My attempt to draw a skyline is at a standstill. I spliced together 10 pictures that I took while standing on the shoulder of Dakota Drive, just south of 19th avenue north. After a minute of tracing the outline of the buildings in Illustrator I realized I wasn’t going to get much of a skyline. [...]
Archive for May, 2012
Fargo Skyline Fail
Posted: 22nd May 2012 by Alex Amiot in Adobe Illustrator, FargoTags: Fargo, Housing, Skyline
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66% Solar Eclipse Arrives in Fargo on Sunday, May 20
Posted: 17th May 2012 by Alex Amiot in Adobe IllustratorTags: Astro Bob, Eclipse, Fargo, Moon, Sun, Weather
Heads up Fargo, here comes a solar eclipse. If you’re in town (that is, anywhere west of the Appalachians) this weekend, grab your solar-filter glasses and look to the west. No one gets a total eclipse this time, not even the folks within the blue lines on the map below. The moon’s elliptical orbit has [...]
Alley Allure
Posted: 9th May 2012 by Alex Amiot in Adobe IllustratorTags: Alley, Detroit Lakes, Photography
I wish I could smile like an alley. They look good every time. An alley’s desirability increases with its level of decrepitude. Impressive. If each new white hair on my head made me look that much more awesome in the background of pictures, I’d be photo-bombing celebrities like nobody’s business. The architects that designed these [...]
Double-hung mythology
Posted: 5th May 2012 by Alex Amiot in Adobe Illustrator, Wisdom for LivingTags: Alley, Construction, Creation, Detroit Lakes, Window
Andersen, a single window pane, looked out from his frame on the sixth day of construction, thankful to have found his place in the blueprint. He (a man window) let out a melancholy creak as the thoughts of loneliness returned. Other household objects their mates. Andersen’s 3rd cousins once removed, the double-casement windows, came in pairs. There was the [...]
Creating my first animated GIF
Posted: 4th May 2012 by Alex Amiot in Adobe Illustrator, PhotoshopTags: Animated GIF, Technology, Transformer
For years I’ve seen annoying animated sidebar ads on the web that repeated the same 10 frames over and over and over. But how do they work? I can’t explain it, but I’ve finally figured out how to do it. When I saw the animated kid-to-car-transformer GIF below on Facebook I began to wonder if [...]
