Old School Mickey...

Old School Mickey Mouse (1929-1935)






































   RESOURCE: http://zna4koff.livejournal.com/95161.html?thread=1951161

Native American Indian Medicine Beaded Bag

I think I want one of these:
 http://www.etsy.com/listing/68021848/beaded-native-american-indian-style?ref=v1_other_2

Creating a vintage logo in Illustrator (Wrap Around Text with Illustrator)

Creating a vintage logo in Illustrator

Follow along step by step in this tutorial to create a black and white vintage inspired logo in Illustrator. You’ll learn the masking technique, text on a path, as well as a few others. Who knows, maybe at the end we’ll finish it off with a little bit of color.

Here’s what we’ll be making. Let’s start the Press…
 

Grab the star tool and drag it to your desired size. As you’re dragging the star to the size you want you can adjust the height of the points by holding down the Command Key. Then press the Up Arrow and Down Arrow key to add and remove points from the star.

Remember, as your going through each of these steps make sure you make a separate layer for every object you’re making so that you can easily go back and edit it.

Select your object then go under Object->Path->Offset Path… and input
-6px in the Offset box. This creates a duplicate of the object 6px smaller, and positions it directly on top.

Now add a white 3px stroke to the offset image.

Using the Ellipse Tool draw the center circle. Then we want to make sure all our objects are equally centered. So select all your objects and go to the Align box and under Align Objects click on Horizontal Align Center then Vertical Align Center.

Select the center circle we just drew and again go under Object->Path->Offset Path… and input 7px in the Offset box. Fill this circle with none and a stroke of white. Now to create those tiny circles, bring up the Stroke Box and input everything you see.

Now let’s create the text wrap. Select the center circle and go under Object->Path->Offset Path… and input 16px in the Offset box. Fill this to none and give it a white stroke. This will be our path for the text to wrap around. Grab your Text on a Path Tool and click on the path you’ve just created. Then type in the Healthy Cooking Recipes text. Now you can rotate the text on the path by moving it around with the handle that appears.

To create the bottom text wrap select the text you just created with the Type Tool then go under Edit->Copy then again under Edit->Paste in Place. Now grab the handle that appears and rotate the text to the bottom so you can see it. Now click Type->Type on a Path->Type on a Path Options… and in the box input what you see. Then replace the duplicated text with Austin Braaten. Now grab the handle and rotate the text so that it’s centered on the bottom. Then finish the text portion off by typing in the Est. 2004.

Now for the checkered pattern. Draw a vertical bar and fill it with a light shade of gray. Then duplicate that across for a total of 6 bars. Group those then copy and paste the next layer of bars on top of the previous ones. Rotate them horizontally and under your transparency menu click the drop down button to Multiply. This will make the pattern darker where they intersect.

Place the checkered pattern and the clip art image of the chef (or another image you have) in the center of the white circle. Then in your layers palette move the white circle layer to the top because that will be our clipping mask, and the other two layers will be underneath that.

Now select the Center Circle layer as well as the Pattern layer and the Girl Silo layer, then go under Object->Clipping Mask->Make. Voilá! Your pattern and clip art image is cropped inside the circle. For the finishing touch type in The Savvy Chef at the bottom using the Lobster font.

What the heck, I’m getting inspired! Let’s make a two-color version. I’m thinkin’ of purple and orange. Select all the black elements and change them to purple (#6600ff) and select the pattern as well as the white elements and make them a light orange (#ffcc66). What do you think? : )

 RESOURCE: http://pixelpressd.com/2011/03/25/creating-a-vintage-logo-in-illustrator/

How to Make Yakibuta Ramen (Japanese Noodle with Soft Egg) and Yaki Gyoza (Fried Dumplings)

Ingredients for Ramen - Japanese noodle dish originated in China

(serves 2)

- Yakibuta -

500g Pork Ribs (17.6 oz)

Green Part of Welsh Onion

A Small Piece of Ginger

4 tbsp Soy Sauce

2 tbsp Sake

1 tbsp Brown Sugar

** Boil down the pork ribs soup until the volume is less than 300cc (1 1/4 u.s. cups).

- Seasoned Soft-Boiled Eggs -

2 Eggs (65g-70g/2.29oz-2.47oz)

1 tbsp Soy Sauce

1 tbsp Sake

1 tbsp Mirin

** Season the eggs for several hours at a room temperature or keep them in a fridge overnight.

- Toppings -

12cm White Part of Welsh Onion (5 inch)

80g Spinach (2.82oz)

Narutomaki - Cylindrical Kamaboko

Menma - Condiment Made from Dried Bamboo Shoots

Toasted Nori

- Dashi Stock -

1200ml Water (5.07 u.s. cup)

10g Dried Sardines (0.353 oz)

10x5cm Dried Kombu Kelp (4x2 inch)

2 Bags of Raw Ramen Noodles

2 tsp Chicken Stock

About Music

Frederic Chopin - Valse in D-flat major "Minute Waltz" - Op. 64 No. 1

Play by Muriel Nguyen Xuan, recording by Stephane Magnenat

Creative Commons

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/

Ingredients for Yaki Gyoza
(25 pieces)

120g Ground Pork (4.23 oz)
100g Cabbage (3.53 oz)
50g Onion (1.76 oz)
50g Nira - Garlic Chives (1.76 oz)

- Condiments -
1/2 tbsp Soy Sauce
1/2 tsp Sugar
A pinch of Pepper
1 tbsp Sake
1/2 tbsp Sesame Oil
1 tbsp Potato Starch
1 tsp Grated Garlic
1/2 tsp Grated Ginger
1/2 tbsp Oyster Sauce
or 1 tsp Chinese Soup Base

25 Gyoza Skins
1 tbsp Sesame Oil
Flour for dusting

- Gyoza Sauce -
1 tbsp Black/White Vinegar
1 tsp Soy Sauce
Rayu - a type of Chili Oil
or Sesame Oil

About Music:
Frederic Chopin - Valse in D-flat major "Minute Waltz" - Op. 64 No. 1 Play by Muriel Nguyen Xuan, recording by Stephane Magnenat Creative Commonshttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/

Master Airbrushers (Sci-fi)

Sublime Robots & Impossible Cities

03/01/2009

Craggy alien worlds populated by smooth-skinned, semi-naked women; gigantic, insectoid space craft glinting in the light of twin suns; sublime robots, impossible cities – before there was Photoshop or 3D rendering, such fantastical dreams could only be made truly real at the hands of airbrush artists.

Sci fi seems drawn to the photorealistic, as though its outlandish visions long to be given substance. And for me there is definitely a thrill in seeing science fiction rendered in this way. It makes the ideas seem somehow more…possible.

Chris Moore
The almost clinical detail in so many of the images perfectly fits a genre obsessed with the minutiae of technology. The smooth, textureless finish of the airbrush is futuristic, machine-like; these paintings are like photographs taken from inside an imagination.


Chris Moore; Jim Burns
The scales are nearly always epic, people are specks, planets and machines enormous. Where human beings are not dwarfed by technology, they are plugged into and subsumed by it. But there is always great romance too, beauty and sensuality abound; haunting, fetishistic, utopian or dystopian – these are images designed to arouse and awe-strike.


Stéphane Martiniere

Hajime Sorayama

“I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe.” – from Blade Runner

Angus McKie


RESOUCE: http://5percentfake.wordpress.com/2009/03/01/sublime-robots-impossible-cities/