Entries from July 2008

Thursday, July 17th, 2008

Treat the Grim Reaper Right

We have a few stencil designs (117, the grim reaper, 020 the kitten, L169 the Democrat donkey and L226 the Republican elephant) that require an extra step to make them look like the designs on the posters.
Here is how I spray these designs:  Lets take stencil   #117, the grim reaper, for example…  Oh so [...]

Wednesday, July 16th, 2008

Ya, you’re a monkey

Here’s a strange, interesting and useful fact:
Given a choice between either losing or gaining an equal amount, we mammals will always opt to avoid a loss.
In fact, if you were given the choice between losing $10 of value or gaining $12, you’d opt to avoid losing $10.
I know, I know. That’s stupid.
I had an [...]

Tuesday, July 15th, 2008

Using Google Alerts to get business

As many of you may have seen in my TAT video debut (see our new video here), when the camera was rolling I was working on my post for this week about Google Alerts.
I have used Google Alerts for a few years now. This little news snippets help me to stay on top of what [...]

Monday, July 14th, 2008

Photo Essentials #3: Equipment

The final key to taking great pictures is making the right choices in equipment.  Let’s start at the floor and work up.  The first step is pretty easy.  You absolutely need a tripod.  To fully control the situation, there’s nothing better than a tripod.  It doesn’t need to be anything fancy, but holding the camera [...]

Friday, July 11th, 2008

Setting up a Network

This week’s post can serve as a follow-up to my previous post on upgrading to a high-speed internet connection. If you have multiple computers, you can get more out of your high-speed by setting up a network in your home or office. This will allow you to share your internet with all computers as well [...]

Thursday, July 10th, 2008

Get the white out!

When I first started applying tats, I was always disappointed with the way yellow, orange and brown looked on the customer’s skin. In fact when someone asked for a tat and requested yellow, orange or brown, I would warn them that because of their skin color those colors would not show up very well.
I [...]

Wednesday, July 9th, 2008

What’s happenin’?

Three things:

We’ll be releasing 709 new stencil designs this month. I think these new designs are super cool.Here’s what is really special. You’ll be able to design your own banner online. This’ll be a lot of fun.Finally, you’ll be able to buy it all - the banner and stencils - at a [...]

Tuesday, July 8th, 2008

Your brand begins with your email

Letterhead is a major investment of money and time for companies, with impressive logos, embellishments to the paper and a rainbow of colors. Along with the company name is a phrase stating the benefit of working with that particular company.
Email has become the letterhead of today. Large companies are spending big bucks to design logos [...]

Monday, July 7th, 2008

Photo Essential #2: Backdrop

Photo essential #2 for great pictures (specifically pictures that are going to be edited), is a proper backdrop.  A backdrop does achieves two major goals for us in product shots.  First, it provides a nice consistent background color which will make it easier for the computer to pick up and single out.  Second, it give [...]

Friday, July 4th, 2008

Happy July 4th!