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Kurt Griffith and Fantastic Realities Studio is a career creative pro, with over 25 years of experience as a Graphic Designer, Illustrator, Production Artist, and Art Director.

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The Page is Turning…

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The $999 MacBook fades away. It's been fun. Over the past week, Apple released a full version upgrade to Mac OS, Mac OS 10.7 Lion. Roars, apparently. They also released new computers and an updated, Thunderbolt-enabled display. There are new Mac Minis, and a very impressive and aggressive update to the MacBook Air. Apple’s pretty [...]

Magical…

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Click above for Large Image (900 x 600 px) “Ook ook ack! Eeeeeek! OOOK!” [Trans: "My God, it's full of apps... " ] I usually don’t repeat subjects, and I JUST reviewed the iPad2. But sometimes a marketing campaign can trod over the same raw nerve so many times before one has to spout off [...]

A Look at The iPad2:

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Apple iPad2 – in Black and White. Thinner. Lighter. Faster. FaceTime. Smart Covers. 10 Hour Battery. Original Image: Apple Been A little while, I’ve been working, and that’s a good thing if you’re a self-employed designer. I also broke my ankle back in August while camping, so been recovering. So blogging a slightly lower priority [...]

A Week with Windows

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An intruder has infiltrated the Samurai Art Director's castle…. In which we bring a Windows 7 laptop into a house with three Mac workstations. As anyone who reads this blog is well aware, as a Creative Professional, I am a Mac user. Now I have to lead in with the total disclaimer straight off. I [...]

Games, Geeks and getting Pwned in HALO.

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My Typical HALO:REACH experience. Photocomposite and Illustration: Kurt Griffirh. Source renderings: Bungie This time around I am going to drift off my usual design focused view of the world of technology and creativity. Today I am going to talk about video games. Say what? Yes, this irascible and opinionated almost-an-old-timer is going to venture into [...]

Mac Pros. Mac Users?

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The current Mac Pro update disappoints actual pro users. Image: Apple Computer Apple recently released, after over a year in waiting, an update to their Mac Pro line of tower configuration computers. They introduced the Westmere line of the Xeon workstation processors and now a version with 12 computing cores is available. But for many [...]

Just How Much Design is Worth It?

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Tweaking Bleeds in InDesign for the Tri-fold Cut Line. Yes, I'll explain… For openers, I have been reminded that if I want to keep people’s attention with a blog, I actually have to POST, at least more regularly than I have been doing. The current occasion is the Hudson Valley Business Edge 2010 Conference, an [...]

Why CSS Matters – Living in The Petri Dish.

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Taking Print content to the Web Yes, it’s been months since I’ve posted here. And haven’t been that active in my Live Journal or Facebook pages either. The Studio’s been busy, folks. And have been shoving a number of projects through the house.  And when you’re a self employed Creative Pro, paid bookable hours trumps [...]

Gettting Face(book) time.

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Some of you may, and some of you may not know this, since I haven’t talked about it here. But I do have a Facebook account, then of course, like any good Design Pro, I have a Page for the Studio. And as more of my clients ask about *gasp* social networking, I have to [...]

End of the Snowpoaclyspe.

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No Snow Days This is going to be a pretty random post. Deal with it. But I’ll try to say something of interest. In the interest of learning more about using the WordPress back end, I had to apply myself to digging under the hood in the tech realm of server file permissions. Look it [...]

So. The iThing is a Pad

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The Tech Media geek out over the iPad at Apple's Event – Photo c|Net So, actually taking a moment from my labours to toss of a few thoughts about Apple’s latest foray into the world of cutting edge consumer computing. Rumors and hype over Apple’s tablet computer fried up the wires on the Intertubez for [...]

Why I dread Fridays

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Fridays always make me nervous. Almost all of the catastrophes I have had the most trouble to manage materialized on Fridays. Usually at 4:45 and needing to go to press by the end of business, and the printer that usually closes at 7pm, closes at 5:30 on Fridays. And of course doesn’t have an FTP [...]

About Those Ink Delivery Systems…

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This time, takin' on the wee beasties… Sorry I haven’t posted in some time. The Studio has been very busy with work and my personal life collided with the business. My wife suffered a dislocated and fractured shoulder at the beginning of October. So I have been taking care of her and doing a lot [...]

Video Odyssey

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Image size, Standard NTSC vs Broadcast 1080i High Definition Image source: RDP Video Productions I know I haven’t posted in a while, but I’ve been busy. Being booked solid is a good thing for a freelancer. Being booked solid while having a number of real life issues… not as comfortable, but comes with the territory [...]

Getting at Your Web Stuff

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HTML code in Text Wrangler. Want a piece of this action? Hello everyone who may or not be paying attention. I know it’s been a while but I was a bit distracted by some very consuming system issues with my workstation. But that cautionary tale is a subject for another post. Seriously. Cautionary. Tale. But [...]