Van Helsing (2004)

Fun without the painful Brendan Fraiser, Steven Sommers directs a fun summer movie with a cool way to tie classic monsters together in one story and retells their origins in refreshing, unforced ways.

Rat Race (2001)

With an experienced ensemble cast, this movie was wildly funny and an ok movie to turn off the brain and relax. I particularly liked John Lovitz performance, as well, himself in an awkward family vacation that has too many run ins with the local Nazi groupies.

Exporting Individual Slices

After a couple of years of exporting a document out of Fireworks as an HTML page and inserting it in an HTML page where I needed it, I finally figured out a way that I have more control.

I think that most everyone probably already knows this, but if you right click on a slice you can save it individually as whatever you want to name it. Change frames to change the content on the slice, if you have set up rollovers using shared content on frames. If you need to …

Cold Mountain (2004)

The two biggest things that stuck in my mind about this movie, were the music which was really great, and how Jack White was in the movie because he is Renee Zellwegger’s bed partner right now. He was actually pretty good.

An opening scene that was gruesome for no reason and a love that was totally unexplained, interesting in parts but in the end, the point wasn’t deafening. Wouldn’t ever see it again is basically what

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Using the “Fit Canvas” shortcut.

As I have already mentioned, the more shortcuts you can learn as a designer and implement them into your work flow the more productive you can be.

Another one I have recently learned that really helps me along is the rotate shortcuts and the fit to All and fit to Canvas shortcuts.

In Fireworks under the modify menu there are “Fit Canvas” and “Trim Canvas” options as well as rotate options.

I have set mine to Ctrl+Alt+F to Fit Canvas, and Ctrl+Alt+T to trim canvas, the latter of which I don’t use too …

Chapman Trip to Branson – Branson, MO

It was an eventful trip. Temperatures that never dipped below 90 degrees and 100 percent humidity, a van full of women and two men, and 10 hours of driving. That is just about how every Chapman vacation starts.

I was impressed that they could still pull it off after all of this time. All of the Chapman family got together in Branson to celebrate Grandma’s birthday. Her birthday present?

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Column 12 – Part 2

Striving for a love of every detail of life continued……
Dreams never die
The childhood dream surged back into my mind, and I knew the next step was playing in college. At the University of Michigan I made the team as a walk on my freshman year, and believe it or not, played all through college as well. But again, because I stayed so close to home to go to school, I was still able to use my mom to help me pick out the best spikes to wear.

After college, because of …