A Blog Header Retrospective

I've had a lot of fun over the years creating new blog headers in Photoshop. I haven't done a great job documenting where I found each of the Photoshop brushes that I've used, and I've barely documented the fonts at all. I'm sorry. If I used something of yours and didn't credit you, let me know. I take no credit for any of the brushes or fonts, only the photos of my kid and his toys.

JUNE 2008, By Beth of Be Design.


JULY 2008, I used Mythology Vol. I by Centric Studios, and Crack Brushes II by hawksmont, both found on brusheezy.com.


AUGUST 2008, ED01 brush set by KaliJean on PSBrushes.net


SEPTEMBER 2008, v. 1, Dumpster Brushes by Dubtastic Design Labs and Physiology Brushes by Centric Studios, both of which I found on Brusheezy.com. "Astigma" font by Mike Doughty at Mike's Sketchpad.


SEPTEMBER 2008, v. 2, A still from the video for Justin Roberts' "Willy Was a Whale."


SEPTEMBER 2008, v. 3, ED02 brush set by KaliJean on PSBrushes.net


SEPTEMBER 2008, v. 4, I'm sorry I can't attribute the photos better. I think I got them off of a stock photo site, but I can't remember. It was inspired by "White Winter Hymnal" by Fleet Foxes. Here is the blog post that references it.


OCTOBER 2008, Keren's Abstract Brushes Vol. 1, and her Flies as well


NOVEMBER 2008, I lost the attribution info on this one. I still have the zip file, and the brush is called 07_hires_tree_brushes.


DECEMBER 2008, I think this one cam from flina


JANUARY 2009, Cafeina brushes by: archnophobia; Robots and Wires brushes by: Dex Multimedia


APRIL 2009


JUNE 2009


JULY 2009


SEPTEMBER 2009, Frame Brushes by alteredteddybear


NOVEMBER 2009, Splatter Brushes by FlowGraphic.com


JANUARY 2010, Ultimate Brush Pack by axeraider70


MAY 2010, DJ Brushes from brushforphotoshop.com


NOVEMBER 2010


DECEMBER 2010, Street Soul font by Endie

Staying Up Late Enough That I Don't Dream About Ushering

1. The Mrs. said it was too much white.

2. The boy and I have been very busy and having lots of fun, but I haven't blogged much because it's starting to seem like, eh, same old, same old. We did go to Joe McDermott this week:



And the boy danced like a maniac, and we both sweated like crazy:



We also went to Extreme Fun, where he flirted shamelessly with one of the moms. We took Mungo to the Austin Museum of Art. It wasn't the greatest place for him; taking an almost-two-year-old to a place with lots of cool stuff that he can't touch seems kind of mean, in retrospect. But the very touchable Family Lab, and the kids from a school or camp group of some kind that were there, kept him entertained for an hour.

But yeah. We went places. We did things. He's smart and funny and amazing and sociable and I'm proud of him. Blah blah blah.

3. Jamie Foxx did indeed start and finish on time tonight, for which I was grateful. I worked backstage security, checking credentials by the stairs that led up to the stage. I was within inches of both Mr. Foxx and Speedy, his warm-up act. Speedy has a thing for Red Bull, I guess. And I'm not sure why, but I'm always surprised when famous men are shorter than I.

4. I had two major breakthroughs on my "Publishing FileMaker databases on the web via PHP" project today. Hooray! I have to spend the next two days writing more kids furniture copy. Not so hooray.

So there you go. My thrill-a-minute life in four easy steps. Maybe now I can go to bed.

Boo!

I finished my current copywriting project, and my database baby is just sitting around waiting to go live tomorrow, so look! A new header! I used Keren's Abstract Brushes Vol. 1, and her Flies as well. Happy Halloweeny!

Huh?

Fleet Foxes "White Winter Hymnal"

I was following the pack
All swallowed in their coats
With scarves of red tied 'round their throats
To keep their little heads from falling in the snow
And I turned 'round and there you go
And Michael you would fall
And turn the white snow red as strawberries in the summertime.

Justin Roberts Must Die

While I liked my previous header:



I have this little problem: I have had "Willy Was a Whale" and "Pop Fly" stuck in my head on a nearly constant basis, both awake and asleep, for something like a month now. No joke. No exaggeration. I can't stop it, and it may lead to madness. So I had to get rid of my Willy header because if I did happen to get, say, a Modest Mouse song in there for a few minutes, if I looked at my blog it was gone and Willy was back. Madness! Madness! I can't take it anymore!

The new one was done with the ED02 brush set by KaliJean on PSBrushes.net, another brush set by the same person who made the parking sign. I'm much more satisfied with my photoshopping "I, Rodius" into this one than I was that one.

Hee hee! Fun!

Fun With Headers

This was my first attempt at a header:



I liked it, but I discovered that I also liked messing around in Photoshop. I don't really know what I'm doing, but it's fun. So I played around and made this one with the ED01 brush set by KaliJean on PSBrushes.net:



It made me chuckle. But where I photoshopped "I, Rodius" into it is pretty obvious, so that was kind of bugging me. And I got the feeling Aerie didn't really care for it. She didn't say she didn't like it, she just said she didn't "get it."

So I put up another one that I made a couple weeks ago using Dumpster Brushes by Dubtastic Design Labs and Physiology Brushes by Centric Studios, both of which I found on Brusheezy.com.



The font is called "Astigma" by Mike Doughty at Mike's Sketchpad. Mike Doughty also happens to be the singer from Soul Coughing who I nearly got to meet backstage once, but didn't. I don't get the feeling it's the same guy, though. I think I may have overdone it with the physiology brushes, but oh well. I still like it.

So, sorry if I'm annoying you with the headers. I'm a kid with a new toy.

First Try

My first try at making my own header. It's kinda fun! Not thrilled with the text portion, but I ain't had a lotta time. I used Mythology Vol. I by Centric Studios, and Crack Brushes I by hawksmont Universe, both found on brusheezy.com. I could waste hours and hours playing with that stuff.