April 29, 2012

iwanna iPad

I bit the bullet and bought a iPad last week.  I am a big fan of Apple, so I don't know what took me so long... oh yeah- the price tag! Now I have a $600 toy for my children. They are obsessed with it and the house is silent when they are using it. I can't stand to see them sit for long, so they are limited to 1 hour a day (is that too much?)

I plan to share some great iPad finds here, under "iWanna iPad". It is so easy as a blogger to keep all of your cook stuff in one place- so as much as this is for my audience (do I still have an audience?) it is for me. 

iWanna iPad: Wallpaper
iLikeWallpaper: You can search by category, purity (no bikini clad ladies), date or color. Here is my favorite retina display wallpaper from iLikeWallpaper:

Not strictly a wallpaper or Mac site, but Make Use of has a beautiful feature on retina wallpaper from March 29. Most of these are photographs that take you to Flickr. To use the picture, you have to select the original size and then "view image". Here is my favorite from Make Use Of:

13 Beautiful Retina Display Wallpapers from OSXDaily.  Here is the one I love:

You can search Flickr for iPad wallpaper- your search would be something like "iPad retina wallpaper (2048 x 2048)". Be sure to read the copyright info before you download or use a photo. Here is my favorite from the mentioned search:

This is the wallpaper on my iPad... it is safely protected behind an eighty dollar shatter proof case that is covered with jelly finger prints. Thank goodness I can enjoy all of that high def retina display!

April 27, 2012

Thank You Pic Monkey

Ever since Picnk passed to the other side, this is how I have been feeling:
But, today, I finally got out there and went on a date with PicMonkey. Yes, PicMonkey.
I was nervous at first... it took us a while to get use to each other, but after a few drinks, (okay, it was Diet Mt Dew), it was like we had been together forever. Picnik? Picnik who? 

My first PicMonkey creation:

This is a quote from the chapter called "Lost Girls" in Rot & Ruin...

April 9, 2012

April 2, 2012

Robot & Butterfly

The AMAZINGLY talented Mr Jones created this stop motion video with the students.
The story of one little robot and the adventure it goes on to capture its muse: the butterfly. Animated by the K-6th graders of Lemme & Lincoln Elementary Schools as a year long project in the art room. Over 10,000 pictures were originally shot, and 200 sounds recorded to be edited into the final movie -- all student made.

Fortune Wookie?

Guess what comes out this August?
Details:
*Goes on sale in late August.
*Will include instrux for Fortune Wookiee, Han Foldo and maybe something else…
*Yes, Dwight will be in the book!
*The Fortune Wookiee you see on the cover was created by my wife Cece Bell, who is an amazing author/illustrator and is now an official SuperFolder!

I actually found out about this title on Jay Asher's blog! Check out this great post about how these two authors connected to make kidlit magic!