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2 of the
bigger projects that I worked on were creating
poster featuring the DeLorean Automobile. The poster on
the left is the first one that I made. It was made
entirely in Photoshop, and with the exception of the
picture of the DeLorean is 100% computer generated. |
| I was cleaning out my
garage and notice there was a section of wall
that looked particularly bare above my work bench. I
decided to try and make a DeLorean collage to fill up
the space. The picture to the right is the result. The
original files size is over 300MB and took 40 11 x 17
sheets of paper to print out. If you want to see
what the poster looks like in the garage, click
here. |
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As well as being a Photoshop person,
I am also a bit of a movie buff. I was checking out Dolby.com
one day and they have a Dolby Digital plaque that you
can buy to hand up in your home theatre. . .pretty cool,
so I decided to make one. The picture on the left
is now hanging up in my home theatre. . .er . . .living
room. |
| I was working at First
Data Corp. in Denver, Colorado in 1998.
They have a big Halloween bash each year with all of the
departments competing against each other in costume
contests. Our VP decided that we should all dress up as
pirates. (I came as a software pirate), and I made
this modified skull and crossbones flag for our
department (NOS - Network Operating Systems). |
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I don't know what it is about
the movie Fight
Club, but I absolutely love it. Anyways,
without going into the plot of the movie too much, the
people in the film have "homework
assignments," one of them involved pasting over a
billboard with a false advertisement. I got such a
laugh out of the message, that I decided to recreate it
(It is now on my wall with some of my other creations). |
| This was by far the most
labor intensive of any of the projects that I
have undertaken. I wanted to come up with a good
Christmas present for my friend Jim. He has 2 passions,
his Pontiac GTO, and Monopoly. I decided to put
the 2 of these together and create a GTO Monopoly board.
I created the board from scratch, filling in the property
pieces one at a time. I then had to create new
money, Chance and Community Chest cards, and all of the
property cards as well. It was several hundred
hours worth of work (but it was also a lot of fun making
it). On the far right, you can see the cover that I made
for the box lid. |
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A little background on this one: Ever
work somewhere with one person who would ALWAYS volunteer
for stuff? "We need someone to work this
weekend." "I'll Do It!" At
First Data, that person was Joe. He is a good guy,
and it's not like he was brown nosing, he was just
always willing to take on his share (and more) of the
work that needed to be done. We decided to put
this to the test one day at a staff meeting. Joe was
supposed to be leaving for vacation, and our manager
asked for a volunteer to come in and work over the
weekend. After a minute or 2 of silence, Joe
finally said that he would do it (even though he was
supposed to be out of town). We then presented him
with a sweatshirt that had the image to the left on the
front of it. (On a more graphical note, I tried to make
it look like stained glass, what do you think?) |
| From a graphics
standpoint I love how both peace signs and
yin-yang's look (I also like what they both symbolize).
The image to the right was a computer background that I
through together one afternoon incorporating both of
these symbols. |
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Number 2 in the DeLorean Poster Series.
The inspiration for this is a poster that was
given to DeLorean dealerships in the early 80's with the
heading "Presenting America's Most Talked About
Car." Like mine, it showed a DeLorean bursting
through a wall of advertisements, and articles. Since it
is almost impossible to find these posters, I decided to
make my own (and update it with new information that has
been published in the last 15-20 years). |
| After making the Dolby
Sign I decided to try my hand at making a
Lucasfilm THX sign as well for my theatre. At right is
my THX sign. Couldn't resist adding the lens flare
in the background (just love hearing the THX trailer
that is at the start of THX Certified movies). |
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