Courtney & Cocoa 

Courtney is modeling one of my sister’s scarf designs. She makes scarfs by hand and they are quite warm.

If you liked yesterday’s video, here is one of the 4th Annual Texas Frightmare Weekend Zombie Walk.

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Playing around with some my photos from one of my favorite Texas Frightmare Weekends. Enjoy.

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Christmas Lights Bokeh

After Black Friday and Cyber Monday, I feel all that I have left is just some spare change.

Pregnant Zombies are hot

… for costume ideas.  Amanda Fite original costume design from the 2009 Texas Frightmare Weekend Zombie Walk has been very popular lately. The photo above has already over 5,300 views on Flickr, many within the past couple of weeks.

It all started when Paintypaintpaint on the whattoexpect.com forums commented that pregnant zombie costumes are “the absolute worst.” And it looked like Amanda’s costume for zombie walk was a perfect example. People just couldn’t click that link fast enough. 

Now, the Mental_Floss Blog posted that pregnant zombie costumes are one of the “10 Brilliant Halloween Costumes” for 2011. Miss Cellania wrote that Amanda’s costume “stood out from the crowd.” I would have to agree.

As to those wondering how to create the costume, amanda mentioned in a comment on a previous image that the belly was made from a “half of a big styrofoam avocado.” As for the baby, it has a “cauliflower for brains.”

Steve Jobs (1955-2011) by Ian Aberle.
Based on the photo by Albert Watson.

Think Different 

I’ve never meet Steve Jobs.

The closest I’ve ever come is standing a few feet from him as a crowd gathered around him after a Keynote during MacWorld 1999. It was at this Keynote that he was introduced as the iCEO. Here we also had a demo of his great showmanship as he rolled out a wall of about 50 iMacs booting from a server and running a movie, plus this year they would come in colors. I was again at MacWorld 2007 when he announce the AppleTV and, of course, the iPhone. “An iPod, a phone, an internet mobile communicator…. these are not three separate devices!” was how he announce the iPhone. I remember being disappointed. I was there for hardware, not a phone. Where’s my new MacPro. Little did I know how much that little device would change things.

When I visited the Apple Campus in summer of 2007, for my first and only time, he was unavailable as he was having an “Oprah moment” and announcing to those at the Apple campus they would all be getting free iPhones. “And YOU Get a iPhone!”  Alas, everyone but the visitors.

Many will talk about how he changed Apple and the world with Apple devices, but he helped to “push the human race forward.” Through Apple, Next, Pixar, and Apple again, he had “no respect for the status quo.” Steve Jobs, and those at the companies he lead, have taken great leaps forward and inspired industries to move forward or be left behind.

Remember “the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who actually do.”

“You talkin’ to ME?” 

We were shooting some new headshots for the office the other day and someone just had to pull out the Hulk mask.

Partisan Fail by colarusso on Flickr.

From The Atlantic: “Inspired by the debt ceiling standoff, Flickr user David Colarusso drew the adaptation of Twitter’s Fail Whale, which pops up when Twitter’s servers are overloaded and its services down. Colarusso uploaded it nearly two weeks ago, on Jul. 12, when debt-limit talks looked depressingly mired, but perhaps not as depressingly mired as they do today.”