By kristianne, on January 27th, 2009%

I have been studying a book titled ‘Digital Foundations-Intro to Media Design‘ by Xtine Burrough & Michael Mandiberg to prepare for the Digital Foundations class I will be teaching at CSUF this semester. I am completely redoing the curriculum for my course based on this book which is a huge change from my past textbook. I . . . → Read More: misconceptions
By kristianne, on January 23rd, 2009%

I guess it’s blue water cruising in training at our house. Once again we had water damage. This time it was in the art room. The room where all my photographs, family photos, Jim’s paintings, the vintage poster collection and all our art supplies are kept.
Yesterday, at about 10am, I had diapers in the washing machine . . . → Read More: our house leaks like, well, a boat
By kristianne, on January 22nd, 2009%

On Wednesday, Maureen, my friend from grade school invited us over to their awesome pool. Maureen and I have known each other since 3rd grade. We got into all kinds of fun ‘trouble’ off and on throughout the years. We spent a lot of time playing in the surf at the beach near her house in . . . → Read More: a second generation of trouble
By kristianne, on January 22nd, 2009%

Merrik continues his amazing maturation. I don’t know if it’s first born syndrome, new big brother traits, personality or what but Merrik just seems to be growing up so fast. There are certain things that have blown me away and that I never expected as a parent.
I wasn’t even going to start talking about potty training . . . → Read More: merrik never ceases to amaze
By kristianne, on January 21st, 2009%

I have been laying out a fine art monograph of my images of Polynesia using Blurb‘s Booksmart. I am curious about the printing quality so I have created a book about our trip to Portland last December to share with Merrik and Maliea’s cousins, Holley and Cameron. Check out the book here to see what I . . . → Read More: blurb
By kristianne, on January 19th, 2009%

I have been playing with some fun Creative Commons textures in Photoshop from Essence of a Dream. Here are two different images with the same texture used two different ways. I like them because they are fun but I don’t like them because they are so trendy. I am trying to figure out a way to . . . → Read More: textures