FUBARgenre: The Genre of Fubar

I haven’t talked to, nor heard from, Pio in over 4 years. That’s a long time for two people who claim to be friends.

Gen showed me this interesting Time article about flirting. Odd that it came from Gen of all people; odder still that she thought of me when she read it. Hello! Subtle, much?

I truly apologize for the 48 or so hours that this blog has been down. I wasn’t monitoring my stats, and I was unprepared when the traffic suddenly spiked. I apologize for whatever inconvenience this may have caused you. I will do my best to prevent this from happening in the future.

Here are a couple of rough design ideas using dark colors for anyone who might want to customize a Mimbo layout.

Midnight Makoy is a 3-column, widget-ready free Wordpress theme with an attractive dark color scheme, and is compatible with the Gravatar and Pagenavi plugins. You may temporarily preview it here.
Midnight Makoy started as an alternative design for the Himantayon Pro theme, which I created for Himantayon.com back in August. I used more or less the [...]

What can you do to fix a poorly defined background in an otherwise great portrait? You have a wide variety of options, but the quickest (and easiest) way for me is to desaturate the background to make the foreground stand out more.

Changing skin tones and manipulating portrait colors in photoshop seem to be the craze these days. And I’ve been doing it for the longest time without really any conscious effort on my part. But I’ve been asked to write this basic photoshop tutorial, so I will attempt to retrace my steps.

Okay, my last Photoshop Tutorial was 8 months ago. I would apologize, but it would sound empty. Really, I’ve been busy. A lot of people have brought this oversight to my attention, so I’m resuming my photoshopping documentation here - starting today.

You know him as the dark, imposing figure who walks the earth as an entrepreneur, a savvy player with a keen sense for the intricacies of the game. But at odd hours and at heightened tides, he becomes possessed with the rhythmic, pulsating beat of his soul, the music emanating from his body in long, ardent chrysanthemum explosions.

This took me forever, I know. But I’ve been busy. Extremely so. After a long and eventful ride, I’m finally saying goodbye to my beloved Dark theme to pave the way for this Mimbo-based magazine layout.