As if the Udon Photo was not enough, I have three new photos to show you guys! If you’re too lazy to type liang-ge.com and actually visit my photoblog, I’ll just display them here. Hope everybody had a great Happy New Year and hopefully won’t starve to death while looking at these!

Starting out the new year with some wallpaper action. Check out Blossom Storm in the downloads and prints section. Widescreen format and square pixel format are all online. Thank you.

New Feature! //: Case study for Blossom Storm

In case you missed it, Twilight Nocturne novel chapter 1 is online here.

*EDIT* Added a 1024 x 600 wide resolution for some of my dedicated fans.

Happy New Year from dreaminfinity.com. Lots of new stuff coming to this site in 2009 so keep checking back throughout the year!

In case you missed it. Novel 1 (which is chapter 4 of a whole series) of Twilight Nocturne is available here.

I recently noticed that since I’ve been appointed an author on Dream Infinity, I haven’t posted that much here. So I decided to show you a bit of the food photography that has been in session. Enjoy!

The night was hot. A bit of humidity streamed across the air. I sat with a bottle of beer in my hand, with a cigarette in the other. It was a great night to spend outside. I was at Bryan’s house. His kind hospitality during my time of despair and hopelessness was more than I can ask for. It felt good that I was surrounded by someone other than my family. I didn’t want to be with my family. It was confusing how to deal with a death of my grandmother but I didn’t want to be reminded of the ordeal either. I wanted and needed to get away as much as possible.
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We all know what time traveling is. As a matter of fact, there is a stigma on that word stating that only super geeks tend to sit and think about it or sit and talk about it over coffee. However, I believe that it is an important topic to really think about knowing that we might one day be faced with a decision or choice of being able to go back in time.

So who wants to time travel? Are you sure you want to? Read on if you’re interested in what you face with time traveling.

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Merry Christmas from Dreaminfinity.com

A side note. I got linked from another highschool recently. My Illustrator tutorial page got linked on this high school website.

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Being a freelance designer requires you to wear many hats but there are certain hats you MUST wear in order to protect yourself, who you are, and your image as a designer.

1: Before you do anything, make a contract for you and your clients

No matter who it is for, even if its a friend of a friend, make a contract. Of course it’s a bit dramatic to throw a contract at your relative that wants a website or business card designed for their business, however if you do not know the client requesting your services, you need to have a contract. If you would like to use my contract as a template or an sample, you can download HERE. You can even use mine for yourself (just make sure to change the header or delete it so it doesn’t say my studio name on it).

Now I know as designers we don’t want to write a paper, let alone a legal document, however you spending that one weekend afternoon writing up a contract will last you forever. You only have to write one up once, and you can keep using that over and over with making small adjustments once a while to fit the project. It will be worth it in the long run for these reasons:

1) It protects you, the designer, from a client running off with your work. With this contract, you can take them to small claims court. Either way, it will put your client on a moral decision to run off with your work and disappear or be being summoned by a court to pay up (which would make them look bad.)

2) It protects the client and makes them feel safe to do business with you. It also reflects professionalism on your end. A designer who just jumps on a project without any communication of conduct screams “amateur”, and you don’t want that.

3) It helps you get paid. When they sign that contract, they have fully accepted in how the payment is going to be made. Currently I work at 10% deposit at the beginning of project, another 10% at the final cycle of revisions, and full payment at final content delivery. They have to follow this payment cycle when they sign that contract.

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Are you serious?!??!!

I live in a close minded state, but now they are seeking to screw over human rights even more. That’s like giving someone million dollars and asking for it back.

Screw the sponsors who proposed prop 8. I am not gay but I believe in equal rights and this just pisses me off. It makes me mad because it shows how close minded people can get due to religion or homophobia, and this ideology will not shape the world into a better place what so ever. Whatever, ultra-conservatives can go live in an island or something.

Haha… Stumbled on this article, and although it is old, I love how this had actually hit the news. I also very much enjoy when people try to explain non-logical things so very logically.

Huzzah geekiness!

I’M IN UR NEWSPAPER WRITIN MAH COLUM