Cereal Killer Photoshop Series

Posted by The Mind of Nate | Art, Photography and Design,Random Thoughts | Sunday 29 November 2009 3:08 am

I got bored and decided to start making photoshops of different breakfast cereals. I call them the Cereal Killer series:

Here are the ones I have finished so far. Check back later to see even more killed cereal boxes!


Crack, Smackle & Pot
High & Krispy



Bust o Nut Ondeeshos
Can Help Lower Cholesterol!

Cap’n Munch
Munch-a-tize Me Captain!



Toke a Puff
Chocolate Flavored Weed Puffs

More to come!

Have an idea or made your own cereal killer photoshop? post it to the comments below!

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It has been awhile…

…….since I have posted to my wonderful and random web blog.  So I decided today that its time to create some more adversity amongst my readers.  So without further adu… adou… adubt…. a-doo… (how the hell do you spell it!)

………………………………!!!!???!???!?!??!?!??!?!

Exactly…

so now on to more pressing matters…

Haven Meadows (dot) com…

YES go there, check it out!  See artwork like THIS:

CLICK IT!  You know you want to….

And now to more things you should click:


Both of them need to be updated but I’ve been busy!

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Sorry guys,  go check em out anyway!  Good stuff there!

While your at it, have you seen the items I have for sale for local pickup or delivery in the Austin TX area?

just go to:  http://www.assetrenew.com

Check out what is available.

I also have a new idea for a business building online stores for people.  Wanna know how it works?  Need an online store for yourself?  Then Contact Me for more info! :)

Ok… so what other projects do I have going on right now…

Oh yeah!  Have you heard of Liquid Media Lab?  or Waveform Lasers?

(click the links)

ok….. what else, what else…

oh yeah!  I have a new camera!


The Panasonic Lumix G1 is the world first Micro 4/3 Lens Camera.

“What does that mean Nate?”

Well, in all older SLR cameras the camera had a mirror box that would reflect what was seen through the lens up to the viewfinder so the photographer could look through and capture his image perfectly.  With the Panasonic Lumix g1 this mirror box was removed and replaced with a small lcd screen.  This allowed the SLR to become much more compact.

Now there are two companies that have adapted this new lens standard.  Olympus has been working on a micro 4/3 point and shoot while Panasonic has come out with the Lumix g1 (and also the GH1 that has the ability to shoot HD video)

So now I have this beautiful new micro 4/3 SLR camera that I can go out and take amazing photographs with as well as do professional photo shoots.

Interested in hiring a photographer? videographer?  graphic designer?  web developer?

CONTACT ME

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New study shows that lesbians…

Posted by The Mind of Nate | Random Thoughts,The Path To Enlightenment | Sunday 8 February 2009 2:31 pm

Lesbian Kiss

A new study today shows that lesbians increase web traffic by 250%  They are also fun to watch!  Thats right, nothing gets people to your website faster for a few seconds to oggle (not google) a picture of two beautiful girls wrapped in each others embrace.  Isn’t it cute!  You know, last night I realized that there is an abundance of lesbians in the world today.  Thats right, there are a LOT!  In fact there are very few girls I have EVER met that haven’t fooled around with another girl or were atleast “bi-curious.”  So I begin to wonder, why are there so many gays and lesbians today.  Have they just always been around and only been accepted recently?  Or could it be that us men have just been jerks to too many undeserving women.   This is a possibility, but my theory is overpopulation.  Thats right OVERPOPULATION.  Mother nature (Gaia) knows that there are too many of us.  The planet is grossly overpopulated and if everyone keeps reproducing there isn’t going to be much room left to breathe.  So mother nature in all her wisdom found a simple solution to make some of us stop reproducing.

So next time you see two beautiful girls held tightly in each others arms be sure to thank mother nature…. and then go impregnate both of them!

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WordPress vs Blogger

Posted by The Mind of Nate | Random Thoughts,Techno-Blabb | Thursday 29 January 2009 1:54 pm

I’m currently working on updating my blog and upgrading to wordpress.  Please bear with me as I make the switch and stay tuned for more interesting and exciting posts!!!

“Why switch to WordPress?”

Well I’m glad you asked, originally I was using a website called blogger to publish my blog.  I like blogger initially because it made setup easy and would FTP and automatically update pages for me when I made new postings.  The problem that arose as my postings increased in number was that the blogger category system doesn’t make much sense.  WordPress allows me to customize categories and subcategories to make the site easier to navigate for you!   WordPress is also full of useful widgets and plugins.  It lets me create a blog that is easy to navigate through my random content and very user friendly.

My blogger experience was overall quite enjoyable.  They make the template easy for you to setup and modify with very little effort.  Unfortunately the customization of blogger templates and themes was very technical.  If you have your blogger site hosted on your own domain (as I did) then you cannot install widgets!   The only way to update components of you blog was to do it manually in the code.  Being a tech savvy individual this was not too difficult for me to do but I foresee it being an issue for a less experienced individual.

WordPress is installed onto your server.  It uses PHP and SQL to maintain an updated and dynamically integrated website.  It allows you to customize just about everything you can imagine and you can also download a large variety of plugins, widgets and templates.   I found an excellent website for getting WordPress templates and downloaded several templates from there to customize later.  I also searched through the 4,000 available WordPress plugins and found the best few worth downloading.

All In 1 SEO Pack – This plugin allows you to customize and integrate your META data with your blog.  Definitely worth downloading, installing and configuring.

Buy Me A Beer – Lets you put a link at the bottom of your posts to allow people to donate money to you.  I set it up so that people can donate money to help me replace my stolen laptop.

Contact Form 7 – Lets you create forms for your website.  For example Contact Me

Events Calendar – Allows you to update an events calendar so your viewers can stay on top of upcoming events!  (coming soon!)

FM Tuner – Integrates your LastFM radio with your blog template!  (coming soon!)

Google Site Map Generator – If you don’t know what a site map is I recommend googling it.  This plugin creates one for you automatically!

Share This – Allows people to email your posts to others as well as spread the word through a number of social networking sites including MySpace, Facebook and Digg.

WordPress Reports – If you own your website and your not using Google Analytics or another traffic reporting service I HIGHLY recommend you set it up.  This plugin integrates your traffic reports with your WordPress dashboard so you can easily monitor your site traffic.

Lightbox 2.0 for WordPress – I like this plugin alot!  It makes it really easy to integrate light box with any link your using on your page simply by including this code in the tag:  rel=”lightbox”

WordPress E-Commerece – I haven’t setup this plugin or got it working yet but it definitely looks like its worth the time to figure out.

WordPress Greet Box – Lets you to configure a custom greeting box for users based on how they found your website.  Very cool plugin!

Suscribe2 – Lets readers sign up to receive email updates on new blog postings.

So over the next couple days I’ll be tweaking and updating everything to make my blog better for YOU the reader!  Stay tuned…

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How To Make One Million Dollars….

Posted by The Mind of Nate | Random Thoughts | Friday 2 January 2009 4:32 pm

So its a NEW YEAR! (yaaaaayyy!) and my new years resolution was to make
ONE MILLION DOLLARS

so now you ask “hey Nate, how do you expect to make a million dollars”
to which I reply “It Simple!”

Let me break it down for you all like this:
If you get 1,000,000 people to each give you $1.00, then you have ONE MILLION DOLLARS!

how do you do that? well thats the tricky part, but you know you can simplify it like this:

if PEOPLE (give me) MONEY = I’m a MILLIONAIRE!
or in mathmatical terms: :) x $ = $1,000,000
so for example: instead of getting a dollar from a million people I simply get $20 from 500,000 people then
BLING BLING
I’m RICH!
Or Quicker yet, if I can get $1,000 from 1,000 people then I’ll be RICH!
or BETTER YET!
if I just get $500,000 from 2 PEOPLE! thats right, only TWO people…
THEN I’ll BE A MILLIONAIRE!

See, when I break it down like that its just not that difficult! Right!?!
just remember
:) x $ = $1,000,000

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Lavalumps and reality… mixed with a little techno beat

Posted by The Mind of Nate | Random Thoughts | Monday 8 December 2008 6:46 pm

Have you ever thought about how lavalamps are a metaphor for reality. Two types of matter being affected by energy to create infinite combination of possibilities. Shapes are created as the substance collides with itself and it can take on many forms. It is also constantly changing. Yet even though all this energy is creating these visually stimulating effect it is still contained in a jar. The amount of matter in the container remains the same. It is a varying constant. Always changing, yet never changing. Reality is so full of contradictions and variances, yet it still remains constant. But what if I told you that everything both exists and doesn’t exist at the same time… that every question has been asked and yet no questions have ever been asked and the answer is both true and false. What if I told you that the only thing holding reality together is the ego…


Or maybe I just stared at the lava lamp a little too much….
LOL

So anyway, this weekend was AWESOME!
Parker setup the visuals for Crystal Method at Sky Lounge. And what an awesome show that was! Then we went to a warehouse party and setup visuals there as well. It also looks like we have a venu to setup the aMAZEing 3D show in Austin! And lots and lots of people are interested in helping. The 8D crew website is underway and will hopefully be up and running by early next year. Oh and then Sunday I went to the coolest party EVER! It was a burlesque show thrown by The Enchanted Forest with the theme of black and red, my favorite colors! They had fire dancing, half naked girls everywhere and free drinks. The crew setup out there and we got some amazing footage to cut together for a DVD that will hopefully be available early next year! (I will keep ya’ll posted!) So now its Monday, I’m exhausted… about to get off work…
whew…
oh yeah, one more thing…. I’m really tired of picking up strippers. It seems everywhere I go I end up getting the strippers number and I’m really tired of it. I have some really good friends that work at clubs and I love them very much (the friends, I don’t usually frequent strip clubs myself) but DAMN IT, can’t I just meet a beautiful, sexy, wild, fun girl who ISN’T a stripper for ONCE! Its like a curse!
LoL
Sry girls, I hope I didn’t offend you or anything, I love you beautiful ladies!

I’m gonna just shut the hell up before I get myself into trouble with this twisted mind of mine.

PEACE!

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I acomplished my goal!!!

Posted by The Mind of Nate | Random Thoughts | Wednesday 3 December 2008 2:07 am

I started this blog on October 5th 2008 as a test run to see how quickly I could achieve a high google search ranking for the phrase “Welcome to my mind” Well, by the 1st of November I was ranked on page 17 when searching the phrase “Welcome to my mind” Today I am PROUD to announce that I am ranked on both YAHOO and GOOGLE as the #3 ranked site when searching the phrase “Welcome to my mind” (and who knows for how long, since I just checked today)

This has been a great accomplishment for me! To start off I would like to thank my mother that birthed me, and also my entire family for believing in me. I would like to thank my priest for not touching me and my probation officer for not revoking me. I would like to thank god, allah and jah. And every other deity known to man….

If your interested in knowing how to get your site ranked higher in search engines or you need some advice on your web business or promotions feel free to contact me as I’m a currently available for consulting.
Its just what I do.

Thank you! and you all drive home safe now…. GOODNIGHT!

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Boycott Corporate America!

Posted by The Mind of Nate | Angry American Complains About A Bunch Of Crap,Political Bitching,Random Thoughts | Thursday 13 November 2008 11:17 am

So today I have decided to make a difference. I’m going to make a stand for personal freedom and liberty by boycotting every major corporation in America. I’m going to start this boycott by talking about:

Yes the giant corporate steamroller, coming to areas and plowing over every small business there with their LOW LOW LOW prices. Yet like mindless sheep people of towns and cities across America stop shopping at their local business to go to the super-center. Eventually these small “mom and pop” shops go out of business and even the property their store is on has decreased in value because of the ominous Walmart that was built up the road. Think about it people, when you shop at a corporate business you are circulating your money through that corporation. Wouldn’t you rather shop local and circulate your money through your local community? Don’t you realize the more you benefit your local economy the better chance you have of it bettering you. Walmart can sell for less because they have so many stores that they can buy such a large quantity from manufactures that the price break is phenomenal. Most of these manufactures are from other countries! The more you support the nationwide economy the closer you push us to a single global economy. That is not what I want! I support individual freedoms and liberties. The ideas that this country was founded on! Not economic slavery to a government that controls both my money and my ability to do what I want. Isn’t it amazing how many personal freedoms have been stripped from Americans in just the last 100 years!?! So stop shopping at Walmart… unless you want to be a slave to the global enterprise.

Now we have walmart destroying small business and runing local economys and then you walk inside and what do you see:


Now I know not every Walmart has a McDonalds in it. But a lot of them do! And for every Walmart in America there is probably at least 2 or 3 McDonalds within a few miles. Now I’m sure many of you have watched “Super Size Me” and seen how McDonalds is really bad for your health. But have you ever thought about how much money is poured into that business on a daily basis. American are paying for suicide through delicious hamburgers! MmmmMmmmmMM Burgers! LoL But now stop thinking about the burgers and how unhealthy they are for you. Anyone can cook unhealthy food, hell some of the crap my ex girlfriend used to cook looked (and tasted) pretty damn unhealthy. But think about the money you make and where you spend it and also what those business or corporations are doing with that money. Is it ever going to get circulated back to you? Well unless your a McDonald employee then probably not. Now think about this for a moment. When you buy food items from McDonalds, HEB, Walmart or any major corporation where does that food come from? Huge farms and factory’s that harvest and process it. What about your local farmer? what about the people that grow their own vegetables, raise their own cattle and try to sustain themselves through their own food production? That is who I want to support, not the corporate farmers that can put any product they want into our food supply. I want to get my food like they did over 100 years ago, from a neighbor or grown myself. That is why I say screw the corporate food business and buy from your local farmers market. Remember, support your local economy, its a stand against globalization.

Now next on the agenda of corporations I am boycotting and very much dislike:


Now many of you are thinking “why starbucks!?!” “I love their coffee”
NO
NO NO NO
This is CRAP!
Do you realize how much money you a pissing away each year on this CRAPPY coffee thats not really that good, overpriced and not much different from coffee ANYWHERE ELSE! You can go to any small local coffee shop and buy the SAME coffee made from the SAME machines for the SAME price (or less) but because it has the crappy Starbucks logo you want to go there! Stop and think about it people, spend your money on the business that you want to support and not because of a brand name or logo or popularity. Besides Starbucks is WAY overpriced anyway! Spend your money on small business and local economy, people that will come go out and support other local business and help grow your local economy. The more you support corporations the more you shackle yourself to eternal economic slavery. So Stop!

Ok next on my list of corporations I’m going to point the finger at today and say I will not support is:



Yeah their computers suck, their customers service sucks, their marketing sucks, and yes they are also overpriced. If you want a decent computer for a good price I recommend building it yourself. Its not that hard or expensive and you might learn something in the process. But please don’t buy a Dell, buy purchasing yourself a dell computer your showing dell that people will actually buy their crap and also giving them money to produce even more crappy computers. So go shop somewhere else!
While I’m on the subject of computers I would like to add that

Yeah, I hate windows Vista… don’t install it, don’t use it, its a piece of crap! If you have it down grade to XP!

Here is the easiest corporation to argue against:


Notice the slogan: “I came, I saw, I conquered”
Why do we even give these cigarette corporations our money? To kill ourselves, so we can die and not worry about the world we pass on to our children to take care of! Well I like smoking, it was definitely a hard habit to conquer. But I conquered it! I realized how much of my hard earned money I was giving to this huge corporation for NO REASON at all! So I stopped buying cigarettes and I recommend the rest of you do the same. Think about every dollar you spend and where it is going. Are you spending it for the right reason? Or for selfish reasons? Look at the whole picture, the global picture, look at the direction things have been headed for the last 100 years, and then how they have progressed over the last 10 years! Money is used to control you. Don’t be a slave to it and PLEASE don’t give it back to the slave masters.

One last corporation I forgot to mention:


WHERE IS THE JUICE!?!
thats right, where is the juice!?!
I go to so many restaurants to eat and when I look at the selection of soft drinks all I see is: Soda, Soda, Soda, Water
WHERE IS THE JUICE! Where is the 100% all natural caffeine free delicious fresh squeezed JUICE! Why is it that everywhere I go coke or soda is practically forced down my throat? Well I’m sick of it! Sodas are packed full of sugar and caffeine and horrible for your health. They will give you pimples and make you fat! Yet it is still practically forced down our throats! Well let me remind you of something. The stronger and healthier your body is the stronger and healthier your mind is. Remember that! The more you let your body deteriorate and be destroyed by the things you consume the weaker your mind will become. So eat healthy, promote a healthy lifestyle, avoid fast food, support your local economy and do what I do, avoid these corporations that want to dumb us down, strip us of our personal freedoms, drop computer chips in all of us and make us their slaves.
I for one will stand up against them. Who is with me?

Remember, the #1 priority of a corporation is its responsibility to its share holders to increase the return on their investment. In other words their #1 priority is to MAKE MORE MONEY. Usually with no regard to individuals, communities, the environment or the world.

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Hello Internet…

Posted by The Mind of Nate | Cool Stuff Worth Checking Out,Random Thoughts | Tuesday 11 November 2008 10:53 am

And welcome to another blogging from this crazy, twisted noggin of mine. Today I’m going to talk to you about nothing. Absolutely nothing. Do you know why?
Well I will tell you why!
See up there???? It says welcome to MY mind! And I can post whatever I feel like. And YOU can’t stop me….
Yeah I guess that sounds kinda selfish. But sorry guys, thats life… don’t like it? Go start your own blog!
like Parker or Josh. Hell if your really that bored go read some of the crap I wrote before. Do you like technology???? get a wii and do some cool stuff with it! or go build yourself some inexpensive network storage. Hell you can read all the political bitching I do and maybe get a good laugh! And if your still bored, well you can read all about some crazy photography techniques like HDR, 3D photography or read My definition of art. And if your STILL bored after that, well then go watch some funny videos online or look at some of the amazing leather artwork my buddy Moses makes. If you like art you can check out the links to artists and other cool people I met at Makers Faire. Why do I always have to be the entertainer? Whats up with that… can’t you go entertain your self! Can’t I get just a little bit of peace and quiet here????
Ok, fine… I’m going back to bed…
I’ll blogg about something of relivance later…
for example: How to carve leather, How to make 3D photos, How to dump your girlfriend, Where to find cheap hookers and maybe even a blog on How to make a million dollars!!!
All this and MORE coming soon to a computer screen near you!

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PLEASE! No More Christian Rap!

Posted by The Mind of Nate | Angry American Complains About A Bunch Of Crap,Random Thoughts | Tuesday 4 November 2008 11:03 am

So I did a lot of driving this weekend and since I was away from Austin I had to scan the radio to find something worth listening to. Well, as most of my friends know, I am a big fan of Hip Hop; 2Pac, Biggie, Atmosphere, Lupe Fiasco, Wu Tang, Sage Francis, NAS, ect….
Well as I am scanning the radio for some decent music to listen to I stop for a moment at a hip hop beat and this is what I hear:

I saw him on the corner selling crack
and I said “Hey man, No way!”
jumped out tha whip, put him on his knees
and said “Its time to pray.
Accept Jesus in your heart today.”

I was shocked…
a little while later I’m scanning through and I hear this:

hey dawg, stop frontin
you know Jesus is the only one to be lovin
and if the devils got your back
then Jesus will knock him back
take that… ratta tat tat!

Once again… shocked!
why is it that these gangsta beats are buzzing on Christian radio with lyrics that speak about salvation! I was so confused. Now don’t get me wrong, this has nothing to do with Christianity or my religious beliefs. This has to do with hip hop and what hip hop stands for. Hip hop is all about nice whips and money, chillin with fine honeys, bashin heads cuz its funny. Christian music is all about praise, worship, glory and exaltation. Hip hop beats accentuate the message that hip hop brings. Hard bass, cool beats, to accentuate the hip hop nature. Which, as I mentioned before, is mostly evil. Christian music is supposed to be exalting and showing praise to a most high God. These two just DO NOT MIX! Not at ALL! So PLEASE Christian Hip Hop artist PLEASE STOP!

Then I scan again for a new station and this is what I hear:

Cuz I get down, with Jesus in this town
so don’t mess with me or push me around
cuz Jesus got my back, yeah Jesus got my back
and all you fine honeys that be rubbin all up on me
betta step back, step back, can’t you see
abstinent is the way he wants me to be
so if you wanna get this you gotta marry me

PLEASE STOP! YOUR GONNA KILL HIP HOP!
STICK TO THE PRAISE SONGS!
Thank you.

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