You are thinking one of four things:

1. What is Stop and Shop?
2. I already knew the logo changed
3. Really, I didnt know the log changed
   or
4. Why do I care?

Well, you dont have to care…because I do. I grew up on Stop and Shop and the “old reliable Red” and Green circles. I saw them through the 80’s and into the mid 90’s. Sure going food shopping in really boring when youre a little kid, but I was there every week with my mommy. Stop and Shop provided food for all those Christmass’, Thanksgivings, yummy birthday cakes, and pretty much everything I ate for all those years.

Moving from Connecticut to Virginia in 1995 and then things changed over to the supermarket Giant. Both companies are owned by the same business, and so once in a while, there was a stray S&S item on the shelves, and I always got a little kick from that.  Ive only been to S&S a few times in the past 13 years its been since Ive moved, and I can get silly buying items with the logo on it…even taking photos in the store…just to be funny.

Well, now the logo has changed, and I instantly HATE it! Its ugly, does nothing for the name, and I wish it would go away. Im personally bothered that its changed from when I was a kid…I dont like seeing “old reliables” change in any way.

http://www.underconsideration.com/brandnew/archives/stop_and_shop_for_a_new_logo.php

Oh yeah, I did do this cool image for the Delorean Car Show 2010. I forgot to post that here.

http://www.deloreancarshow.com/

I really want to do more design stuff for the Delorean Car show world. It its something I am interested in, and would love to support in maybe the only way I can.

I called someone a year after they emailed me and the number isnt working anymore.

If youre reading this, use my contact form again, and leave an email address.  I totally would have emailed you back right away, but you left a phone number, and I kept forgetting to call.

Well, will the free time I have, I thought to make a new wedding website, this time a post-wedding site. I have plans to make it in Flash, and just a little bad ass, not totally, but I want to try some things I have never done before. Hopefully this will happen. The first part of the plan is to make an image, that the site is going to be based off of.

Here is the image

Its actually not as complicated as I want, but I cant seem to find it in me to make it more detailed. Maybe I should wait a couple days.  Its been a while since I made an image…well, maybe not that long, last one I finished was for the pre-wedding site: here

I was flipping through a graphic design book, and this guy really caught my eye. I love his style, his flow. Its so electric and smooth, items cut out, yet they blend well. Overall, its really yummy to me. I am really into complicated little details in graphic design images.

http://www.hypnoteis.nl/

With my love of all things sassy and retro, I am thrilled to find this studio, right here in Baltimore! http://www.atomiccheesecakestudios.com/
They dress you up, do your makeup, and take saucy photos of you. Oh I want to do this so badly, I probably will by the end of the year.

Holy crap, I happened upon the greatest blog! They point out…obviously, Photoshop disasters. Found in ads, posters, catalogs, almost anywhere. Some of them are just horrible, and I find it hard to believe that any art director would let the images go out like that. Some of them are so bad, Im wondering if its a joke. Either way, this blog is quite entertaining.
http://photoshopdisasters.blogspot.com/

Yup. Done and done.

The wedding was super kick ass. I loved the whole thing. I believe more in the ceremony part than reception part of a wedding, therefore all my attention went to the ceremony, having made our outfits and all that goes along with not being a sewer yet sewing your wedding dress…and not really having a formal reception. Anyways, the ceremony was fun, the “reception” lunch after was yummy, and overall the whole trip was great. Vegas brides rock the house!

My recap of the day

Flickr Photoset

Me featured on “Offbeat Bride”

By the way, my computer did get seriously screwed up. As in Windows failed to completely boot up eventually, meaning that Windows had to be re-installed. I always thought that was the most difficult thing to deal with, but its not…so long as you are able to back up everything you need to, which I did.

But that was a long time ago.

Anyways, next week Im going to Vegas to get married. Ive been busy, busy, busy making things for this wedding. I made the invitations, the website, my wedding dress, his jacket/duster, and other things like my hat, garter, purse…bunch of things.

Of course I will spread around the photos online, and then get back to writing in here as I used to.

Here is a photo of my ring

Oh my god, I can not believe this has happened, but its totally my fault.  Spyware, Malware, Poopware…I got it.

I have run SO MANY different scans on my computer, its been retarded: Ad-Aware, Counter Spy, AVG, Advanced Spyware Remover, a-squared Security Center.  Those did absolutely nothing to stop whats going on.  I have also run SmitfraudFix, and VundoFix. Those two managed to stop a couple things.  I also went in the disable the pop ups for IE, which its annoying to go down for lunch, only to come back to my computer to have 30 IE windows open with bull shit ads.  I wanted to uninstall IE all together, but finding that add-on window for IE and disabling the things helped.

But still, Im getting error messages all the time, (triangle !) pop ups all the time, and various other things popping up to make my day at work that much more frustrating.

Considering wiping my hard drive to get rid of everything, but that has got to be a last ditch effort.  I only wish all the spyware, malware scans worked.  They are totall bull shit, they dont solve a thing.

Either that or what I have is so hard core that the scan miss them.

It just seems that my whole life has been scanning, removing, rebooting, repeating.  For days and days.  In all my years being on the computer, I have never had this much of an issue before.  Never.

Have you ever wanted to design a pair of Doc Martin boots?

Well now here is your chance.

They are doing a contest. The first year they did this was 2006, and the winning design is pretty damn good.

View and rate this years submitted designs

Very simple, which one of these people are computer language inventors…or serial killers.

http://www.mattround.freeserve.co.uk/files/killerquiz.swf  

I was in LA a couple weeks ago (for the closing of the BTTF ride), I was there for 5 days. And while I was there, I literally walked around with my digital camera in my hand, and I took photo after photo. I took over 4 GB of photos when I was there. But managed to come up with 39 good ones of LA, and 23 photos of the Back to the Future Ride, and added them to my flickr account.

I love the plants there, they are so architectural and almost seem to have a reason to be there, and I also love the building architecture as well. So many retro looking styles and treatments. It was rather refreshing for different foliage and buildings to be before my eyes. Funny thing is, with all these photos taking up all these GBs of space on my harddrive, I still feel like I didnt take enough. Typical.

Here are all of my LA photos

Here are all of my BTTF the Ride photos

I spent over a week just poking and massaging at this design I did for my “Last Day on the BTTF Ride” site. Every night last week, I would open the Photoshop file and just move something over a few pixels, change a couple layer styles, poke around…this went on for a weeks worth of evenings. And I just figured that was me telling myself that the design is as good as done. I spent a weeks worth of evenings coming up with a bunch of designs until I created one I liked, and another weeks worth of evenings tinkering with it.

http://beyondmidnight.net/bttf/

Anyways, the homepage is done, built and tested and good. I next am going to build out the inside page.

And then comes the important part, I need content for all these pages. I basically know what Im going to put in the site already, but the hard part is coming up with some way to make it more interesting. Dare I say, Interactive? I just dont know what to do. Maybe I will just have it be a plain site, but I would like it to be a little more dynamic.

MTV and HP are doing this contest where you can design an HP laptop. Design the top/cover, the edge of the screen, and the area around the keyboard.

The theme is vague: “The cause that is most personal to you”. There are templates to download to work off of, and they have other designs already posted to view.

The website is just a little bit wonkey, but the contest is damn cool. I dont know a cause that is most personal to me, or at least something I can make a sexy image out of.

Deadline is Oct 17, 2007.

Maybe I should do one, for poops and giggles.

http://www.mtv-tama.com/