Update: The artists who created these are Scribe (characters), Emit and the ATT guys

I was in Kansas City this weekend and I wanted to check out the graff scene there. They have some excellent artists that really get up in the downtown area. I took these pics I'm not sure who all these artists are but if you see your stuff here drop me a line in the comments and I'll credit you, nice work. Check out the pics:


















A few more that Lauren took:

So yesterday I got to take my first flight in a helicopter and I must say, it was freakin cool. We flew over Bikes, Blues & BBQ and Dickson St. we also got to see the stadium and some of the mountains around. Check out the pics from the iPhone:

I visited New York City this past weekend and it was an amazing adventure into art, culture, history and so much more. These are a few pics I took, there were over 800 pics I shot in all but these were just a few of my favorites so far. Check back later for the panoramics from on top the Empire State Building and more. Enjoy, and all are copyrighted so don't touch.

So my buddy Bob here at the office entered a photography contest on the JPG Magazine site (http://jpgmag.com/). It's a picture from a while back when we found this old abandoned Resort and tagged the walls. Here is a link to his submission http://jpgmag.com/photos/773124

This place is off of highway 540 and exit 83 headed towards Beaver Lake and the Monte Ne area. If your ever out that way check out the place it's really cool. And check back on the site and see if he wins.

So I've been spending a bit of time developing logos here at Rockfish lately, and one thing that's challenging is not only defining the company by a single mark but also determining a color scheme that compliments it and is both usable on the web and in print.

I've done some research(googled and iphoned it) to see what is available out there for designers to aid in this process and there are several such as Adobe's Kuler tool and Firefox's add-ons Colorzilla, and Pallet Grabber. All of these are great as tools and guides but I was looking for something a bit more custom. I came across an article on http://www.standardsforlife.com/color-scheme-exercise/ that talks about a very creative process for coming up with your own custom color pallets.

The steps are easy:
1. First you just grab your camera go outside or inside and start taking pictures of things, anything, everything it doesn't matter.

2. Then once you have a few you like take the pics into Photoshop and run the filter pixelate on them (it seems crystalize works best for this, mosaic seems to do a good job but it desaturates the color a bit.)

3. What you are trying to do here is isolate blocks of color to create swatches from.  Then build your pallet isolating 5-6 colors to us.

Here is my example from a picture I took this weekend in Hot Springs: