I need a transparent background, but thinking of all the hours I would waste drawing photoshop paths around huge chunks of the composition make my stomach turn. I decided to use a trick, stolen directly from video artists, to solve the problem of creating a transparent background; a green screen.

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I find myself listening to all kinds of stuff when I work. Mostly, it’s music, but sometime I stumble over something helpful. 

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This episode we delve into contracts. Sounds boring right? If you answered “YES” you obviously don’t take this very seriously, so go elsewhere if you’re looking to be inspired. We breakdown the essentials on how to make a clear contract that makes your life (and your clients) much easier. Stay crucial!